v1.8.0

What's Changed

✨ New Features

• Add Categorical column type by Oliver Borchert (@borchero) in #112
• Simplify sampling collections with common primary keys by Oliver Borchert (@borchero) in #111

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Be more lenient when reading metadata by Oliver Borchert (@borchero) in #114

🏗️ Testing

• Fix warning emitted in backwards compatibility test by Oliver Borchert (@borchero) in #113

⚙️ Automation

• Bump the gh-actions group with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #106

📦 Refactorings

• Package collection metadata into parquets by Andreas Albert (@AndreasAlbertQC) in #107

♻️ Chores

• Upgrade for polars 1.32 by Oliver Borchert (@borchero) in #110
• Update pixi lockfile by @quant-ranger[bot] in #108

Full Changelog: v1.7.6...v1.8.0