Awkward Array

New Features

• feat: add to_buffer and helper methods in layout builder by @ManasviGoyal in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2766
• feat: add helper methods to utils.h by @ManasviGoyal in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2771
• feat!: rework ufunc type promotion handling by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2767
• feat: extend to_layout options by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2763

Bug Fixes and Performance

• fix: add highlevel, behavior arguments to composite reducers by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2754
• fix: export nan variants by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2758
• fix: update __class__ for both layout and behavior consistently by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2759
• fix: support all-None index in awkward_Index_nones_as_index.cpp by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2769
• fix: handle unhashable behaviour type by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2770
• fix: protect RecordForm against len(fields) != len(contents) by @jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2776
• fix: drop lengths recursively by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2775
• fix: ak.num should always return a useful (non-unknown length) type by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2785
• fix: remove old argument from broadcast_and_apply by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2790
• fix: don't preserve unexpected option for is_in by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2792
• fix: support scalar strings in fill_none by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2793

Other

• chore: add trove classifier to awkward-cpp by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2729
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2733
• chore: set pyupgrade version by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2756
• chore: prepare for ruff-format by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2773
• chore: move to Ruff-format by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2777
• ci: fix oldest-supported-dependencies test workflow by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2783
• chore: run mypy in CI by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2789
• chore: run mypy on ak.types by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2791
• refactor: drop behavior broadcasting by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2761
• refactor: introduce parametrised nplike types by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2795

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.6...v2.4.8