Polars: py-0.19.9 Release

🏆 Highlights

• extend filter capabilities with new support for *args predicates, **kwargs constraints, and chained boolean masks (#11740)

⚠️ Deprecations

• Deprecate non-keyword args for ewm methods (#11804)
• Deprecate use_pyarrow param for Series.to_list (#11784)
• Rename group_by_rolling to rolling (#11761)

🚀 Performance improvements

• Improve DataFrame.get_column performance by ~35% (#11783)
• rechunk before grouping on multiple keys (#11711)
• process parquet statistics before downloading row-group (#11709)
• push down predicates that refer to group_by keys (#11687)
• slightly faster float equality (#11652)

✨ Enhancements

• Expressify pct_change and move to ops (#11786)
• primitive kwargs in plugins (#11268)
• add DATE function for SQL (#11541)
• Add config setting to control how many List items are printed (#11409)
• Use OrderedDict for schemas (#11742)
• allow specifying schema in pl.scan_ndjson (#10963)
• add support for "outer" mode to frame update method (#11688)
• transparently support "qmark" parameterisation of SQLAlchemy queries in read_database (#11700)
• support multiple sources in scan_file (#11661)
• support batched frame iteration over read_database queries (#11664)
• column selector support for DataFrame.melt and LazyFrame.unnest (#11662)

🐞 Bug fixes

• ensure projections containing only hive columns are projected (#11803)
• patch broken aHash AES intrinsics on ARM (#11801)
• fix key in object-store cache (#11790)
• handle logical types in plugins (#11788)
• Fix values printed by assert_*_equal AssertionError when exact=False (#11781)
• make PyLazyGroupby reusable (#11769)
• only exclude final output names of group_by key expressions (#11768)
• Fix subsecond parsing in timedelta conversions (#11759)
• fix ambiguity wrt list aggregation states (#11758)
• Correctly process subseconds in pl.duration (#11748)
• use actual number of read rows for hive materialization (#11690)
• return float dtype in interpolate (for method="linear") for numeric dtypes (#11624)
• fix seg fault in concat_str of empty series (#11704)
• fix sort_by regression (#11679)
• Fix match on last item for join_asof with strategy="nearest" (#11673)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Bump lint dependencies (#11802)
• Minor updates to assertion utils and docstrings (#11798)
• Remove unused _to_rust_syntax util (#11795)
• Minor tweak in code example in section Coming from Pandas (#11764)
• Fix Exception module paths (#11785)
• Rename IntegralType to IntegerType (#11773)
• more granular polars-ops imports (#11760)
• Link to expand_selector in user guide (#11722)
• Add parametric test for df.to_dict/series.to_list (#11757)
• Minor fix in code example in section Coming from Pandas (#11745) (#11745)
• Move tests for group_by_dynamic into one module (#11741)
• Update group_by_dynamic example (#11737)
• reorder pl.duration arguments (#11641)
• remove default features from some crates (#11680)
• *_horizontal dependent on reduce_expr to expression architecture (#11685)
• clarify that median is equivalent to the 50% percentile shown in describe metrics (#11694)
• update rustc and fix future (#11696)
• Publish release after uploading assets (#11686)
• upgrade pyo3 to 0.20.0 (#11683)
• better align help command output following addition of some longer options (#11681)
• sum_horizontal to expression architecture (#11659)
• add note about use of polars-lts-cpu for macOS x86-64/rosetta (#11660)
• improve rank implementation, especially around nulls (#11651)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @JulianCologne, @MarcoGorelli, @Walnut356, @aberres, @alexander-beedie, @alicja-januszkiewicz, @cmdlineluser, @jrycw, @mcrumiller, @messense, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @petrosbar, @rancomp, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @romanovacca, @sd2k, @stinodego, @svaningelgem and @thomasjpfan