ANN: pandas v0.21.1 released

[Tom Augspurger]

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce pandas 0.21.1 has been released.

This is a minor bug-fix release in the 0.21.x series and includes some
small regression fixes, bug fixes and performance improvements. We
recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

Highlights include:

   - Temporarily restore matplotlib datetime plotting functionality. This
   should resolve issues for users who relied implicitly on pandas to plot
   datetimes with matplotlib. See here
   <https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.21.1/whatsnew.html#restore-matplotlib-datetime-converter-registration>
   .
   - Improvements to the Parquet IO functions introduced in 0.21.0. See here
   <http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.21.1/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0211-enhancements-parquet>
   .

See the v0.21.1 Whatsnew
<http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.21.1/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0211>
overview for an extensive list of all the changes for 0.21.1.
- Tom

*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.

*How to get it:*

Source tarballs and windows/mac/linux wheels are available on PyPI (thanks
to Christoph Gohlke for the windows wheels, and to Matthew Brett for
setting up the mac/linux wheels).
Conda packages currently building for conda forge, and already available on
the default channel.

*Issues:*

Please report any issues on our issue tracker: https://github.com/py
data/pandas/issues
*Thanks to all the contributors:*

A total of 46 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by
their names contributed a patch for the first time.

   - Aaron Critchley +
   - Alex Rychyk
   - Alexander Buchkovsky +
   - Alexander Michael Schade +
   - Chris Mazzullo
   - Cornelius Riemenschneider +
   - Dave Hirschfeld +
   - David Fischer +
   - David Stansby +
   - Dror Atariah +
   - Eric Kisslinger +
   - Hans +
   - Ingolf Becker +
   - Jan Werkmann +
   - Jeff Reback
   - Joris Van den Bossche
   - Jörg Döpfert +
   - Kevin Kuhl +
   - Krzysztof Chomski +
   - Leif Walsh
   - Licht Takeuchi
   - Manraj Singh +
   - Matt Braymer-Hayes +
   - Michael Waskom +
   - Mie~~~ +
   - Peter Hoffmann +
   - Robert Meyer +
   - Sam Cohan +
   - Sietse Brouwer +
   - Sven +
   - Tim Swast
   - Tom Augspurger
   - Wes Turner
   - William Ayd +
   - Yee Mey +
   - bolkedebruin +
   - cgohlke
   - derestle-htwg +
   - fjdiod +
   - gabrielclow +
   - gfyoung
   - ghasemnaddaf +
   - jbrockmendel
   - jschendel
   - miker985 +
   - topper-123