We are pleased to announce a first release candidate for pandas 3.0.0. If all goes well, we'll release pandas 3.0.0 in a few weeks.
See the whatsnew for a list of all the changes.
The release will be available on conda-forge and PyPI in a few hours.
The release can be installed from PyPI
python -m pip install --upgrade --pre pandas==3.0.0rc0
Or from conda-forge
conda install -c conda-forge/label/pandas_rc pandas==3.0.0rc0
Please report any issues with the release candidate on the pandas issue tracker.