pola-rs/polars: Python Polars 0.19.8

• Enable additional flags for x86-64 wheels (#11487)

• Rename .list.lengths and .str.lengths (#11613)
• Deprecate default value for radix in parse_int (#11615)
• Rename write_csv parameter quote to quote_char (#11583)

• actually use projection information in async parquet reader (#11637)
• improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607)
• use try_binary_elementwise over try_binary_elementwise_values (#11596)
• skip empty chunks in concat (#11565)
• improve sparse sample performance (#11544)

• Standardize error message format (#11598)
• allow coalesce in streaming (#11633)
• Implement schema, schema_override for pl.read_json with array-like input (#11492)
• add SQL support for UNION [ALL] BY NAME, add "diagonal_relaxed" strategy for pl.concat (#11597)
• improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607)
• add time_unit argument to duration, default to "us" (#11586)
• support read_database options passthrough to the underlying connection's execute method (enables parameterised SQL queries, etc) (#11562)
• elide overflow checks on i64 (#11563)
• add INITCAP string function for SQL (#9884)

• Fix input replacement logic for slice (#11631)
• slice expr can be taken in cse (#11628)
• ensure nested logical types are converted to physical (#11621)
• correctly convert nullability of nested parquet fields to arrow (#11619)
• improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607)
• normalize filepath in sink_parquet (#11605)
• parse time unit properly in pl.lit (#11573)
• expand all literals before group_by (#11590)
• fix as_dict with include_key=False for partition_by (#9865)
• mark take_group_last function as unsafe (#11587)
• handle unary operators applied to numbers used in SQL IN clauses (#11574)
• Align new_columns argument for scan_csv and read_csv (#11575)
• don't conflate supported UNION ops in the SQL parser with (currently) unsupported UNION "BY NAME" variations (#11576)
• Add initialization support for python Timedeltas (#11566)
• incomplete reading of list types from parquet (#11578)
• respect identity in horizontal sum (#11559)
• bug in BitMask::get_u32 (#11560)
• take slice into account in parallel unions (#11558)
• correct schema empty df in hive partitioning read (#11557)
• ensure ListChunked::full_null uses physical types (#11554)
• respect 'hive_partitioning' argument in parquet (#11551)
• fix parquet deserialization Overflow error by using i64 offset types when promoting Arrow Lists to LargeLists (#11549)
• streamline is_in handling of mismatched dtypes and fix a minor regression (#11533)
• fix comparing tz-aware series with stdlib datetime (#11480)
• catch use of non equi-joins in SQL interface and raise appropriate error (#11526)
• rework SQL join constraint processing to properly account for all USING columns (#11518)

• Improved user guide for cloud functionality (#11646)
• Improve some docstrings (#11644)
• Disable clippy lint "too many arguments" for py-polars (#11616)
• Make backwardfill and forwardfill function expr non-anonymous (#11630)
• Make all expr in dt namespace non-anonymous (#11627)
• Fix changelog for language-specific breaking changes (#11617)
• Make value_counts and unique_counts function expr non-anonymous (#11601)
• Make arg_min(max), diff in list namespace non-anonymous (#11602)
• Rename write_csv parameter quote to quote_char (#11583)
• improve struct documentation (#11585)
• Remove **kwargs from LazyFrame.collect() (#11567)
• use a generic consistent total ordering, also for floats (#11468)
• fix lints (#11555)
• Remove toolchain specification workaround (#11552)
• Trigger Python release from Actions workflow dispatch (#11538)
• Enable additional flags for x86-64 wheels (#11487)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @ByteNybbler, @MarcoGorelli, @TheDataScientistNL, @alexander-beedie, @andysham, @c-peters, @jhorstmann, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @romanovacca, @stinodego and @svaningelgem