cuDF 0.15.0 (Date TBD)

New Features

PR #5292 Add unsigned int type columns to libcudf
PR #5287 Add index.join support
PR #5222 Adding clip feature support to DataFrame and Series
PR #5318 Support/leverage DataFrame.shuffle in dask_cudf
PR #4546 Support pandas 1.0+
PR #5331 Add cudf::drop_nans
PR #5327 Add cudf::cross_join feature
PR #5204 Concatenate strings columns using row separator as strings column
PR #5342 Add support for StringMethods.__getitem__
PR #3504 Add External Kafka Datasource
PR #5356 Use size_type instead of scalar in cudf::repeat.
PR #5397 Add internal implementation of nested loop equijoins.
PR #5303 Add slice_strings functionality using delimiter string
PR #5394 Enable cast and binops with duration types (builds on PR 5359)
PR #5301 Add Java bindings for zfill
PR #5411 Enable metadata collection for chunked parquet writer
PR #5359 Add duration types
PR #5364 Validate array interface during buffer construction
PR #5418 Add support for DataFrame.info
PR #5425 Add Python Groupby.rolling()
PR #5434 Add nvtext function generate_character_grams
PR #5442 Add support for cudf.isclose
PR #5444 Remove usage of deprecated RMM APIs and headers.
PR #5463 Add .str.byte_count python api and cython(bindings)
PR #5488 Add plumbings for .str.replace_tokens
PR #5502 Add Unsigned int types support in dlpack
PR #5497 Add .str.isinteger & .str.isfloat
PR #5511 Port of clx subword tokenizer to cudf
PR #5528 Add unsigned int reading and writing support to parquet
PR #5510 Add support for cudf.Index to create Indexes
PR #5618 Add Kafka as a cudf datasource
PR #5668 Adding support for cudf.testing
PR #5460 Add support to write to remote filesystems
PR #5454 Add support for DataFrame.append, Index.append, Index.difference and Index.empty
PR #5536 Parquet reader - add support for multiple sources
PR #5654 Adding support for cudf.DataFrame.sample and cudf.Series.sample
PR #5607 Add Java bindings for duration types
PR #5612 Add is_hex strings API
PR #5625 String conversion to and from duration types
PR #5659 Added support for rapids-compose for Java bindings and other enhancements
PR #5637 Parameterize Null comparator behaviour in Joins
PR #5623 Add is_ipv4 strings API
PR #5723 Parquet reader - add support for nested LIST columns
PR #5669 Add support for reading JSON files with missing or out-of-order fields
PR #5674 Support JIT backend on PowerPC64
PR #5629 Add ListColumn and ListDtype
PR #5658 Add filter_tokens nvtext API
PR #5666 Add filter_characters_of_type strings API
PR #5778 Add support for cudf::table to arrow::Table and arrow::Table to cudf::table
PR #5673 Always build and test with per-thread default stream enabled in the GPU CI build
PR #5438 Add MD5 hash support
PR #5704 Initial fixed_point Column Support
PR #5716 Add double_type_dispatcher to libcudf
PR #5739 Add nvtext::detokenize API
PR #5645 Enforce pd.NA and Pandas nullable dtype parity
PR #5729 Create nvtext normalize_characters API from the subword_tokenize internal function
PR #5572 Add cudf::encode API.
PR #5767 Add nvtext::porter_stemmer_measure and nvtext::is_letter APIs
PR #5753 Add cudf::lists::extract_list_element API
PR #5568 Add support for Series.keys() and DataFrame.keys()
PR #5782 Add Kafka support to custreamz
PR #5642 Add GroupBy.groups()
PR #5811 Add nvtext::edit_distance API
PR #5789 Add groupby support for duration types
PR #5810 Make Cython subdirs packages and simplify package_data
PR #6005 Add support for Ampere
PR #5807 Initial support for struct columns
PR #5817 Enable more fixed_point unit tests by introducing "scale-less" constructor
PR #5822 Add cudf_kafka to custreamz run time conda dependency and fix bash syntax issue
PR #5903 Add duration support for Parquet reader, writer
PR #5845 Add support for mask_to_bools
PR #5851 Add support for Index.sort_values
PR #5904 Add slice/split support for LIST columns
PR #5857 Add dtypes information page in python docs
PR #5859 Add conversion form fixed_point to bool
PR #5781 Add duration types support in cudf(python/cython)
PR #5815 LIST Support for ColumnVector
PR #5931 Support for add_calendrical_months API
PR #5992 Add support for .dt.strftime

Improvements

PR #5605 Automatically flush RMM allocate/free logs in JNI
PR #5632 Switch JNI code to use pool_memory_resource instead of CNMeM
PR #5486 Link Boost libraries statically in the Java build
PR #5479 Link Arrow libraries statically
PR #5414 Use new release of Thrust/CUB in the JNI build
PR #5403 Update required CMake version to 3.14 in contribution guide
PR #5245 Add column reduction benchmark
PR #5315 Use CMake FetchContent to obtain cub and thrust
PR #5398 Use CMake FetchContent to obtain jitify and libcudacxx
PR #5268 Rely on NumPy arrays for out-of-band pickling
PR #5288 Drop auto_pickle decorator #5288
PR #5231 Type Buffer as uint8
PR #5305 Add support for numpy/cupy array in DataFrame construction
PR #5308 Coerce frames to Buffers in deserialization
PR #5309 Handle host frames in serialization
PR #5312 Test serializing Series after slice
PR #5248 Support interleave_columns for string types
PR #5332 Remove outdated dask-xgboost docs
PR #5349 Improve libcudf documentation CSS style
PR #5317 Optimize fixed_point rounding shift for integers
PR #5386 Remove cub from include_dirs in setup.py
PR #5373 Remove legacy nvstrings/nvcategory/nvtext
PR #5362 Remove dependency on rmm._DevicePointer
PR #5302 Add missing comparison operators to fixed_point type
PR #5824 Mark host frames as not needing to be writeable
PR #5354 Split Dask deserialization methods by dask/cuda
PR #5363 Handle 0-dim inputs while broadcasting to a column
PR #5396 Remove legacy tests env variable from build.sh
PR #5374 Port nvtext character_tokenize API to libcudf
PR #5389 Expose typed accessors for Java HostMemoryBuffer
PR #5379 Avoid chaining Buffers
PR #5387 Port nvtext replace_tokens API to libcudf
PR #5381 Change numpy usages to cupy in 10min.ipynb
PR #5408 Update pyrrow and arrow-cpp to 0.17.1
PR #5366 Add benchmarks for cuIO writers
PR #5913 Call cudaMemcpyAsync/cudaMemsetAsync in JNI
PR #5405 Add Error message to StringColumn.unary_operator
PR #5424 Add python plumbing for .str.character_tokenize
PR #5420 Aligning signature of Series.value_counts to Pandas
PR #5535 Update document for XGBoost usage with dask-cuda
PR #5431 Adding support for unsigned int
PR #5426 Refactor strings code to minimize calls to regex
PR #5433 Add support for column inputs in strings::starts_with and strings::ends_with
PR #5427 Add Java bindings for unsigned data types
PR #5429 Improve text wrapping in libcudf documentation
PR #5443 Remove unused is_simple trait
PR #5441 Update Java HostMemoryBuffer to only load native libs when necessary
PR #5452 Add support for strings conversion using negative timestamps
PR #5437 Improve libcudf join documentation
PR #5458 Install meta packages for dependencies
PR #5467 Move doc customization scripts to Jenkins
PR #5468 Add cudf::unique_count(table_view)
PR #5482 Use rmm::device_uvector in place of rmm::device_vector in copy_if
PR #5483 Add NVTX range calls to dictionary APIs
PR #5477 Add is_index_type trait
PR #5487 Use sorted lists instead of sets for pytest parameterization
PR #5491 allow build libcudf in custom dir
PR #5501 Adding only unsigned types support for categorical column codes
PR #5570 Add Index APIs such as Int64Index, UInt64Index and others
PR #5503 Change unique_count to distinct_count
PR #5514 convert_datetime.cu Small Cleanup
PR #5496 Rename .cu tests (zero cuda kernels) to .cpp files
PR #5518 split iterator and gather tests to speedup build tests
PR #5526 Change type_id to enum class
PR #5559 Java APIs for missing date/time operators
PR #5582 Add support for axis and other parameters to DataFrame.sort_index and fix other bunch of issues.
PR #5562 Add missing join type for java
PR #5584 Refactor CompactProtocolReader::InitSchema
PR #5591 Add __arrow_array__ protocol and raise a descriptive error message
PR #5635 Ad cuIO reader benchmarks for CSV, ORC and Parquet
PR #5601 Instantiate Table instances in Frame._concat to avoid DF.insert() overhead
PR #5602 Add support for concatenation of Series & DataFrame in cudf.concat when axis=0
PR #5603 Refactor JIT parser.cpp
PR #5643 Update isort to 5.0.4
PR #5648 OO interface for hash join with explicit build/probe semantic
PR #5662 Make Java ColumnVector(long nativePointer) constructor public
PR #5681 Pin black, flake8 and isort
PR #5679 Use pickle5 to test older Python versions
PR #5684 Use pickle5 in Serializable (when available)
PR #5419 Support rolling, groupby_rolling for durations
PR #5687 Change strings::split_record to return a lists column
PR #5708 Add support for dummy_na in get_dummies
PR #5709 Update java build to help cu-spacial with java bindings
PR #5713 Remove old NVTX utilities
PR #5726 Replace use of assert_frame_equal in tests with assert_eq
PR #5720 Replace owning raw pointers with std::unique_ptr
PR #5702 Add inherited methods to python docs and other docs fixes
PR #5733 Add support for size property in DataFrame/ Series / Index/ MultiIndex
PR #5735 Force timestamp creation only with duration
PR #5743 Reduce number of test cases in concatenate benchmark
PR #5748 Disable tolist API in Series & Index and add tolist dispatch in dask-cudf
PR #5744 Reduce number of test cases in reduction benchmark
PR #5756 Switch JNI code to use the RMM owning wrapper
PR #5725 Integrate Gbenchmarks into CI
PR #5752 Add cuDF internals documentation (ColumnAccessor)
PR #5759 Fix documentation describing JIT cache default location
PR #5780 Add Java bindings for pad
PR #5775 Update dask_cudf.read_parquet to align with upstream improvements
PR #5785 Enable computing views of ListColumns
PR #5791 Get nullable_pd_dtype from kwargs if provided in assert_eq
PR #5786 JNI Header Cleanup for cuSpatial
PR #5800 Expose arrow datasource instead of directly taking a RandomAccessFile
PR #5795 Clarify documentation on Boost dependency
PR #5803 Add in Java support for the repeat command
PR #5806 Expose the error message from native exception when throwing an OOM exception
PR #5825 Enable ORC statistics generation by default
PR #5771 Enable gather/slicing/joins with ListColumns in Python
PR #5834 Add support for dictionary column in concatenate
PR #5832 Make dictionary_wrapper constructor from a value explicit
PR #5833 Pin dask and distributed version to 2.22.0
PR #5856 Bump Pandas support to >=1.0,<1.2
PR #5855 Java interface to limit RMM maximum pool size
PR #5853 Disable fixed_point for use in copy_if
PR #5854 Raise informative error in DataFrame.iterrows and DataFrame.itertuples
PR #5864 Replace cnmem with pool_memory_resource in test/benchmark fixtures
PR #5863 Explicitly require ucx-py on CI
PR #5879 Added support of sub-types and object wrappers in concat()
PR #5884 Use S3 bucket directly for benchmark plugni
PR #5881 Add in JVM extractListElement and stringSplitRecord
PR #5885 Add in java support for merge sort
PR #5894 Small code improvement / cleanup
PR #5899 Add in gather support for Java
PR #5906 Add macros for showing line of failures in unit tests
PR #5933 Add in APIs to read/write arrow IPC formatted data from java
PR #3918 Update cuDF internals doc
PR #5970 Map data to pandas through arrow, always
PR #6012 Remove cudf._cuda and replace usages with rmm._cuda
PR #6045 Parametrize parquet_reader_list tests
PR #6053 Import traits.hpp for cudftestutils consumers

Bug Fixes

PR #6034 Specify --basetemp for py.test run
PR #5793 Fix leak in mutable_table_device_view by deleting _descendant_storage in table_device_view_base::destroy
PR #5525 Make sure to allocate bitmasks of string columns only once
PR #5336 Initialize conversion tables on a per-context basis
PR #5283 Fix strings::ipv4_to_integers overflow to negative
PR #5269 Explicitly require NumPy
PR #5271 Fix issue when different dtype values are passed to .cat.add_categories
PR #5333 Fix DataFrame.loc issue with list like argument
PR #5299 Update package version for Java bindings
PR #5300 Add support to ignore None in cudf.concat input
PR #5334 Fix pickling sizeof test
PR #5337 Fix broken alias from DataFrame.{at,iat} to {loc, iloc}
PR #5347 Fix APPLY_BOOLEAN_MASK_BENCH segfault
PR #5368 Fix loc indexing issue with datetime type index
PR #5367 Fix API for cudf::repeat in cudf::cross_join
PR #5377 Handle array of cupy scalars in to_column
PR #5326 Fix DataFrame.__init__ for list of scalar inputs and related dask issue
PR #5383 Fix cython type_id enum mismatch
PR #5982 Fix gcc-9 compile errors under CUDA 11
PR #5382 Fix CategoricalDtype equality comparisons
PR #5989 Fix gcc-9 warnings on narrowing conversion
PR #5385 Fix index issues in DataFrame.from_gpu_matrix
PR #5390 Fix Java data type IDs and string interleave test
PR #5392 Fix documentation links
PR #5978 Fix option to turn off NVTX
PR #5410 Fix compile warning by disallowing bool column type for slice_strings
PR #5404 Fix issue with column creation when chunked arrays are passed
PR #5409 Use the correct memory resource when creating empty null masks
PR #5399 Fix cpp compiler warnings of unreachable code
PR #5439 Fix nvtext ngrams_tokenize performance for multi-byte UTF8
PR #5446 Fix compile error caused by out-of-date PR merge (4990)
PR #5983 Fix JNI gcc-9 compile error under CUDA 11
PR #5423 Fix any() reduction ignore nulls
PR #5459 Fix str.translate to convert table characters to UTF-8
PR #5480 Fix merge sort docs
PR #5465 Fix benchmark out of memory errors due to multiple initialization
PR #5473 Fix RLEv2 patched base in ORC reader
PR #5472 Fix str concat issue with indexed series
PR #5478 Fix loc and iloc doc
PR #5484 Ensure flat index after groupby if nlevels == 1
PR #5489 Fix drop_nulls/boolean_mask corruption for large columns
PR #5504 Remove some java assertions that are not needed
PR #5516 Update gpuCI image in local build script
PR #5529 Fix issue with negative timestamp in orc writer
PR #5523 Handle dtype of Buffer objects when not passed explicitly
PR #5534 Fix the java build around type_id
PR #5564 Fix CudfEngine.read_metadata API in dask_cudf
PR #5537 Fix issue related to using set_index on a string series
PR #5561 Fix copy_bitmask issue with offset
PR #5609 Fix loc and iloc issue with column like input
PR #5578 Fix getattr logic in GroupBy
PR #5490 Fix python column view
PR #5613 Fix assigning an equal length object into a masked out Series
PR #5608 Fix issue related to string types being represented as binary types
PR #5619 Fix issue related to typecasting when using a CategoricalDtype
PR #5649 Fix issue when empty Dataframe with index are passed to cudf.concat
PR #5644 Fix issue related to Dataframe init when passing in columns
PR #5340 Disable iteration in cudf objects and add support for DataFrame initialization with list of Series
PR #5663 Move Duration types under Timestamps in doxygen Modules page
PR #5664 Update conda upload versions for new supported CUDA/Python
PR #5656 Fix issue with incorrect docker image being used in local build script
PR #5671 Fix chunksize issue with DataFrame.to_csv
PR #5672 Fix crash in parquet writer while writing large string data
PR #5675 Allow lists_column_wrappers to be constructed from incomplete hierarchies.
PR #5691 Raise error on incompatible mixed-type input for a column
PR #5692 Fix compilation issue with gcc 7.4.0 and CUDA 10.1
PR #5693 Add fix missing from PR 5656 to update local docker image to py3.7
PR #5703 Small fix for dataframe constructor with cuda array interface objects that don't have descr field
PR #5727 Fix Index.__repr__ to allow representation of null values
PR #5719 Fix Frame._concat() with categorical columns
PR #5736 Disable unsigned type in ORC writer benchmarks
PR #5745 Update JNI cast for inability to cast timestamp and integer types
PR #5750 Add RMM_ROOT/include to the spdlog search path in JNI build
PR #5763 Update Java slf4j version to match Spark 3.0
PR #5816 Always preserve list column hierarchies across operations.
PR #5766 Fix issue related to iloc and slicing a DataFrame
PR #5827 Revert fallback for tolist being absent
PR #5774 Add fallback for when tolist is absent
PR #5319 Disallow SUM and specialize MEAN of timestamp types
PR #5797 Fix a missing data issue in some Parquet files
PR #5787 Fix column create from dictionary column view
PR #5764 Remove repetition of install instructions
PR #5926 Fix SeriesGroupBy.nunique() to return a Series
PR #5813 Fix normalizer exception with all-null strings column
PR #5820 Fix ListColumn.to_arrow for all null case
PR #5837 Bash syntax error in prebuild.sh preventing cudf_kafka and libcudf_kafka from being uploaded to Anaconda
PR #5841 Added custreamz functions that were missing in interface layer
PR #5844 Fix .str.cat when objects with different index are passed
PR #5849 Modify custreamz api to integrate seamlessly with python streamz
PR #5866 cudf_kafka python version inconsistencies in Anaconda packages
PR #5872 libcudf_kafka r_path is causing docker build failures on centos7
PR #5869 Fix bug in parquet writer in writing string column with offset
PR #5910 Propagate CUDA insufficient driver error to the user
PR #5914 Link CUDA against libcudf_kafka
PR #5895 Do not break kafka client consumption loop on local client timeout
PR #5915 Fix reference count on Java DeviceMemoryBuffer after contiguousSplit
PR #5941 Fix issue related to string to datetime64 column typecast
PR #5927 Fix return type of MultiIndex.argsort
PR #5942 Fix JIT cache multiprocess test failure
PR #5929 Revised assertEquals for List Columns in java tests
PR #5947 Fix null count for child device column vector
PR #5951 Fix mkdir error in benchmark build
PR #5949 Find Arrow include directory for JNI builds
PR #5964 Fix API doc page title tag
PR #5981 Handle nat in fillna for datetime and timedelta types
PR #6016 Fix benchmark fixture segfault
PR #6003 Fix concurrent JSON reads crash
PR #6032 Change black version to 19.10b0 in .pre-commit-config.yaml
PR #6041 Fix Java memory resource handler to rethrow original exception object
PR #6057 Fix issue in parquet reader with reading columns out of file-order

cuDF 0.14.0 (03 Jun 2020)

