ANN: pandas v0.17.1 Released

[Jeff Reback]

Hi,

We are proud to announce that *pandas* has become a sponsored project of
the NUMFocus organization
<http://numfocus.org/news/2015/10/09/numfocus-announces-new-fiscally-sponsored-project-pandas/>
This will help ensure the success of development of *pandas* as a
world-class open-source project.

This is a minor bug-fix release from 0.17.0 and includes a large number of
bug fixes along several new features, enhancements, and performance
improvements.
We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

This was a release of 5 weeks with 176 commits by 61 authors encompassing
84 issues and 128 pull-requests.


*What is it:*

*pandas* is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data
structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both
easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block
for
doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has
the
broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data
analysis / manipulation tool available in any language.

*Highlights*:


   - Support for Conditional HTML Formatting, see here
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.1/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-style>
   - Releasing the GIL on the csv reader & other ops, see here
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.1/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-performance>
   - Fixed regression in DataFrame.drop_duplicates from 0.16.2, causing
   incorrect results on integer values see Issue 11376


See the Whatsnew
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.1/whatsnew.html> for
much more information and the full Documentation
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/> link.

*How to get it:*

Source tarballs, windows wheels, and macosx wheels are available on PyPI
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas>

Installation via conda is:

   - conda install pandas

windows wheels are courtesy of  Christoph Gohlke and are built on Numpy 1.9
macosx wheels are courtesy of Matthew Brett

*Issues:*

Please report any issues on our issue tracker
<https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues>:

Jeff

*Thanks to all of the contributors*
































































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