Awkward Array

This is the first release in which the C++ code has been moved into a separate package, awkward-cpp. The pure Python awkward package is version-locked to version 1 of awkward-cpp.

• feat: better mask_identity defaults for reducer-like functions. by @jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1873
• feat: np.matmul should raise NotImplementedError until it gets implemented by @ioanaif in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1877
• feat: more concise pretty-print. by @jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1861

• fix: ensure that behaviors are propagated through ak.XXX operations by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1869
• fix: try to fix long long to double by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1860
• fix: set appropriate error message for decimal types in arrow by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1871

• wip: run deploy for PR by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1891
• docs: Fixed typo in ak.argsort page by @Laurits7 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1880
• docs: add Laurits7 as a contributor for doc by @allcontributors in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1881
• ci: use Python consistently by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1892
• ci: set tokens & disable release for C++ [skip ci] by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1894
• ci: simplify hash computation [skip ci] by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1897
• ci: add option to manually release awkward on PyPI by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1898
• ci: set constant $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1900
• chore: rename is_XXXType to is_XXX (lowercase) by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1876
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1878
• chore: add README.md to awkward-cpp by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1895

• @Laurits7 made their first contribution in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/1880

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.0.0rc3...v2.0.0rc4