Hello, We are proud to announce v0.16.2 of pandas, a minor release from 0.16.1. This release includes a small number of API changes, several new features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. This was a release of 4 weeks with 105 commits by 32 authors encompassing 48 issues and 71 pull-requests. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. *What is it:* *pandas* is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data analysis / manipulation tool available in any language. Highlights of this release include: - - A new *pipe* method, see here <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0162-enhancements-pipe> - Documentation on how to use numba <http://numba.pydata.org> with *pandas*, see here <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/enhancingperf.html#enhancingperf-numba> See the Whatsnew in v0.16.2 <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html> Documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/ Source tarballs, windows binaries are available on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas windows binaries are courtesy of Christoph Gohlke and are built on Numpy 1.9 macosx wheels are courtesy of Matthew Brett Please report any issues here: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues Thanks The Pandas Development Team Contributors to the 0.16.2 release - Andrew Rosenfeld - Artemy Kolchinsky - Bernard Willers - Christer van der Meeren - Christian Hudon - Constantine Glen Evans - Daniel Julius Lasiman - Evan Wright - Francesco Brundu - Gaëtan de Menten - Jake VanderPlas - James Hiebert - Jeff Reback - Joris Van den Bossche - Justin Lecher - Ka Wo Chen - Kevin Sheppard - Mortada Mehyar - Morton Fox - Robin Wilson - Thomas Grainger - Tom Ajamian - Tom Augspurger - Yoshiki Vázquez Baeza - Younggun Kim - austinc - behzad nouri - jreback - lexual - rekcahpassyla - scls19fr - sinhrks