Modin 0.6.3 release notes

The 0.6.3 release comes with several bugfixes and code quality improvements. Notably, the CI was moved to GitHub Actions for faster test completion time and better developer experience. There were also new additions to Modin functionality: level argument for any and all and new implementation for Dask readers with read_csv and read_json.

Bugfixes + Pandas Concordance (🐛 + 🐼)

• Fix level parameter for aggregations when names are None (#838)
• Fix map and apply over a Series that contains list values (#840)
• Fix metadata computation for get_dummies (#845)
• fix for Python 3.7: re._pattern_type no longer exist (#849)
• Fix integer overflow when doing a mask for Windows users (#858)
• Fix issue where partition metadata would be off after insert + window (#869)
• Fix issue for updating to Categorical Dtypes from astype (#870)
• Fix psycopg2 connection functionality (#736)

New Functionality ✨

• Add support for level argument in any, all (#833)
• Add Implementation for Dask read_csv and read_json. (#861)

Code Quality + Testing 💯

• Remove legacy _get_nan_block_id (#844)
• ci: upgrade linters (flake8, black) (#848)
• add GitHub Actions workflow for CI (#850)
• Deprecate Travis CI in favor of GitHub Actions (#856)
• Add CODECOV_SECRET to the environment variable to upload Codecov report (#857)
• Remove debugging prints and add a test for prints (#768)

Backend enhancements + Performance 🚀

• Refactor IO by breaking up into modular readers (#754)

Documentation 📃

• Update actions name and create badge on README (#854)

Dependencies 🔗

• Update to latest pandas version 0.25.2 (#836)
• Upgrade to pandas 0.25.3 (#860)

Contributors this release

The following users contributed code to Modin since the last release.

@rliu4439 (First time contributor) ⭐️
@smola (First time contributor) ⭐️
@RehanSD (Returning contributor) 🌟
@devin-petersohn (Maintainer)

🎉🎉 Thank you! 🎉🎉