Improve streaming groupby CSE (#23092)
Move row index materialization in post-apply to occur after slicing (#22995)
Add first_(true|false)_idx to BooleanChunked and use in bool arg_(min|max) (#22907)
Don't go through row encoding for most types on index_of (#22903)
Optimise low-level null scans and arg_max for bools (when chunked) (#22897)
Optimize multiscan performance (#22886)

✨ Enhancements

Native implementation for Iceberg positional deletes (#23091)
Remove old streaming engine (#23103)
Make match_chunks public (#23101)
Implement StructFunction expressions in into_py (#23022)
Basic implementation of DataTypeExpr in Rust DSL (#23049)
Add required: bool to ParquetFieldOverwrites (#23013)
Support serializing name.map_fields (#22997)
Support serializing Expr::RenameAlias (#22988)
Remove duplicate verbose logging from FetchedCredentialsCache (#22973)
Add keys column in finish_callback (#22968)
Add extra_columns parameter to scan_parquet (#22699)
Add CORR function to polars SQL (#22690)
Add per partition sort and finish callback to sinks (#22789)
Add and test DataFrame equality functionality (#22865)
Support descendingly-sorted values in search_sorted() (#22825)
Derive DSL schema (#22866)

🐞 Bug fixes

Restrict custom aggregate_function in pivot to pl.element() (#23155)
Don't leak SourceToken in in-memory sink linearize (#23201)
Fix panic reading empty parquet with multiple boolean columns (#23159)
Raise ComputeError instead of panicking in truncate when mixing month/week/day/sub-daily units (#23176)
Materialize list.eval with unknown type (#23186)
Only set sorting flag for 1st column with PQ SortingColumns (#23184)
Typo in AExprBuilder (#23171)
Null return from var/std on scalar column (#23158)
Support Datetime broadcast in list.concat (#23137)
Ensure projection pushdown maintains right table schema (#22603)
Don't create i128 scalars if dtype-128 is not set (#23118)
Add Null dtype support to arg_sort_by (#23107)
Raise error by default on invalid CSV quotes (#22876)
Fix group_by mean and median returning all nulls for Decimal dtype (#23093)
Fix hive partition pruning not filtering out __HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__ (#23074)
Fix AssertionError when using scan_delta() on AWS with storage_options (#23076)
Fix deadlock on collect(background=True) / collect_concurrently() (#23075)
Incorrect null count in rolling_min/max (#23073)
Preserve file:// in LazyFrame node traverser (#23072)
Respect column order in register_io_source schema (#23057)
Incorrect output when using sort with group_by and cum_sum (#23001)
Implement owned arithmetic for Int128 (#23055)
Do not schema-match structs with different field counts (#23018)
Fix confusing error message on duplicate row_index (#23043)
Add include_nulls to Agg::Count CSE check (#23032)
View buffer exceeding 2^32 - 1 bytes in concatenate_view (#23017)
Fix incorrect size_hint() for FlatIter (#23010)
Fix incorrect result selecting pl.len() from scan_csv with skip_lines (#22949)
Allow for IO plugins with reordered columns in streaming (#22987)
Method str.zfill was inconsistent with Python and pandas when string contained leading '+' (#22985)
Integer underflow in propagate_nulls (#22986)
Fix cum_min and cum_max does not preserve inf or -inf values at series start (#22896)
Setting compat_level=0 for sink_ipc (#22960)
Support arrow Decimal32 and Decimal64 types (#22954)
Update arrow format (#22941)
Fix filter pushdown to IO plugins (#22910)
Improve numeric stability rolling_mean<f32> (#22944)
Allow subclasses in type equality checking (#22915)
Return early in pl.Expr.__array_ufunc__ when only single input (#22913)
Add inline implodes in type coercion (#22885)
Correct int_ranges to raise error on invalid inputs (#22894)
Set the sorted flag on Array after it is sorted (#22822)
Don't silently overflow for temporal casts (#22901)
Fix error using write_csv with storage_options (#22881)
Schema resolution .over(mapping_strategy="join") with non-aggregations (#22875)
Ensure rename behaves the same as select (#22852)

📖 Documentation

Update when_then in user guide (#23245)
Minor improvement to cum_count docstring example (#23099)
Add missing entry for LazyFrame __getitem__ (#22924)

📦 Build system

Actually disable ir_serde by default (#23046)
Add a feature flag for serde_ignored (#22957)
Fix warnings, update DSL version and schema hash (#22953)

🛠️ Other improvements

Update Rust Polars versions (#23229)
Change flake to use venv (#23219)
Add default_alloc feature to py-polars (#23202)
Added more descriptive error message by replacing FixedSizeList with Array (#23168)
Connect Python assert_series_equal() to Rust back-end (#23141)
Refactor skip_batches to use AExprBuilder (#23147)
Use ir_serde instead of serde for IRFunctionExpr (#23148)
Separate FunctionExpr and IRFunctionExpr (#23140)
Improve Series equality functionality and prepare for Python integration (#23136)
Add PolarsPhysicalType and use it to dispatch into_series (#23080)
Remove AExpr::Alias (#23070)
Add components for Iceberg deletion file support (#23059)
Feature gate StructFunction::JsonEncode (#23060)
Propagate iceberg position delete information to IR (#23045)
Add environment variable to get Parquet decoding metrics (#23052)
Turn pl.cumulative_eval into its own AExpr (#22994)
Add make test-streaming (#23044)
Move scan parameter parsing for parquet to reusable function (#23019)
Use a ref-counted UniqueId instead of usize for cache_id (#22984)
Implement Hash and use SpecialEq for RenameAliasFn (#22989)
Turn list.eval into an AExpr (#22911)
Only check for unknown DSL fields if minor is higher (#22970)
Don't enable ir_serde together with serde (#22969)
Make dtype field on Logical non-optional (#22966)
Add new (Frozen)Categories and CategoricalMapping (#22956)
Add a CI check for DSL schema changes (#22898)
Add schema parameters to expr.meta (#22906)
Update rust toolchain in nix flake (#22905)
Update toolchain (#22859)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @Athsus, @DahaoALG, @FabianWolff, @JakubValtar, @Kevin-Patyk, @MarcoGorelli, @SanjitBasker, @alexander-beedie, @borchero, @bschoenmaeckers, @cmdlineluser, @coastalwhite, @deanm0000, @dsprenkels, @eitsupi, @florian-klein, @i1oveMyse1f, @ion-elgreco, @itamarst, @kdn36, @kutal10, @math-hiyoko, @mcrumiller, @mrkn, @mroeschke, @nameexhaustion, @nikaltipar, @orlp, @paskhaver, @ritchie46, @stijnherfst, @thomasfrederikhoeck and @zyctree