v5.0.0.dev2

What's Changed

• Splink 5 - Remove implicit cache by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2847
• Splink 5 - Explicit cache table mgt fns by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2848
• Splink 5 - Remove salting by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2849
• Splink 5 - Add chunking by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2850
• Splink5 - Bayes factors to match weights final by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2851
• Drop athena by ADBond in #2858
• Minor fixes by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2859
• Update changelog by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2860
• remove code coverage by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2861
• Merge - splink 4 to 5 by ADBond in #2862
• Merge/master into splink5 2025 12 17 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2865
• Update tests for splinkdataframes_everywhere by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2866
• Splink 5: Register SplinkDataFrames using db_api before passing to Splink functions by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2863
• Merge master to Splink 5 by ADBond in #2880
• Drop pandas as a required dependancy - core working version by ADBond in #2883
• Optimise train u by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2870
• Notebooks to jupytext by ADBond in #2899
• Makefile & simplifcation of dependency groups by ADBond in #2908
• Add register_blocked_pairs_for_predict function to table management by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2915
• Merge splink 4 to 5 by ADBond in #2923
• added filtered neighbours table to list of tables for Spark to persist by Aymon Wuolanne (@aymonwuolanne) in #2928
• Merge/splink 4 to 5 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2932
• To arrow and duckdb tables by ADBond in #2916
• Depandas estimate u by ADBond in #2937
• Merge/splink 4 to 5 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2939
• SplinkChart by ADBond in #2941
• (Some) structured chart records by ADBond in #2940
• Fix dashboards to work with mw_ not bf by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2952
• Simplify blocking by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2935
• Match key and unique id quoting fixes by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2955
• TF Adjustment chart without pandas + SplinkChart by ADBond in #2956
• Finalise API of computation of blocked pairs workflow by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2957
• Revert simplify blocking and match key quoting by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2958
• A bit less pandas in tests by ADBond in #2969
• Change linker.misc.query_sql to output SplinkDataFrame by default by ADBond in #2970
• uv(deps-dev): Bump sqlalchemy from 2.0.47 to 2.0.48 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #2953
• github-actions(deps): Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #2954
• github-actions(deps): Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.8.3 to 4.9.0 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #2964
• github-actions(deps): Bump actions/upload-artifact from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #2951
• uv(deps): Bump tornado from 6.5.4 to 6.5.5 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #2968
• uv(deps-dev): Bump mkdocs-material from 9.7.3 to 9.7.4 by Dependabot (@dependabot)[bot] in #2965
• ty visibility by ADBond in #2971
• port blocking_select_only_blocking_cols to splink_5 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2972
• remove_select_star_at_start_of_pipeline_for_aliasing splink5 port by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2973
• merge up Optimise link only exploding blocking rules to splink 5 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2974
• port restore_splink_4_0_15_behaviour_for_min_source_dataset to splink5 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2975
• Marker/master up to 2a67972 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2976
• fix issue 2949 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2977
• Mergeup/2977 source dataset hardcoded rather than using settings in estimate u splink5 by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2978
• bump for dev2 release by Robin Linacre (@RobinL) in #2979

Full Changelog: v4.0.16...v5.0.0.dev2