New Features

PR #5042 Use RMM for Numba
PR #4472 Add new partition API to replace scatter_to_tables.
PR #4626 LogBase binops
PR #4750 Normalize NANs and Zeroes (JNI Bindings)
PR #4689 Compute last day of the month for a given date
PR #4771 Added in an option to statically link against cudart
PR #4788 Add cudf::day_of_year API
PR #4789 Disallow timestamp sum and diffs via binary ops
PR #4815 Add JNI total memory allocated API
PR #4906 Add Java bindings for interleave_columns
PR #4900 Add get_element to obtain scalar from a column given an index
PR #4938 Add Java bindings for strip
PR #4923 Add Java and JNI bindings for string split
PR #4972 Add list_view (cudf::LIST) type
PR #4990 Add lists_column_view, list_column_wrapper, lists support for concatenate
PR #5073 gather support for cudf::LIST columns
PR #5004 Added a null considering min/max binary op
PR #4992 Add Java bindings for converting nans to nulls
PR #4975 Add Java bindings for first and last aggregate expressions based on nth
PR #5036 Add positive remainder binary op functionality
PR #5055 Add atan2 binary op
PR #5099 Add git commit hook for clang-format
PR #5072 Adding cython binding to get_element
PR #5092 Add cudf::replace_nans
PR #4881 Support row_number in rolling_window
PR #5068 Add Java bindings for arctan2
PR #5132 Support out-of-band buffers in Python pickling
PR #5139 Add Serializable ABC for Python
PR #5149 Add Java bindings for PMOD
PR #5153 Add Java bindings for extract
PR #5196 Add Java bindings for NULL_EQUALS, NULL_MAX and NULL_MIN
PR #5192 Add support for cudf.to_datetime
PR #5203 Add Java bindings for is_integer and is_float
PR #5205 Add ci test for libcudf, libnvstrings headers existence check in meta.yml
PR #5239 Support for custom cuIO datasource classes
PR #5293 Add Java bindings for replace_with_backrefs

Improvements

PR #5235 Make DataFrame.clean_renderable_dataframe() and DataFrame.get_renderable_dataframe non-public methods
PR #4995 Add CMake option for per-thread default stream
PR #5033 Fix Numba deprecations warnings with Numba 0.49+
PR #4950 Fix import errors with Numba 0.49+
PR #4825 Update the iloc exp in dataframe.py
PR #4450 Parquet writer: add parameter to retrieve the raw file metadata
PR #4531 Add doc note on conda channel_priority
PR #4479 Adding cuda 10.2 support via conda environment file addition
PR #4486 Remove explicit template parameter from detail::scatter.
PR #4471 Consolidate partitioning functionality into a single header.
PR #4483 Add support fill() on dictionary columns
PR #4498 Adds in support for chunked writers to java
PR #4073 Enable contiguous split java test
PR #4527 Add JNI and java bindings for matches_re
PR #4606 Fix scan unit test and upgrade to more appropriate algorithms
PR #4527 Add JNI and java bindings for matches_re
PR #4532 Parquet reader: add support for multiple pandas index columns
PR #4599 Add Java and JNI bindings for string replace
PR #4655 Raise error for list like dtypes in cudf
PR #4548 Remove string_view is_null method
PR #4645 Add Alias for kurtosis as kurt
PR #4703 Optimize strings concatenate for many columns
PR #4769 Remove legacy code from libcudf
PR #4668 Add Java bindings for log2/log10 unary ops and log_base binary op
PR #4616 Enable different RMM allocation modes in unit tests
PR #4520 Fix several single char -> single char case mapping values. Add support for single -> multi char mappings.
PR #4700 Expose events and more stream functionality in java
PR #4699 Make Java's MemoryBuffer public and add MemoryBuffer.slice
PR #4691 Fix compiler argument syntax for ccache
PR #4792 Port gather, scatter, and type_dispatcher benchmarks to libcudf++
PR #3581 Remove bool8
PR #4692 Add GPU and CUDA validations
PR #4705 quantile cython bindings
PR #4627 Remove legacy Cython
PR #4688 Add Java count aggregation to include null values
PR #4331 Improved test for double that considers an epsilon
PR #4731 Avoid redundant host->device copies when reading the entire CSV/JSON file
PR #4739 Add missing aggregations for cudf::experimental::reduce
PR #4738 Remove stop-gaps in StringMethods and enable related tests
PR #4745 Fix fsspec related issue and upgrade fsspec version
PR #4779 Allow reading arbitrary stripes/rowgroup lists in CPP columnar readers
PR #4766 Update to use header-only NVTX v3 and remove need to link against nvtx.
PR #4716 Remove direct calls to RMM_ALLOC/RMM_FREE
PR #4765 Add in java support for sequence
PR #4772 Cleanup dask_cudf to_parquet and enable "_metadata" creation
PR #4733 Fix isin docs for DataFrame, Series, Index, and add DataFrame.isin support
PR #4767 Remove linking against gtest_main and gmock_main in unit tests
PR #4660 Port cudf::partition api to python/cython
PR #4799 Remove null_count() and has_nulls() from column_device_view
PR #4778 Remove scatter_to_tables from libcudf, cython and python
PR #4783 Add support for child columns to mutable_column_device_view
PR #4802 Refactor cudf::transpose to increase performance.
PR #4776 Improve doxygen comments for libcudf string/timestamp conversion formats
PR #4793 Add cudf._cuda to setup.py
PR #4790 Replace the use of deprecated rmm APIs in the test environment
PR #4809 Improve libcudf doc rendering and add a new main page
PR #4811 Add precision to subsecond specifier in timestamp/string conversion format
PR #4543 Add inplace parameter support for Series.replace & DataFrame.replace
PR #4816 Remove java API use of deprecated RMM APIs
PR #4817 Fix fixed_point documentation
PR #4844 Change Doxygen color to RAPIDS purple and documentation improvement
PR #4840 Add docs for T, empty & values
PR #4841 Remove unused single_lane_block_popc_reduce function
PR #4842 Added Java bindings for titlizing a String column
PR #4847 Replace legacy NVTX calls with "standalone" NVTX bindings calls
PR #4851 Performance improvements relating to concat
PR #4852 Add NVTX range calls to strings and nvtext APIs
PR #4849 Update Java bindings to use new NVTX API
PR #4845 Add CUDF_FUNC_RANGE to top-level cuIO function APIs
PR #4848 Side step unique_count calculation in scatter_by_map
PR #4863 Create is_integer/is_float functions for checking characters before calling to_integers/to_floats
PR #4864 Add support for __array__ method in cuDF
PR #4853 Added CUDA_TRY to multiple places in libcudf code
PR #4870 Add chunked parquet file writing from python
PR #4865 Add docs and clarify limitations of applymap
PR #4867 Parquet reader: coalesce adjacent column chunk reads
PR #4871 Add in the build information when building the java jar file
PR #4869 Expose contiguous table when deserializing from Java
PR #4878 Remove obsolete string_from_host utility
PR #4873 Prevent mutable_view() from invoking null count
PR #4806 Modify doc and correct cupy array conversions in 10min-cudf-cupy.ipynb
PR #4877 Fix DataFrame.mask and align mask & where behavior with pandas
PR #4884 Add more NVTX annotations in cuDF Python
PR #4902 Use ContextDecorator instead of contextmanager for nvtx.annotate
PR #4894 Add annotations for the .columns property and setter
PR #4901 Improve unit tests for casting Java numeric types to string
PR #4888 Handle dropping of nan's & nulls using skipna parameter in Statistical reduction ops
PR #4903 Improve internal documentation of cudf-io compression/decompression kernels
PR #4905 Get decorated function name as message when annotating
PR #4907 Reuse EventAttributes across NVTX annotations
PR #4912 Drop old valid check in element_indexing
PR #4924 Properly handle npartition argument in rearrange_by_hash
PR #4918 Adding support for cupy.ndarray in series.loc
PR #4909 Added ability to transform a column using cuda method in Java bindings
PR #3259 Add .clang-format file & format all files
PR #4943 Fix-up error handling in GPU detection
PR #4917 Add support for casting unsupported dtypes of same kind
PR #4928 Misc performance improvements for scatter_by_map
PR #4927 Use stack for memory in deviceGetName
P# #4933 Enable nop annotate
PR #4929 Java methods ensure calling thread's CUDA device matches RMM device
PR #4956 Dropping find_first_value and find_last_value
PR #4962 Add missing parameters to DataFrame.replace & Series.replace
PR #4960 Return the result of to_json
PR #4963 Use cudaDeviceAttr in getDeviceAttribute
PR #4953 add documentation for supported NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA versions for cuDF
PR #4967 Add more comments to top-level gpuinflate and debrotli kernels
PR #4968 Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
PR #4980 Change Java HostMemoryBuffer default to prefer pinned memory
PR #4994 clang-format "cpp/tests" directory
PR #4993 Remove Java memory prediction code
PR #4985 Add null_count to Python Column ctors and use already computed null_count when possible
PR #4998 Clean up dispatch of aggregation methods in result_cache
PR #5000 Performance improvements in isin and dask_cudf backend
PR #5002 Fix Column.reduce to accept null_count
PR #5006 Add Java bindings for strip, lstrip and rstrip
PR #5047 Add Cython binding for libcudf++ CSV reader
PR #5027 Move nvstrings standalone docs pages to libcudf doxygen pages
PR #4947 Add support for CategoricalColumn to be type-casted with different categories
PR #4822 Add constructor to pq_chunked_state to enable using RAII idiom
PR #5024 CSV reader input stage optimizations
PR #5061 Add support for writing parquet to python file-like objects
PR #5034 Use loc to apply boolmask to frame efficiently when constructing query result
PR #5039 Make annotate picklable
PR #5045 Remove call to unique() in concat when axis=1
PR #5023 Object oriented join and column agnostic typcasting
PR #5049 Add grouping of libcudf apis into doxygen modules
PR #5069 Remove duplicate documentation from detail headers
PR #5075 Add simple row-group aggregation mechanism in dask_cudf read_parquet
PR #5084 Improve downcasting in Series.label_encoding() to reduce memory usage
PR #5085 Print more precise numerical strings in unit tests
PR #5028 Add Docker 19 support to local gpuci build
PR #5093 Add .cat.as_known related test in dask_cudf
PR #5100 Add documentation on libcudf doxygen guidelines
PR #5106 Add detail API for cudf::concatenate with tables
PR #5104 Add missing .inl files to clang-format and git commit hook
PR #5112 Adding htoi and ip2int support to StringMethods
PR #5101 Add POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE flag to static cudftestutil library
PR #5109 Update CONTRIBUTING.md for clang-format pre-commit hook
PR #5054 Change String typecasting to be inline with Pandas
PR #5123 Display more useful info on clang-format CI Failure
PR #5058 Adding cython binding for CSV writer
PR #5156 Raise error when applying boolean mask containing null values.
PR #5137 Add java bindings for getSizeInBytes in DType
PR #5194 Update Series.fillna to reflect dtype behavior
PR #5159 Add make_meta_object in dask_cudf backend and add str.split test
PR #5147 Use logging_resource_adaptor from RMM in the JNI code
PR #5184 Fix style checks
PR #5198 Add detail headers for strings converter functions
PR #5199 Add index support in DataFrame.query
PR #5227 Refactor detail::gather API to make use of scoped enumerators
PR #5218 Reduce memory usage when categorifying column with null values.
PR #5209 Add nan_as_null support to cudf.from_pandas
PR #5207 Break up backref_re.cu into multiple source files to improve compile time
PR #5155 Fix cudf documentation misspellings
PR #5208 Port search and join benchmark to libcudf++
PR #5214 Move docs build script into repository
PR #5219 Add per context cache for JIT kernels
PR #5250 Improve to_csv() support for writing to buffers
PR #5233 Remove experimental namespace used during libcudf++ refactor
PR #5213 Documentation enhancements to cudf python APIs
PR #5251 Fix more mispellings in cpp comments and strings
PR #5261 Add short git commit to conda package name
PR #5254 Deprecate nvstrings, nvcategory and nvtext
PR #5270 Add support to check for "NaT" and "None" strings while typecasting to datetime64
PR #5298 Remove unused native deps from java library
PR #5216 Make documentation uniform for params

Bug Fixes

PR #5221 Fix the use of user-provided resource on temporary values
PR #5181 Allocate null count using the default resource in copy_if
PR #5141 Use user-provided resource correctly in unary_operation() and shift()
PR #5064 Fix hash() and construct_join_output_df() to use user-provided memory resource correctly
PR #4386 Update Java package to 0.14
PR #4466 Fix merge key column sorting
PR #4402 Fix cudf::strings::join_strings logic with all-null strings and null narep
PR #4610 Fix validity bug in string scalar factory
PR #4570 Fixing loc ordering issue in dataframe
PR #4612 Fix invalid index handling in cudf:dictionary:add-keys call to gather
PR #4614 Fix cuda-memcheck errors found in column_tests.cu and copying/utility_tests.cu
PR #4614 Fix cuda-memcheck errors found in column_tests.cu and copying/utility_tests.cu
PR #4639 Fix java column of empty strings issue
PR #4613 Fix issue related to downcasting in .loc
PR #4615 Fix potential OOB write in ORC writer compression stage
PR #4587 Fix non-regex libcudf contains methods to return true when target is an empty string
PR #4617 Fix memory leak in aggregation object destructor
PR #4633 String concatenation fix in DataFrame.rename
PR #4609 Fix to handle Series.factorize when index is set
PR #4659 Fix strings::replace_re handling empty regex pattern
PR #4652 Fix misaligned error when computing regex device structs
PR #4651 Fix hashing benchmark missing includes
PR #4672 Fix docs for value_counts and update test cases
PR #4672 Fix __setitem__ handling list of column names
PR #4673 Fix regex infinite loop while parsing invalid quantifier pattern
PR #4679 Fix comments for make_dictionary_column factory functions
PR #4711 Fix column leaks in Java unit test
pR #4721 Fix string binop to update nulls appropriately
PR #4722 Fix strings::pad when using pad::both with odd width
PR #4743 Fix loc issue with Multiindex on DataFrame and Series
PR #4725 Fix issue java with not setting GPU on background thread
PR #4701 Fix issue related to mixed input types in as_column
PR #4748 Fix strings::all_characters_of_type to allow verify-types mask
PR #4747 Fix random failures of decompression gtests
PR #4749 Setting nan_as_null=True while creating a column in DataFrame creation
PR #4761 Fix issues with nan_as_null in certain case
PR #4650 Fix type mismatch & result format issue in searchsorted
PR #4755 Fix Java build to deal with new quantiles API
PR #4720 Fix issue related to dtype param not being adhered incase of cuda arrays
PR #4756 Fix regex error checking for valid quantifier condition
PR #4777 Fix data pointer for column slices of zero length
PR #4770 Fix readonly flag in Column. __cuda_array_interface__
PR #4800 Fix dataframe slicing with strides
PR #4796 Fix groupby apply for operations that fail on empty groups
PR #4801 gitignore _cuda/*.cpp files
PR #4805 Fix hash_object_dispatch definitions in dask_cudf
PR #4813 Fix GenericIndex printing
PR #4804 Fix issue related repartition during hash based repartition
PR #4814 Raise error if to_csv does not get filename/path
PR #4821 Port apply_boolean_mask_benchmark to new cudf::column types
PR #4826 Move memory resource from RmmTestEnvironment to the custom gtest main() scope
PR #4839 Update Java bindings for timestamp cast formatting changes
PR #4797 Fix string timestamp to datetime conversion with ms and ns
PR #4854 Fix several cases of incorrect downcasting of operands in binops
PR #4834 Fix bug in transform in handling single line UDFs
PR #4857 Change JIT cache default directory to $HOME/.cudf
PR #4807 Fix categories duplication in dask_cudf
PR #4846 Fix CSV parsing with byte_range parameter and string columns
PR #4883 Fix series get/set to match pandas
PR #4861 Fix to_integers illegal-memory-access with all-empty strings column
PR #4860 Fix issues in HostMemoryBufferTest, and testNormalizeNANsAndZeros
PR #4879 Fix output for cudf.concat with axis=1 for pandas parity
PR #4838 Fix to support empty inputs to replace method
PR #4859 JSON reader: fix data type inference for string columns
PR #4868 Temporary fix to skip validation on Dask related runs
PR #4872 Fix broken column wrapper constructors in merge benchmark
PR #4875 Fix cudf::strings::from_integer logic converting min integer to string
PR #4876 Mark Java cleaner objects as being cleaned even if exception is thrown
PR #4780 Handle nulls in Statistical column operations
PR #4886 Minimize regex-find calls in multi-replace cudf::strings::replace_re function
PR #4887 Remove developer.rst and any links
PR #4915 Fix to reset_index inplace in MultiIndex and other places
PR #4899 Fix series inplace handling
PR #4940 Fix boolean mask issue with large sized Dataframe
PR #4889 Fix multi-index merging
PR #4922 Fix cudf::strings:split logic for many columns
PR #4949 Fix scatter, gather benchmark constructor call
PR #4958 Fix strings::replace perf for long strings
PR #4965 Raise Error when there are duplicate columns sent to cudf.concat
PR #4983 Fix from_cudf in dask_cudf
PR #4996 Parquet writer: fix potentially zero-sized string dictionary
PR #5009 Fix pickling for string and categorical columns
PR #4984 Fix groupby nth aggregation negative n and exclude nulls
PR #5011 Fix DataFrame loc issue with boolean masking
PR #4977 Fix compilation of cuDF benchmarks with build.sh
PR #5018 Fix crash when JIT cache dir inaccessible. Fix inter version cache clash for custom cache path.
PR #5005 Fix CSV reader error when only one of the row selection parameters is set
PR #5022 Add timestamp header to transform
PR #5021 Fix bug with unsigned right shift and scalar lhs
PR #5020 Fix conda install pre_commit not found when setting up dev environment
PR #5030 Fix Groupby sort=True
PR #5029 Change temporary dir to working dir for cudf io tests
PR #5040 Fix make_scalar_iterator() and make_pair_iterator(scalar) to not copy values to host
PR #5041 Fix invalid java test for shift right unsigned
PR #5043 Remove invalid examples page libcudf doxygen
PR #5060 Fix unsigned char limits issue in JIT by updating Jitify
PR #5070 Fix libcudf++ csv reader support for hex dtypes, doublequotes and empty columns
PR #5057 Fix metadata_out parameter not reaching parquet write_all
PR #5076 Fix JNI code for null_policy enum change
PR #5031 grouped_time_range_rolling_window assumes ASC sort order
PR #5032 grouped_time_range_rolling_window should permit invocation without specifying grouping_keys
PR #5103 Fix read_csv issue with names and header
PR #5090 Fix losing nulls while creating DataFrame from dictionary
PR #5089 Return false for sign-only string in libcudf is_float and is_integer
PR #5124 DataFrame.rename support for renaming indexes w/ default for index
PR #5108 Fix float-to-string convert for -0.0
PR #5111 Fix header not being included in legacy jit transform.
PR #5115 Fix hex-to-integer logic when string has prefix '0x'
PR #5118 Fix naming for java string length operators
PR #5129 Fix missed reference in tests from 5118
PR #5122 Fix clang-format custrings bug
PR #5138 Install contextvars backport on Python 3.6
PR #5145 Fix an issue with calling an aggregation operation on SeriesGroupBy
PR #5148 Fix JNI build for GCC 8
PR #5162 Fix issues related to empty Dataframe in as_gpu_matrix & astype
PR #5167 Fix regex extract match to return empty string
PR #5163 Fix parquet INT96 timestamps before the epoch
PR #5165 Fix potentially missing last row in libcudf++ csv reader
PR #5185 Fix flake8 configuration and issues from new flake8 version
PR #5193 Fix OOB read in csv reader
PR #5191 Fix the use of the device memory resource
PR #5212 Fix memory leak in dlpack.pyx:from_dlpack()
PR #5224 Add new headers from 5198 to libcudf/meta.yaml
PR #5228 Fix datetime64 scalar dtype handling for unsupported time units
PR #5256 ORC reader: fix loading individual timestamp columns
PR #5285 Fix DEBUG compilation failure due to fixed_point.hpp

