PUDL v2026.7.0

PUDL is an application that must be installed from the repository using pixi.

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative/pudl.git
cd pudl
git checkout v2026.7.0
pixi install

Data Release:

Data products generated by this release will be published separately to Zenodo
as well as s3://pudl.catalyst.coop/'v2026.7.0'.

Changes:

See Release Notes for details.

What's Changed

New & Updated Data

• Add detailed EIA-176 continuation-line tables by @MeadBarrel in #5245
• Integrate EIA860 2025 early release data by @aesharpe in #5324
• Integrate May EIA 860M data by @e-belfer in #5371
• [chore] update Zenodo DOIs but with shorter branch name by @zaneselvans in #5396

Other Changes

• Add blank release notes section to track next release by @krivard in #5345
• Good First Issue Template by @cmgosnell in #5354
• Move EIA860 ER release notes to new section by @aesharpe in #5355
• Make DBF extractors output parquet by @krivard in #5339
• Use native GeoParquet output; update to DuckDB 1.5 by @zaneselvans in #5347
• Fix row-count discrepancies resulting from EIA-860 2025 update by @zaneselvans in #5359
• Improve FERC EQR sensor, deployment, testability, & notifications by @zaneselvans in #5273
• Validate RUS 7 mileage totals by @desusaiteja in #5342
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #5367
• Remove deployment logic from build script by @zschira in #5235
• nightly builds: Zulip notifications, no postgres by @zaneselvans in #5374
• Document why no sum-to-total test applies to RUS7 distribution services by @nithinragunathan in #5323
• feat: update pudl viewer GHA service account permissions for PR previews by @jdangerx in #5376
• De-noise unit test outputs by @zaneselvans in #5362
• Deployment update fixes by @zschira in #5375
• Fix zenodo deployment trigger for nightly builds by @zschira in #5377
• Unschedule ferceqr build by @zaneselvans in #5379
• Restore pandas 2.x stack dropna behavior by @zaneselvans in #5380
• Add llms.txt support to PUDL documentation by @zaneselvans in #5381
• Add GHA cache-warming workflow by @zaneselvans in #5387
• Fix PUDL nightly/stable deploy flow control issues by @zaneselvans in #5384
• Warm gha caches by @zaneselvans in #5388
• Add machine-readable units via pint and fix some dtypes by @zaneselvans in #5361
• Fix rowcounts from nightly build failure by @krivard in #5394
• Close out release notes for v2026.7.0 by @krivard in #5400

New Contributors

• @nithinragunathan made their first contribution in #5323

Full Changelog: v2026.6.1...v2026.7.0