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-# cuDF 0.19.0 (Date TBD)
-
-Please see https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/releases/tag/v0.19.0a for the latest changes to this development branch.
+# cuDF 0.19.0 (21 Apr 2021)
+
+## 🚨 Breaking Changes
+
+- Allow hash_partition to take a seed value ([#7771](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7771)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Allow merging index column with data column using keyword "on" ([#7736](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7736)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+- Change JNI API to avoid loading native dependencies when creating sort order classes. ([#7729](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7729)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Replace device_vector with device_uvector in null_mask ([#7715](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7715)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Don't identify decimals as strings. ([#7710](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7710)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Fix Java Parquet write after writer API changes ([#7655](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7655)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Convert cudf::concatenate APIs to use spans and device_uvector ([#7621](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7621)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Update missing docstring examples in python public APIs ([#7546](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7546)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Remove unneeded step parameter from strings::detail::copy_slice ([#7525](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7525)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Rename ARROW_STATIC_LIB because it conflicts with one in FindArrow.cmake ([#7518](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7518)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Match Pandas logic for comparing two objects with nulls ([#7490](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7490)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- Add struct support to parquet writer ([#7461](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7461)) [@devavret](https://github.com/devavret)
+- Join APIs that return gathermaps ([#7454](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7454)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- `fixed_point` + `cudf::binary_operation` API Changes ([#7435](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7435)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Fix BUG: Exception when PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2 ([#7434](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7434)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+- Change nvtext::load_vocabulary_file to return a unique ptr ([#7424](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7424)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Refactor strings column factories ([#7397](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7397)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Use CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES ([#7391](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7391)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Upgrade pandas to 1.2 ([#7375](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7375)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Rename `logical_cast` to `bit_cast` and allow additional conversions ([#7373](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7373)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Rework libcudf CMakeLists.txt to export targets for CPM ([#7107](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7107)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix a `NameError` in meta dispatch API ([#7996](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7996)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Reindex in `DataFrame.__setitem__` ([#7957](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7957)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- jitify direct-to-cubin compilation and caching. ([#7919](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7919)) [@cwharris](https://github.com/cwharris)
+- Use dynamic cudart for nvcomp in java build ([#7896](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7896)) [@abellina](https://github.com/abellina)
+- fix "incompatible redefinition" warnings ([#7894](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7894)) [@cwharris](https://github.com/cwharris)
+- cudf consistently specifies the cuda runtime ([#7887](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7887)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- disable verbose output for jitify_preprocess ([#7886](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7886)) [@cwharris](https://github.com/cwharris)
+- CMake jit_preprocess_files function only runs when needed ([#7872](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7872)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Push DeviceScalar construction into cython for list.contains ([#7864](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7864)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- cudf now sets an install rpath of $ORIGIN ([#7863](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7863)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Don't install Thrust examples, tests, docs, and python files ([#7811](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7811)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Sort by index in groupby tests more consistently ([#7802](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7802)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Revert "Update conda recipes pinning of repo dependencies ([#7743)" (#7793](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7743)" (#7793)) [@raydouglass](https://github.com/raydouglass)
+- Add decimal column handling in copy_type_metadata ([#7788](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7788)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Add column names validation in parquet writer ([#7786](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7786)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Fix Java explode outer unit tests ([#7782](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7782)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Fix compiler warning about non-POD types passed through ellipsis ([#7781](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7781)) [@jrhemstad](https://github.com/jrhemstad)
+- User resource fix for replace_nulls ([#7769](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7769)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Fix type dispatch for columnar replace_nulls ([#7768](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7768)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Add `ignore_order` parameter to dask-cudf concat dispatch ([#7765](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7765)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Fix slicing and arrow representations of decimal columns ([#7755](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7755)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Fixing issue with explode_outer position not nulling position entries of null rows ([#7754](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7754)) [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346)
