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ANN: pandas v0.17.0rc1 - RELEASE CANDIDATE
by Jeff Reback Sept. 14, 2015

Sept. 14, 2015

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of Pandas 0.17.0. Please try this RC and report any issues here: Pandas Issues <https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/10848> We will be releasing officially in 1-2 weeks or so. **RELEASE CANDIDATE 1** This is a major release from 0.16.2 and includes a small number of API changes, several new features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. Highlights include: - Release the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) on some cython operations, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - Plotting methods are now available as attributes of the .plot accessor, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - The sorting API has been revamped to remove some long-time inconsistencies, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - Support for a datetime64[ns] with timezones as a first-class dtype, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - The default for to_datetime will now be to raise when presented with unparseable formats, previously this would return the original input, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - The default for dropna in HDFStore has changed to False, to store by default all rows even if they are all NaN, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - Support for Series.dt.strftime to generate formatted strings for datetime-likes, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - Development installed versions of pandas will now have PEP440 compliant version strings GH9518 <https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/9518> - Development support for benchmarking with the Air Speed Velocity library GH8316 <https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/8316> - Support for reading SAS xport files, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> - Removal of the automatic TimeSeries broadcasting, deprecated since 0.8.0, see here <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0170…> See the Whatsnew <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html> for much more information. Best way to get this is to install via conda <http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/install.html#installing-pan…> from our development channel. Builds for osx-64,linux-64,win-64 for Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 are all available. conda install pandas -c pandas Thanks to all who made this release happen. It is a very large release! Jeff

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