bigframes: v2.51.0

2.51.0 (2026-10-07)

Features

• read BigLake Lakehouse tables through tables.get instead of pyiceberg (46d4213)

Bug Fixes

• detect the location of INFORMATION_SCHEMA views in read_gbq (c54ec01)

bigframes: v2.50.0

PyPI History

2.50.0 (2026-10-05)

Features

• add DataFrame.bigquery.ai.evaluate accessor (df96c47)
• add bigquery.ml.arima_coefficients function. (e6076aa)
• add bigquery.ml.arima_evaluate function. (2849013)
• add bigquery.ml.explain_forecast function (305cb55)
• add bigquery.ml.forecast function (791e40a)
• add bigquery.ml.recommend function (5223eb4)
• implement ai.predict() (19bf773)
• support bigframes.bigquery.ai.evaluate (AI.EVALUATE) (5aca1ed)
• support fill_value parameter on DataFrame.unstack() and Series.unstack() (6b49556)
• support indicator parameter on DataFrame.merge() and bpd.merge() (a1b243c)

Bug Fixes

• avoid installing prerelease dependencies in regular system tests (402f180)
• Make SQLGlot properly handle JSON fields backed by strings (3e333af)

Documentation

• add a requirements-docs.txt to fix the readthedocs build (df6405d)
• add Open in Colab Enterprise badge to remaining notebooks (5ae4375)
• add series AI accessor to the doc site (034ea50)
• deploy to readthedocs as an "unoffical" mirror (251c60e)
• enhance repository introduction page in README.rst (2ba6788)
• expand landing page with sample notebooks (52469d0)
• fix notebook header links and replace tree with blob (75fce7d)
• migrate BigQuery DataFrames samples from python-docs-samples (f617771)
• replace broken Open in Vertex AI Workbench links with Colab Enterprise (bd138c5)
• update imported ONNX and TensorFlow model snippets to use the bigframes.bigquery.ml module and partial ordering. (707c097)
• update repo location to google/bigframes (63defc9)

bigframes: v2.49.0

2.49.0 (2026-09-09)

Features

• support iceberg geo types
• support inplace parameter on DataFrame.fillna() and Series.fillna()

Bug Fixes

• configure continuous query connection properties and assert job error status
• enable compiler fallback for dry runs
• fix quotation error for SQLGlot compiler for StreamingDataFrame
• handle time and date literals in SQLGlot compiler properly
• omit INTO keyword in LOAD DATA OVERWRITE DDL
• parenthesize OR expressions for AND chaining in SQLGlot
• quote literal values for strings in SQLGlot
• remove broken bigframes.bigquery.extract and bigframes.bigquery.generate_date_array functions
• session lifecycle and Python 3.14 syntax
• support bool coercion for non-numerical values in SQLGlot compiler

Documentation

• add client_json_credentials sample
• add create_table tri-library sample
• add extract_table combined sample
• add extract_table_json combined sample
• add load_table_gcs_csv combined sample
• add pandas_to_gbq_simple combined sample
• add read_gbq_simple combined sample
• restore samples/snippets directory
• update BigQuery DataFrames boosted tree model snippet to use bigframes.bigquery.ml API
• update BigQuery DataFrames k-means snippet to use the bigframes.bigquery.ml module and partial ordering
• update BigQuery DataFrames ML (linear regression) tutorial to use the bigframes.bigquery.ml API
• update BQML getting started tutorial to use bigframes.bigquery.ml APIs
• update load_table_dataframe to combined sample
• update logistic regression prediction snippets to use bigframes.bigquery.ml API and partial ordering
• update multimodal sample models
• update query_results_dataframe to combined sample

bigframes: v2.39.0

2.39.0 (2026-03-31)

Features

• add df.bigquery.ai.forecast method to pandas dataframe accessor (#2518) (1126cec9)

• support full round-trip persistence for multimodal reference cols (#2511) (494a0a11)

• expose DataFrame.bigquery in both pandas and bigframes DataFrames (#2533) (69fe3176)

Bug Fixes

• to_gbq may swap data columns when replace table (#2532) (17ecc65e)

• handle aggregate operations on empty selections (#2510) (34fb5daa)

• Localize BigQuery log suppression for gbq.py (#2541) (af49ca29)

• Respect remote function config changes even if logic unchanged (#2512) (b9524284)

• support melting empty DataFrames without crashing (#2509) (e8c46032)

Performance Improvements

• Make executor data uploads async internally (#2529) (96597f0b)

Documentation

• gemini retouch of the index page for seo (#2514) (2e5311e2)

• Rename Blob column references to ObjectRef column (#2535) (44e0ffd9)

bigframes: v2.38.0

v2.38.0 (2026-03-16)

Features

• Add bigframes.bigquery.rand() function (#2501) (5c43efb7)

• add df.bigquery pandas accessor (#2513) (91b6c245)

• Add str, dt accessors to pd.col Expression objects (#2488) (ce5de570)

• add bigquery.ml.get_insights function (#2493) (d29a6095)

• use EUC for AI IF, CLASSIFY, and SCORE when connection is not provided (#2507) (fe94910a)