+- Implement scatter for struct columns ([#7752](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7752)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Fix data corruption in string columns ([#7746](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7746)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Fix string length in stripe dictionary building ([#7744](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7744)) [@kaatish](https://github.com/kaatish)
+- Update conda recipes pinning of repo dependencies ([#7743](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7743)) [@mike-wendt](https://github.com/mike-wendt)
+- Enable dask dispatch to cuDF's `is_categorical_dtype` for cuDF objects ([#7740](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7740)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- Fix dictionary size computation in ORC writer ([#7737](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7737)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Fix `cudf::cast` overflow for `decimal64` to `int32_t` or smaller in certain cases ([#7733](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7733)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Change JNI API to avoid loading native dependencies when creating sort order classes. ([#7729](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7729)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Disable column_view data accessors for unsupported types ([#7725](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7725)) [@jrhemstad](https://github.com/jrhemstad)
+- Materialize `RangeIndex` when `index=True` in parquet writer ([#7711](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7711)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Don't identify decimals as strings. ([#7710](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7710)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Fix return type of `DataFrame.argsort` ([#7706](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7706)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Fix/correct cudf installed package requirements ([#7688](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7688)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Fix SparkMurmurHash3_32 hash inconsistencies with Apache Spark ([#7672](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7672)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Fix ORC reader issue with reading empty string columns ([#7656](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7656)) [@rgsl888prabhu](https://github.com/rgsl888prabhu)
+- Fix Java Parquet write after writer API changes ([#7655](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7655)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Fixing empty null lists throwing explode_outer for a loop. ([#7649](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7649)) [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346)
+- Fix internal compiler error during JNI Docker build ([#7645](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7645)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Fix Debug build break with device_uvectors in grouped_rolling.cu ([#7633](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7633)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Parquet reader:  Fix issue when using skip_rows on non-nested columns containing nulls ([#7627](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7627)) [@nvdbaranec](https://github.com/nvdbaranec)
+- Fix ORC reader for empty DataFrame/Table ([#7624](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7624)) [@rgsl888prabhu](https://github.com/rgsl888prabhu)
+- Fix specifying GPU architecture in JNI build ([#7612](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7612)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Fix ORC writer OOM issue ([#7605](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7605)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Fix 0.18 --> 0.19 automerge ([#7589](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7589)) [@kkraus14](https://github.com/kkraus14)
+- Fix ORC issue with incorrect timestamp nanosecond values ([#7581](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7581)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Fix missing Dask imports ([#7580](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7580)) [@kkraus14](https://github.com/kkraus14)
+- CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES doesn't change when build-system invokes cmake ([#7579](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7579)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Another fix for offsets_end() iterator in lists_column_view ([#7575](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7575)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Fix ORC writer output corruption with string columns ([#7565](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7565)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Fix cudf::lists::sort_lists failing for sliced column ([#7564](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7564)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- FIX Fix Anaconda upload args ([#7558](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7558)) [@dillon-cullinan](https://github.com/dillon-cullinan)
+- Fix index mismatch issue in equality related APIs ([#7555](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7555)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- FIX Revert gpuci_conda_retry on conda file output locations ([#7552](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7552)) [@dillon-cullinan](https://github.com/dillon-cullinan)
+- Fix offset_end iterator for lists_column_view, which was not correctl… ([#7551](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7551)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Fix no such file dlpack.h error when build libcudf ([#7549](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7549)) [@chenrui17](https://github.com/chenrui17)
+- Update missing docstring examples in python public APIs ([#7546](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7546)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Decimal32 Build Fix ([#7544](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7544)) [@razajafri](https://github.com/razajafri)
+- FIX Retry conda output location ([#7540](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7540)) [@dillon-cullinan](https://github.com/dillon-cullinan)
+- fix missing renames of dask git branches from master to main ([#7535](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7535)) [@kkraus14](https://github.com/kkraus14)
+- Remove detail from device_span ([#7533](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7533)) [@rwlee](https://github.com/rwlee)
+- Change dask and distributed branch to main ([#7532](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7532)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Update JNI build to use CUDF_USE_ARROW_STATIC ([#7526](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7526)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Make sure rmm::rmm CMake target is visibile to cudf users ([#7524](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7524)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Fix contiguous_split not properly handling output partitions > 2 GB. ([#7515](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7515)) [@nvdbaranec](https://github.com/nvdbaranec)
