v0.20.0 Final
This is a major release from 0.19.2 and includes a number of API changes, deprecations, new features,
enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.
Highlights include:
- new
.agg()
API for Series/DataFrame similar to the groupby-rolling-resample API's, see here - Integration with the
feather-format
, including a new top-levelpd.read_feather()
andDataFrame.to_feather()
method, see here - The
.ix
indexer has been deprecated, see here Panel
has been deprecated, see here- Addition of an
IntervalIndex
andInterval
scalar type, see here - Improved user API when accessing levels in
.groupby()
, see here - Improved support for
UInt64
dtypes, see here - A new orient for JSON serialization,
orient='table'
, that uses the Table Schema spec, see here - Experimental support for exporting
DataFrame.style
formats to Excel, see here - Window Binary Corr/Cov operations now return a MultiIndexed
DataFrame
rather than aPanel
, asPanel
is now deprecated, see here - Support for S3 handling now uses
s3fs
, see here - Google BigQuery support now uses the
pandas-gbq
library, see here - Switched the test framework to use pytest
See the Whatsnew file for more information.