Rust Polars 0.33.0

🏆 Highlights

• implementing sink_csv for LazyFrame (#10682)

💥 Breaking changes

• empty product returns identity (#10842)
• return f64 for rank when method="average" (#10734)
• Rename groupby to group_by (#10654)
• Read/write support for IPC streams in DataFrames (#10606)
• Change behavior of all - fix Kleene logic implementation for all/any (#10564)
• remove fixed_seed and add pl.set_random_seed (#10388)
• Make arange an alias for int_range (#9983)
• date_range/time_range no longer return a List type (#10526)
• Remove various functionalities deprecated before 0.18 (#10527)

⚠️ Deprecations

• Rename is_first/last to is_first/last_distinct (#11130)
• Rename count_match to count_matches (#11028)
• Rename strip to strip_chars (#10813)
• Add datetime_range expression function (#10213)
• Rename Series/Expr.rolling_apply to rolling_map (#10750)

🚀 Performance improvements

• improve performance of fast projection (#10945)
• parse time zones outside of downcast_iter() in replace_time_zone (#10713)
• use binary abstraction for atan2 (#10588)
• use binary abstraction in pow (#10562)

✨ Enhancements

• Expressify str.split argument. (#11117)
• Expressify argument of binary contains (#11091)
• dt.offset_by supports broadcasting lhs (#11095)
• Expressify argument of binary starts_with and ends_with (#11076)
• json_extract supports extract static and string value to list dtype (#11057)
• add quote_style="never" option for write_csv (#11015)
• add support for nextest (#11048)
• Add literal for str count_match (#10996)
• More dtypes supports cast to list (#11025)
• ParquetCloudSink to allow streaming pipelines into remote ObjectStores (#10060)
• Add strip_prefix and strip_suffix to the string namespace (#10958)
• Add datetime_range expression function (#10213)
• add proper cache for Regex compilation (#10934)
• implementation of array_to_string (#10839)
• apply left side predicate pushdown also to right side if all predicate columns are also join columns (#10841)
• accept expr in str.count_match (#10900)
• accept expressions in .offset_by (#9967)
• implement drop as special case of select (#10885)
• Supports is_last operation (#10760)
• activate cse for group_by (again) (#10749)
• add pairwise float sum implementation (#10756)
• implementing sink_csv for LazyFrame (#10682)
• Supports series unique & arg_unique & n_unique for list (#10743)
• repeat_by should also support broadcasting of LHS (#10735)
• deprecate 'use_earliest' argument in favour of 'ambiguous', which can take expressions (#10719)
• is_first also supports numeric list type. (#10727)
• improve slice pushdown in unions (#10723)
• Support min and max strategy for binary & str columns fill null (#10673)
• support broadcasting in list set operations (#10668)
• add truncate_ragged_lines (#10660)
• supports cast to list (#10623)
• Rename groupby to group_by (#10654)
• preserve whitespace in notebook output (#10644)
• Read/write support for IPC streams in DataFrames (#10606)
• improve binary (arity) generics (#10622)
• propagate null is in is_in and more generic array construction (#10614)
• Change behavior of all - fix Kleene logic implementation for all/any (#10564)
• frame-level cast support (#10504)
• Add failed column to cast exception (#10507)
• Make arange an alias for int_range (#9983)
• date_range/time_range no longer return a List type (#10526)
• Remove various functionalities deprecated before 0.18 (#10527)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Correct hash and fmt for struct expr (#11119)
• enforce sortedness of by argument in rolling_* functions (#11002)
• Filter on empty objectChunked should not throw error (#11073)
• ensure null_count statistics accounts for null array (#11070)
• toggle off cse if ext_context is used (#11051)
• Correct field dtype of string concat (#11055)
• pushed-down expr should be considered when evaluating ExternalContext (#11023)
• fix rolling_* functions when "by" has nanosecond resolution (#11005)
• Don't reuse member for Selector::Add (#11026)
• fix the construction of List<Null> (#10969)
• allow singular null in regex pattern (#10948)
• compute length of null array in explode (#10946)
• Allow exactly one value in start/end for int_range (#10914)
• count was falsy tagged as cse in group by (#10917)
• Retain original dtype when deserializing an empty list (#10893)
• CSE don't accept opaque functions (#10905)
• Make int_range(s) exclusive on the upper bound when step is negative (#10898)
• fix conversion from decimal to float (#10776)
• Add broadcasting for list comparisons (#10857)
• don't overflow length before checking limit (#10883)
• fix bug where datetimes were not parsed in read_csv when pattern had no hour or minute (#10877)
