Awkward Array

• feat: Form.expected_from_buffers for names/dtypes ak.from_buffers needs. by @jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2660
• feat: support out-of-band buffers in pickling by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2665
• feat: add touch_data to ak.typetracer by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2672
• feat: add support for custom picklers by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2682
• feat!: deprecate forget_length, add parameters to typetracer_with_report by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2671
• feat!: remove deprecations for 1.4.0 release by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2688* fix: support placeholders in shape-only routines by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2652

• fix: multiple-output ufuncs e.g. divmod by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2654
• fix: support unflattening a typetracer-backed array at axis != 0 by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2657
• fix: fix IPython inspection by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2658
• fix: using numba.core.errors.Numba<Error> instead of Error in a Numba typing context. by @jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2659
• fix: raise error for invalid object in from_dlpack by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2662
• fix: fix/harden broadcasting through tuples by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2663
• fix: update string to search for in determing parquet column list separator by @douglasdavis in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2670
• fix: guard broadcast_and_apply from mixed backends by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2678
• fix: support typetracer in ak.str. operations by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2679

• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2645
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2677
• chore: bump numba and pyarrow test pins by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2684
• chore: bump C++ standard version by @agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2685
• chore(deps): bump aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2669
• test: keep testing Windows 32-bit. by @jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2681

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.3.3...v2.4.0