cuDF 0.13.0 (31 Mar 2020)

New Features

PR #4360 Added Java bindings for bitwise shift operators
PR #3577 Add initial dictionary support to column classes
PR #3777 Add support for dictionary column in gather
PR #3693 add string support, skipna to scan operation
PR #3662 Define and implement shift.
PR #3861 Added Series.sum feature for String
PR #4069 Added cast of numeric columns from/to String
PR #3681 Add cudf::experimental::boolean_mask_scatter
PR #4040 Add support for n-way merge of sorted tables
PR #4053 Multi-column quantiles.
PR #4100 Add set_keys function for dictionary columns
PR #3894 Add remove_keys functions for dictionary columns
PR #4107 Add groupby nunique aggregation
PR #4235 Port nvtx.pyx to use non-legacy libcudf APIs
PR #4153 Support Dask serialization protocol on cuDF objects
PR #4127 Add python API for n-way sorted merge (merge_sorted)
PR #4164 Add Buffer "constructor-kwargs" header
PR #4172 Add groupby nth aggregation
PR #4159 Add COUNT aggregation that includes null values
PR #4190 Add libcudf++ transpose Cython implementation
PR #4063 Define and implement string capitalize and title API
PR #4217 Add libcudf++ quantiles Cython implementation
PR #4216 Add cudf.Scalar Python type
PR #3782 Add fixed_point class to support DecimalType
PR #4272 Add stable sorted order
PR #4129 Add libcudf++ interleave_columns and tile Cython implementation
PR #4262 Port unaryops.pyx to use libcudf++ APIs
PR #4276 Port avro.pyx to libcudf++
PR #4259 Ability to create Java host buffers from memory-mapped files
PR #4240 Add groupby::groups()
PR #4294 Add Series rank and Dataframe rank
PR #4304 Add new NVTX infrastructure and add ranges to all top-level compute APIs.
PR #4319 Add repartition_by_hash API to dask_cudf
PR #4315 ShiftLeft, ShiftRight, ShiftRightUnsigned binops
PR #4321 Expose Python Semi and Anti Joins
PR #4291 Add Java callback support for RMM events
PR #4298 Port orc.pyx to libcudf++
PR #4344 Port concat.pyx to libcudf++
PR #4329 Add support for dictionary columns in scatter
PR #4352 Add factory function make_column_from_scalar
PR #4381 Add Java support for copying buffers with asynchronous streams
PR #4288 Add libcudf++ shift Cython implementation
PR #4338 Add cudf::sequence() for generating an incrementing list of numeric values
PR #4456 Add argmin/max and string min/max to sort groupby
PR #4564 Added Java bindings for clamp operator.
PR #4602 Add Cython bindings for functions in datetime.hpp
PR #4670 Add java and JNI bindings for contains_re
PR #4363 Grouped Rolling Window support
PR #4798 Add UDF support to grouped rolling window
PR #3917 Add dictionary add_keys function
PR #3842 ORC writer: add support for column statistics
PR #4088 Added asString() on ColumnVector in Java that takes a format string
PR #4484 Port CSV writer to libcudf++

Improvements

PR #4641 Add replace example in dataframe.py and update 10min.ipynb
PR #4140 Add cudf series examples and corr() method for dataframe in dataframe.py
PR #4187 exposed getNativeView method in Java bindings
PR #3525 build.sh option to disable nvtx
PR #3748 Optimize hash_partition using shared memory
PR #3808 Optimize hash_partition using shared memory and cub block scan
PR #3698 Add count_(un)set_bits functions taking multiple ranges and updated slice to compute null counts at once.
PR #3909 Move java backend to libcudf++
PR #3971 Adding as_table to convert Column to Table in python
PR #3910 Adding sinh, cosh, tanh, asinh, acosh, atanh cube root and rint unary support.
PR #3972 Add Java bindings for left_semi_join and left_anti_join
PR #3975 Simplify and generalize data handling in Buffer
PR #3985 Update RMM include files and remove extraneously included header files.
PR #3601 Port UDF functionality for rolling windows to libcudf++
PR #3911 Adding null boolean handling for copy_if_else
PR #4003 Drop old to_device utility wrapper function
PR #4002 Adding to_frame and fix for categorical column issue
PR #4009 build script update to enable cudf build without installing
PR #3897 Port cuIO JSON reader to cudf::column types
PR #4008 Eliminate extra copy in column constructor
PR #4013 Add cython definition for io readers cudf/io/io_types.hpp
PR #4028 Port json.pyx to use new libcudf APIs
PR #4014 ORC/Parquet: add count parameter to stripe/rowgroup-based reader API
PR #3880 Add aggregation infrastructure support for cudf::reduce
PR #4059 Add aggregation infrastructure support for cudf::scan
PR #4021 Change quantiles signature for clarity.
PR #4057 Handle offsets in cython Column class
PR #4045 Reorganize libxx directory
PR #4029 Port stream_compaction.pyx to use libcudf++ APIs
PR #4031 Docs build scripts and instructions update
PR #4062 Improve how java classifiers are produced
PR #4038 JNI and Java support for is_nan and is_not_nan
PR #3786 Adding string support to rolling_windows
PR #4067 Removed unused CATEGORY type ID.
PR #3891 Port NVStrings (r)split_record to contiguous_(r)split_record
PR #4070 Port NVText normalize_spaces to use libcudf strings column
PR #4072 Allow round_robin_partition to single partition
PR #4064 Add cudaGetDeviceCount to JNI layer
PR #4075 Port nvtext ngrams-tokenize to libcudf++
PR #4087 Add support for writing large Parquet files in a chunked manner.
PR #3716 Update cudf.to_parquet to use new GPU accelerated Parquet writer
PR #4083 Use two partitions in test_groupby_multiindex_reset_index
PR #4071 Add Java bindings for round robin partition
PR #4079 Simply use mask.size to create the array view
PR #4092 Keep mask on GPU for bit unpacking
PR #4081 Copy from Buffer's pointer directly to host
PR #4105 Change threshold of using optimized hash partition code
PR #4101 Redux serialize Buffer directly with __cuda_array_interface__
PR #4098 Remove legacy calls from libcudf strings column code
PR #4044 Port join.pyx to use libcudf++ APIs
PR #4111 Use Buffer's to serialize StringColumn
PR #4567 Optimize __reduce__ in StringColumn
PR #4590 Register a few more types for Dask serialization
PR #4113 Get len of StringColumns without nvstrings
PR #4147 Remove workaround for UNKNOWN_NULL_COUNT in contiguous_split.
PR #4130 Renames in-place cudf::experimental::fill to cudf::experimental::fill_in_place
PR #4136 Add Index.names property
PR #4139 Port rolling.pyx to new libcudf APIs
PR #4143 Renames in-place cudf::experimental::copy_range to cudf::experimental::copy_range_in_place
PR #4144 Release GIL when calling libcudf++ functions
PR #4082 Rework MultiColumns in cuDF
PR #4149 Use "type-serialized" for pickled types like Dask
PR #4174 Port hash groupby to libcudf++
PR #4171 Split java host and device vectors to make a vector truly immutable
PR #4167 Port search to libcudf++ (support multi-column searchsorted)
PR #4163 Assert Dask CUDA serializers have Buffer frames
PR #4165 List serializable classes once
PR #4168 IO readers: do not create null mask for non-nullable columns
PR #4177 Use uint8 type for host array copy of Buffer
PR #4183 Update Google Test Execution
PR #4182 Rename cuDF serialize functions to be more generic
PR #4176 Add option to parallelize setup.py's cythonize
PR #4191 Porting sort.pyx to use new libcudf APIs
PR #4196 reduce CHANGELOG.md merge conflicts
PR #4197 Added notebook testing to gpuCI gpu build
PR #4220 Port strings wrap functionality.
PR #4204 Port nvtext create-ngrams function
PR #4219 Port dlpack.pyx to use new libcudf APIs
PR #4225 Remove stale notebooks
PR #4233 Porting replace.pyx to use new libcudf APIs
PR #4223 Fix a few of the Cython warnings
PR #4224 Optimize concatenate for many columns
PR #4234 Add BUILD_LEGACY_TESTS cmake option
PR #4231 Support for custom cuIO data_sink classes.
PR #4251 Add class to docs in dask-cudf derived_from
PR #4261 libxx Cython reorganization
PR #4274 Support negative position values in slice_strings
PR #4282 Porting nvstrings conversion functions from new libcudf++ to Python/Cython
PR #4290 Port Parquet to use new libcudf APIs
PR #4299 Convert cudf::shift to column-based api
PR #4301 Add support for writing large ORC files in a chunked manner
PR #4306 Use libcudf++ unary.pyx cast instead of legacy cast
PR #4295 Port reduce.pyx to libcudf++ API
PR #4305 Move gpuarrow.pyx and related libarrow_cuda files into _libxx
PR #4244 Port nvstrings Substring Gather/Scatter functions to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4280 Port nvstrings Numeric Handling functions to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4278 Port filling.pyx to libcudf++ API
PR #4328 Add memory threshold callbacks for Java RMM event handler
PR #4336 Move a bunch of internal nvstrings code to use native StringColumns
PR #4166 Port is_sorted.pyx to use libcudf++ APIs
PR #4351 Remove a bunch of internal usage of Numba; set rmm as cupy allocator
PR #4333 nvstrings case/capitalization cython bindings
PR #4345 Removed an undesirable backwards include from /include to /src in cuIO writers.hpp
PR #4367 Port copying.pyx to use new libcudf
PR #4362 Move pq_chunked_state struct into it's own header to match how orc writer is doing it.
PR #4339 Port libcudf strings wrap api to cython/python
PR #4236 Update dask_cudf.io.to_parquet to use cudf to_parquet
PR #4311 Port nvstrings String Manipulations functions to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4373 Port nvstrings Regular Expressions functions to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4308 Replace dask_cudf sort_values and improve set_index
PR #4407 Enable .str.slice & .str.get and .str.zfill unit-tests
PR #4412 Require Dask + Distributed 2.12.0+
PR #4377 Support loading avro files that contain nested arrays
PR #4436 Enable .str.cat and fix .str.split on python side
PR #4405 Port nvstrings (Sub)string Comparisons functions to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4316 Add Java and JNI bindings for substring expression
PR #4314 Add Java and JNI bindings for string contains
PR #4461 Port nvstrings Miscellaneous functions to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4495 Port nvtext to cuDF Python/Cython
PR #4503 Port binaryop.pyx to libcudf++ API
PR #4499 Adding changes to handle include keep_index and RangeIndex
PR #4533 Import tlz for optional cytoolz support
PR #4493 Skip legacy testing in CI
PR #4346 Port groupby Cython/Python to use libcudf++ API
PR #4524 Updating __setitem__ for DataFrame to use scalar scatter
PR #4611 Fix to use direct slicing in iloc for multiindex than using gather under _get_row_major
PR #4534 Disable deprecation warnings as errors.
PR #4542 Remove RMM init/finalize in cudf test fixture.
PR #4506 Check for multi-dimensional data in column/Series creation
PR #4549 Add option to disable deprecation warnings.
PR #4516 Add negative value support for .str.get
PR #4563 Remove copying to host for metadata generation in generate_pandas_metadata
PR #4554 Removed raw RMM allocation from column_device_view
PR #4619 Remove usage of nvstrings in data_array_view
PR #4654 Upgrade version of numba required to >=0.48.0
PR #4035 Port NVText tokenize function to libcudf++
PR #4042 Port cudf/io/functions.hpp to Cython for use in IO bindings
PR #4058 Port hash.pyx to use libcudf++ APIs
PR #4133 Mask cleanup and fixes: use int32 dtype, ensure 64 byte padding, handle offsets

