Hugging Face path expansion (#17665)
Add DSL validation for cloud eligible check (#17287)
Raise informative error message if non-IntoExpr is passed by name in *Frame.group_by (#17654)
Add infer_schema parameter to read_csv / scan_csv (#17617)
Change API for writing partitioned Parquet to reduce code duplication (#17586)
Cache schema resolve back to DSL (#17610)
Expose returns_scalar to map_elements (#17613)
Add option to include file path for Parquet, IPC, CSV scans (#17563)
Support describe on decimal (#15092)
Support datetime in predicate during hive partition pruning (#17545)
Raise more informative error message for directories containing files with mixed extensions (#17480)
Exclude empty files from directory/glob expansion (#17478)
Support use of SQLAlchemy "Connectable" in write_database (#17470)

🐞 Bug fixes

Support duplicate expression names when calling ufuncs (#17641)
Interpret %y consistently with Chrono in to_date/to_datetime/strptime (#17661)
Fix explode invalid check (#17651)
Raise for overlapping index/column names in pandas dataframes post string coercion (#17628)
Expand brackets in async glob expansion (#17630)
Fix row index disappearing after projection pushdown in NDJSON (#17631)
Fix struct -> enum is_in (#17622)
Don't needlessly unwrap in pivot_schema (#17611)
Reject literal input in sort_by_exprs() (#17606)
Don't enforce row order in join test results where not guaranteed (#17596)
Bitmap collect into safety (#17588)
Make schema picklable (#17524)
Handle current position of file objects (#17543)
Set O_CLOEXEC on duplicated file descriptor (#17537)
Method dt.truncate was sometimes returning incorrect results for pre-1970 datetimes (#17582)
Defer path expansion until collect in file scan methods (#17532)
Fix retries parameter in scan functions not taking effect when it was set to 0 (#17564)
Don't unwrap send attempt to oneshot channel (#17566)
Fix scanning from HTTP cloud paths (#17571)
Properly implement struct (#17522)
Add right to lazyframe join docstring (#17529)
Fix predicate pushdown for .list.(get|gather) (#17511)
Make sure scan_ipc does not go through fsspec (#17495)
Turn panic into error when serializing Object types (#17353)
Fix struct expansion and raise on exclude (#17489)
Normalize path in sink_csv (#17476)

📖 Documentation

Update plot docs to refer to docstrings (#17504)
Rename str.lengths to str.len_bytes in description text (#11577) (#17626)
Create example for polars.Expr.bin.decode (#17508)
Add right join in the user guide (#17608)
Adjust rendering of links in read_database_uri docstring (#17536)
Update SQL examples in README (#17568)
Fixup "deprecated" directive for DataFrame.melt and LazyFrame.melt (#17530)
Add write_parquet_partitioned (#17488)
Add example for writing hive partitioned parquet to user guide (#17483)
Fix typo in Getting Started section of user guide (#17465)

🛠️ Other improvements

Add DSL validation for cloud eligible check (#17287)
Add ArrayChunks to optimize codegen of BatchDecoder (#17632)
Move path logic to from utils to path_utils in polars-io (#17635)
Fix struct gather (#17621)
Back to StructChunked name (#17609)
Remove unused with_column method of PyLazyFrame (#17607)
Re-enable struct related tests (#17597)
Completely redo structure of Parquet decoder (#17589)
Fix struct outer validity;fmt;is_in;cast;cmp (#17590)
Add/fix version-gating in some SQLAlchemy and Pandas tests (#17538)
Add style accessor to DataFrame (#17502)
Remove unused is_supported_cloud util (#17493)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @Julian-J-S, @MarcoGorelli, @alexander-beedie, @anergictcell, @arnabanimesh, @brandon-b-miller, @cmdlineluser, @coastalwhite, @deanm0000, @eitsupi, @flisky, @henryharbeck, @itamarst, @jonaylor89, @moritzwilksch, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @phi-friday, @r-brink, @rcorty, @ritchie46, @ruihe774, @stinodego, @tylerriccio33 and @wence-