v0.32.24

Version v0.32.24

This release brings several performance improvements, new features, and important dependency updates. Notably, it enhances the performance of the find_replace function, introduces new options to data cleaning utilities, and enforces compatibility with the latest pandas version. Several dependencies have also been updated for improved stability and compatibility.

New Features

• Improved performance of find_replace by replacing .apply() with the more efficient .map() method, resulting in up to 5.9x speedup on large datasets. Unmapped values are now preserved correctly. (f5d97e, ANUPAM MISHRA)
• Added a strip_whitespace parameter to the clean_names function, allowing users to optionally remove leading and trailing whitespace from column names. (3a3dd4, Samuel Oranyeli)
• Added a drop_first parameter to the expand_column function, enabling users to drop the first category when expanding categorical columns. (7154f4, manav252)
• Improved the expand function for polars to avoid potentially expensive schema computations. (048478, Samuel Oranyeli)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a HealthCheck failure in test_ecdf_string by suppressing slow test warnings and adjusting test settings for better compatibility with Hypothesis. (64df4c, mjsr84)

Deprecations

• Enforced dependency on pandas >=3.0.0 and Python >=3.11, ensuring compatibility with the latest pandas release. (ad159d, Raffaele Mancuso)

Dependency Updates

• Bumped prefix-dev/setup-pixi from 0.9.5 to 0.10.1. (ae633c, 23b223, c1b57b, dependabot[bot])
• Bumped actions/checkout from 6 to 7. (b30eed, dependabot[bot])
• Bumped actions/setup-python from 6 to 7. (90fdbc, dependabot[bot])
• Bumped codecov/codecov-action from 6 to 7. (260420, dependabot[bot])
• Bumped pyspark from 3.3.2 to 3.4.4. (4c1ec5, dependabot[bot])
• Bumped idna from 3.7 to 3.15. (a8f700, dependabot[bot])

Documentation

• Made API module headings linkable for improved navigation. (dc0d17, Aarav C. Shah)

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Thank you to all contributors for their work on this release!