+- Change jit launch to safe_launch ([#7510](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7510)) [@devavret](https://github.com/devavret)
+- Fix comparison between Datetime/Timedelta columns and NULL scalars ([#7504](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7504)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- Fix off-by-one error in char-parallel string scalar replace ([#7502](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7502)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Fix JNI deprecation of all, put it on the wrong version before ([#7501](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7501)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Fix Series/Dataframe Mixed Arithmetic ([#7491](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7491)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- Fix JNI build after removal of libcudf sub-libraries ([#7486](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7486)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Correctly compile benchmarks ([#7485](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7485)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Fix bool column corruption with ORC Reader ([#7483](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7483)) [@rgsl888prabhu](https://github.com/rgsl888prabhu)
+- Fix `__repr__` for categorical dtype ([#7476](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7476)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Java cleaner synchronization ([#7474](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7474)) [@abellina](https://github.com/abellina)
+- Fix java float/double parsing tests ([#7473](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7473)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Pass stream and user resource to make_default_constructed_scalar ([#7469](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7469)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Improve stability of dask_cudf.DataFrame.var and dask_cudf.DataFrame.std ([#7453](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7453)) [@rjzamora](https://github.com/rjzamora)
+- Missing `device_storage_dispatch` change affecting `cudf::gather` ([#7449](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7449)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- fix cuFile JNI compile errors ([#7445](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7445)) [@rongou](https://github.com/rongou)
+- Support `Series.__setitem__` with key to a new row ([#7443](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7443)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Fix BUG: Exception when PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2 ([#7434](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7434)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+- Make inclusive scan safe for cases with leading nulls ([#7432](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7432)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Fix typo in list_device_view::pair_rep_end() ([#7423](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7423)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Fix string to double conversion and row equivalent comparison ([#7410](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7410)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Fix thrust failure when transfering data from device_vector to host_vector with vectors of size 1 ([#7382](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7382)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Fix std::exeception catch-by-reference gcc9 compile error ([#7380](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7380)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Fix skiprows issue with ORC Reader ([#7359](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7359)) [@rgsl888prabhu](https://github.com/rgsl888prabhu)
+- fix Arrow CMake file ([#7358](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7358)) [@rongou](https://github.com/rongou)
+- Fix lists::contains() for NaN and Decimals ([#7349](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7349)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Handle cupy array in `Dataframe.__setitem__` ([#7340](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7340)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Fix invalid-device-fn error in cudf::strings::replace_re with multiple regex's ([#7336](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7336)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- FIX Add codecov upload block to gpu script ([#6860](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/6860)) [@dillon-cullinan](https://github.com/dillon-cullinan)
+
+## 📖 Documentation
+
+- Fix join API doxygen ([#7890](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7890)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Add Resources to README. ([#7697](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7697)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Add `isin` examples in Docstring ([#7479](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7479)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Resolving unlinked type shorthands in cudf doc ([#7416](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7416)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Fix typo in regex.md doc page ([#7363](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7363)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Fix incorrect strings_column_view::chars_size documentation ([#7360](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7360)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+
+## 🚀 New Features
+
+- Enable basic reductions for decimal columns ([#7776](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7776)) [@ChrisJar](https://github.com/ChrisJar)
+- Enable join on decimal columns ([#7764](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7764)) [@ChrisJar](https://github.com/ChrisJar)
+- Allow merging index column with data column using keyword "on" ([#7736](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7736)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+- Implement DecimalColumn + Scalar and add cudf.Scalars of Decimal64Dtype ([#7732](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7732)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- Add support for `unique` groupby aggregation ([#7726](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7726)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Expose libcudf's label_bins function to cudf ([#7724](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7724)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Adding support for equi-join on struct ([#7720](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7720)) [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346)
+- Add decimal column comparison operations ([#7716](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7716)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Implement scan operations for decimal columns ([#7707](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7707)) [@ChrisJar](https://github.com/ChrisJar)
+- Enable typecasting between decimal and int ([#7691](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7691)) [@ChrisJar](https://github.com/ChrisJar)
+- Enable decimal support in parquet writer ([#7673](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7673)) [@devavret](https://github.com/devavret)
