Awkward Array

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What's Changed

New features

• feat: add lazy IR scheduling layer by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4173
• feat: allow row group size in bytes as a string in the to_parquet family of functions by @ikrommyd in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4202

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: include kernel-specification.yml in source distribution by @5U5H4NTH006 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4179
• fix: default row group size is very big and not what pyarrow defaults to by @ikrommyd in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4191
• fix: handle FutureWarning for deprecated feather by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4198
• fix: nan-variant reducers drop behavior and attrs by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4093
• fix: validation no-ops and broken error paths in contents by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4102
• fix: form and type equality bugs by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4101
• perf: vectorize union flattening and cache nplike feature probes by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4109
• fix: assorted operation bugs (softmax, enforce_type, merge_union_of_records, and more) by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4107
• fix: categorical hashing, delayed-backend detection, and pretty-printing by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4106
• fix: ensure length is a numpy scalar for CUDA stability by @ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4194
• fix: any_backend_is_delayed should only be iterating over sequences of arrays for now by @ikrommyd in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4208
• fix: transient attrs should not be written to parquet by @ikrommyd in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4209

Other

• chore(deps): bump hypothesis-awkward from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4175
• docs: add 5U5H4NTH006 as a contributor for code by @allcontributors[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4180
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4176
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4196
• chore(deps): bump hypothesis-awkward from 0.18.1 to 0.19.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4195
• chore: bump default parquet version to 2.6 by @ikrommyd in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4192
• chore: remove dead code and outdated guards by @henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4103
• chore(deps): bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4206
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4182
• chore: update reviewer list by @pfackeldey in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4200

New Contributors

• @5U5H4NTH006 made their first contribution in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/4179

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.10.0...v2.11.0