What's new in 2.1.4 (December ??, 2023)

These are the changes in pandas 2.1.4. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog including other versions of pandas.

Fixed regressions

Bug in :class:`Series` constructor raising DeprecationWarning when index is a list of :class:`Series` (:issue:`55228`)
Bug in :meth:`Index.__getitem__` returning wrong result for Arrow dtypes and negative stepsize (:issue:`55832`)
Fixed bug in :func:`to_numeric` converting to extension dtype for string[pyarrow_numpy] dtype (:issue:`56179`)
Fixed bug in :meth:`DataFrame.__setitem__` casting :class:`Index` with object-dtype to PyArrow backed strings when infer_string option is set (:issue:`55638`)
Fixed bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_hdf` raising when columns have StringDtype (:issue:`55088`)
Fixed bug in :meth:`Index.insert` casting object-dtype to PyArrow backed strings when infer_string option is set (:issue:`55638`)
Fixed bug in :meth:`Series.str.translate` losing object dtype when string option is set (:issue:`56152`)

.. contributors:: v2.1.3..v2.1.4|HEAD