Version 0.14.4

This release adds a new where reduction that provides improved inspection capabilities and adds support for colormaps that are tuples of hex values. There are also various bug fixes and compatibility improvements.

Thanks to @ianthomas23, @maximlt and @hoxbro.

Enhancements:

• New where reduction to provide improved inspection functionality:

  • Add new where reduction (#1155)
  • Where reduction using dataframe row index (#1164)
  • CUDA support for where reduction (#1167)
  • User guide page for where reduction (#1172)

• Support colormaps that are tuples of hex values (#1173)

• Add governance docs (#1165)

• Improve documentation build system (#1170, #1171)

• Improvements to CI:

  • Rename default branch from master to main (#1156)
  • Use holoviz_task install action (#1163)

Bug fixes:

• Validate calculated log canvas range (#1154)

• Better validate canvas.line() coordinate lengths (#1160)

• Return early in eq_hist() if all data masked out (#1168)

Compatibility:

• Follow recommended numba best practice.

  • Ensure cuda functions are correctly jitted (#1153)
  • nopython=True everywhere (#1162)

• Update dependencies:

  • Pip pyarrow in tests dependencies (#1174)