Polars: py-1.32.3 Release

🚀 Performance improvements

• Lower .sort(maintain_order=True).head() to streaming top_k (#24014)
• Lower top-k to streaming engine (#23979)
• Allow order pass through Filters and relax to row-seperable instead of elementwise (#23969)

✨ Enhancements

• Add native streaming for peaks_{min,max} (#24039)
• IR graph arrows, monospace font, box nodes (#24021)
• Add DataTypeExpr.default_value (#23973)
• Lower rle to a native streaming engine node (#23929)
• Add support for Int128 to pyo3-polars (#23959)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Scan of multiple sources with null datatype (#24065)
• Categorical in nested data in row encoding (#24051)
• Missing length update in builder for pl.Array repetition (#24055)
• Race condition in global categories init (#24045)
• Revert "fix: Don't encode entire CategoricalMapping when going to Arrow (#24036)" (#24044)
• Error when using named functions (#24041)
• Don't encode entire CategoricalMapping when going to Arrow (#24036)
• Fix cast on arithmetic with lit (#23941)
• Incorrect slice-slice pushdown (#24032)
• Dedup common cache subplan in IR graph (#24028)
• Allow join on Decimal in in-memory engine (#24026)
• Fix datatypes for eval.list in aggregation context (#23911)
• Allocator capsule fallback panic (#24022)
• Accept another zlib "magic header" file signature (#24013)
• Fix truediv dtypes so cast in list.eval is not dropped (#23936)
• Don't reuse cached return_dtype for expanded map expressions (#24010)
• Cache id is not a valid dot node id (#24005)
• Align map_elements with and without return_dtype (#24007)
• Fix column dtype lifetime for csv_write segfault on Categorical (#23986)
• Allow serializing LazyGroupBy.map_groups (#23964)
• Correct allocator name in PyCapsule (#23968)
• Mismatched types for write function for windows (#23915)
• Fix unpivot panic when index= column not found (#23958)

📖 Documentation

• Fix a typo in "lazy/execution" user-guide page (#23983)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Update pyo3-polars versions (#24031)
• Remove insert_error_function (#24023)
• Remove cache hits, clean up in-mem prefill (#24019)
• Use .venv instead of venv in pyo3-polars examples (#24024)
• Fix test failing mypy (#24017)
• Remove outdated comment (#23998)
• Add a _plr.pyi to remove mypy issues (#23970)
• Don't define CountStar as dyn OptimizationRule (#23976)
• Rename atol and rtol to abs_tol and rel_tol (#23961)
• Introduce Row{Encode,Decode} as FunctionExpr (#23933)
• Dispatch through pl.map_batches and AnonymousColumnsUdf (#23867)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @JakubValtar, @Kevin-Patyk, @borchero, @cmdlineluser, @coastalwhite, @iishutov, @jarondl, @kdn36, @orlp, @rawhuul, @ritchie46 and @stijnherfst