• tag amortized iter unsafe and add safe alternatives (#10881)
• use pool in dataframe arithmetic (#10864)
• remove debug println! from datetime fn (#10862)
• repair polars_err string interpolation (#10863)
• make count_match docs and extract_all docs/impl consistent around zero matches (#10854)
• empty product returns identity (#10842)
• never panic in hash/equality doesn't hold in cse (#10836)
• Improve bound checks on temporal ranges (#10837)
• var/std behavior around few elements (#10828)
• Fix divided by zero error when read empty csv in streaming mode (#10819)
• fix equality of quantile aggregation node (#10816)
• Reading an only-header csv file in streaming mode should not panic (#10810)
• get_single_leaf can't handle Expr::Count (#10790)
• string to decimal parsing (#10712)
• support groupby literal in streaming (#10771)
• ORDER BY on unselected columns (#10752)
• Fix is_in cannot cast list type for float (#10769)
• fix unicode truncation in json parsing (#10761)
• Error message of list unique should not display inner type (#10748)
• create chunks_mut entry in vtable (#10745)
• Prevent panic on sample_n with replacement from empty df (#10731)
• only preserve sortedness flag in replace_time_zone when safe (#10738)
• Error on value_counts on column named "counts" (#10737)
• Build Series from empty Series vector (#10558)
• return f64 for rank when method="average" (#10734)
• Keep min/max and arg_min/arg_max consistent. (#10716)
• Fix bug when providing custom labels and opting for duplicates in qcut (#10686)
• Cast small int type when scan csv in streaming mode. (#10679)
• Reused input series in rolling_apply should not be orderly (#10694)
• re-sort buffer when update window swap the whole buffer (#10696)
• Set the correct fast_explode flag for ListUtf8ChunkedBuilder (#10684)
• Sorted Utf8Chunked max_str and min_str should consider null value (#10675)
• AllHorizontal format string (#10658)
• List<null> chunked builder should take care of series name (#10642)
• respect 'ignore_errors=False' in csv parser (#10641)
• fix rename + projection pushdown (#10624)
• fix int/float downcast in is_in (#10620)
• Change behavior of all - fix Kleene logic implementation for all/any (#10564)
• Fix serialization for categorical chunked. (#10609)
• join_asof missing tolerance implementation, address edge-cases (#10482)
• Take input_schema to create physical expr for Selection (#10571)
• fix serialization of empty lists (#10563)
• Clear window cache after evaluate predication expr (#10505)
• Parsing regex col in Expr::Columns (#10551)
• sanitize column naming in boolean ops (#10531)
• fix build for wasm (#10536)
• remove fixed_seed and add pl.set_random_seed (#10388)
• fix build for wasm (#9502)
• rollback cse in groupby: python 0.18.15 (#10491)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Removed duplicated example (#11109)
• Add CODEOWNERS for docs folder (#11107)
• Refactor starts_with and ends_with for string (#11085)
• Integrate user guide (#11089)
• remove feature gate join/groupby in polars-core (#10965)
• Add Documentation issue type (#11042)
• complete intra-docs in api documentation (#11007)
• genericize take implementation (#10976)
• genericize PolarsDataType (#10952)
• enhance internal crates readme with reference to main crate (#10928)
• Add Duration method for checking full days (#10850)
• apply with_name in more places (#10899)
• never compare opaque functions (#10906)
• eliminate repetition in utf8 datetime functions (#10860)
• Fix issue templates for bug reports (#10896)
• remove LocalProjection (#10886)
• request verbose logging output of minimal reproducable examples (#10882)
• Reorganize range expression module (#10871)
• introduce with_name for Series/ChunkedArray (#10859)
• Further refactor temporal range functions (#10844)
• Refactor range related functions (#10830)
• Fix the un-compile Black box function parts in polars lazy cookbook (#10809)
• Fix some broken links / formatting (#10772)
• Improve docs for polars-lazy (#10729)
• update rustc nightly_2023-08-26 (#10467)
• default to rust native flate2 lib (#10733)
• Clear GitHub Actions caches weekly (#10715)
• move 'is_in' to polars-ops (#10645)
• Clean up schema calculation for date_range (#10653)
• remove unused apply functions and add fallible generic apply functions (#10621)
• Enforce up-to-date Cargo.lock (#10555)
• make binary chunkedarray functions DRY (#10607)
• bump MSRV to 1.65 (#10568)
• genericize chunk implementation (#10506)
• use ChunkArray::(try_)from_chunk_iter (#10497)
• add VSCode rust-analyzer settings (#10498)
• Update URLs for dev documentation (#10495)
• Update features for latest flate2 release (#10492)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
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