pola-rs/polars py-1.25.2

Python Polars 1.25.2

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🏆 Highlights

• Enable common subplan elimination across plans in collect_all (#21747)
• Add lazy sinks (#21733)
• Add PartitionByKey for new streaming sinks (#21689)
• Enable new streaming memory sinks by default (#21589)

🚀 Performance improvements

• Implement linear-time rolling_min/max (#21770)
• Improve InputIndependentSelect by delegating to InMemorySourceNode (#21767)
• Enable common subplan elimination across plans in collect_all (#21747)
• Allow elementwise functions in recursive lowering (#21653)
• Add primitive single-key hashtable to new-streaming join (#21712)
• Remove unnecessary black_boxes in Kahan summation (#21679)
• Box large enum variants (#21657)
• Improve join performance for new-streaming engine (#21620)
• Pre-fill caches (#21646)
• Optimize only a single cache input (#21644)
• Collect parquet statistics in one contiguous buffer (#21632)
• Update Cargo.lock (mainly for zstd 1.5.7) (#21612)
• Don't maintain order when maintain_order=False in new streaming sinks (#21586)
• Pre-sort groups in group-by-dynamic (#21569)

✨ Enhancements

• Add support for rolling_(sum/min/max) for booleans through casting (#21748)
• Support multi-column sort for all nested types and nested search-sorted (#21743)
• Add lazy sinks (#21733)
• Add PartitionByKey for new streaming sinks (#21689)
• Fix replace flags (#21731)
• Add mkdir flag to sinks (#21717)
• Enable joins on list/array dtypes (#21687)
• Add a config option to specify the default engine to attempt to use during lazyframe calls (#20717)
• Support all elementwise functions in IO plugin predicates (#21705)
• Stabilize Enum datatype (#21686)
• Support Polars int128 in from arrow (#21688)
• Use FFI to read dataframe instead of transmute (#21673)
• Enable new streaming memory sinks by default (#21589)
• Cloud support for new-streaming scans and sinks (#21621)
• Add len method to arr (#21618)
• Closeable files on unix (#21588)
• Add new PartitionMaxSize sink (#21573)
• Support engine callback for LazyFrame.profile (#21534)
• Dispatch new-streaming CSV negative slice to separate node (#21579)
• Add NDJSON source to new streaming engine (#21562)
• Support passing token in storage_options for GCP cloud (#21560)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Expose and document partitions (#21765)
• Fix lazy schema for truediv ops involving List/Array dtypes (#21764)
• Fix error due to race condition in file cache (#21753)
• Clear NaNs due to zero-weight division in rolling var/std (#21761)
• Allow init from BigQuery Arrow data containing ExtensionType cols with irrelevant metadata (#21492)
• Disallow cast from boolean to categorical/enum (#21714)
• Don't check sortedness in join_asof when 'by' groups supplied, but issue warning (#21724)
• Incorrect multithread path taken for aggregations (#21727)
• Disallow cast to empty Enum (#21715)
• Fix list.mean and list.median returning Float64 for temporal types (#21144)
• Incorrect (FixedSize)ListArrayBuilder gather implementation (#21716)
• Always fallback in SkipBatchPredicate (#21711)
• New streaming multiscan deadlock (#21694)
• Ensure new-streaming join BuildState is correct even if never fed morsels (#21708)
• IO plugin; support empty iterator (#21704)
• Support nulls in multi-column sort (#21702)
• Window function check length of groups state (#21697)
• Support 128 sum reduction on new streaming (#21691)
• IPC round-trip of list of empty view with non-empty bufferset (#21671)
• Variance can never be negative (#21678)
• Incorrect loop length in new-streaming group by (#21670)
• Right join on multiple columns not coalescing left_on columns (#21669)
• Casting Struct to String panics if n_chunks > 1 (#21656)
• FixFuture attached to different loop error on read_database_uri (#21641)
• Fix deadlock in cache + hconcat (#21640)
• Properly handle phase transitions in row-wise sinks (#21600)
• Enable new streaming memory sinks by default (#21589)
• Always use global registry for object (#21622)
• Check enum categories when reading csv (#21619)
• Unspecialized prefiltering on nullable arrays (#21611)
• Release the gil on explain (#21607)
• Take into account scalar/partitioned columns in DataFrame::split_chunks (#21606)
• Bad null handling in unordered row encoding (#21603)
• Fix deadlock in new streaming CSV / NDJSON sinks (#21598)
• Bad view index in BinaryViewBuilder (#21590)
• Fix CSV count with comment prefix skipped empty lines (#21577)
• New streaming IPC enum scan (#21570)
• Several aspects related to ParquetColumnExpr (#21563)
• Don't hit parquet::pre-filtered in case of pre-slice (#21565)

📖 Documentation

• Add skrub to ecosystem.md (#21760)
• Add example for percentile rank (#21746)
• Make python/rust getting-started consistent and clarify performance risk of infer_schema_length=None (#21734)
• Add expression composability to PySpark comparison (#21473)
• Document read_().lazy() antipattern (#21623)
• Update Polars Cloud interactive workflow examples (#21609)
• Add a Plotnine example to the visualization docs (#21597)
• Add cloud api reference to Ref guide (#21566)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Remove variance numerical stability hack (#21749)
• Only use chrono_tz timezones in hypothesis testing (#21721)
• Remove order check from flaky test (#21730)
• Add sinks into the DSL before optimization (#21713)
• Add missing test case for #21701 (#21709)
• Remove old-streaming from engine argument (#21667)
• Add as_phys_any to PrivateSeries for downcasting (#21696)
• Use FFI to read dataframe instead of transmute (#21673)
• Work around typos ignore bug (#21672)
• Added Test For datetime_range Nanosecond Overflow (#21354)
• Update to edition 2024 (#21662)
• Update rustc (#21647)
• Support object from chunks (#21636)
• Push versioned docs on workflow dispatch (#21630)
• Fail docs early (#21629)
• Check major/minor in docs (#21626)
• Add docs workflow (#21624)
• Add test for 21581 (#21617)
• Remove even more parquet multiscan handling (#21601)
• Remove multiscan handling from new streaming parquet source (#21584)
• Prepare skeleton for partitioning sinks (#21536)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@GaelVaroquaux, @Kevin-Patyk, @MarcoGorelli, @Matt711, @NathanHu725, @alexander-beedie, @coastalwhite, @dependabot[bot], @jrycw, @kdn36, @lukemanley, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @r-brink, @ritchie46, @wence- and dependabot[bot]