Hello, We are proud to announce v0.14.0 of pandas, a major release from 0.13.1.
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 4 months of work with 1014 commits by 121 authors encompassing 757 issues. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. *Highlights:* - Officially support Python 3.4 - SQL interfaces updated to use sqlalchemy - Display interface changes - MultiIndexing Using Slicers - Ability to join a singly-indexed DataFrame with a multi-indexed DataFrame - More consistency in groupby results and more flexible groupby specifications - Holiday calendars are now supported in CustomBusinessDay - Several improvements in plotting functions, including: hexbin, area and pie plots - Performance doc section on I/O operations See a full description of Whatsnew for v0.14.0 here: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html *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. 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 1.8 macosx wheels will be available soon, courtesy of Matthew Brett Please report any issues here: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues Thanks The Pandas Development Team Contributors to the 0.14.0 release - Acanthostega - Adam Marcus - agijsberts - akittredge - Alex Gaudio - Alex Rothberg - AllenDowney - Andrew Rosenfeld - Andy Hayden - ankostis - anomrake - Antoine Mazières - anton-d - bashtage - Benedikt Sauer - benjamin - Brad Buran - bwignall - cgohlke - chebee7i - Christopher Whelan - Clark Fitzgerald - clham - Dale Jung - Dan Allan - Dan Birken - danielballan - Daniel Waeber - David Jung - David Stephens - Douglas McNeil - DSM - Garrett Drapala - Gouthaman Balaraman - Guillaume Poulin - hshimizu77 - hugo - immerrr - ischwabacher - Jacob Howard - Jacob Schaer - jaimefrio - Jason Sexauer - Jeff Reback - Jeffrey Starr - Jeff Tratner - John David Reaver - John McNamara - John W. O'Brien - Jonathan Chambers - Joris Van den Bossche - jreback - jsexauer - Julia Evans - Júlio - Katie Atkinson - kdiether - Kelsey Jordahl - Kevin Sheppard - K.-Michael Aye - Matthias Kuhn - Matt Wittmann - Max Grender-Jones - Michael E. Gruen - michaelws - mikebailey - Mike Kelly - Nipun Batra - Noah Spies - ojdo - onesandzeroes - Patrick O'Keeffe - phaebz - Phillip Cloud - Pietro Battiston - PKEuS - Randy Carnevale - ribonoous - Robert Gibboni - rockg - sinhrks - Skipper Seabold - SplashDance - Stephan Hoyer - Tim Cera - Tobias Brandt - Todd Jennings - TomAugspurger - Tom Augspurger - unutbu - westurner - Yaroslav Halchenko - y-p - zach powers -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
