Polars: py-1.24.0 Release

🚀 Performance improvements

• Provide a fallback skip batch predicate for constant batches (#21477)
• Parallelize the passing in new streaming multiscan (#21430)

✨ Enhancements

• Add lossy decoding to read_csv for non-utf8 encodings (#21433)
• Add DataFrame.write_iceberg (#15018)
• Add 'nulls_equal' parameter to is_in (#21426)
• Improve numeric stability rolling_{std, var, cov, corr} (#21528)
• IR Serde cross-filter (#21488)
• Give priority to pycapsule interface in from_dataframe (#21377)
• Support writing Time type in json (#21454)
• Activate all optimizations in sinks (#21462)
• Add AssertionError variant to PolarsError in polars-error (#21460)
• Pass filter to inner readers in multiscan new streaming (#21436)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Categorical min/max panicking when string cache is enabled (#21552)
• Don't encode IPC record batch twice (#21525)
• Respect rewriting flag in Node rewriter (#21516)
• Correct skip batch predicate for partial statistics (#21502)
• Make the Parquet Sink properly phase aware (#21499)
• Don't divide by zero in partitioned group-by (#21498)
• Create new linearizer between rowwise new streaming sink phases (#21490)
• Don't drop rows in sinks between new streaming phases (#21489)
• Incorrect lazy schema for Expr.list.diff (#21484)
• Give priority to pycapsule interface in from_dataframe (#21377)
• Duration Series arithmetic operations (#21425)
• Fix unwrap None panic when filtering delta with missing columns (#21453)
• Use stable sort for rolling-groupby (#21444)
• Throw exception if dataframe is too large to be compatible with Excel (#20900)
• Address regression with read_excel not handling URL paths correctly (#21428)

📖 Documentation

• Fix typo (#21554)
• Correct typos and grammar in Python docstrings (#21524)
• Move llm page under misc (#21550)
• Polars Cloud docs (#21548)
• Add LazyFrame.remote docs entry (#21529)
• Specify that the key column must be sorted in ascending order in merge_sorted (#21501)
• Add Polars & LLMs page to the user guide (#21218)
• Mention that statistics=True doesn't enable all statistics in sink_parquet() (#21434)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Don't take ownership of IRplan in new streaming engine (#21551)
• Refactor code for re-use by streaming NDJSON source (#21520)
• Simplify the phase handling of new streaming sinks (#21530)
• Improve IPC sink node parallelism (#21505)
• Use tikv-jemallocator (#21486)
• Rename 'join_nulls' parameter to 'nulls_equal' in join functions (#21507)
• Move rolling to polars-compute (#21503)
• Remove Growable in favor of ArrayBuilder (#21500)
• Introduce a Sink Node trait in the new streaming engine (#21458)
• Add test for rolling stability sort (#21456)
• Add test for empty .is_in predicate filter (#21455)
• Test for unique length on multiple columns (#21418)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @Kevin-Patyk, @MarcoGorelli, @Matt711, @alexander-beedie, @banflam, @braaannigan, @coastalwhite, @dependabot[bot], @etiennebacher, @ghuls, @kevinjqliu, @lukemanley, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @ritchie46, @stijnherfst, @thomasjpfan and dependabot[bot]