+- Adds `list.unique` API ([#7664](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7664)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Fix NaN handling in drop_list_duplicates ([#7662](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7662)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Add `lists.sort_values` API ([#7657](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7657)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Add is_integer API that can check for the validity of a string-to-integer conversion ([#7642](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7642)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Adds `explode` API ([#7607](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7607)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Adds `list.take`, python binding for `cudf::lists::segmented_gather` ([#7591](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7591)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Implement cudf::label_bins() ([#7554](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7554)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Add Python bindings for `lists::contains` ([#7547](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7547)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+- cudf::row_bit_count() support. ([#7534](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7534)) [@nvdbaranec](https://github.com/nvdbaranec)
+- Implement drop_list_duplicates ([#7528](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7528)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Add Python bindings for `lists::extract_lists_element` ([#7505](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7505)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+- Add explode_outer and explode_outer_position ([#7499](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7499)) [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346)
+- Match Pandas logic for comparing two objects with nulls ([#7490](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7490)) [@brandon-b-miller](https://github.com/brandon-b-miller)
+- Add struct support to parquet writer ([#7461](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7461)) [@devavret](https://github.com/devavret)
+- Enable type conversion from float to decimal type ([#7450](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7450)) [@ChrisJar](https://github.com/ChrisJar)
+- Add cython for converting strings/fixed-point functions ([#7429](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7429)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Add struct column support to cudf::sort and cudf::sorted_order ([#7422](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7422)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Implement groupby collect_set ([#7420](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7420)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Merge branch-0.18 into branch-0.19 ([#7411](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7411)) [@raydouglass](https://github.com/raydouglass)
+- Refactor strings column factories ([#7397](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7397)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Add groupby scan operations (sort groupby) ([#7387](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7387)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Add cudf::explode_position ([#7376](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7376)) [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346)
+- Add string conversion to/from decimal values libcudf APIs ([#7364](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7364)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Add  groupby SUM_OF_SQUARES support ([#7362](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7362)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Add `Series.drop` api ([#7304](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7304)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- get_json_object() implementation ([#7286](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7286)) [@nvdbaranec](https://github.com/nvdbaranec)
+- Python API for `LIstMethods.len()` ([#7283](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7283)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Support null_policy::EXCLUDE for COLLECT rolling aggregation ([#7264](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7264)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Add support for special tokens in nvtext::subword_tokenizer ([#7254](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7254)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Fix inplace update of data and add Series.update ([#7201](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7201)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Implement `cudf::group_by` (hash) for `decimal32` and `decimal64` ([#7190](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7190)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Adding support to specify "level" parameter  for `Dataframe.rename` ([#7135](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7135)) [@skirui-source](https://github.com/skirui-source)
+
+## 🛠️ Improvements
+
+- fix GDS include path for version 0.95 ([#7877](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7877)) [@rongou](https://github.com/rongou)
+- Update `dask` + `distributed` to `2021.4.0` ([#7858](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7858)) [@jakirkham](https://github.com/jakirkham)
+- Add ability to extract include dirs from `CUDF_HOME` ([#7848](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7848)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Add USE_GDS as an option in build script ([#7833](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7833)) [@pxLi](https://github.com/pxLi)
+- add an allocate method with stream in java DeviceMemoryBuffer ([#7826](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7826)) [@rongou](https://github.com/rongou)
+- Constrain dask and distributed versions to 2021.3.1 ([#7825](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7825)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Revert dask versioning of concat dispatch ([#7823](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7823)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- add copy methods in Java memory buffer ([#7791](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7791)) [@rongou](https://github.com/rongou)
+- Update README and CONTRIBUTING for 0.19 ([#7778](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7778)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Allow hash_partition to take a seed value ([#7771](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7771)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Turn on NVTX by default in java build ([#7761](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7761)) [@tgravescs](https://github.com/tgravescs)