Bug Fixes

PR #3888 Drop ptr=None from DeviceBuffer call
PR #3976 Fix string serialization and memory_usage method to be consistent
PR #3902 Fix conversion of large size GPU array to dataframe
PR #3953 Fix overflow in column_buffer when computing the device buffer size
PR #3959 Add missing hash-dispatch function for cudf.Series
PR #3970 Fix for Series Pickle
PR #3964 Restore legacy NVStrings and NVCategory dependencies in Java jar
PR #3982 Fix java unary op enum and add missing ops
PR #3999 Fix issue serializing empty string columns (java)
PR #3979 Add name to Series serialize and deserialize
PR #4005 Fix null mask allocation bug in gather_bitmask
PR #4000 Fix dask_cudf sort_values performance for single partitions
PR #4007 Fix for copy_bitmask issue with uninitialized device_buffer
PR #4037 Fix JNI quantile compile issue
PR #4054 Fixed JNI to deal with reduction API changes
PR #4052 Fix for round-robin when num_partitions divides nrows.
PR #4061 Add NDEBUG guard on constexpr_assert.
PR #4049 Fix cudf::split issue returning one less than expected column vectors
PR #4065 Parquet writer: fix for out-of-range dictionary indices
PR #4066 Fixed mismatch with dtype enums
PR #4078 Fix joins for when column_in_common input parameter is empty
PR #4080 Fix multi-index dask test with sort issue
PR #4084 Update Java for removal of CATEGORY type
PR #4086 ORC reader: fix potentially incorrect timestamp decoding in the last rowgroup
PR #4089 Fix dask groupby mutliindex test case issues in join
PR #4097 Fix strings concatenate logic with column offsets
PR #4076 All null string entries should have null data buffer
PR #4109 Use rmm::device_vector instead of thrust::device_vector
PR #4113 Use .nvstrings in StringColumn.sum(...)
PR #4116 Fix a bug in contiguous_split() where tables with mixed column types could corrupt string output
PR #4125 Fix type enum to account for added Dictionary type in types.hpp
PR #4132 Fix hash_partition null mask allocation
PR #4137 Update Java for mutating fill and rolling window changes
PR #4184 Add missing except+ to Cython bindings
PR #4141 Fix NVStrings test_convert failure in 10.2 build
PR #4156 Make fill/copy_range no-op on empty columns
PR #4158 Fix merge issue with empty table return if one of the two tables are empty
PR #4162 Properly handle no index metadata generation for to_parquet
PR #4175 Fix __sizeof__ calculation in StringColumn
PR #4155 Update groupby group_offsets size and fix unnecessary device dispatch.
PR #4186 Fix from_timestamps 12-hour specifiers support
PR #4198 Fix constructing RangeIndex from range
PR #4192 Parquet writer: fix OOB read when computing string hash
PR #4201 Fix java window tests
PR #4199 Fix potential race condition in memcpy_block
PR #4221 Fix series dict alignment to not drop index name
PR #4218 Fix get_aggregation definition with except *
PR #4215 Fix performance regression in strings::detail::concatenate
PR #4214 Alter ValueError exception for GPU accelerated Parquet writer to properly report categorical columns are not supported.
PR #4232 Fix handling empty tuples of children in string columns
PR #4222 Fix no-return compile error in binop-null-test
PR #4242 Fix for rolling tests CI failure
PR #4245 Fix race condition in parquet reader
PR #4253 Fix dictionary decode and set_keys with column offset
PR #4258 Fix dask-cudf losing index name in reset_index
PR #4268 Fix java build for hash aggregate
PR #4275 Fix bug in searching nullable values in non-nullable search space in upper_bound
PR #4273 Fix losing StringIndex name in dask _meta_nonempty
PR #4279 Fix converting np.float64 to Scalar
PR #4285 Add init files for cython pkgs and fix setup.py
PR #4287 Parquet reader: fix empty string potentially read as null
PR #4310 Fix empty values case in groupby
PR #4297 Fix specification of package_data in setup.py
PR #4302 Fix _is_local_filesystem check
PR #4303 Parquet reader: fix empty columns missing from table
PR #4317 Fix fill() when using string_scalar with an empty string
PR #4324 Fix slice_strings for out-of-range start position value
PR #4115 Serialize an empty column table with non zero rows
PR #4327 Preemptive dispatch fix for changes in dask#5973
PR #4379 Correct regex reclass count variable to number of pairs instead of the number of literals
PR #4364 Fix libcudf zfill strings to ignore '+/-' chars
PR #4358 Fix strings::concat where narep is an empty string
PR #4369 Fix race condition in gpuinflate
PR #4390 Disable ScatterValid and ScatterNull legacy tests
PR #4399 Make scalar destructor virtual.
PR #4398 Fixes the failure in groupby in MIN/MAX on strings when some groups are empty
PR #4406 Fix sorted merge issue with null values and ascending=False
PR #4445 Fix string issue for parquet reader and support keep_index for scatter_to_tables
PR #4423 Tighten up Dask serialization checks
PR #4537 Use elif in Dask deserialize check
PR #4682 Include frame lengths in Dask serialized header
PR #4438 Fix repl-template error for replace_with_backrefs
PR #4434 Fix join_strings logic with all-null strings and non-null narep
PR #4465 Fix use_pandas_index having no effect in libcudf++ parquet reader
PR #4464 Update Cmake to always link in libnvToolsExt
PR #4467 Fix dropna issue for a DataFrame having np.nan
PR #4480 Fix string_scalar.value to return an empty string_view for empty string-scalar
PR #4474 Fix to not materialize RangeIndex in copy_categories
PR #4496 Skip tests which require 2+ GPUs
PR #4494 Update Java memory event handler for new RMM resource API
PR #4505 Fix 0 length buffers during serialization
PR #4482 Fix .str.rsplit, .str.split, .str.find, .str.rfind, .str.index, .str.rindex and enable related tests
PR #4513 Backport scalar virtual destructor fix
PR #4519 Remove n validation for nlargest & nsmallest and add negative support for n
PR #4596 Fix _popn issue with performance
PR #4526 Fix index slicing issue for index incase of an empty dataframe
PR #4538 Fix cudf::strings::slice_strings(step=-1) for empty strings
PR #4557 Disable compile-errors on deprecation warnings, for JNI
PR #4669 Fix dask_cudf categorical nonempty meta handling
PR #4576 Fix typo in serialize.py
PR #4571 Load JNI native dependencies for Scalar class
PR #4598 Fix to handle pd.DataFrame in DataFrame.__init__
PR #4594 Fix exec dangling pointer issue in legacy groupby
PR #4591 Fix issue when reading consecutive rowgroups
PR #4600 Fix missing include in benchmark_fixture.hpp
PR #4588 Fix ordering issue in MultiIndex
PR #4632 Fix handling of empty inputs to concatenate
PR #4630 Remove dangling reference to RMM exec policy in drop duplicates tests.
PR #4625 Fix hash-based repartition bug in dask_cudf
PR #4662 Fix to handle keep_index in partition_by_hash
PR #4683 Fix Slicing issue with categorical column in DataFrame
PR #4676 Fix bug in _shuffle_group for repartition
PR #4681 Fix test_repr tests that were generating a RangeIndex for column names
PR #4729 Fix fsspec versioning to prevent dask test failures
PR #4145 Support empty index case in DataFrame._from_table
PR #4108 Fix dtype bugs in dask_cudf metadata (metadata_nonempty overhaul)
PR #4138 Really fix strings concatenate logic with column offsets
PR #4119 Fix binary ops slowdown using jitify -remove-unused-globals

cuDF 0.12.0 (04 Feb 2020)

New Features

PR #3759 Updated 10 Minutes with clarification on how dask_cudf uses cudf API
PR #3224 Define and implement new join APIs.
PR #3284 Add gpu-accelerated parquet writer
PR #3254 Python redesign for libcudf++
PR #3336 Add from_dlpack and to_dlpack
PR #3555 Add column names support to libcudf++ io readers and writers
PR #3527 Add string functionality for merge API
PR #3610 Add memory_usage to DataFrame and Series APIs
PR #3557 Add contiguous_split() function.
PR #3619 Support CuPy 7
PR #3604 Add nvtext ngrams-tokenize function
PR #3403 Define and implement new stack + tile APIs
PR #3627 Adding cudf::sort and cudf::sort_by_key
PR #3597 Implement new sort based groupby
PR #3776 Add column equivalence comparator (using epsilon for float equality)
PR #3667 Define and implement round-robin partition API.
PR #3690 Add bools_to_mask
PR #3761 Introduce a Frame class and make Index, DataFrame and Series subclasses
PR #3538 Define and implement left semi join and left anti join
PR #3683 Added support for multiple delimiters in nvtext.token_count()
PR #3792 Adding is_nan and is_notnan
PR #3594 Adding clamp support to libcudf++

Improvements

PR #3124 Add support for grand-children in cudf column classes
PR #3292 Port NVStrings regex contains function
PR #3409 Port NVStrings regex replace function
PR #3417 Port NVStrings regex findall function
PR #3351 Add warning when filepath resolves to multiple files in cudf readers
PR #3370 Port NVStrings strip functions
PR #3453 Port NVStrings IPv4 convert functions to cudf strings column
PR #3441 Port NVStrings url encode/decode to cudf strings column
PR #3364 Port NVStrings split functions
PR #3463 Port NVStrings partition/rpartition to cudf strings column
PR #3502 ORC reader: add option to read DECIMALs as INT64
PR #3461 Add a new overload to allocate_like() that takes explicit type and size params.
PR #3590 Specialize hash functions for floating point
PR #3569 Use np.asarray in StringColumn.deserialize
PR #3553 Support Python NoneType in numeric binops
PR #3511 Support DataFrame / Series mixed arithmetic
PR #3567 Include strides in __cuda_array_interface__
PR #3608 Update OPS codeowner group name
PR #3431 Port NVStrings translate to cudf strings column
PR #3507 Define and implement new binary operation APIs
PR #3620 Add stream parameter to unary ops detail API
PR #3593 Adding begin/end for mutable_column_device_view
PR #3587 Merge CHECK_STREAM & CUDA_CHECK_LAST to CHECK_CUDA
PR #3733 Rework hash_partition API
PR #3655 Use move with make_pair to avoid copy construction
PR #3402 Define and implement new quantiles APIs
PR #3612 Add ability to customize the JIT kernel cache path
PR #3647 Remove PatchedNumbaDeviceArray with CuPy 6.6.0
PR #3641 Remove duplicate definitions of CUDA_DEVICE_CALLABLE
PR #3640 Enable memory_usage in dask_cudf (also adds pd.Index from_pandas)
PR #3654 Update Jitify submodule ref to include gcc-8 fix
PR #3639 Define and implement nans_to_nulls
PR #3561 Rework contains implementation in search
PR #3616 Add aggregation infrastructure for argmax/argmin.
PR #3673 Parquet reader: improve rounding of timestamp conversion to seconds
PR #3699 Stringify libcudacxx headers for binary op JIT
PR #3697 Improve column insert performance for wide frames
PR #3653 Make gather_bitmask_kernel more reusable.
PR #3710 Remove multiple CMake configuration steps from root build script
PR #3657 Define and implement compiled binops for string column comparisons
PR #3520 Change read_parquet defaults and add warnings
PR #3780 Java APIs for selecting a GPU
PR #3796 Improve on round-robin with the case when number partitions greater than number of rows.
PR #3805 Avoid CuPy 7.1.0 for now
PR #3758 detail::scatter variant with map iterator support
PR #3882 Fail loudly when creating a StringColumn from nvstrings with > MAX_VAL(int32) bytes
PR #3823 Add header file for detail search functions
PR #2438 Build GBench Benchmarks in CI
PR #3713 Adding aggregation support to rolling_window
PR #3875 Add abstract sink for IO writers, used by ORC and Parquet writers for now
PR #3916 Refactor gather bindings

Bug Fixes

PR #3618 Update 10 minutes to cudf and cupy to hide warning that were being shown in the docs
PR #3550 Update Java package to 0.12
PR #3549 Fix index name issue with iloc with RangeIndex
PR #3562 Fix 4GB limit for gzipped-compressed csv files
PR #2981 enable build.sh to build all targets without installation
PR #3563 Use __cuda_array_interface__ for serialization
PR #3564 Fix cuda memory access error in gather_bitmask_kernel
PR #3548 Replaced CUDA_RT_CALL with CUDA_TRY
PR #3486 Pandas > 0.25 compatability
PR #3622 Fix new warnings and errors when building with gcc-8
PR #3588 Remove avro reader column order reversal
PR #3629 Fix hash map test failure
PR #3637 Fix sorted set_index operations in dask_cudf
PR #3663 Fix libcudf++ ORC reader microseconds and milliseconds conversion
PR #3668 Fixing CHECK_CUDA debug build issue
PR #3684 Fix ends_with logic for matching string case
PR #3691 Fix create_offsets to handle offset correctly
PR #3687 Fixed bug while passing input GPU memory pointer in nvtext.scatter_count()
PR #3701 Fix hash_partition hashing all columns instead of columns_to_hash
PR #3694 Allow for null columns parameter in csv_writer
PR #3706 Removed extra type-dispatcher call from merge
PR #3704 Changed the default delimiter to whitespace for nvtext methods.
PR #3741 Construct DataFrame from dict-of-Series with alignment
PR #3724 Update rmm version to match release
PR #3743 Fix for None data in __array_interface__
PR #3731 Fix performance of zero sized dataframe slice
PR #3709 Fix inner_join incorrect result issue
PR #3734 Update numba to 0.46 in conda files
PR #3738 Update libxx cython types.hpp path
PR #3672 Fix to_host issue with column_view having offset
PR #3730 CSV reader: Set invalid float values to NaN/null
PR #3670 Floor when casting between timestamps of different precisions
PR #3728 Fix apply_boolean_mask issue with non-null string column
PR #3769 Don't look for a name attribute in column
PR #3783 Bind cuDF operators to Dask Dataframe
PR #3775 Fix segfault when reading compressed CSV files larger than 4GB
PR #3799 Align indices of Series inputs when adding as columns to DataFrame
PR #3803 Keep name when unpickling Index objects
PR #3804 Fix cuda crash in AVRO reader
PR #3766 Remove references to cudf::type_id::CATEGORY from IO code
PR #3817 Don't always deepcopy an index
PR #3821 Fix OOB read in gpuinflate prefetcher
PR #3829 Parquet writer: fix empty dataframe causing cuda launch errors
PR #3835 Fix memory leak in Cython when dealing with nulls in string columns
PR #3866 Remove unnecessary if check in NVStrings.create_offsets
PR #3858 Fixes the broken debug build after #3728
PR #3850 Fix merge typecast scope issue and resulting memory leak
PR #3855 Fix MultiColumn recreation with reset_index
PR #3869 Fixed size calculation in NVStrings::byte_count()
PR #3868 Fix apply_grouped moving average example
PR #3900 Properly link NVStrings and NVCategory into tests
PR #3868 Fix apply_grouped moving average example
PR #3871 Fix split_out error
PR #3886 Fix string column materialization from column view
PR #3893 Parquet reader: fix segfault reading empty parquet file
PR #3931 Dask-cudf groupby .agg multicolumn handling fix
PR #4017 Fix memory leaks in GDF_STRING cython handling and nans_to_nulls cython

cuDF 0.11.0 (11 Dec 2019)

New Features

PR #2905 Added Series.median() and null support for Series.quantile()
PR #2930 JSON Reader: Support ARROW_RANDOM_FILE input
PR #2956 Add cudf::stack and cudf::tile
PR #2980 Added nvtext is_vowel/is_consonant functions
PR #2987 Add inplace arg to DataFrame.reset_index and Series
PR #3011 Added libcudf++ transition guide
PR #3129 Add strings column factory from std::vectors
PR #3054 Add parquet reader support for decimal data types
PR #3022 adds DataFrame.astype for cuDF dataframes
PR #2962 Add isnull(), notnull() and related functions
PR #3025 Move search files to legacy
PR #3068 Add scalar class
PR #3094 Adding any and all support from libcudf
PR #3130 Define and implement new column_wrapper
PR #3143 Define and implement new copying APIs slice and split
PR #3161 Move merge files to legacy
PR #3079 Added support to write ORC files given a local path
PR #3192 Add dtype param to cast DataFrame on init
PR #3213 Port cuIO to libcudf++
PR #3222 Add nvtext character tokenizer
PR #3223 Java expose underlying buffers
PR #3300 Add DataFrame.insert
PR #3263 Define and implement new valid_if
PR #3278 Add to_host utility to copy column_view to host
PR #3087 Add new cudf::experimental bool8 wrapper
PR #3219 Construct column from column_view
PR #3250 Define and implement new merge APIs
PR #3144 Define and implement new hashing APIs hash and hash_partition
PR #3229 Define and implement new search APIs
PR #3308 java add API for memory usage callbacks
PR #2691 Row-wise reduction and scan operations via CuPy
PR #3291 Add normalize_nans_and_zeros
PR #3187 Define and implement new replace APIs
PR #3356 Add vertical concatenation for table/columns
PR #3344 java split API
PR #2791 Add groupby.std()
PR #3368 Enable dropna argument in dask_cudf groupby
PR #3298 add null replacement iterator for column_device_view
PR #3297 Define and implement new groupby API.
PR #3396 Update device_atomics with new bool8 and timestamp specializations
PR #3411 Java host memory management API
PR #3393 Implement df.cov and enable covariance/correlation in dask_cudf
PR #3401 Add dask_cudf ORC writer (to_orc)
PR #3331 Add copy_if_else
PR #3427 Define and Implement new multi-search API
PR #3442 Add Bool-index + Multi column + DataFrame support for set-item
PR #3172 Define and implement new fill/repeat/copy_range APIs
PR #3490 Add pair iterators for columns
PR #3497 Add DataFrame.drop(..., inplace=False) argument
PR #3469 Add string functionality for replace API
PR #3273 Define and implement new reduction APIs

