From 4db8b72e528eccd97043dddf8361511c70af86ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wes McKinney Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:25:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: release notes --- RELEASE.rst | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE.rst b/RELEASE.rst index 970707e74c255..1a3a1db2f8978 100644 --- a/RELEASE.rst +++ b/RELEASE.rst @@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ pandas 0.5.0 **Release date:** not yet released - - -Thanks to Thomas Kluyver and others for contributing patches and feedback -leading to some of the minor API changes listed below. +This major release of pandas includes a number of API changes (see below) and +cleanup of deprecated APIs from pre-0.4.0 releases. There are also bug fixes, +some new features, performance enhancements, and includes a new IPython +completer hook to enable tab completion of DataFrame columns accesses as +attributes (a new feature). + +In addition to the changes listed here from 0.4.3 to 0.5.0, the minor releases +0.4.1, 0.4.2, and 0.4.3 brought some significant new functionality and +performance improvements that are worth taking a look at. + +Thanks to Thomas Kluyver and others for contributing patches and providing +feedback on the library. **API Changes**