v0.5.3

What's Changed

• Add .loc/.iloc accessors by @camposandro in #753
• add nested_columns property to catalog by @dougbrn in #755
• Add data thumbnail creation to to_hats by @camposandro in #758
• Display the total number of available columns by @gitosaurus in #762
• Support only providing list_columns in catalog.nest_lists by @wilsonbb in #768
• Add tests for nested column filters by @smcguire-cmu in #763
• Raise a helpful error message when the user is accessing a catalog's column that hasn't been loaded. by @gitosaurus in #766
• Split to_hats tests to separate file. by @delucchi-cmu in #771
• Rename lsdb.read_hats to lsdb.hats_catalog by @gitosaurus in #770
• Write an association table from a catalog by @delucchi-cmu in #772
• Update index search documentation by @delucchi-cmu in #775
• Refactor/rewrite filtering_large_catalogs nb (now column_filtering.ipynb) by @olivialynn in #777
• Add brief note for tract-patch search and link to lsdb-rubin by @olivialynn in #779
• Add name by @olivialynn in #781
• Add more imports to top-level init. by @delucchi-cmu in #783
• 2024 to 2025 in docs by @nevencaplar in #791
• Tutorial: Setting up a Dask client by @olivialynn in #787
• Describe use of meta=, reorganize map_partitions+histogram demo by @gitosaurus in #792
• Update plotting.ipynb by @gitosaurus in #794
• docs: link to dask from homepage by @domoritz in #793
• update nested-pandas pin by @dougbrn in #797
• Require newer HATS by @delucchi-cmu in #802

New Contributors

• @wilsonbb made their first contribution in #768
• @domoritz made their first contribution in #793

Full Changelog: v0.5.2...v0.5.3