[Pandas-dev] ANN: Pandas 0.24.0RC1 Released

[Tom Augspurger]

I'm pleased to announce the availability of pandas 0.24.0rc1.

*This is the first release candidate for 0.24.0.*

This is a major release from 0.23.4 and includes a number of API changes,
new
features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large
number
of bug fixes.

Highlights include:

   - Optional Nullable Integer Support
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24.0rc1/whatsnew/v0.24.0.html#optional-integer-na-support>
   - New APIs for accessing the array backing a Series or Index
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24.0rc1/whatsnew/v0.24.0.html#accessing-the-values-in-a-series-or-index>
   - A new top-level pandas.array() method for creating arrays
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24.0rc1/whatsnew/v0.24.0.html#array>
   - Store Interval and Period data in a Series or DataFrame
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24.0rc1/whatsnew/v0.24.0.html#storing-interval-and-period-data-in-series-and-dataframe>
   - Joining with two MultiIndexes
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24.0rc1/whatsnew/v0.24.0.html#joining-with-two-multi-indexes>

See the release notes
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.24.0rc1/whatsnew/v0.24.0.html>
for
a full list of all the change from 0.23.4

The release candidate can be installed with conda from from conda-forge

    conda install -c conda-forge/label/rc pandas=0.24.0rc1

Or via PyPI

    python3 -m pip install --upgrade --pre pandas

Note that 0.24.x is the last series of releases to support Python 2.

Please report any issues with the release candidate on the pandas issue
tracker <https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues>.
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