Improvements

PR #2904 Move gpu decompressors to cudf::io namespace
PR #2977 Moved old C++ test utilities to legacy directory.
PR #2965 Fix slow orc reader perf with large uncompressed blocks
PR #2995 Move JIT type utilities to legacy directory
PR #2927 Add Table and TableView extension classes that wrap legacy cudf::table
PR #3005 Renames cudf::exp namespace to cudf::experimental
PR #3008 Make safe versions of is_null and is_valid in column_device_view
PR #3026 Move fill and repeat files to legacy
PR #3027 Move copying.hpp and related source to legacy folder
PR #3014 Snappy decompression optimizations
PR #3032 Use asarray to coerce indices to a NumPy array
PR #2996 IO Readers: Replace cuio::device_buffer with rmm::device_buffer
PR #3051 Specialized hash function for strings column
PR #3065 Select and Concat for cudf::experimental::table
PR #3080 Move valid_if.cuh to legacy/
PR #3052 Moved replace.hpp functionality to legacy
PR #3091 Move join files to legacy
PR #3092 Implicitly init RMM if Java allocates before init
PR #3029 Update gdf_ numeric types with stdint and move to cudf namespace
PR #3052 Moved replace.hpp functionality to legacy
PR #2955 Add cmake option to only build for present GPU architecture
PR #3070 Move functions.h and related source to legacy
PR #2951 Allow set_index to handle a list of column names
PR #3093 Move groupby files to legacy
PR #2988 Removing GIS functionality (now part of cuSpatial library)
PR #3067 Java method to return size of device memory buffer
PR #3083 Improved some binary operation tests to include null testing.
PR #3084 Update to arrow-cpp and pyarrow 0.15.0
PR #3071 Move cuIO to legacy
PR #3126 Round 2 of snappy decompression optimizations
PR #3046 Define and implement new copying APIs empty_like and allocate_like
PR #3128 Support MultiIndex in DataFrame.join
PR #2971 Added initial gather and scatter methods for strings_column_view
PR #3133 Port NVStrings to cudf column: count_characters and count_bytes
PR #2991 Added strings column functions concatenate and join_strings
PR #3028 Define and implement new gather APIs.
PR #3135 Add nvtx utilities to cudf::nvtx namespace
PR #3021 Java host side concat of serialized buffers
PR #3138 Move unary files to legacy
PR #3170 Port NVStrings substring functions to cudf strings column
PR #3159 Port NVStrings is-chars-types function to cudf strings column
PR #3154 Make table_view_base.column() const and add mutable_table_view.column()
PR #3175 Set cmake cuda version variables
PR #3171 Move deprecated error macros to legacy
PR #3191 Port NVStrings integer convert ops to cudf column
PR #3189 Port NVStrings find ops to cudf column
PR #3352 Port NVStrings convert float functions to cudf strings column
PR #3193 Add cuPy as a formal dependency
PR #3195 Support for zero columned table_view
PR #3165 Java device memory size for string category
PR #3205 Move transform files to legacy
PR #3202 Rename and move error.hpp to public headers
PR #2878 Use upstream merge code in dask_cudf
PR #3217 Port NVStrings upper and lower case conversion functions
PR #3350 Port NVStrings booleans convert functions
PR #3231 Add column::release() to give up ownership of contents.
PR #3157 Use enum class rather than enum for mask_allocation_policy
PR #3232 Port NVStrings datetime conversion to cudf strings column
PR #3136 Define and implement new transpose API
PR #3237 Define and implement new transform APIs
PR #3245 Move binaryop files to legacy
PR #3241 Move stream_compaction files to legacy
PR #3166 Move reductions to legacy
PR #3261 Small cleanup: remove == true
PR #3271 Update rmm API based on rmm.reinitialize(...) change
PR #3266 Remove optional checks for CuPy
PR #3268 Adding null ordering per column feature when sorting
PR #3239 Adding floating point specialization to comparators for NaNs
PR #3270 Move predicates files to legacy
PR #3281 Add to_host specialization for strings in column test utilities
PR #3282 Add num_bitmask_words
PR #3252 Add new factory methods to include passing an existing null mask
PR #3288 Make bit.cuh utilities usable from host code.
PR #3287 Move rolling windows files to legacy
PR #3182 Define and implement new unary APIs is_null and is_not_null
PR #3314 Drop cython from run requirements
PR #3301 Add tests for empty column wrapper.
PR #3294 Update to arrow-cpp and pyarrow 0.15.1
PR #3310 Add row_hasher and element_hasher utilities
PR #3272 Support non-default streams when creating/destroying hash maps
PR #3286 Clean up the starter code on README
PR #3332 Port NVStrings replace to cudf strings column
PR #3354 Define and implement new scatter APIs
PR #3322 Port NVStrings pad operations to cudf strings column
PR #3345 Add cache member for number of characters in string_view class
PR #3299 Define and implement new is_sorted APIs
PR #3328 Partition by stripes in dask_cudf ORC reader
PR #3243 Use upstream join code in dask_cudf
PR #3371 Add select method to table_view
PR #3309 Add java and JNI bindings for search bounds
PR #3305 Define and implement new rolling window APIs
PR #3380 Concatenate columns of strings
PR #3382 Add fill function for strings column
PR #3391 Move device_atomics_tests.cu files to legacy
PR #3303 Define and implement new stream compaction APIs copy_if, drop_nulls, apply_boolean_mask, drop_duplicate and unique_count.
PR #3387 Strings column gather function
PR #3440 Strings column scatter function
PR #3389 Move quantiles.hpp + group_quantiles.hpp files to legacy
PR #3397 Port unary cast to libcudf++
PR #3398 Move reshape.hpp files to legacy
PR #3395 Port NVStrings regex extract to cudf strings column
PR #3423 Port NVStrings htoi to cudf strings column
PR #3425 Strings column copy_if_else implementation
PR #3422 Move utilities to legacy
PR #3201 Define and implement new datetime_ops APIs
PR #3421 Port NVStrings find_multiple to cudf strings column
PR #3448 Port scatter_to_tables to libcudf++
PR #3458 Update strings sections in the transition guide
PR #3462 Add make_empty_column and update empty_like.
PR #3465 Port aggregation traits and utilities.
PR #3214 Define and implement new unary operations APIs
PR #3475 Add bitmask_to_host column utility
PR #3487 Add is_boolean trait and random timestamp generator for testing
PR #3492 Small cleanup (remove std::abs) and comment
PR #3407 Allow multiple row-groups per task in dask_cudf read_parquet
PR #3512 Remove unused CUDA conda labels
PR #3500 cudf::fill()/cudf::repeat() support for strings columns.
PR #3438 Update scalar and scalar_device_view to better support strings
PR #3414 Add copy_range function for strings column
PR #3685 Add string support to contiguous_split.
PR #3471 Add scalar/column, column/scalar and scalar/scalar overloads to copy_if_else.
PR #3451 Add support for implicit typecasting of join columns

Bug Fixes

PR #2895 Fixed dask_cudf group_split behavior to handle upstream rearrange_by_divisions
PR #3048 Support for zero columned tables
PR #3030 Fix snappy decoding regression in PR #3014
PR #3041 Fixed exp to experimental namespace name change issue
PR #3056 Add additional cmake hint for finding local build of RMM files
PR #3060 Move copying.hpp includes to legacy
PR #3139 Fixed java RMM auto initalization
PR #3141 Java fix for relocated IO headers
PR #3149 Rename column_wrapper.cuh to column_wrapper.hpp
PR #3168 Fix mutable_column_device_view head const_cast
PR #3199 Update JNI includes for legacy moves
PR #3204 ORC writer: Fix ByteRLE encoding of NULLs
PR #2994 Fix split_out-support but with hash_object_dispatch
PR #3212 Fix string to date casting when format is not specified
PR #3218 Fixes row_lexicographic_comparator issue with handling two tables
PR #3228 Default initialize RMM when Java native dependencies are loaded
PR #3012 replacing instances of to_gpu_array with mem
PR #3236 Fix Numba 0.46+/CuPy 6.3 interface compatibility
PR #3276 Update JNI includes for legacy moves
PR #3256 Fix orc writer crash with multiple string columns
PR #3211 Fix breaking change caused by rapidsai/rmm#167
PR #3265 Fix dangling pointer in is_sorted
PR #3267 ORC writer: fix incorrect ByteRLE encoding of long literal runs
PR #3277 Fix invalid reference to deleted temporary in is_sorted.
PR #3274 ORC writer: fix integer RLEv2 mode2 unsigned base value encoding
PR #3279 Fix shutdown hang issues with pinned memory pool init executor
PR #3280 Invalid children check in mutable_column_device_view
PR #3289 fix java memory usage API for empty columns
PR #3293 Fix loading of csv files zipped on MacOS (disabled zip min version check)
PR #3295 Fix storing storing invalid RMM exec policies.
PR #3307 Add pd.RangeIndex to from_pandas to fix dask_cudf meta_nonempty bug
PR #3313 Fix public headers including non-public headers
PR #3318 Revert arrow to 0.15.0 temporarily to unblock downstream projects CI
PR #3317 Fix index-argument bug in dask_cudf parquet reader
PR #3323 Fix insert non-assert test case
PR #3341 Fix Series constructor converting NoneType to "None"
PR #3326 Fix and test for detail::gather map iterator type inference
PR #3334 Remove zero-size exception check from make_strings_column factories
PR #3333 Fix compilation issues with constexpr functions not marked __device__
PR #3340 Make all benchmarks use cudf base fixture to initialize RMM pool
PR #3337 Fix Java to pad validity buffers to 64-byte boundary
PR #3362 Fix find_and_replace upcasting series for python scalars and lists
PR #3357 Disabling column_view iterators for non fixed-width types
PR #3383 Fix : properly compute null counts for rolling_window.
PR #3386 Removing external includes from column_view.hpp
PR #3369 Add write_partition to dask_cudf to fix to_parquet bug
PR #3388 Support getitem with bools when DataFrame has a MultiIndex
PR #3408 Fix String and Column (De-)Serialization
PR #3372 Fix dask-distributed scatter_by_map bug
PR #3419 Fix a bug in parse_into_parts (incomplete input causing walking past the end of string).
PR #3413 Fix dask_cudf read_csv file-list bug
PR #3416 Fix memory leak in ColumnVector when pulling strings off the GPU
PR #3424 Fix benchmark build by adding libcudacxx to benchmark's CMakeLists.txt
PR #3435 Fix diff and shift for empty series
PR #3439 Fix index-name bug in StringColumn concat
PR #3445 Fix ORC Writer default stripe size
PR #3459 Fix printing of invalid entries
PR #3466 Fix gather null mask allocation for invalid index
PR #3468 Fix memory leak issue in drop_duplicates
PR #3474 Fix small doc error in capitalize Docs
PR #3491 Fix more doc errors in NVStrings
PR #3478 Fix as_index deep copy via Index.rename inplace arg
PR #3476 Fix ORC reader timezone conversion
PR #3188 Repr slices up large DataFrames
PR #3519 Fix strings column concatenate handling zero-sized columns
PR #3530 Fix copy_if_else test case fail issue
PR #3523 Fix lgenfe issue with debug build
PR #3532 Fix potential use-after-free in cudf parquet reader
PR #3540 Fix unary_op null_mask bug and add missing test cases
PR #3559 Use HighLevelGraph api in DataFrame constructor (Fix upstream compatibility)
PR #3572 Fix CI Issue with hypothesis tests that are flaky

cuDF 0.10.0 (16 Oct 2019)

New Features

PR #2423 Added groupby.quantile()
PR #2522 Add Java bindings for NVStrings backed upper and lower case mutators
PR #2605 Added Sort based groupby in libcudf
PR #2607 Add Java bindings for parsing JSON
PR #2629 Add dropna= parameter to groupby
PR #2585 ORC & Parquet Readers: Remove millisecond timestamp restriction
PR #2507 Add GPU-accelerated ORC Writer
PR #2559 Add Series.tolist()
PR #2653 Add Java bindings for rolling window operations
PR #2480 Merge custreamz codebase into cudf repo
PR #2674 Add contains for Index/Series/Column
PR #2635 Add support to read from remote and cloud sources like s3, gcs, hdfs
PR #2722 Add Java bindings for NVTX ranges
PR #2702 Add make_bool to dataset generation functions
PR #2394 Move rapidsai/custrings into cudf
PR #2734 Final sync of custrings source into cudf
PR #2724 Add libcudf support for contains
PR #2777 Add python bindings for porter stemmer measure functionality
PR #2781 Add issorted to is_monotonic
PR #2685 Add cudf::scatter_to_tables and cython binding
PR #2743 Add Java bindings for NVStrings timestamp2long as part of String ColumnVector casting
PR #2785 Add nvstrings Python docs
PR #2786 Add benchmarks option to root build.sh
PR #2802 Add cudf::repeat() and cudf.Series.repeat()
PR #2773 Add Fisher's unbiased kurtosis and skew for Series/DataFrame
PR #2748 Parquet Reader: Add option to specify loading of PANDAS index
PR #2807 Add scatter_by_map to DataFrame python API
PR #2836 Add nvstrings.code_points method
PR #2844 Add Series/DataFrame notnull
PR #2858 Add GTest type list utilities
PR #2870 Add support for grouping by Series of arbitrary length
PR #2719 Series covariance and Pearson correlation
PR #2207 Beginning of libcudf overhaul: introduce new column and table types
PR #2869 Add cudf.CategoricalDtype
PR #2838 CSV Reader: Support ARROW_RANDOM_FILE input
PR #2655 CuPy-based Series and Dataframe .values property
PR #2803 Added edit_distance_matrix() function to calculate pairwise edit distance for each string on a given nvstrings object.
PR #2811 Start of cudf strings column work based on 2207
PR #2872 Add Java pinned memory pool allocator
PR #2969 Add findAndReplaceAll to ColumnVector
PR #2814 Add Datetimeindex.weekday
PR #2999 Add timestamp conversion support for string categories
PR #2918 Add cudf::column timestamp wrapper types

Improvements

PR #2578 Update legacy_groupby to use libcudf group_by_without_aggregation
PR #2581 Removed managed allocator from hash map classes.
PR #2571 Remove unnecessary managed memory from gdf_column_concat
PR #2648 Cython/Python reorg
PR #2588 Update Series.append documentation
PR #2632 Replace dask-cudf set_index code with upstream
PR #2682 Add cudf.set_allocator() function for easier allocator init
PR #2642 Improve null printing and testing
PR #2747 Add missing Cython headers / cudftestutil lib to conda package for cuspatial build
PR #2706 Compute CSV format in device code to speedup performance
PR #2673 Add support for np.longlong type
PR #2703 move dask serialization dispatch into cudf
PR #2728 Add YYMMDD to version tag for nightly conda packages
PR #2729 Handle file-handle input in to_csv
PR #2741 CSV Reader: Move kernel functions into its own file
PR #2766 Improve nvstrings python cmake flexibility
PR #2756 Add out_time_unit option to csv reader, support timestamp resolutions
PR #2771 Stopgap alias for to_gpu_matrix()
PR #2783 Support mapping input columns to function arguments in apply kernels
PR #2645 libcudf unique_count for Series.nunique
PR #2817 Dask-cudf: read_parquet support for remote filesystems
PR #2823 improve java data movement debugging
PR #2806 CSV Reader: Clean-up row offset operations
PR #2640 Add dask wait/persist exmaple to 10 minute guide
PR #2828 Optimizations of kernel launch configuration for DataFrame.apply_rows and DataFrame.apply_chunks
PR #2831 Add column argument to DataFrame.drop
PR #2775 Various optimizations to improve getitem and setitem performance
PR #2810 cudf::allocate_like can optionally always allocate a mask.
PR #2833 Parquet reader: align page data allocation sizes to 4-bytes to satisfy cuda-memcheck
PR #2832 Using the new Python bindings for UCX
PR #2856 Update group_split_cudf to use scatter_by_map
PR #2890 Optionally keep serialized table data on the host.
PR #2778 Doc: Updated and fixed some docstrings that were formatted incorrectly.
PR #2830 Use YYMMDD tag in custreamz nightly build
PR #2875 Java: Remove synchronized from register methods in MemoryCleaner
PR #2887 Minor snappy decompression optimization
PR #2899 Use new RMM API based on Cython
PR #2788 Guide to Python UDFs
PR #2919 Change java API to use operators in groupby namespace
PR #2909 CSV Reader: Avoid row offsets host vector default init
PR #2834 DataFrame supports setting columns via attribute syntax df.x = col
PR #3147 DataFrame can be initialized from rows via list of tuples
PR #3539 Restrict CuPy to 6

Bug Fixes

PR #2584 ORC Reader: fix parsing of DECIMAL index positions
PR #2619 Fix groupby serialization/deserialization
PR #2614 Update Java version to match
PR #2601 Fixes nlargest(1) issue in Series and Dataframe
PR #2610 Fix a bug in index serialization (properly pass DeviceNDArray)
PR #2621 Fixes the floordiv issue of not promoting float type when rhs is 0
PR #2611 Types Test: fix static casting from negative int to string
PR #2618 IO Readers: Fix datasource memory map failure for multiple reads
PR #2628 groupby_without_aggregation non-nullable input table produces non-nullable output
PR #2615 fix string category partitioning in java API
PR #2641 fix string category and timeunit concat in the java API
PR #2649 Fix groupby issue resulting from column_empty bug
PR #2658 Fix astype() for null categorical columns
PR #2660 fix column string category and timeunit concat in the java API
PR #2664 ORC reader: fix skip_rows larger than first stripe
PR #2654 Allow Java gdfOrderBy to work with string categories
PR #2669 AVRO reader: fix non-deterministic output
PR #2668 Update Java bindings to specify timestamp units for ORC and Parquet readers
PR #2679 AVRO reader: fix cuda errors when decoding compressed streams
PR #2692 Add concatenation for data-frame with different headers (empty and non-empty)
PR #2651 Remove nvidia driver installation from ci/cpu/build.sh
PR #2697 Ensure csv reader sets datetime column time units
PR #2698 Return RangeIndex from contiguous slice of RangeIndex
PR #2672 Fix null and integer handling in round
PR #2704 Parquet Reader: Fix crash when loading string column with nulls
PR #2725 Fix Jitify issue with running on Turing using CUDA version < 10
PR #2731 Fix building of benchmarks
PR #2738 Fix java to find new NVStrings locations
PR #2736 Pin Jitify branch to v0.10 version
PR #2742 IO Readers: Fix possible silent failures when creating NvStrings instance
PR #2753 Fix java quantile API calls
PR #2762 Fix validity processing for time in java
PR #2796 Fix handling string slicing and other nvstrings delegated methods with dask
PR #2769 Fix link to API docs in README.md
PR #2772 Handle multiindex pandas Series #2772
PR #2749 Fix apply_rows/apply_chunks pessimistic null mask to use in_cols null masks only
PR #2752 CSV Reader: Fix exception when there's no rows to process
PR #2716 Added Exception for StringMethods in string methods
PR #2787 Fix Broadcasting None to cudf-series
PR #2794 Fix async race in NVCategory::get_value and get_value_bounds
PR #2795 Fix java build/cast error
PR #2496 Fix improper merge of two dataframes when names differ
PR #2824 Fix issue with incorrect result when Numeric Series replace is called several times
PR #2751 Replace value with null
PR #2765 Fix Java inequality comparisons for string category
PR #2818 Fix java join API to use new C++ join API
PR #2841 Fix nvstrings.slice and slice_from for range (0,0)
PR #2837 Fix join benchmark
PR #2809 Add hash_df and group_split dispatch functions for dask
PR #2843 Parquet reader: fix skip_rows when not aligned with page or row_group boundaries
PR #2851 Deleted existing dask-cudf/record.txt
PR #2854 Fix column creation from ephemeral objects exposing cuda_array_interface
PR #2860 Fix boolean indexing when the result is a single row
PR #2859 Fix tail method issue for string columns
PR #2852 Fixed cumsum() and cumprod() on boolean series.
PR #2865 DaskIO: Fix read_csv and read_orc when input is list of files
PR #2750 Fixed casting values to cudf::bool8 so non-zero values always cast to true
PR #2873 Fixed dask_cudf read_partition bug by generating ParquetDatasetPiece
PR #2850 Fixes dask_cudf.read_parquet on partitioned datasets
PR #2896 Properly handle axis string keywords in concat
PR #2926 Update rounding algorithm to avoid using fmod
PR #2968 Fix Java dependency loading when using NVTX
PR #2963 Fix ORC writer uncompressed block indexing
PR #2928 CSV Reader: Fix using byte_range for large datasets
PR #2983 Fix sm_70+ race condition in gpu_unsnap
PR #2964 ORC Writer: Segfault when writing mixed numeric and string columns
PR #3007 Java: Remove unit test that frees RMM invalid pointer
PR #3009 Fix orc reader RLEv2 patch position regression from PR #2507
PR #3002 Fix CUDA invalid configuration errors reported after loading an ORC file without data
PR #3035 Update update-version.sh for new docs locations
PR #3038 Fix uninitialized stream parameter in device_table deleter
PR #3064 Fixes groupby performance issue
PR #3061 Add rmmInitialize to nvstrings gtests
PR #3058 Fix UDF doc markdown formatting
PR #3059 Add nvstrings python build instructions to contributing.md

cuDF 0.9.0 (21 Aug 2019)