Bug Fixes

• handle unsupported types and empty results in describe (#2506) (2326ad6a)

• no longer automatically use anywidget in the %%bqsql magics (#2504) (43353e2b)

Documentation

• Fix typo in ExperimentOptions class docstring (#2498) (077cb2eb)

• add notebooks to user guide page (#2505) (5cf37888)

bigframes: v2.37.0

v2.37.0 (2026-03-03)

Features

• Add cloud_function_cpus option to remote_function (#2475) (4caf74cc)

• add display.render_mode to control DataFrame/Series visualization (#2413) (7813eaa6)

• Support pd.col expressions with .loc and getitem (#2473) (ae5c8b32)

• add support for Python 3.14 (#2232) (c25a6d01)

• Support pd.col simple aggregates (#2480) (cb00daab)

• add dt.tz_localize() (#2469) (f70f93a1)

• Update bigquery.ai.generate_table output_schema to allow Mapping type (#2463) (f7fd1895)

Bug Fixes

• upload local data through write API if nested JSONs detected (#2478) (01dc5a34)

• allow IsInOp with same dtypes regardless nullable (#2466) (1d81b414)

Documentation

• Add code examples to configuration docstrings (#2352) (3c21993e)

• Move readme content to new User Guide section (#2464) (61a94845)

• add code sample and docstring for bpd.options.experiments.sql_compiler (#2474) (867951bc)

• use direct API for image (#2465) (8a1a82f7)

• Fix recall_score doc example (#2477) (a6f499c1)

• Skip inherited methods, use autosummary only for big classes (#2470) (a9512498)

• add bigframes default connection warning (#2471) (f1bbba23)

bigframes: v2.36.0

2.36.0 (2026-02-17)

Features

• Initial support for biglake iceberg tables (#2409) (ae35a989)

• add bigquery.ai.generate_table function (#2453) (b925aa24)

Documentation

• fix generate_text and generate_table input docs (#2455) (078bd32e)

• update multimodal dataframe notebook to use public APIs (#2456) (342fa723)

• use direct API for pdf chunk and pdf extract (#2452) (543ce52c)

• use direct API for audio transcription (#2447) (59cbc5db)

• Add EXIF metadata extraction example to multimodal notebook (#2429) (84c6f883)

• Update multimodal notebook to use public runtime helpers (#2451) (e36dd8b4)

bigframes 2.35.0

2.35.0 (2026-02-07)

Features

• Add bigframes.pandas.col with basic operators (#2405) (12741677)

• remove redundant "started." messages from progress output (#2440) (2017cc2f)

• add bigframe.bigquery.load_data function (#2426) (4b0f13b2)

• Disable progress bars in Anywidget mode (#2444) (4e2689a1)

• add bigquery.ai.generate_text function (#2433) (5bd0029a)

• Disable progress bars in Anywidget mode to reduce notebook clutter (#2437) (853240da)

• Add a bigframes cell magic for ipython (#2395) (e6de52de)

• add bigframes.bigquery.ai.generate_embedding (#2343) (e91536c8)

Bug Fixes

• always display the results in the %%bqsql cell magics output (#2439) (2d973b54)

• exlcude gcsfs 2026.2.0 (#2445) (311de31e)

• suppress JSONDtypeWarning in Anywidget mode and clean up progress output (#2441) (e0d185ad)

Documentation

• fix cast method shown on public docs (#2436) (ad0f33c6)

bigframes 2.34.0

2.34.0 (2026-02-02)

Features

• add bigframes.pandas.options.experiments.sql_compiler for switching the backend compiler (#2417) (7eba6ee03f07938315d99e2aeaf72368c02074cf)
• add bigquery.ml.generate_embedding function (#2422) (35f3f5e6f8c64b47e6e7214034f96f047785e647)
• add bigquery.create_external_table method (#2415) (76db2956e505aec4f1055118ac7ca523facc10ff)
• add deprecation warnings for .blob accessor and read_gbq_object_table (#2408) (7261a4ea5cdab6b30f5bc333501648c60e70be59)
• add bigquery.ml.generate_text function (#2403) (5ac681028624de15e31f0c2ae360b47b2dcf1e8d)

Bug Fixes

• broken job url (#2411) (fcb5bc1761c656e1aec61dbcf96a36d436833b7a)

bigframes 2.33.0

2.33.0 (2026-01-22)

Features

• add bigquery.ml.transform function (#2394) (1f9ee373)

• Add dark mode to anywidget mode (#2365) (2763b41d)

• Add max_columns control for anywidget mode (#2374) (34b5975f)

• Configure Biome for Consistent Code Style (#2364) (81e27b3d)

• Add BigQuery ObjectRef functions to bigframes.bigquery.obj (#2380) (9c3bbc36)

• Stabilize interactive table height to prevent notebook layout shifts (#2378) (a634e976)

Bug Fixes

• implement retry logic for cloud function endpoint fetching (#2369) (0f593c27)

• Throw if write api commit op has stream_errors (#2385) (7abfef05)

Performance Improvements

• Avoid requery for some result downsample methods (#2219) (95763ff2)