Modin 0.6.1 release notes

This release includes several bugfixes and improvements to the backend. It also fixes support for windows users and adds new install targets. See the README for more information.

Bugfixes + Pandas Concordance (🐛 + 🐼)

• Update components of groupby when level is being used (#779)
• Support multiple names values for groupby on MultiLevelIndex (#788)
• Update Series.map to support dictionary of operations and support (#787)
• Fix groupby + reduce for partitions with only 1 row (#795)
• Fix DataFrame.apply when the result of the apply is a Series (#796)
• Update any() in groupby.py to accept arguments (#802)

New Functionality ✨

• Support Windows with the proper requirements (#780)

Backend enhancements + Performance 🚀

• Improve and correct metadata management internally (#792)

Documentation 📃

• Update README to include more information (#781)
• Fixup a broken docs link (#799)

Dependencies 🔗

• Move pyarrow import after Ray (#794)
• Fix import (#804)
• Update io.py (#784)

Contributors this release

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

@sbrugman (First time contributor) 🌟
@xrmx (First time contributor) 🌟
@rliu4439 (First time contributor) 🌟
@williamma12 (Maintainer)
@devin-petersohn (Maintainer)

🎉🎉 Thank you! 🎉🎉