ANN: pandas v0.16.2 released

[Jeff Reback]

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