New Features

PR #1993 Add CUDA-accelerated series aggregations: mean, var, std
PR #2111 IO Readers: Support memory buffer, file-like object, and URL inputs
PR #2012 Add reindex() to DataFrame and Series
PR #2097 Add GPU-accelerated AVRO reader
PR #2098 Support binary ops on DFs and Series with mismatched indices
PR #2160 Merge dask-cudf codebase into cudf repo
PR #2149 CSV Reader: Add hex dtype for explicit hexadecimal parsing
PR #2156 Add upper_bound() and lower_bound() for libcudf tables and searchsorted() for cuDF Series
PR #2158 CSV Reader: Support single, non-list/dict argument for dtype
PR #2177 CSV Reader: Add parse_dates parameter for explicit date inference
PR #1744 cudf::apply_boolean_mask and cudf::drop_nulls support for cudf::table inputs (multi-column)
PR #2196 Add DataFrame.dropna()
PR #2197 CSV Writer: add chunksize parameter for to_csv
PR #2215 type_dispatcher benchmark
PR #2179 Add Java quantiles
PR #2157 Add array_function to DataFrame and Series
PR #2212 Java support for ORC reader
PR #2224 Add DataFrame isna, isnull, notna functions
PR #2236 Add Series.drop_duplicates
PR #2105 Add hash-based join benchmark
PR #2316 Add unique, nunique, and value_counts for datetime columns
PR #2337 Add Java support for slicing a ColumnVector
PR #2049 Add cudf::merge (sorted merge)
PR #2368 Full cudf+dask Parquet Support
PR #2380 New cudf::is_sorted checks whether cudf::table is sorted
PR #2356 Java column vector standard deviation support
PR #2221 MultiIndex full indexing - Support iloc and wildcards for loc
PR #2429 Java support for getting length of strings in a ColumnVector
PR #2415 Add value_counts for series of any type
PR #2446 Add array_function for index
PR #2437 ORC reader: Add 'use_np_dtypes' option
PR #2382 Add CategoricalAccessor add, remove, rename, and ordering methods
PR #2464 Native implement __cuda_array_interface__ for Series/Index/Column objects
PR #2425 Rolling window now accepts array-based user-defined functions
PR #2442 Add setitem
PR #2449 Java support for getting byte count of strings in a ColumnVector
PR #2492 Add groupby.size() method
PR #2358 Add cudf::nans_to_nulls: convert floating point column into bitmask
PR #2489 Add drop argument to set_index
PR #2491 Add Java bindings for ORC reader 'use_np_dtypes' option
PR #2213 Support s/ms/us/ns DatetimeColumn time unit resolutions
PR #2536 Add _constructor properties to Series and DataFrame

Improvements

PR #2103 Move old column and bitmask files into legacy/ directory
PR #2109 added name to Python column classes
PR #1947 Cleanup serialization code
PR #2125 More aggregate in java API
PR #2127 Add in java Scalar tests
PR #2088 Refactor of Python groupby code
PR #2130 Java serialization and deserialization of tables.
PR #2131 Chunk rows logic added to csv_writer
PR #2129 Add functions in the Java API to support nullable column filtering
PR #2165 made changes to get_dummies api for it to be available in MethodCache
PR #2171 Add CodeCov integration, fix doc version, make --skip-tests work when invoking with source
PR #2184 handle remote orc files for dask-cudf
PR #2186 Add getitem and getattr style access to Rolling objects
PR #2168 Use cudf.Column for CategoricalColumn's categories instead of a tuple
PR #2193 DOC: cudf::type_dispatcher documentation for specializing dispatched functors
PR #2199 Better java support for appending strings
PR #2176 Added column dtype support for datetime, int8, int16 to csv_writer
PR #2209 Matching get_dummies & select_dtypes behavior to pandas
PR #2217 Updated Java bindings to use the new groupby API
PR #2214 DOC: Update doc instructions to build/install cudf and dask-cudf
PR #2220 Update Java bindings for reduction rename
PR #2232 Move CodeCov upload from build script to Jenkins
PR #2225 refactor to use libcudf for gathering columns in dataframes
PR #2293 Improve join performance (faster compute_join_output_size)
PR #2300 Create separate dask codeowners for dask-cudf codebase
PR #2304 gdf_group_by_without_aggregations returns gdf_column
PR #2309 Java readers: remove redundant copy of result pointers
PR #2307 Add black and isort to style checker script
PR #2345 Restore removal of old groupby implementation
PR #2342 Improve astype() to operate all ways
PR #2329 using libcudf cudf::copy for column deep copy
PR #2344 DOC: docs on code formatting for contributors
PR #2376 Add inoperative axis= and win_type= arguments to Rolling()
PR #2378 remove dask for (de-)serialization of cudf objects
PR #2353 Bump Arrow and Dask versions
PR #2377 Replace standard_python_slice with just slice.indices()
PR #2373 cudf.DataFrame enchancements & Series.values support
PR #2392 Remove dlpack submodule; make cuDF's Cython API externally accessible
PR #2430 Updated Java bindings to use the new unary API
PR #2406 Moved all existing table related files to a legacy/ directory
PR #2350 Performance related changes to get_dummies
PR #2420 Remove cudautils.astype and replace with typecast.apply_cast
PR #2456 Small improvement to typecast utility
PR #2458 Fix handling of thirdparty packages in isort config
PR #2459 IO Readers: Consolidate all readers to use datasource class
PR #2475 Exposed type_dispatcher.hpp, nvcategory_util.hpp and wrapper_types.hpp in the include folder
PR #2484 Enabled building libcudf as a static library
PR #2453 Streamline CUDA_REL environment variable
PR #2483 Bundle Boost filesystem dependency in the Java jar
PR #2486 Java API hash functions
PR #2481 Adds the ignore_null_keys option to the java api
PR #2490 Java api: support multiple aggregates for the same column
PR #2510 Java api: uses table based apply_boolean_mask
PR #2432 Use pandas formatting for console, html, and latex output
PR #2573 Bump numba version to 0.45.1
PR #2606 Fix references to notebooks-contrib

Bug Fixes

PR #2086 Fixed quantile api behavior mismatch in series & dataframe
PR #2128 Add offset param to host buffer readers in java API.
PR #2145 Work around binops validity checks for java
PR #2146 Work around unary_math validity checks for java
PR #2151 Fixes bug in cudf::copy_range where null_count was invalid
PR #2139 matching to pandas describe behavior & fixing nan values issue
PR #2161 Implicitly convert unsigned to signed integer types in binops
PR #2154 CSV Reader: Fix bools misdetected as strings dtype
PR #2178 Fix bug in rolling bindings where a view of an ephemeral column was being taken
PR #2180 Fix issue with isort reordering importorskip below imports depending on them
PR #2187 fix to honor dtype when numpy arrays are passed to columnops.as_column
PR #2190 Fix issue in astype conversion of string column to 'str'
PR #2208 Fix issue with calling head() on one row dataframe
PR #2229 Propagate exceptions from Cython cdef functions
PR #2234 Fix issue with local build script not properly building
PR #2223 Fix CUDA invalid configuration errors reported after loading small compressed ORC files
PR #2162 Setting is_unique and is_monotonic-related attributes
PR #2244 Fix ORC RLEv2 delta mode decoding with nonzero residual delta width
PR #2297 Work around var/std unsupported only at debug build
PR #2302 Fixed java serialization corner case
PR #2355 Handle float16 in binary operations
PR #2311 Fix copy behaviour for GenericIndex
PR #2349 Fix issues with String filter in java API
PR #2323 Fix groupby on categoricals
PR #2328 Ensure order is preserved in CategoricalAccessor._set_categories
PR #2202 Fix issue with unary ops mishandling empty input
PR #2326 Fix for bug in DLPack when reading multiple columns
PR #2324 Fix cudf Docker build
PR #2325 Fix ORC RLEv2 patched base mode decoding with nonzero patch width
PR #2235 Fix get_dummies to be compatible with dask
PR #2332 Zero initialize gdf_dtype_extra_info
PR #2355 Handle float16 in binary operations
PR #2360 Fix missing dtype handling in cudf.Series & columnops.as_column
PR #2364 Fix quantile api and other trivial issues around it
PR #2361 Fixed issue with codes of CategoricalIndex
PR #2357 Fixed inconsistent type of index created with from_pandas vs direct construction
PR #2389 Fixed Rolling getattr and getitem for offset based windows
PR #2402 Fixed bug in valid mask computation in cudf::copy_if (apply_boolean_mask)
PR #2401 Fix to a scalar datetime(of type Days) issue
PR #2386 Correctly allocate output valids in groupby
PR #2411 Fixed failures on binary op on single element string column
PR #2422 Fix Pandas logical binary operation incompatibilites
PR #2447 Fix CodeCov posting build statuses temporarily
PR #2450 Fix erroneous null handling in cudf.DataFrame's apply_rows
PR #2470 Fix issues with empty strings and string categories (Java)
PR #2471 Fix String Column Validity.
PR #2481 Fix java validity buffer serialization
PR #2485 Updated bytes calculation to use size_t to avoid overflow in column concat
PR #2461 Fix groupby multiple aggregations same column
PR #2514 Fix cudf::drop_nulls threshold handling in Cython
PR #2516 Fix utilities include paths and meta.yaml header paths
PR #2517 Fix device memory leak in to_dlpack tensor deleter
PR #2431 Fix local build generated file ownerships
PR #2511 Added import of orc, refactored exception handlers to not squash fatal exceptions
PR #2527 Fix index and column input handling in dask_cudf read_parquet
PR #2466 Fix dataframe.query returning null rows erroneously
PR #2548 Orc reader: fix non-deterministic data decoding at chunk boundaries
PR #2557 fix cudautils import in string.py
PR #2521 Fix casting datetimes from/to the same resolution
PR #2545 Fix MultiIndexes with datetime levels
PR #2560 Remove duplicate dlpack definition in conda recipe
PR #2567 Fix ColumnVector.fromScalar issues while dealing with null scalars
PR #2565 Orc reader: fix incorrect data decoding of int64 data types
PR #2577 Fix search benchmark compilation error by adding necessary header
PR #2604 Fix a bug in copying.pyx:_normalize_types that upcasted int32 to int64

cuDF 0.8.0 (27 June 2019)

New Features

PR #1524 Add GPU-accelerated JSON Lines parser with limited feature set
PR #1569 Add support for Json objects to the JSON Lines reader
PR #1622 Add Series.loc
PR #1654 Add cudf::apply_boolean_mask: faster replacement for gdf_apply_stencil
PR #1487 cython gather/scatter
PR #1310 Implemented the slice/split functionality.
PR #1630 Add Python layer to the GPU-accelerated JSON reader
PR #1745 Add rounding of numeric columns via Numba
PR #1772 JSON reader: add support for BytesIO and StringIO input
PR #1527 Support GDF_BOOL8 in readers and writers
PR #1819 Logical operators (AND, OR, NOT) for libcudf and cuDF
PR #1813 ORC Reader: Add support for stripe selection
PR #1828 JSON Reader: add suport for bool8 columns
PR #1833 Add column iterator with/without nulls
PR #1665 Add the point-in-polygon GIS function
PR #1863 Series and Dataframe methods for all and any
PR #1908 cudf::copy_range and cudf::fill for copying/assigning an index or range to a constant
PR #1921 Add additional formats for typecasting to/from strings
PR #1807 Add Series.dropna()
PR #1987 Allow user defined functions in the form of ptx code to be passed to binops
PR #1948 Add operator functions like Series.add() to DataFrame and Series
PR #1954 Add skip test argument to GPU build script
PR #2018 Add bindings for new groupby C++ API
PR #1984 Add rolling window operations Series.rolling() and DataFrame.rolling()
PR #1542 Python method and bindings for to_csv
PR #1995 Add Java API
PR #1998 Add google benchmark to cudf
PR #1845 Add cudf::drop_duplicates, DataFrame.drop_duplicates
PR #1652 Added Series.where() feature
PR #2074 Java Aggregates, logical ops, and better RMM support
PR #2140 Add a cudf::transform function
PR #2068 Concatenation of different typed columns

Improvements

PR #1538 Replacing LesserRTTI with inequality_comparator
PR #1703 C++: Added non-aggregating insert to concurrent_unordered_map with specializations to store pairs with a single atomicCAS when possible.
PR #1422 C++: Added a RAII wrapper for CUDA streams
PR #1701 Added unique method for stringColumns
PR #1713 Add documentation for Dask-XGBoost
PR #1666 CSV Reader: Improve performance for files with large number of columns
PR #1725 Enable the ability to use a single column groupby as its own index
PR #1759 Add an example showing simultaneous rolling averages to apply_grouped documentation
PR #1746 C++: Remove unused code: windowed_ops.cu, sorting.cu, hash_ops.cu
PR #1748 C++: Add bool nullability flag to device_table row operators
PR #1764 Improve Numerical column: mean_var and mean
PR #1767 Speed up Python unit tests
PR #1770 Added build.sh script, updated CI scripts and documentation
PR #1739 ORC Reader: Add more pytest coverage
PR #1696 Added null support in Series.replace().
PR #1390 Added some basic utility functions for gdf_column's
PR #1791 Added general column comparison code for testing
PR #1795 Add printing of git submodule info to print_env.sh
PR #1796 Removing old sort based group by code and gdf_filter
PR #1811 Added funtions for copying/allocating cudf::tables
PR #1838 Improve columnops.column_empty so that it returns typed columns instead of a generic Column
PR #1890 Add utils.get_dummies- a pandas-like wrapper around one_hot-encoding
PR #1823 CSV Reader: default the column type to string for empty dataframes
PR #1827 Create bindings for scalar-vector binops, and update one_hot_encoding to use them
PR #1817 Operators now support different sized dataframes as long as they don't share different sized columns
PR #1855 Transition replace_nulls to new C++ API and update corresponding Cython/Python code
PR #1858 Add std::initializer_list constructor to column_wrapper
PR #1846 C++ type-erased gdf_equal_columns test util; fix gdf_equal_columns logic error
PR #1390 Added some basic utility functions for gdf_columns
PR #1391 Tidy up bit-resolution-operation and bitmask class code
PR #1882 Add iloc functionality to MultiIndex dataframes
PR #1884 Rolling windows: general enhancements and better coverage for unit tests
PR #1886 support GDF_STRING_CATEGORY columns in apply_boolean_mask, drop_nulls and other libcudf functions
PR #1896 Improve performance of groupby with levels specified in dask-cudf
PR #1915 Improve iloc performance for non-contiguous row selection
PR #1859 Convert read_json into a C++ API
PR #1919 Rename libcudf namespace gdf to namespace cudf
PR #1850 Support left_on and right_on for DataFrame merge operator
PR #1930 Specialize constructor for cudf::bool8 to cast argument to bool
PR #1938 Add default constructor for column_wrapper
PR #1930 Specialize constructor for cudf::bool8 to cast argument to bool
PR #1952 consolidate libcudf public API headers in include/cudf
PR #1949 Improved selection with boolmask using libcudf apply_boolean_mask
PR #1956 Add support for nulls in query()
PR #1973 Update std::tuple to std::pair in top-most libcudf APIs and C++ transition guide
PR #1981 Convert read_csv into a C++ API
PR #1868 ORC Reader: Support row index for speed up on small/medium datasets
PR #1964 Added support for list-like types in Series.str.cat
PR #2005 Use HTML5 details tag in bug report issue template
PR #2003 Removed few redundant unit-tests from test_string.py::test_string_cat
PR #1944 Groupby design improvements
PR #2017 Convert read_orc() into a C++ API
PR #2011 Convert read_parquet() into a C++ API
PR #1756 Add documentation "10 Minutes to cuDF and dask_cuDF"
PR #2034 Adding support for string columns concatenation using "add" binary operator
PR #2042 Replace old "10 Minutes" guide with new guide for docs build process
PR #2036 Make library of common test utils to speed up tests compilation
PR #2022 Facilitating get_dummies to be a high level api too
PR #2050 Namespace IO readers and add back free-form read_xxx functions
PR #2104 Add a functional sort= keyword argument to groupby
PR #2108 Add find_and_replace for StringColumn for replacing single values
PR #1803 cuDF/CuPy interoperability documentation

