Awkward Array

• feat: LayoutBuilder in Numba by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2408
• feat: move string features into core by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2547
• feat: add new __list__ parameter for list-based array types by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2549
• feat!: deprecate string behavior classes by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2528
• feat!: apply retroactive deprecations by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2566 ## Bug fixes and performance
• fix: support dict-likes in form.from_dict, convert fields to list by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2548
• fix: check validity error properly by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2550
• fix: string broadcasting by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2552
• fix: make C++ LayoutBuilder API consistent with the Numba's by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2553
• fix: convert unknown-length to index in ListOffsetArray.to_RegularArray by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2560
• fix: prefer known to unknown lengths in broadcasting by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2561
• fix: broadcasting of regular strings by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2564
• fix: restore NEP-18 overloads for concatenate and where by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2567 ## Other
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2532
• chore: update pyodide parts a bit by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2538
• chore: move C++ format configuration by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2554
• chore: drop Python 3.7 by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2557
• chore: ruff moved to astral-sh by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2562
• chore: target-version no longer needed by Black or Ruff by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2563
• chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 by @dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2546
• ci: cap pydantic<2 to fix WASM build by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2558
• refactor: drop unused if by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2543

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.2.4...v2.3.0