Release Notes v2022.04.15

Release Notes 2022-04-15

Major updates:

• Issue #1218 - Extends pdarray setops to work on multiple pdarrays
• Issue #1197 - Adds Segarray setops functionality
• Issue #1234 - Removes ls_hdf in favor of a generic ls which automatically handles hdf5 or parquet files
• Issue #1265 - Adds to_upper/to_lower and is_upper/is_lower functionality to Strings
• PRs #1222, #1227, #1233 - Add support for writing string Parquet files and an append mode for Parquet file writing
• Issue #1272 - Changes ak.histogram to behave like akutil.hist
• Issue #1256 - Moves akutil.join functionality into arkouda
• Issues #1133, #1210 and, #1279 - Fix uint64 indexing and broadcasting errors
• Issue #1260 - Enables GroupBy with one of more boolean pdarrays
• Issue #1240 - Updates client dtype classes to be uint compatible and enables ak.ip_address to accept python lists
• Issue #1154 - Adds dtype parameter to ak.array

Minor fixes:

• Issue #1174 - Fixes randint range bug
• Issue #1190 - Updates ak.Dataframe to use the Index object
• Issues #1039 and #1241 - Improves performance for String methods (peel, stick, and substring search)
• Issue #1251 and PR #1243 - Update README install instructions and adds documentation for --saveUsedModules flag
• PRs #1219 and #1231 - Improves performance of parquet read and append

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Auto-generated release notes

• Make regex calls compatible with chapel 1.26 by @ronawho in #1216
• Closes #1133 and #1210: Support indexing with uint64 by @pierce314159 in #1217
• Optimize calculation of Parquet column byte sizes for string reads by @bmcdonald3 in #1219
• Closes #1174 ak.randint() fails for ranges greater than 2**63 by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1214
• Closes #1154: dtype parameter for ak.array by @pierce314159 in #1223
• Closes #1209 fix deprecation warning by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1226
• Add initial support for writing string Parquet files by @bmcdonald3 in #1222
• Add append mode for Parquet file writing by @bmcdonald3 in #1227
• Bulk append values in Parquet and switch some places to int64 by @bmcdonald3 in #1231
• Closes #1232: Add Parquet string appending by @bmcdonald3 in #1233
• Unify HDF5 and Parquet ls calls into a single function by @bmcdonald3 in #1224
• Closes #1190 Index for Indexing DataFrame by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1235
• Fix append Parquet test when running with more than 10 locales by @bmcdonald3 in #1237
• Add documentation for saveUsedModules flag by @bmcdonald3 in #1243
• Closes #1039 Update peel/stick to use aggregation by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1228
• Closes #1218 extend pdarray setops to work for multiple arrays by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1225
• Revert "Closes #1218 extend pdarray setops to work for multiple arrays" by @mhmerrill in #1246
• Add null checking for strings by @bmcdonald3 in #1244
• Update null test file to be uncompressed by @bmcdonald3 in #1250
• Closes #1251 - Reconcile the README.md TOC sections describing install between Mac, Linux, and Windows by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1252
• Closes #1241: Use computeOnSegments for substringSearch by @pierce314159 in #1248
• Part of #1254: Adds typechecked to pdarraycreation methods by @pierce314159 in #1255
• Closes #1256 - join.py from akutil to arkouda by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1258
• Fix server crash when reading string columns from multiple locales by @bmcdonald3 in #1262
• 1240 Uint64 compatibility and other improvements to client dtype classes by @reuster986 in #1264
• Closes #1218 Extend pdarray setops to work for multiple arrrays by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1266
• Closes #1265: Add to/is_lower and to/is_upper methods to Strings by @pierce314159 in #1274
• Closes #1260 - GroupBy w/ Booleans by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1270
• Closes #1267 - unexpected results with GroupBy() when 2nd element is string array by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1277
• Closes #1272 - akutil.hist move to ak.histogram. by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1276
• Resolves #1279 - Add uint64 support for broadcast by @pierce314159 in #1283

Full Changelog: v2022.03.15...v2022.04.15