v0.5.0b1

What's Changed

• 🧪 Add test file for io.py and fix batch parameter validation by @sfabbro in #167
• 🧪 [testing improvement] Add test suite for _where.py by @sfabbro in #166
• 🧪 [testing improvement description] by @sfabbro in #165
• 🧪 Add tests for wcs/legacy.py to increase coverage by @sfabbro in #163
• 🧪 Add test coverage for get_cache_stats by @sfabbro in #159
• 🧪 test: Add tests for create_display_transform by @sfabbro in #158
• 🧪 Add test for clear_cache by @sfabbro in #157
• 🧪 Add test for get_cache_manager singleton behavior by @sfabbro in #155
• 🧹 [code health] Remove unused import/variable 'vmap' in geom.py by @sfabbro in #153
• 🧪 [testing improvement] Enhance log_performance decorator timing format coverage by @sfabbro in #152
• 🧪 Add test for missing pandas import in to_pandas by @sfabbro in #151
• 🔒 [security fix] Replace import with standard import by @sfabbro in #150
• 🧪 Test to_arrow and to_pandas ImportError handling by @sfabbro in #149
• ⚡ Bolt: Close task by @sfabbro in #147
• 🔒 Fix error log exposure to stdout by @sfabbro in #146
• ⚡ Bolt: optimize header string parsing logic by @sfabbro in #145
• ⚡ Bolt: Optimize FITS scaling with in-place operations by @sfabbro in #138
• 🧪 Add test coverage for to_duckdb function by @sfabbro in #164
• 🧪 Add tests for datasets.py by @sfabbro in #162
• 🧪 add missing test file for sphere/moc.py by @sfabbro in #160
• 🧪 Test error handling for invalid vla_policy in to_arrow by @sfabbro in #148
• 🧪 Add test for configure_for_environment by @sfabbro in #156
• 🧪 Add test coverage for cache optimize_for_dataset by @sfabbro in #154
• 🧪 Add edge case tests for parse_wat_keywords in legacy.py by @sfabbro in #161
• ⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] optimize FITS header parsing by @sfabbro in #139
• ⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] optimize FITS header parsing by @sfabbro in #143
• ⚡ Bolt: Optimize FITS header parsing by inlining card/value parsers by @sfabbro in #144
• ⚡ Bolt: optimize FITS header and expression parsing by @sfabbro in #140
• ⚡ Bolt: Optimize FITS header string parsing by @sfabbro in #141
• ⚡ Bolt: O(1) EXTNAME lookup for HDUList by @sfabbro in #142

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.5.0b1