⭐️ Highlight

Pandera now supports Pandas >= 3!

What's Changed

Support pandas 3.0 by @cosmicBboy in #2214
Replace pre-commit with prek and fix existing violations by @Dev-iL in #2225
Remove vestigial ordering parameter from polars Categorical by @Dev-iL in #2226
Add AGENTS.md by @Dev-iL in #2224
fix optional nested validation by @amerberg in #2218
[🐼 pandas 3] change default string to pandas-native string by @cosmicBboy in #2229
Refactor empty DataFrame creation in DataFrameModel to eliminate deep copy by @cosmicBboy in #2230
implement PydanticModel for polars by @cosmicBboy in #2231
polars column regex reports column name by @cosmicBboy in #2233
fix bug in custom parser, built-in check, drop invalid rows by @cosmicBboy in #2234
unpin geopandas by @cosmicBboy in #2236
fix pandas docs reference in conf.py by @cosmicBboy in #2237

Full Changelog: v0.29.0...v0.30.0