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.. _whatsnew_0170:
v0.17.0 (July 31, 2015)
-----------------------
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.
.. warning::
pandas >= 0.17.0 will no longer support compatibility with Python version 3.2 (:issue:`9118`)
Highlights include:
- Release the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) on some cython operations, see :ref:`here <whatsnew_0170.gil>`
Check the :ref:`API Changes <whatsnew_0170.api>` and :ref:`deprecations <whatsnew_0170.deprecations>` before updating.
.. contents:: What's new in v0.17.0
:local:
:backlinks: none
.. _whatsnew_0170.enhancements:
New features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. _whatsnew_0170.enhancements.other:
Other enhancements
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``.as_blocks`` will now take a ``copy`` optional argument to return a copy of the data, default is to copy (no change in behavior from prior versions), (:issue:`9607`)
.. _whatsnew_0170.api:
Backwards incompatible API changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. _whatsnew_0170.api_breaking:
.. _whatsnew_0170.api_breaking.other:
Other API Changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enable writing Excel files in :ref:`memory <_io.excel_writing_buffer>` using StringIO/BytesIO (:issue:`7074`)
- Enable serialization of lists and dicts to strings in ExcelWriter (:issue:`8188`)
- Allow passing `kwargs` to the interpolation methods (:issue:`10378`).
.. _whatsnew_0170.deprecations:
Deprecations
^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. _whatsnew_0170.prior_deprecations:
Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. _dask: https://dask.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
.. _whatsnew_0170.gil:
Releasing the GIL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We are releasing the global-interpreter-lock (GIL) on some cython operations.
This will allow other threads to run simultaneously during computation, potentially allowing performance improvements
from multi-threading. Notably ``groupby`` and some indexing operations are a benefit from this. (:issue:`8882`)
For example the groupby expression in the following code will have the GIL released during the factorization step, e.g. ``df.groupby('key')``
as well as the ``.sum()`` operation.
.. code-block:: python
N = 1e6
df = DataFrame({'key' : np.random.randint(0,ngroups,size=N),
'data' : np.random.randn(N) })
df.groupby('key')['data'].sum()
Releasing of the GIL could benefit an application that uses threads for user interactions (e.g. ``QT``), or performaning multi-threaded computations. A nice example of a library that can handle these types of computation-in-parallel is the dask_ library.
.. _whatsnew_0170.performance:
Performance Improvements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Added vbench benchmarks for alternative ExcelWriter engines and reading Excel files (:issue:`7171`)
- 4x improvement in ``timedelta`` string parsing (:issue:`6755`, :issue:`10426`)
- 8x improvement in ``timedelta64`` and ``datetime64`` ops (:issue:`6755`)
- Significantly improved performance of indexing ``MultiIndex`` with slicers (:issue:`10287`)
- Improved performance of ``Series.isin`` for datetimelike/integer Series (:issue:`10287`)
.. _whatsnew_0170.bug_fixes:
Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
- Bug in ``DataFrame.apply`` when function returns categorical series. (:issue:`9573`)
- Bug in ``Index.drop_duplicates`` dropping name(s) (:issue:`10115`)
- Bug in ``pd.Series`` when setting a value on an empty ``Series`` whose index has a frequency. (:issue:`10193`)
- Bug in ``DataFrame.reset_index`` when index contains `NaT`. (:issue:`10388`)
- Bug in ``ExcelReader`` when worksheet is empty (:issue:`6403`)
- Bug in ``Table.select_column`` where name is not preserved (:issue:`10392`)
- Bug in ``offsets.generate_range`` where ``start`` and ``end`` have finer precision than ``offset`` (:issue:`9907`)
- Bug in ``DataFrame.interpolate`` with ``axis=1`` and ``inplace=True`` (:issue:`10395`)
- Bug in ``test_categorical`` on big-endian builds (:issue:`10425`)
- Bug in ``Series.map`` using categorical ``Series`` raises ``AttributeError`` (:issue:`10324`)
- Bug in ``MultiIndex.get_level_values`` including ``Categorical`` raises ``AttributeError`` (:issue:`10460`)
- Bug that caused segfault when resampling an empty Series (:issue:`10228`)
- Bug in ``DatetimeIndex`` and ``PeriodIndex.value_counts`` resets name from its result, but retains in result's ``Index``. (:issue:`10150`)
- Bug in `pandas.concat` with ``axis=0`` when column is of dtype ``category`` (:issue:`10177`)