DOC: add contributors to 1.4 release notes (pandas-dev#45196)

Author: simonjayhawkins

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.0.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .. _whatsnew_140:
 
-What's new in 1.4.0 (??)
-------------------------
+What's new in 1.4.0 (January ??, 2022)
+--------------------------------------
 
 These are the changes in pandas 1.4.0. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
 including other versions of pandas.
@@ -213,8 +213,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :meth:`Timestamp.isoformat`, now handles the ``timespec`` argument from the base :class:``datetime`` class (:issue:`26131`)
 - :meth:`NaT.to_numpy` ``dtype`` argument is now respected, so ``np.timedelta64`` can be returned (:issue:`44460`)
 - New option ``display.max_dir_items`` customizes the number of columns added to :meth:`Dataframe.__dir__` and suggested for tab completion (:issue:`37996`)
-- Added "Juneteenth National Independence Day" to
-  ``USFederalHolidayCalendar``.  See also `Other API changes`_.
+- Added "Juneteenth National Independence Day" to ``USFederalHolidayCalendar``.  See also `Other API changes`_.
 - :meth:`.Rolling.var`, :meth:`.Expanding.var`, :meth:`.Rolling.std`, :meth:`.Expanding.std` now support `Numba <http://numba.pydata.org/>`_ execution with the ``engine`` keyword (:issue:`44461`)
 - :meth:`Series.info` has been added, for compatibility with :meth:`DataFrame.info` (:issue:`5167`)
 - Implemented :meth:`IntervalArray.min`, :meth:`IntervalArray.max`, as a result of which ``min`` and ``max`` now work for :class:`IntervalIndex`, :class:`Series` and :class:`DataFrame` with ``IntervalDtype`` (:issue:`44746`)
@@ -226,7 +225,6 @@ Other enhancements
 - Add support for `Zstandard <http://facebook.github.io/zstd/>`_ compression to :meth:`DataFrame.to_pickle`/:meth:`read_pickle` and friends (:issue:`43925`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.to_sql` now returns an ``int`` of the number of written rows (:issue:`23998`)
 
-
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 .. _whatsnew_140.notable_bug_fixes:
@@ -631,8 +629,6 @@ Other Deprecations
 - Deprecated the behavior of :meth:`Timestamp.utcfromtimestamp`, in the future it will return a timezone-aware UTC :class:`Timestamp` (:issue:`22451`)
 - Deprecated :meth:`NaT.freq` (:issue:`45071`)
 - Deprecated behavior of :class:`Series` and :class:`DataFrame` construction when passed float-dtype data containing ``NaN`` and an integer dtype ignoring the dtype argument; in a future version this will raise (:issue:`40110`)
--
-
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -689,7 +685,6 @@ Performance improvements
 - Performance improvement in :func:`concat` (:issue:`43354`)
 - Performance improvement in :meth:`SparseArray.__getitem__` (:issue:`23122`)
 - Performance improvement in constructing a :class:`DataFrame` from array-like objects like a ``Pytorch`` tensor (:issue:`44616`)
--
 
 .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -706,7 +701,6 @@ Categorical
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.where` with ``CategoricalDtype`` when passing a dtype-incompatible value raising ``ValueError`` instead of ``TypeError`` (:issue:`41919`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Categorical.fillna` when passing a dtype-incompatible value raising ``ValueError`` instead of ``TypeError`` (:issue:`41919`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Categorical.fillna` with a tuple-like category raising ``ValueError`` instead of ``TypeError`` when filling with a non-category tuple (:issue:`41919`)
--
 
 Datetimelike
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -726,21 +720,18 @@ Datetimelike
 - Bug in :meth:`Timestamp.fromtimestamp` not supporting the ``tz`` argument (:issue:`45083`)
 - Bug in :class:`DataFrame` construction from dict of :class:`Series` with mismatched index dtypes sometimes raising depending on the ordering of the passed dict (:issue:`44091`)
 - Bug in :class:`Timestamp` hashing during some DST transitions caused a segmentation fault (:issue:`33931` and :issue:`40817`)
--
 
 Timedelta
 ^^^^^^^^^
 - Bug in division of all-``NaT`` :class:`TimeDeltaIndex`, :class:`Series` or :class:`DataFrame` column with object-dtype arraylike of numbers failing to infer the result as timedelta64-dtype (:issue:`39750`)
 - Bug in floor division of ``timedelta64[ns]`` data with a scalar returning garbage values (:issue:`44466`)
 - Bug in :class:`Timedelta` now properly taking into account any nanoseconds contribution of any kwarg (:issue:`43764`)
--
 
 Timezones
 ^^^^^^^^^
 - Bug in :func:`to_datetime` with ``infer_datetime_format=True`` failing to parse zero UTC offset (``Z``) correctly (:issue:`41047`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.dt.tz_convert` resetting index in a :class:`Series` with :class:`CategoricalIndex` (:issue:`43080`)
 - Bug in ``Timestamp`` and ``DatetimeIndex`` incorrectly raising a ``TypeError`` when subtracting two timezone-aware objects with mismatched timezones (:issue:`31793`)
--
 
