Release PUDL v2026.8.0 · catalyst-cooperative/pudl

Data Release:

Data products generated by this release will be published separately to Zenodo as well as s3://pudl.catalyst.coop/v2026.8.0.

See Release Notes for details.

Integration EIA923 early release for 2025 data by @aesharpe in #5391
Extracts EIA860m data for Puerto Rico by @bsousa22 in #5360
Extract MATS into a raw table by @bsousa22 in #5389
[chore] update Zenodo DOIs to latest record versions by @github-actions[bot] in #5441
Update EIA 930 2026H2 data by @e-belfer in #5445
Integrate 2025 FERC 714 data by @e-belfer in #5436
Q3 2026 eia923 860m update by @aesharpe in #5468
2026Q3 release: DOI refresh by @e-belfer in #5464
Update row counts by @aesharpe in #5472

Add alternative page links to Markdown for LLMs by @zaneselvans in #5393
Add new citations up through July 2026 by @e-belfer in #5398
fix: spot fix for WAPA Desert Southwest vs. Upper Great Plains West by @jdangerx in #5408
Row count changes due to WAPA BA ID fix by @zaneselvans in #5414
Fix named reference rst by @krivard in #5403
Limit EIA-861 years in the fast ETL by @zaneselvans in #4568
Attempt to fix row-count errors from Puerto Rico EIA-860M data by @zaneselvans in #5418
Document internal LLM best practices by @cmgosnell in #5395
Add 2026half2 to recognized partitions for eia930 by @krivard in #5406
Check who OPENED the PR, not the last actor on it. by @zaneselvans in #5425
Switch com-dev-notify to run on pr target by @zaneselvans in #5427
Sanitize batch IDs for deploy/build jobs by @zschira in #5429
Switch from Enum to Categorical in dataframe schemas by @zaneselvans in #5434
Add real abstract to ittner_coal_2026 PhD Thesis citation by @zaneselvans in #5438
Fix codes row counts by @krivard in #5447
Simplify and standardize dtypes across backends by @zaneselvans in #5350
Fix ferc714 assn rowcounts by @krivard in #5448
Update EIA860 extraction to correctly account for 860M dependency in dagster by @e-belfer in #5409
Refresh EIA 860/861/923/930 instruction PDFs by @zaneselvans in #5461
Fix bad link and pytest name change by @aesharpe in #5469
Close out release notes for PUDL v2026.8.0 by @zaneselvans in #5475

Full Changelog: v2026.7.2...v2026.8.0