Polars: py-1.36.1 Release

🚀 Performance improvements

• Tune partitioned sink_parquet cloud performance (#25687)

✨ Enhancements

• Allow creation of Object literal (#25690)
• Don't collect schema in SQL union processing (#25675)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Don't invalidate node in cluster-with-columns (#25714)
• Move boto3 extra from s3fs in dev requirements (#25667)
• Add missing type stubs for bin_slice, bin_head, and bin_tail (#25697)
• Binary slice methods missing from Series and docs (#25683)
• Mix-up of variable_name/value_name in unpivot (#25685)
• Invalid usage of drop_first in to_dummies when nulls present (#25435)

📖 Documentation

• Fix typos in Excel and Pandas migration guides (#25709)
• Add "right" to how options in join() docstrings (#25678)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Move Object lit fix earlier in the function (#25713)
• Remove unused decimal file (#25701)
• Move boto3 extra from s3fs in dev requirements (#25667)
• Upgrade to latest version of sqlparser-rs (#25673)
• Update slab to version without RUSTSEC (#25686)
• Fix typo (#25684)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @AndreaBozzo, @Kevin-Patyk, @alexander-beedie, @dsprenkels, @jamesfricker, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp and @ritchie46