Release Version 2.0.7 · scikit-hep/awkward

feat: add ability to forget length of typetracer created with typetracer_from_report by @douglasdavis in #2141
feat: start hardening nplike signatures by @agoose77 in #2148
feat: implement all ufuncs on TypeTracer. by @jpivarski in #2149
feat: use None for unknown lengths (1 of 2) by @agoose77 in #2168
feat: coerce backends to same zero-copy type (2 of 2) by @agoose77 in #2175
feat: growable buffer move_to method by @ianna in #2178
feat: add ak.merge_union_of_records by @agoose77 in #2185
feat: add support for histogram module by @agoose77 in #2190
feat: add ak.approx_equal by @agoose77 in #2198

Bug-fixes and performance

fix: re-order cases to handle NumPy scalar types properly by @agoose77 in #2125
fix: specify dtype for buffers in from_rdataframe. by @agoose77 in #2145
fix: unify typestr with _repr by @agoose77 in #2158
fix: update type_to_name for Layout builder cxx_14 target by @ianna in #2165
fix: Layout builders clean and length bug fixes by @ianna in #2171
fix: support mask_identity=True for axis=None in ptp, std, etc. by @agoose77 in #2172
fix: preserve dimensions for keepdims=True, axis=None reductions by @agoose77 in #2177
fix: some usages of len(layout) under typetracer by @agoose77 in #2181
fix: rdataframe memory check by @ianna in #2155
fix: rework parameter merging rules by @agoose77 in #2179
fix: don't raise NotImplementedError when reading empty array from Parquet by @dsavoiu in #2194
fix: ignore object arrays by @agoose77 in #2206
fix: ak.values_astype now turns 'unknown' type into the requested type. by @jpivarski in #2196

refactor: remove to_arraylib by @agoose77 in #2128
refactor: move Singleton to its own module by @agoose77 in #2131
refactor: move kernel logic to _kernels by @agoose77 in #2132
refactor: use nplike.asarray by @agoose77 in #2134
refactor: remove dead code by @agoose77 in #2139
refactor: make nplike.zeros et al. use Array API type signatures by @agoose77 in #2137
refactor: move typetracer ufunc handling to backend [1 of 2] by @agoose77 in #2150
refactor: split _nplikes.py into _nplikes/*.py [2 of 2] by @agoose77 in #2152
refactor: drop UnknownScalar, harden unknown scalar behavior by @agoose77 in #2154
docs: fix bold docstring due to indent by @agoose77 in #2122
docs: disable IPyParallel & load dependencies in reverse order by @agoose77 in #2126
docs: improve error message by @agoose77 in #2201
docs: add dsavoiu as a contributor for code by @allcontributors in #2204
ci: test NumPy < 1.17 by @agoose77 in #2142
ci: run header-only tests by @agoose77 in #2169
chore: apply changes from flake8 by @agoose77 in #2130
chore: isolate nox dependencies in noxfile by @agoose77 in #2136
chore: drop unused nplike functions by @agoose77 in #2138
chore: add helpful message if cpp install is not prepared by @agoose77 in #2146
chore: move to Ruff by @henryiii in #2153
chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.11.4 to 2.12.0 by @dependabot in #2133
chore: update Ruff version by @henryiii in #2174
chore: ruff rewrite not in by @henryiii in #2176
chore: ruff rewrite dicts by @henryiii in #2183

Full Changelog: v2.0.6...v2.0.7