v0.10.0

v0.10.0 Aug 19, 2019

The next non-bugfix release of Featuretools will not support Python 2

• Enhancements
  • Give more frequent progress bar updates and update chunk size behavior (#631, #696)
  • Added drop_first as param in encode_features (#647)
  • Added support for stacking multi-output primitives (#679)
  • Generate transform features of direct features (#623)
  • Added serializing and deserializing from S3 and deserializing from URLs (#685)
  • Added nlp_primitives as an add-on library (#704)
  • Added AutoNormalize to Featuretools plugins (#699)
  • Added functionality for relative units (month/year) in Timedelta (#692)
  • Added categorical-encoding as an add-on library (#700)
• Fixes
  • Fix performance regression in DFS (#637)
  • Fix deserialization of feature relationship path (#665)
  • Set index after adding ancestor relationship variables (#668)
  • Fix user-supplied variable_types modification in Entity init (#675)
  • Don't calculate dependencies of unnecessary features (#667)
  • Prevent normalize entity's new entity having same index as base entity (#681)
  • Update variable type inference to better check for string values (#683)
• Changes
  • Moved dask, distributed imports (#634)
• Documentation Changes
  • Miscellaneous changes (#641, #658)
  • Modified doc_string of top_n in encoding (#648)
  • Hyperlinked ComposeML (#653)
  • Added FAQ (#620, #677)
  • Fixed FAQ question with multiple question marks (#673)
• Testing Changes
  • Add master, and release tests for premium primitives (#660, #669)
  • Miscellaneous changes (#672, #674)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@alexjwang, @allisonportis, @ayushpatidar, @CJStadler, @ctduffy, @gsheni, @jeff-hernandez, @jeremyliweishih, @kmax12, @rwedge, @zhxt95