+- Add Java bindings to join gather map APIs ([#7751](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7751)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Add replacements column support for Java replaceNulls ([#7750](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7750)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Add Java bindings for row_bit_count ([#7749](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7749)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Remove unused JVM array creation ([#7748](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7748)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Added JNI support for new is_integer ([#7739](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7739)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Create and promote library aliases in libcudf installations ([#7734](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7734)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Support groupby operations for decimal dtypes ([#7731](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7731)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Memory map the input file only when GDS compatiblity mode is not used ([#7717](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7717)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Replace device_vector with device_uvector in null_mask ([#7715](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7715)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Struct hashing support for SerialMurmur3 and SparkMurmur3 ([#7714](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7714)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Add gbenchmark for nvtext replace-tokens function ([#7708](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7708)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Use stream in groupby calls ([#7705](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7705)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Update codeowners file ([#7701](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7701)) [@ajschmidt8](https://github.com/ajschmidt8)
+- Cleanup groupby to use host_span, device_span, device_uvector ([#7698](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7698)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Add gbenchmark for nvtext ngrams functions ([#7693](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7693)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Misc Python/Cython optimizations ([#7686](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7686)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Add gbenchmark for nvtext tokenize functions ([#7684](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7684)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Add column_device_view to orc writer ([#7676](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7676)) [@kaatish](https://github.com/kaatish)
+- cudf_kafka now uses cuDF CMake export targets (CPM) ([#7674](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7674)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Add gbenchmark for nvtext normalize functions ([#7668](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7668)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Resolve unnecessary import of thrust/optional.hpp in types.hpp ([#7667](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7667)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Feature/optimize accessor copy ([#7660](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7660)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Fix `find_package(cudf)` ([#7658](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7658)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Work-around for gcc7 compile error on Centos7 ([#7652](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7652)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Add in JNI support for count_elements ([#7651](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7651)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Fix issues with building cudf in a non-conda environment ([#7647](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7647)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Refactor ConfigureCUDA to not conditionally insert compiler flags ([#7643](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7643)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Add gbenchmark for converting strings to/from timestamps ([#7641](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7641)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Handle constructing a `cudf.Scalar` from a `cudf.Scalar` ([#7639](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7639)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Add in JNI support for table partition ([#7637](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7637)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Add explicit fixed_point merge test ([#7635](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7635)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Add JNI support for IDENTITY hash partitioning ([#7626](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7626)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Java support on explode_outer ([#7625](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7625)) [@sperlingxx](https://github.com/sperlingxx)
+- Java support of casting string from/to decimal ([#7623](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7623)) [@sperlingxx](https://github.com/sperlingxx)
+- Convert cudf::concatenate APIs to use spans and device_uvector ([#7621](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7621)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Add gbenchmark for cudf::strings::translate function ([#7617](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7617)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Use file(COPY ) over file(INSTALL ) so cmake output is reduced ([#7616](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7616)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Use rmm::device_uvector in place of rmm::device_vector for ORC reader/writer and cudf::io::column_buffer ([#7614](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7614)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Refactor Java host-side buffer concatenation to expose separate steps ([#7610](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7610)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Add gbenchmarks for string substrings functions ([#7603](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7603)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Refactor string conversion check ([#7599](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7599)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- JNI: Pass names of children struct columns to native Arrow IPC writer ([#7598](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7598)) [@firestarman](https://github.com/firestarman)
+- Revert "ENH Fix stale GHA and prevent duplicates " ([#7595](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7595)) [@mike-wendt](https://github.com/mike-wendt)
+- ENH Fix stale GHA and prevent duplicates ([#7594](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7594)) [@mike-wendt](https://github.com/mike-wendt)
+- Fix auto-detecting GPU architectures ([#7593](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7593)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Reduce cudf library size ([#7583](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7583)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Optimize cudf::make_strings_column for long strings ([#7576](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7576)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Always build and export the cudf::cudftestutil target ([#7574](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7574)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Eliminate literal parameters to uvector::set_element_async and device_scalar::set_value ([#7563](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7563)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Add gbenchmark for strings::concatenate ([#7560](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7560)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Update Changelog Link ([#7550](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7550)) [@ajschmidt8](https://github.com/ajschmidt8)
