Polars: rs-0.38.2 Release

🏆 Highlights

• Streaming outer joins (#14828)

🚀 Performance improvements

• Ensure parallel encoding/compression in sink_parquet (#14964)
• hoist errors out of iterators in parquet (#14945)
• add basic AVX-512 filters (#14892)
• improve join-asof materialization (#14884)
• Optimize chunked-id gather for binaryviews (#14878)
• rework scalar filter kernels (#14865)
• Reduce size of optional join-indexes (#14856)
• Streaming outer joins (#14828)
• Set sorted flag for cum_count on columns (#14849)

✨ Enhancements

• Support writing Array type in parquet (#14943)
• Sort decimal fields (#14649)
• Import NamedFrom in df! macro (#14860)
• try-improve concurrency tuner (#14827)
• Streaming outer joins (#14828)
• Set sorted flag for cum_count on columns (#14849)
• Ensure binview types are rle-encoded in parquet write (#14818)
• Implement strict/nonstrict conversion for primitive AnyValues (#14186)
• Disable timeouts (#14809)
• cleanup spill disks in process (#14807)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix invalid partitionable query (#14966)
• allow nonstrict cast of categorical/enum to enum (#14910)
• count_rows multi-threaded under-counting in parser.rs (#14963)
• raise proper error instead of panicking when result of truncation is non-existent datetime (#14958)
• ooc-sort issues (#14959)
• Do not raise when constructing from a list of Series with Nones (#14942)
• Don't access out-of-bounds for null indices in bitmap gather (#14932)
• std when ddof>=n_values returns None even in rolling context (#11750)
• Don't rechunk categoricals when moving to physical (#14934)
• parquet rle boolean decoder (#14931)
• boolean filter gave overly large buffers to Bitmap::from_u8_vec (#14924)
• Fix sliced dictionary state in parquet (#14917)
• Fix possibly incorrect order of columns when using ipc stream with_columns (#14859)
• Fully qualify polars_bail! in polars_ensure! (#14901)
• Fix DataFrame.min/max for decimals (#14890)
• Assert chunks are equal after physical cast to prevent OOB (#14873)
• not all cpu feature flag tests were mocked (#14864)

📖 Documentation

• Remove some repetition in comments/docstrings (#14912)
• Update contributing link (#14882)
• Fix some word-repetition in code comments (#14825)
• Seperate asof from join strategy, change parameter from strategy to how in user guide (#14793)

🛠️ Other improvements

• fix features (#14977)
• fix chrono deprecation warnings (#14928)
• Update Cargo.lock and remove cmake limit workaround (#14905)
• Simplify streaming placeholder replacement. (#14915)
• Optional deps should include fastexcel (#14907)
• Deduplicate POLARS_FORCE_ASYNC env var parsing (#14909)
• Make assumption about column name to index conversion having occurred explicit (#14894)
• Make assumption about wildcards having been resolved explicit (#14899)
• reactivate argminmax simd (#14679)
• sort by 'idx' after outer join (#14867)
• Simplify computation of with_columns attribute in physical csv scanner of default engine. (#14837)
• centrally define IdxSize (#14854)
• run and fix pext64_polyfill test (#14852)
• introduce partitioned table (#14819)
• add missing deprecation directive in groupby.count (#14817)
• Extract key value construction (#14812)
• Fix Makefile build commands (#14806)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @MarcoGorelli, @Sol-Hee, @alexander-beedie, @ambidextrous, @battmdpkq, @deanm0000, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @eitsupi, @flisky, @geekvest, @mcrumiller, @mickvangelderen, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @petrosbar, @ritchie46 and @stinodego