Bug Fixes

PR #1465 Fix for test_orc.py and test_sparse_df.py test failures
PR #1583 Fix underlying issue in as_index() that was causing Series.quantile() to fail
PR #1680 Add errors= keyword to drop() to fix cudf-dask bug
PR #1651 Fix query function on empty dataframe
PR #1616 Fix CategoricalColumn to access categories by index instead of iteration
PR #1660 Fix bug in loc when indexing with a column name (a string)
PR #1683 ORC reader: fix timestamp conversion to UTC
PR #1613 Improve CategoricalColumn.fillna(-1) performance
PR #1642 Fix failure of CSV_TEST gdf_csv_test.SkiprowsNrows on multiuser systems
PR #1709 Fix handling of datetime64[ms] in dataframe.select_dtypes
PR #1704 CSV Reader: Add support for the plus sign in number fields
PR #1687 CSV reader: return an empty dataframe for zero size input
PR #1757 Concatenating columns with null columns
PR #1755 Add col_level keyword argument to melt
PR #1758 Fix df.set_index() when setting index from an empty column
PR #1749 ORC reader: fix long strings of NULL values resulting in incorrect data
PR #1742 Parquet Reader: Fix index column name to match PANDAS compat
PR #1782 Update libcudf doc version
PR #1783 Update conda dependencies
PR #1786 Maintain the original series name in series.unique output
PR #1760 CSV Reader: fix segfault when dtype list only includes columns from usecols list
PR #1831 build.sh: Assuming python is in PATH instead of using PYTHON env var
PR #1839 Raise an error instead of segfaulting when transposing a DataFrame with StringColumns
PR #1840 Retain index correctly during merge left_on right_on
PR #1825 cuDF: Multiaggregation Groupby Failures
PR #1789 CSV Reader: Fix missing support for specifying int8 and int16 dtypes
PR #1857 Cython Bindings: Handle bool columns while calling column_view_from_NDArrays
PR #1849 Allow DataFrame support methods to pass arguments to the methods
PR #1847 Fixed #1375 by moving the nvstring check into the wrapper function
PR #1864 Fixing cudf reduction for POWER platform
PR #1869 Parquet reader: fix Dask timestamps not matching with Pandas (convert to milliseconds)
PR #1876 add dtype=bool for any, all to treat integer column correctly
PR #1875 CSV reader: take NaN values into account in dtype detection
PR #1873 Add column dtype checking for the all/any methods
PR #1902 Bug with string iteration in _apply_basic_agg
PR #1887 Fix for initialization issue in pq_read_arg,orc_read_arg
PR #1867 JSON reader: add support for null/empty fields, including the 'null' literal
PR #1891 Fix bug #1750 in string column comparison
PR #1909 Support of to_pandas() of boolean series with null values
PR #1923 Use prefix removal when two aggs are called on a SeriesGroupBy
PR #1914 Zero initialize gdf_column local variables
PR #1959 Add support for comparing boolean Series to scalar
PR #1966 Ignore index fix in series append
PR #1967 Compute index sizeof only once for DataFrame sizeof
PR #1977 Support CUDA installation in default system directories
PR #1982 Fixes incorrect index name after join operation
PR #1985 Implement GDF_PYMOD, a special modulo that follows python's sign rules
PR #1991 Parquet reader: fix decoding of NULLs
PR #1990 Fixes a rendering bug in the apply_grouped documentation
PR #1978 Fix for values being filled in an empty dataframe
PR #2001 Correctly create MultiColumn from Pandas MultiColumn
PR #2006 Handle empty dataframe groupby construction for dask
PR #1965 Parquet Reader: Fix duplicate index column when it's already in use_cols
PR #2033 Add pip to conda environment files to fix warning
PR #2028 CSV Reader: Fix reading of uncompressed files without a recognized file extension
PR #2073 Fix an issue when gathering columns with NVCategory and nulls
PR #2053 cudf::apply_boolean_mask return empty column for empty boolean mask
PR #2066 exclude IteratorTest.mean_var_output test from debug build
PR #2069 Fix JNI code to use read_csv and read_parquet APIs
PR #2071 Fix bug with unfound transitive dependencies for GTests in Ubuntu 18.04
PR #2089 Configure Sphinx to render params correctly
PR #2091 Fix another bug with unfound transitive dependencies for cudftestutils in Ubuntu 18.04
PR #2115 Just apply --disable-new-dtags instead of trying to define all the transitive dependencies
PR #2106 Fix errors in JitCache tests caused by sharing of device memory between processes
PR #2120 Fix errors in JitCache tests caused by running multiple threads on the same data
PR #2102 Fix memory leak in groupby
PR #2113 fixed typo in to_csv code example

cudf 0.7.2 (16 May 2019)

New Features

PR #1735 Added overload for atomicAdd on int64. Streamlined implementation of custom atomic overloads.
PR #1741 Add MultiIndex concatenation

Bug Fixes

PR #1718 Fix issue with SeriesGroupBy MultiIndex in dask-cudf
PR #1734 Python: fix performance regression for groupby count() aggregations
PR #1768 Cython: fix handling read only schema buffers in gpuarrow reader

cudf 0.7.1 (11 May 2019)

New Features

PR #1702 Lazy load MultiIndex to return groupby performance to near optimal.

Bug Fixes

PR #1708 Fix handling of datetime64[ms] in dataframe.select_dtypes

cuDF 0.7.0 (10 May 2019)

New Features

PR #982 Implement gdf_group_by_without_aggregations and gdf_unique_indices functions
PR #1142 Add GDF_BOOL column type
PR #1194 Implement overloads for CUDA atomic operations
PR #1292 Implemented Bitwise binary ops AND, OR, XOR (&, |, ^)
PR #1235 Add GPU-accelerated Parquet Reader
PR #1335 Added local_dict arg in DataFrame.query().
PR #1282 Add Series and DataFrame.describe()
PR #1356 Rolling windows
PR #1381 Add DataFrame._get_numeric_data
PR #1388 Add CODEOWNERS file to auto-request reviews based on where changes are made
PR #1396 Add DataFrame.drop method
PR #1413 Add DataFrame.melt method
PR #1412 Add DataFrame.pop()
PR #1419 Initial CSV writer function
PR #1441 Add Series level cumulative ops (cumsum, cummin, cummax, cumprod)
PR #1420 Add script to build and test on a local gpuCI image
PR #1440 Add DatetimeColumn.min(), DatetimeColumn.max()
PR #1455 Add Series.Shift via Numba kernel
PR #1441 Add Series level cumulative ops (cumsum, cummin, cummax, cumprod)
PR #1461 Add Python coverage test to gpu build
PR #1445 Parquet Reader: Add selective reading of rows and row group
PR #1532 Parquet Reader: Add support for INT96 timestamps
PR #1516 Add Series and DataFrame.ndim
PR #1556 Add libcudf C++ transition guide
PR #1466 Add GPU-accelerated ORC Reader
PR #1565 Add build script for nightly doc builds
PR #1508 Add Series isna, isnull, and notna
PR #1456 Add Series.diff() via Numba kernel
PR #1588 Add Index astype typecasting
PR #1301 MultiIndex support
PR #1599 Level keyword supported in groupby
PR #929 Add support operations to dataframe
PR #1609 Groupby accept list of Series
PR #1658 Support group_keys=True keyword in groupby method

Improvements

PR #1531 Refactor closures as private functions in gpuarrow
PR #1404 Parquet reader page data decoding speedup
PR #1076 Use type_dispatcher in join, quantiles, filter, segmented sort, radix sort and hash_groupby
PR #1202 Simplify README.md
PR #1149 CSV Reader: Change convertStrToValue() functions to __device__ only
PR #1238 Improve performance of the CUDA trie used in the CSV reader
PR #1245 Use file cache for JIT kernels
PR #1278 Update CONTRIBUTING for new conda environment yml naming conventions
PR #1163 Refactored UnaryOps. Reduced API to two functions: gdf_unary_math and gdf_cast. Added abs, -, and ~ ops. Changed bindings to Cython
PR #1284 Update docs version
PR #1287 add exclude argument to cudf.select_dtype function
PR #1286 Refactor some of the CSV Reader kernels into generic utility functions
PR #1291 fillna in Series.to_gpu_array() and Series.to_array() can accept the scalar too now.
PR #1005 generic reduction and scan support
PR #1349 Replace modernGPU sort join with thrust.
PR #1363 Add a dataframe.mean(...) that raises NotImplementedError to satisfy dask.dataframe.utils.is_dataframe_like
PR #1319 CSV Reader: Use column wrapper for gdf_column output alloc/dealloc
PR #1376 Change series quantile default to linear
PR #1399 Replace CFFI bindings for NVTX functions with Cython bindings
PR #1389 Refactored set_null_count()
PR #1386 Added macros GDF_TRY(), CUDF_TRY() and ASSERT_CUDF_SUCCEEDED()
PR #1435 Rework CMake and conda recipes to depend on installed libraries
PR #1391 Tidy up bit-resolution-operation and bitmask class code
PR #1439 Add cmake variable to enable compiling CUDA code with -lineinfo
PR #1462 Add ability to read parquet files from arrow::io::RandomAccessFile
PR #1453 Convert CSV Reader CFFI to Cython
PR #1479 Convert Parquet Reader CFFI to Cython
PR #1397 Add a utility function for producing an overflow-safe kernel launch grid configuration
PR #1382 Add GPU parsing of nested brackets to cuIO parsing utilities
PR #1481 Add cudf::table constructor to allocate a set of gdf_columns
PR #1484 Convert GroupBy CFFI to Cython
PR #1463 Allow and default melt keyword argument var_name to be None
PR #1486 Parquet Reader: Use device_buffer rather than device_ptr
PR #1525 Add cudatoolkit conda dependency
PR #1520 Renamed src/dataframe to src/table and moved table.hpp. Made types.hpp to be type declarations only.
PR #1492 Convert transpose CFFI to Cython
PR #1495 Convert binary and unary ops CFFI to Cython
PR #1503 Convert sorting and hashing ops CFFI to Cython
PR #1522 Use latest release version in update-version CI script
PR #1533 Remove stale join CFFI, fix memory leaks in join Cython
PR #1521 Added row_bitmask to compute bitmask for rows of a table. Merged valids_ops.cu and bitmask_ops.cu
PR #1553 Overload hash_row to avoid using intial hash values. Updated gdf_hash to select between overloads
PR #1585 Updated cudf::table to maintain own copy of wrapped gdf_column*s
PR #1559 Add except + to all Cython function definitions to catch C++ exceptions properly
PR #1617 has_nulls and column_dtypes for cudf::table
PR #1590 Remove CFFI from the build / install process entirely
PR #1536 Convert gpuarrow CFFI to Cython
PR #1655 Add Column._pointer as a way to access underlying gdf_column* of a Column
PR #1655 Update readme conda install instructions for cudf version 0.6 and 0.7

Bug Fixes

PR #1233 Fix dtypes issue while adding the column to str dataframe.
PR #1254 CSV Reader: fix data type detection for floating-point numbers in scientific notation
PR #1289 Fix looping over each value instead of each category in concatenation
PR #1293 Fix Inaccurate error message in join.pyx
PR #1308 Add atomicCAS overload for int8_t, int16_t
PR #1317 Fix catch polymorphic exception by reference in ipc.cu
PR #1325 Fix dtype of null bitmasks to int8
PR #1326 Update build documentation to use -DCMAKE_CXX11_ABI=ON
PR #1334 Add "na_position" argument to CategoricalColumn sort_by_values
PR #1321 Fix out of bounds warning when checking Bzip2 header
PR #1359 Add atomicAnd/Or/Xor for integers
PR #1354 Fix fillna() behaviour when replacing values with different dtypes
PR #1347 Fixed core dump issue while passing dict_dtypes without column names in cudf.read_csv()
PR #1379 Fixed build failure caused due to error: 'col_dtype' may be used uninitialized
PR #1392 Update cudf Dockerfile and package_versions.sh
PR #1385 Added INT8 type to _schema_to_dtype for use in GpuArrowReader
PR #1393 Fixed a bug in gdf_count_nonzero_mask() for the case of 0 bits to count
PR #1395 Update CONTRIBUTING to use the environment variable CUDF_HOME
PR #1416 Fix bug at gdf_quantile_exact and gdf_quantile_appox
PR #1421 Fix remove creation of series multiple times during add_column()
PR #1405 CSV Reader: Fix memory leaks on read_csv() failure
PR #1328 Fix CategoricalColumn to_arrow() null mask
PR #1433 Fix NVStrings/categories includes
PR #1432 Update NVStrings to 0.7.* to coincide with 0.7 development
PR #1483 Modify CSV reader to avoid cropping blank quoted characters in non-string fields
PR #1446 Merge 1275 hotfix from master into branch-0.7
PR #1447 Fix legacy groupby apply docstring
PR #1451 Fix hash join estimated result size is not correct
PR #1454 Fix local build script improperly change directory permissions
PR #1490 Require Dask 1.1.0+ for is_dataframe_like test or skip otherwise.
PR #1491 Use more specific directories & groups in CODEOWNERS
PR #1497 Fix Thrust issue on CentOS caused by missing default constructor of host_vector elements
PR #1498 Add missing include guard to device_atomics.cuh and separated DEVICE_ATOMICS_TEST
PR #1506 Fix csv-write call to updated NVStrings method
PR #1510 Added nvstrings fillna() function
PR #1507 Parquet Reader: Default string data to GDF_STRING
PR #1535 Fix doc issue to ensure correct labelling of cudf.series
PR #1537 Fix undefined reference link error in HashPartitionTest
PR #1548 Fix ci/local/build.sh README from using an incorrect image example
PR #1551 CSV Reader: Fix integer column name indexing
PR #1586 Fix broken scalar_wrapper::operator==
PR #1591 ORC/Parquet Reader: Fix missing import for FileNotFoundError exception
PR #1573 Parquet Reader: Fix crash due to clash with ORC reader datasource
PR #1607 Revert change of column.to_dense_buffer always return by copy for performance concerns
PR #1618 ORC reader: fix assert & data output when nrows/skiprows isn't aligned to stripe boundaries
PR #1631 Fix failure of TYPES_TEST on some gcc-7 based systems.
PR #1641 CSV Reader: Fix skip_blank_lines behavior with Windows line terminators (\r\n)
PR #1648 ORC reader: fix non-deterministic output when skiprows is non-zero
PR #1676 Fix groupby as_index behaviour with MultiIndex
PR #1659 Fix bug caused by empty groupbys and multiindex slicing throwing exceptions
PR #1656 Correct Groupby failure in dask when un-aggregable columns are left in dataframe.
PR #1689 Fix groupby performance regression
PR #1694 Add Cython as a runtime dependency since it's required in setup.py

cuDF 0.6.1 (25 Mar 2019)

Bug Fixes

PR #1275 Fix CentOS exception in DataFrame.hash_partition from using value "returned" by a void function

cuDF 0.6.0 (22 Mar 2019)

New Features

PR #760 Raise FileNotFoundError instead of GDF_FILE_ERROR in read_csv if the file does not exist
PR #539 Add Python bindings for replace function
PR #823 Add Doxygen configuration to enable building HTML documentation for libcudf C/C++ API
PR #807 CSV Reader: Add byte_range parameter to specify the range in the input file to be read
PR #857 Add Tail method for Series/DataFrame and update Head method to use iloc
PR #858 Add series feature hashing support
PR #871 CSV Reader: Add support for NA values, including user specified strings
PR #893 Adds PyArrow based parquet readers / writers to Python, fix category dtype handling, fix arrow ingest buffer size issues
PR #867 CSV Reader: Add support for ignoring blank lines and comment lines
PR #887 Add Series digitize method
PR #895 Add Series groupby
PR #898 Add DataFrame.groupby(level=0) support
PR #920 Add feather, JSON, HDF5 readers / writers from PyArrow / Pandas
PR #888 CSV Reader: Add prefix parameter for column names, used when parsing without a header
PR #913 Add DLPack support: convert between cuDF DataFrame and DLTensor
PR #939 Add ORC reader from PyArrow
PR #918 Add Series.groupby(level=0) support
PR #906 Add binary and comparison ops to DataFrame
PR #958 Support unary and binary ops on indexes
PR #964 Add rename method to DataFrame, Series, and Index
PR #985 Add Series.to_frame method
PR #985 Add drop= keyword to reset_index method
PR #994 Remove references to pygdf
PR #990 Add external series groupby support
PR #988 Add top-level merge function to cuDF
PR #992 Add comparison binaryops to DateTime columns
PR #996 Replace relative path imports with absolute paths in tests
PR #995 CSV Reader: Add index_col parameter to specify the column name or index to be used as row labels
PR #1004 Add from_gpu_matrix method to DataFrame
PR #997 Add property index setter
PR #1007 Replace relative path imports with absolute paths in cudf
PR #1013 select columns with df.columns
PR #1016 Rename Series.unique_count() to nunique() to match pandas API
PR #947 Prefixsum to handle nulls and float types
PR #1029 Remove rest of relative path imports
PR #1021 Add filtered selection with assignment for Dataframes
PR #872 Adding NVCategory support to cudf apis
PR #1052 Add left/right_index and left/right_on keywords to merge
PR #1091 Add indicator= and suffixes= keywords to merge
PR #1107 Add unsupported keywords to Series.fillna
PR #1032 Add string support to cuDF python
PR #1136 Removed gdf_concat
PR #1153 Added function for getting the padded allocation size for valid bitmask
PR #1148 Add cudf.sqrt for dataframes and Series
PR #1159 Add Python bindings for libcudf dlpack functions
PR #1155 Add array_ufunc for DataFrame and Series for sqrt
PR #1168 to_frame for series accepts a name argument

