Version 5.7.6

What's Changed

Bug-fixes and performance

• perf: avoid full basket reads in num_entries_for and redundant reads on cache hits by @henryiii in #1649
• fix: RNTuple footer leak on extend, broken WritableNTuple.compression, directory delitem KeyError by @henryiii in #1650
• fix: TProfile2D/3D weighted and counts() were broken for N-D profiles by @henryiii in #1651
• fix: RNTuple/TBranch behavior edge cases (KeyInFileError, global iterate offsets, ak_add_doc forwarding) by @henryiii in #1658
• fix: RNTuple page deserialization copies, split-column sizing, and cluster-index pairing by @henryiii in #1652
• fix: utility-layer bugs (steps leakage, dask error paths, LRU cache) and Py2-era cleanup by @henryiii in #1661
• fix: HTTP source multipart batching, fallback leak, and close behavior by @henryiii in #1653
• fix: model member-name and AwkwardForth-API bugs in TTree v18, TTime, TAtt by @henryiii in #1655
• fix: source/sink error paths, leaks, and hot-path cleanups by @henryiii in #1654
• fix: TTree-writing bugs (sliced string arrays, nested recarrays, fLen, TGraph y-range, oversized compression blocks) by @henryiii in #1657
• fix: entry-range arithmetic in iterate/concatenate and basket selection by @henryiii in #1656
• fix: core model/streamer/deserialization bugs and hot-path performance by @henryiii in #1659
• fix: interpretation-layer bugs (pandas NaN fallback, typename parsing, strided objects, bitset) by @henryiii in #1660
• fix: intermitten issue with fsspec on free-threaded Python by @ariostas in #1691
• fix: uproot.update should accept other valid UUID versions by @ariostas in #1689

Other

• docs: add Yokubas as a contributor for code by @allcontributors[bot] in #1678
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1679
• chore(deps): bump the actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1684
• docs: document Awkward how=zip grouping by @sapunyangkut in #1683
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1692
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1694
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1701
• test: serve S3 tests from a local moto server by @ariostas in #1695
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #1703
• ci: automate release-note categorization with type labels by @TaiSakuma in #1704
• ci: unbreak the GPU and Pyodide jobs by @ariostas in #1707
• docs: add descriptions of reading and writing options by @tomeichlersmith in #1702
• docs: add tomeichlersmith as a contributor for doc by @allcontributors[bot] in #1708

New Contributors

• @sapunyangkut made their first contribution in #1683
• @TaiSakuma made their first contribution in #1704
• @tomeichlersmith made their first contribution in #1702

Full Changelog: v5.7.5...v5.7.6