[Numpy-discussion] ANN: pandas v0.17.0 released

[Jeff Reback]

Hi,

We are proud to announce v0.17.0 of pandas.

This is a major release from 0.16.2 and includes a small number of API
changes, several new features, enhancements, and performance improvements
along with a large number of bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade
to this version.

This was a release of 4 months with 515 commits by 112 authors encompassing
233 issues and 362 pull-requests.

We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

*What is it:*

*pandas* is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data
structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both
easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block
for
doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has
the
broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data
analysis / manipulation tool available in any language.

*Highlights*:


- Release the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) on some cython operations,
see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-gil>
- Plotting methods are now available as attributes of the .plot
accessor, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-plot>
- The sorting API has been revamped to remove some long-time
inconsistencies, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-api-breaking-sorting>
- Support for a datetime64[ns] with timezones as a first-class dtype,
see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-tz>
- The default for to_datetime will now be to raise when presented with
unparseable formats, previously this would return the original input, see
here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-api-breaking-to-datetime>
- The default for dropna in HDFStore has changed to False, to store by
default all rows even if they are all NaN, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-api-breaking-hdf-dropna>
- Support for Series.dt.strftime to generate formatted strings for
datetime-likes, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-strftime>
- Development installed versions of pandas will now have PEP440
compliant version strings GH9518
<https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/9518>
- Development support for benchmarking with the Air Speed Velocity
library GH8316 <https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/8316>
- Support for reading SAS xport files, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-enhancements-sas-xport>
- Removal of the automatic TimeSeries broadcasting, deprecated since
0.8.0, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-prior-deprecations>
- Display format with plain text can optionally align with Unicode East
Asian Width, see here
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170-east-asian-width>
- Compatibility with Python 3.5 GH11097
<https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/11097>
- Compatibility with matplotlib 1.5.0 GH11111
<https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/11111>

See the Whatsnew
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/whatsnew.html> for
much more information and the full Documentation
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/> link.

*How to get it:*

Source tarballs, windows wheels, macosx wheels are available on PyPI
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas>

- note that currently PyPi is not accepting 3.5 wheels.

Installation via conda is:

- conda install pandas

windows wheels are courtesy of Christoph Gohlke and are built on Numpy 1.9
macosx wheels are courtesy of Matthew Brett

*Issues:*

Please report any issues on our issue tracker
<https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues>:


Thanks to all who made this release happen. It is a very large release!

Jeff

*Thanks to all of the contributors*


- Alex Rothberg
- Andrea Bedini
- Andrew Rosenfeld
- Andy Li
- Anthonios Partheniou
- Artemy Kolchinsky
- Bernard Willers
- Charlie Clark
- Chris
- Chris Whelan
- Christoph Gohlke
- Christopher Whelan
- Clark Fitzgerald
- Clearfield Christopher
- Dan Ringwalt
- Daniel Ni
- Data & Code Expert Experimenting with Code on Data
- David Cottrell
- David John Gagne
- David Kelly
- ETF
- Eduardo Schettino
- Egor
- Egor Panfilov
- Evan Wright
- Frank Pinter
- Gabriel Araujo
- Garrett-R
- Gianluca Rossi
- Guillaume Gay
- Guillaume Poulin
- Harsh Nisar
- Ian Henriksen
- Ian Hoegen
- Jaidev Deshpande
- Jan Rudolph
- Jan Schulz
- Jason Swails
- Jeff Reback
- Jonas Buyl
- Joris Van den Bossche
- Joris Vankerschaver
- Josh Levy-Kramer
- Julien Danjou
- Ka Wo Chen
- Karrie Kehoe
- Kelsey Jordahl
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