Improvements

PR #1218 Add dask-cudf page to API docs
PR #892 Add support for heterogeneous types in binary ops with JIT
PR #730 Improve performance of gdf_table constructor
PR #561 Add Doxygen style comments to Join CUDA functions
PR #813 unified libcudf API functions by replacing gpu_ with gdf_
PR #822 Add support for __cuda_array_interface__ for ingest
PR #756 Consolidate common helper functions from unordered map and multimap
PR #753 Improve performance of groupby sum and average, especially for cases with few groups.
PR #836 Add ingest support for arrow chunked arrays in Column, Series, DataFrame creation
PR #763 Format doxygen comments for csv_read_arg struct
PR #532 CSV Reader: Use type dispatcher instead of switch block
PR #694 Unit test utilities improvements
PR #878 Add better indexing to Groupby
PR #554 Add empty method and is_monotonic attribute to Index
PR #1040 Fixed up Doxygen comment tags
PR #909 CSV Reader: Avoid host->device->host copy for header row data
PR #916 Improved unit testing and error checking for gdf_column_concat
PR #941 Replace numpy call in Series.hash_encode with numba
PR #942 Added increment/decrement operators for wrapper types
PR #943 Updated count_nonzero_mask to return num_rows when the mask is null
PR #952 Added trait to map C++ type to gdf_dtype
PR #966 Updated RMM submodule.
PR #998 Add IO reader/writer modules to API docs, fix for missing cudf.Series docs
PR #1017 concatenate along columns for Series and DataFrames
PR #1002 Support indexing a dataframe with another boolean dataframe
PR #1018 Better concatenation for Series and Dataframes
PR #1036 Use Numpydoc style docstrings
PR #1047 Adding gdf_dtype_extra_info to gdf_column_view_augmented
PR #1054 Added default ctor to SerialTrieNode to overcome Thrust issue in CentOS7 + CUDA10
PR #1024 CSV Reader: Add support for hexadecimal integers in integral-type columns
PR #1033 Update fillna() to use libcudf function gdf_replace_nulls
PR #1066 Added inplace assignment for columns and select_dtypes for dataframes
PR #1026 CSV Reader: Change the meaning and type of the quoting parameter to match Pandas
PR #1100 Adds CUDF_EXPECTS error-checking macro
PR #1092 Fix select_dtype docstring
PR #1111 Added cudf::table
PR #1108 Sorting for datetime columns
PR #1120 Return a Series (not a Column) from Series.cat.set_categories()
PR #1128 CSV Reader: The last data row does not need to be line terminated
PR #1183 Bump Arrow version to 0.12.1
PR #1208 Default to CXX11_ABI=ON
PR #1252 Fix NVStrings dependencies for cuda 9.2 and 10.0
PR #2037 Optimize the existing gather and scatter routines in libcudf

Bug Fixes

PR #821 Fix flake8 issues revealed by flake8 update
PR #808 Resolved renamed d_columns_valids variable name
PR #820 CSV Reader: fix the issue where reader adds additional rows when file uses as a line terminator
PR #780 CSV Reader: Fix scientific notation parsing and null values for empty quotes
PR #815 CSV Reader: Fix data parsing when tabs are present in the input CSV file
PR #850 Fix bug where left joins where the left df has 0 rows causes a crash
PR #861 Fix memory leak by preserving the boolean mask index
PR #875 Handle unnamed indexes in to/from arrow functions
PR #877 Fix ingest of 1 row arrow tables in from arrow function
PR #876 Added missing <type_traits> include
PR #889 Deleted test_rmm.py which has now moved to RMM repo
PR #866 Merge v0.5.1 numpy ABI hotfix into 0.6
PR #917 value_counts return int type on empty columns
PR #611 Renamed gdf_reduce_optimal_output_size() -> gdf_reduction_get_intermediate_output_size()
PR #923 fix index for negative slicing for cudf dataframe and series
PR #927 CSV Reader: Fix category GDF_CATEGORY hashes not being computed properly
PR #921 CSV Reader: Fix parsing errors with delim_whitespace, quotations in the header row, unnamed columns
PR #933 Fix handling objects of all nulls in series creation
PR #940 CSV Reader: Fix an issue where the last data row is missing when using byte_range
PR #945 CSV Reader: Fix incorrect datetime64 when milliseconds or space separator are used
PR #959 Groupby: Problem with column name lookup
PR #950 Converting dataframe/recarry with non-contiguous arrays
PR #963 CSV Reader: Fix another issue with missing data rows when using byte_range
PR #999 Fix 0 sized kernel launches and empty sort_index exception
PR #993 Fix dtype in selecting 0 rows from objects
PR #1009 Fix performance regression in to_pandas method on DataFrame
PR #1008 Remove custom dask communication approach
PR #1001 CSV Reader: Fix a memory access error when reading a large (>2GB) file with date columns
PR #1019 Binary Ops: Fix error when one input column has null mask but other doesn't
PR #1014 CSV Reader: Fix false positives in bool value detection
PR #1034 CSV Reader: Fix parsing floating point precision and leading zero exponents
PR #1044 CSV Reader: Fix a segfault when byte range aligns with a page
PR #1058 Added support for DataFrame.loc[scalar]
PR #1060 Fix column creation with all valid nan values
PR #1073 CSV Reader: Fix an issue where a column name includes the return character
PR #1090 Updating Doxygen Comments
PR #1080 Fix dtypes returned from loc / iloc because of lists
PR #1102 CSV Reader: Minor fixes and memory usage improvements
PR #1174: Fix release script typo
PR #1137 Add prebuild script for CI
PR #1118 Enhanced the DataFrame.from_records() feature
PR #1129 Fix join performance with index parameter from using numpy array
PR #1145 Issue with .agg call on multi-column dataframes
PR #908 Some testing code cleanup
PR #1167 Fix issue with null_count not being set after inplace fillna()
PR #1184 Fix iloc performance regression
PR #1185 Support left_on/right_on and also on=str in merge
PR #1200 Fix allocating bitmasks with numba instead of rmm in allocate_mask function
PR #1213 Fix bug with csv reader requesting subset of columns using wrong datatype
PR #1223 gpuCI: Fix label on rapidsai channel on gpu build scripts
PR #1242 Add explicit Thrust exec policy to fix NVCATEGORY_TEST segfault on some platforms
PR #1246 Fix categorical tests that failed due to bad implicit type conversion
PR #1255 Fix overwriting conda package main label uploads
PR #1259 Add dlpack includes to pip build

cuDF 0.5.1 (05 Feb 2019)

Bug Fixes

PR #842 Avoid using numpy via cimport to prevent ABI issues in Cython compilation

cuDF 0.5.0 (28 Jan 2019)

New Features

PR #722 Add bzip2 decompression support to read_csv()
PR #693 add ZLIB-based GZIP/ZIP support to read_csv_strings()
PR #411 added null support to gdf_order_by (new API) and cudf_table::sort
PR #525 Added GitHub Issue templates for bugs, documentation, new features, and questions
PR #501 CSV Reader: Add support for user-specified decimal point and thousands separator to read_csv_strings()
PR #455 CSV Reader: Add support for user-specified decimal point and thousands separator to read_csv()
PR #439 add DataFrame.drop method similar to pandas
PR #356 add DataFrame.transpose method and DataFrame.T property similar to pandas
PR #505 CSV Reader: Add support for user-specified boolean values
PR #350 Implemented Series replace function
PR #490 Added print_env.sh script to gather relevant environment details when reporting cuDF issues
PR #474 add ZLIB-based GZIP/ZIP support to read_csv()
PR #547 Added melt similar to pandas.melt()
PR #491 Add CI test script to check for updates to CHANGELOG.md in PRs
PR #550 Add CI test script to check for style issues in PRs
PR #558 Add CI scripts for cpu-based conda and gpu-based test builds
PR #524 Add Boolean Indexing
PR #564 Update python sort_values method to use updated libcudf gdf_order_by API
PR #509 CSV Reader: Input CSV file can now be passed in as a text or a binary buffer
PR #607 Add __iter__ and iteritems to DataFrame class
PR #643 added a new api gdf_replace_nulls that allows a user to replace nulls in a column

Improvements

PR #426 Removed sort-based groupby and refactored existing groupby APIs. Also improves C++/CUDA compile time.
PR #461 Add CUDF_HOME variable in README.md to replace relative pathing.
PR #472 RMM: Created centralized rmm::device_vector alias and rmm::exec_policy
PR #500 Improved the concurrent hash map class to support partitioned (multi-pass) hash table building.
PR #454 Improve CSV reader docs and examples
PR #465 Added templated C++ API for RMM to avoid explicit cast to void**
PR #513 .gitignore tweaks
PR #521 Add assert_eq function for testing
PR #502 Simplify Dockerfile for local dev, eliminate old conda/pip envs
PR #549 Adds -rdynamic compiler flag to nvcc for Debug builds
PR #472 RMM: Created centralized rmm::device_vector alias and rmm::exec_policy
PR #577 Added external C++ API for scatter/gather functions
PR #500 Improved the concurrent hash map class to support partitioned (multi-pass) hash table building
PR #583 Updated gdf_size_type to int
PR #500 Improved the concurrent hash map class to support partitioned (multi-pass) hash table building
PR #617 Added .dockerignore file. Prevents adding stale cmake cache files to the docker container
PR #658 Reduced JOIN_TEST time by isolating overflow test of hash table size computation
PR #664 Added Debuging instructions to README
PR #651 Remove noqa marks in __init__.py files
PR #671 CSV Reader: uncompressed buffer input can be parsed without explicitly specifying compression as None
PR #684 Make RMM a submodule
PR #718 Ensure sum, product, min, max methods pandas compatibility on empty datasets
PR #720 Refactored Index classes to make them more Pandas-like, added CategoricalIndex
PR #749 Improve to_arrow and from_arrow Pandas compatibility
PR #766 Remove TravisCI references, remove unused variables from CMake, fix ARROW_VERSION in Cmake
PR #773 Add build-args back to Dockerfile and handle dependencies based on environment yml file
PR #781 Move thirdparty submodules to root and symlink in /cpp
PR #843 Fix broken cudf/python API examples, add new methods to the API index

Bug Fixes

PR #569 CSV Reader: Fix days being off-by-one when parsing some dates
PR #531 CSV Reader: Fix incorrect parsing of quoted numbers
PR #465 Added templated C++ API for RMM to avoid explicit cast to void**
PR #473 Added missing include
PR #478 CSV Reader: Add api support for auto column detection, header, mangle_dupe_cols, usecols
PR #495 Updated README to correct where cffi pytest should be executed
PR #501 Fix the intermittent segfault caused by the thousands and compression parameters in the csv reader
PR #502 Simplify Dockerfile for local dev, eliminate old conda/pip envs
PR #512 fix bug for on parameter in DataFrame.merge to allow for None or single column name
PR #511 Updated python/cudf/bindings/join.pyx to fix cudf merge printing out dtypes
PR #513 .gitignore tweaks
PR #521 Add assert_eq function for testing
PR #537 Fix CMAKE_CUDA_STANDARD_REQURIED typo in CMakeLists.txt
PR #447 Fix silent failure in initializing DataFrame from generator
PR #545 Temporarily disable csv reader thousands test to prevent segfault (test re-enabled in PR #501)
PR #559 Fix Assertion error while using applymap to change the output dtype
PR #575 Update print_env.sh script to better handle missing commands
PR #612 Prevent an exception from occuring with true division on integer series.
PR #630 Fix deprecation warning for pd.core.common.is_categorical_dtype
PR #622 Fix Series.append() behaviour when appending values with different numeric dtype
PR #603 Fix error while creating an empty column using None.
PR #673 Fix array of strings not being caught in from_pandas
PR #644 Fix return type and column support of dataframe.quantile()
PR #634 Fix create DataFrame.from_pandas() with numeric column names
PR #654 Add resolution check for GDF_TIMESTAMP in Join
PR #648 Enforce one-to-one copy required when using numba>=0.42.0
PR #645 Fix cmake build type handling not setting debug options when CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=="Debug"
PR #669 Fix GIL deadlock when launching multiple python threads that make Cython calls
PR #665 Reworked the hash map to add a way to report the destination partition for a key
PR #670 CMAKE: Fix env include path taking precedence over libcudf source headers
PR #674 Check for gdf supported column types
PR #677 Fix 'gdf_csv_test_Dates' gtest failure due to missing nrows parameter
PR #604 Fix the parsing errors while reading a csv file using sep instead of delimiter.
PR #686 Fix converting nulls to NaT values when converting Series to Pandas/Numpy
PR #689 CSV Reader: Fix behavior with skiprows+header to match pandas implementation
PR #691 Fixes Join on empty input DFs
PR #706 CSV Reader: Fix broken dtype inference when whitespace is in data
PR #717 CSV reader: fix behavior when parsing a csv file with no data rows
PR #724 CSV Reader: fix build issue due to parameter type mismatch in a std::max call
PR #734 Prevents reading undefined memory in gpu_expand_mask_bits numba kernel
PR #747 CSV Reader: fix an issue where CUDA allocations fail with some large input files
PR #750 Fix race condition for handling NVStrings in CMake
PR #719 Fix merge column ordering
PR #770 Fix issue where RMM submodule pointed to wrong branch and pin other to correct branches
PR #778 Fix hard coded ABI off setting
PR #784 Update RMM submodule commit-ish and pip paths
PR #794 Update rmm::exec_policy usage to fix segmentation faults when used as temprory allocator.
PR #800 Point git submodules to branches of forks instead of exact commits

cuDF 0.4.0 (05 Dec 2018)

New Features

PR #398 add pandas-compatible DataFrame.shape() and Series.shape()
PR #394 New documentation feature "10 Minutes to cuDF"
PR #361 CSV Reader: Add support for strings with delimiters

Improvements

PR #436 Improvements for type_dispatcher and wrapper structs
PR #429 Add CHANGELOG.md (this file)
PR #266 use faster CUDA-accelerated DataFrame column/Series concatenation.
PR #379 new C++ type_dispatcher reduces code complexity in supporting many data types.
PR #349 Improve performance for creating columns from memoryview objects
PR #445 Update reductions to use type_dispatcher. Adds integer types support to sum_of_squares.
PR #448 Improve installation instructions in README.md
PR #456 Change default CMake build to Release, and added option for disabling compilation of tests

Bug Fixes

PR #444 Fix csv_test CUDA too many resources requested fail.
PR #396 added missing output buffer in validity tests for groupbys.
PR #408 Dockerfile updates for source reorganization
PR #437 Add cffi to Dockerfile conda env, fixes "cannot import name 'librmm'"
PR #417 Fix map_test failure with CUDA 10
PR #414 Fix CMake installation include file paths
PR #418 Properly cast string dtypes to programmatic dtypes when instantiating columns
PR #427 Fix and tests for Concatenation illegal memory access with nulls

cuDF 0.3.0 (23 Nov 2018)

New Features

PR #336 CSV Reader string support

Improvements

PR #354 source code refactored for better organization. CMake build system overhaul. Beginning of transition to Cython bindings.
PR #290 Add support for typecasting to/from datetime dtype
PR #323 Add handling pyarrow boolean arrays in input/out, add tests
PR #325 GDF_VALIDITY_UNSUPPORTED now returned for algorithms that don't support non-empty valid bitmasks
PR #381 Faster InputTooLarge Join test completes in ms rather than minutes.
PR #373 .gitignore improvements
PR #367 Doc cleanup & examples for DataFrame methods
PR #333 Add Rapids Memory Manager documentation
PR #321 Rapids Memory Manager adds file/line location logging and convenience macros
PR #334 Implement DataFrame __copy__ and __deepcopy__
PR #271 Add NVTX ranges to pygdf
PR #311 Document system requirements for conda install

Bug Fixes

PR #337 Retain index on scale() function
PR #344 Fix test failure due to PyArrow 0.11 Boolean handling
PR #364 Remove noexcept from managed_allocator; CMakeLists fix for NVstrings
PR #357 Fix bug that made all series be considered booleans for indexing
PR #351 replace conda env configuration for developers
PRs #346 #360 Fix CSV reading of negative numbers
PR #342 Fix CMake to use conda-installed nvstrings
PR #341 Preserve categorical dtype after groupby aggregations
PR #315 ReadTheDocs build update to fix missing libcuda.so
PR #320 FIX out-of-bounds access error in reductions.cu
PR #319 Fix out-of-bounds memory access in libcudf count_valid_bits
PR #303 Fix printing empty dataframe

cuDF 0.2.0 and cuDF 0.1.0

These were initial releases of cuDF based on previously separate pyGDF and libGDF libraries.

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cuDF 0.15.0 (Date TBD)

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cuDF 0.14.0 (03 Jun 2020)

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cuDF 0.13.0 (31 Mar 2020)

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cuDF 0.12.0 (04 Feb 2020)

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cuDF 0.11.0 (11 Dec 2019)

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cuDF 0.10.0 (16 Oct 2019)

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cuDF 0.9.0 (21 Aug 2019)

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cuDF 0.8.0 (27 June 2019)

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cudf 0.7.2 (16 May 2019)

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cudf 0.7.1 (11 May 2019)

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cuDF 0.7.0 (10 May 2019)

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cuDF 0.6.1 (25 Mar 2019)

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cuDF 0.6.0 (22 Mar 2019)

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cuDF 0.5.1 (05 Feb 2019)

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cuDF 0.5.0 (28 Jan 2019)

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cuDF 0.4.0 (05 Dec 2018)

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cuDF 0.3.0 (23 Nov 2018)

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cuDF 0.2.0 and cuDF 0.1.0