 Numeric
 ^^^^^^^
@@ -753,7 +744,6 @@ Numeric
 - Bug in arithmetic operations involving :class:`Series` where the result could have the incorrect ``name`` when the operands having matching NA or matching tuple names (:issue:`44459`)
 - Bug in division with ``IntegerDtype`` or ``BooleanDtype`` array and NA scalar incorrectly raising (:issue:`44685`)
 - Bug in multiplying a :class:`Series` with ``FloatingDtype`` with a timedelta-like scalar incorrectly raising (:issue:`44772`)
--
 
 Conversion
 ^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -767,18 +757,14 @@ Conversion
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.convert_dtypes` result losing ``columns.names`` (:issue:`41435`)
 - Bug in constructing a ``IntegerArray`` from pyarrow data failing to validate dtypes (:issue:`44891`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.astype` not allowing converting from a ``PeriodDtype`` to ``datetime64`` dtype, inconsistent with the :class:`PeriodIndex` behavior (:issue:`45038`)
--
 
 Strings
 ^^^^^^^
 - Fixed bug in checking for ``string[pyarrow]`` dtype incorrectly raising an ImportError when pyarrow is not installed (:issue:`44276`)
--
 
 Interval
 ^^^^^^^^
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.where` with ``IntervalDtype`` incorrectly raising when the ``where`` call should not replace anything (:issue:`44181`)
--
--
 
 Indexing
 ^^^^^^^^
@@ -818,7 +804,6 @@ Indexing
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.__getitem__` with a :class:`CategoricalIndex` of integers treating lists of integers as positional indexers, inconsistent with the behavior with a single scalar integer (:issue:`15470`, :issue:`14865`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.__setitem__` when setting floats or integers into integer-dtype series failing to upcast when necessary to retain precision (:issue:`45121`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.iloc.__setitem__` ignores axis argument (:issue:`45032`)
--
 
 Missing
 ^^^^^^^
@@ -829,7 +814,6 @@ Missing
 - Bug in :meth:`Index.fillna` incorrectly returning an un-filled :class:`Index` when NA values are present and ``downcast`` argument is specified. This now raises ``NotImplementedError`` instead; do not pass ``downcast`` argument (:issue:`44873`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.dropna` changing :class:`Index` even if no entries were dropped (:issue:`41965`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.fillna` with an object-dtype incorrectly ignoring ``downcast="infer"`` (:issue:`44241`)
--
 
 MultiIndex
 ^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -839,7 +823,6 @@ MultiIndex
 - Bug in :meth:`MultiIndex.union` setting wrong ``sortorder`` causing errors in subsequent indexing operations with slices (:issue:`44752`)
 - Bug in :meth:`MultiIndex.putmask` where the other value was also a :class:`MultiIndex` (:issue:`43212`)
 - Bug in :meth:`MultiIndex.dtypes` duplicate level names returned only one dtype per name (:issue:`45174`)
--
 
 I/O
 ^^^
@@ -882,7 +865,6 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :func:`read_csv` when passing a ``tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile`` opened in binary mode (:issue:`44748`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_json` raising ``ValueError`` when attempting to parse json strings containing "://" (:issue:`36271`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_csv` when ``engine="c"`` and ``encoding_errors=None`` which caused a segfault (:issue:`45180`)
--
 
 Period
 ^^^^^^
@@ -892,12 +874,9 @@ Period
 - Bug in :meth:`PeriodIndex.to_timestamp` giving incorrect values for indexes with non-contiguous data (:issue:`44100`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.where` with ``PeriodDtype`` incorrectly raising when the ``where`` call should not replace anything (:issue:`45135`)
 
--
-
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^
 - When given non-numeric data, :meth:`DataFrame.boxplot` now raises a ``ValueError`` rather than a cryptic ``KeyError`` or ``ZeroDivisionError``, in line with other plotting functions like :meth:`DataFrame.hist`. (:issue:`43480`)
--
 
 Groupby/resample/rolling
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -957,7 +936,6 @@ Sparse
 - Bug in :class:`SparseArray` comparison methods with an array-like operand of mismatched length raising ``AssertionError`` or unclear ``ValueError`` depending on the input (:issue:`43863`)
 - Bug in :class:`SparseArray` arithmetic methods ``floordiv`` and ``mod`` behaviors when dividing by zero not matching the non-sparse :class:`Series` behavior (:issue:`38172`)
 - Bug in :class:`SparseArray` unary methods as well as :meth:`SparseArray.isna` doesn't recalculate indexes (:issue:`44955`)
--
 
 ExtensionArray
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -974,7 +952,6 @@ ExtensionArray
 - Fixed bug in :meth:`Series.replace` where explicitly passing ``value=None`` is treated as if no ``value`` was passed, and ``None`` not being in the result (:issue:`36984`, :issue:`19998`)
 - Fixed bug in :meth:`Series.replace` with unwanted downcasting being done in no-op replacements (:issue:`44498`)
 - Fixed bug in :meth:`Series.replace` with ``FloatDtype``, ``string[python]``, or ``string[pyarrow]`` dtype not being preserved when possible (:issue:`33484`, :issue:`40732`, :issue:`31644`, :issue:`41215`, :issue:`25438`)
--
 
 Styler
 ^^^^^^
@@ -1004,14 +981,11 @@ Other
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_records` where an incorrect ``n`` was used when missing names were replaced by ``level_n`` (:issue:`44818`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.eval` where ``resolvers`` argument was overriding the default resolvers (:issue:`34966`)
 
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 .. _whatsnew_140.contributors:
 
 Contributors
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. contributors:: v1.3.5..v1.4.0|HEAD