Python Polars 0.16.11

🚀 Performance improvements

• optimize str.replace_all (#7353)
• optimize str.replace ~2x improvement (#7347)
• ensure utf8 apply preallocates memory (#7345)

✨ Enhancements

• make LazyFrame.explode streamable. (#7341)
• allow import of dtype groups from the top-level to improve discovery (#7339)

🐞 Bug fixes

• make decimal types opt-in (#7348)
• fix chunk_sizes in threading apply (#7351)
• don't panic when writing NullArray values to python row tuple (#7346)

🛠️ Other improvements

• add write_excel API docs link (#7338)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@alexander-beedie, @ritchie46 and @s-banach