+- Add gbenchmarks for strings replace regex functions ([#7541](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7541)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Add `__repr__` for Column and ColumnAccessor ([#7531](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7531)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Support Decimal DIV changes in cudf ([#7527](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7527)) [@razajafri](https://github.com/razajafri)
+- Remove unneeded step parameter from strings::detail::copy_slice ([#7525](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7525)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Use device_uvector, device_span in sort groupby ([#7523](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7523)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Add gbenchmarks for strings extract function ([#7522](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7522)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Rename ARROW_STATIC_LIB because it conflicts with one in FindArrow.cmake ([#7518](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7518)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Reduce compile time/size for scan.cu ([#7516](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7516)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Change device_vector to device_uvector in nvtext source files ([#7512](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7512)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Removed unneeded includes from traits.hpp ([#7509](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7509)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- FIX Remove random build directory generation for ccache ([#7508](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7508)) [@dillon-cullinan](https://github.com/dillon-cullinan)
+- xfail failing pytest in pandas 1.2.3 ([#7507](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7507)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- JNI bit cast ([#7493](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7493)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Combine rolling window function tests ([#7480](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7480)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Prepare Changelog for Automation ([#7477](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7477)) [@ajschmidt8](https://github.com/ajschmidt8)
+- Java support for explode position ([#7471](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7471)) [@sperlingxx](https://github.com/sperlingxx)
+- Update 0.18 changelog entry ([#7463](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7463)) [@ajschmidt8](https://github.com/ajschmidt8)
+- JNI: Support skipping nulls for collect aggregation ([#7457](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7457)) [@firestarman](https://github.com/firestarman)
+- Join APIs that return gathermaps ([#7454](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7454)) [@shwina](https://github.com/shwina)
+- Remove dependence on managed memory for multimap test ([#7451](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7451)) [@jrhemstad](https://github.com/jrhemstad)
+- Use cuFile for Parquet IO when available ([#7444](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7444)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Statistics cleanup ([#7439](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7439)) [@kaatish](https://github.com/kaatish)
+- Add gbenchmarks for strings filter functions ([#7438](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7438)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- `fixed_point` + `cudf::binary_operation` API Changes ([#7435](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7435)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Improve string gather performance ([#7433](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7433)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Don't use user resource for a temporary allocation in sort_by_key ([#7431](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7431)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Detail APIs for datetime functions ([#7430](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7430)) [@magnatelee](https://github.com/magnatelee)
+- Replace thrust::max_element with thrust::reduce in strings findall_re ([#7428](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7428)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Add gbenchmark for strings split/split_record functions ([#7427](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7427)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Update JNI build to use CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES ([#7425](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7425)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Change nvtext::load_vocabulary_file to return a unique ptr ([#7424](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7424)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Simplify type dispatch with `device_storage_dispatch` ([#7419](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7419)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Java support for casting of nested child columns ([#7417](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7417)) [@razajafri](https://github.com/razajafri)
+- Improve scalar string replace performance for long strings ([#7415](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7415)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Remove unneeded temporary device vector for strings scatter specialization ([#7409](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7409)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- bitmask_or implementation with bitmask refactor ([#7406](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7406)) [@rwlee](https://github.com/rwlee)
+- Add other cudf::strings::replace functions to current strings replace gbenchmark ([#7403](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7403)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Clean up included headers in `device_operators.cuh` ([#7401](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7401)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Move nullable index iterator to indexalator factory ([#7399](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7399)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- ENH Pass ccache variables to conda recipe & use Ninja in CI ([#7398](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7398)) [@Ethyling](https://github.com/Ethyling)
+- upgrade maven-antrun-plugin to support maven parallel builds ([#7393](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7393)) [@rongou](https://github.com/rongou)
+- Add gbenchmark for strings find/contains functions ([#7392](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7392)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Use CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES ([#7391](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7391)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Refactor libcudf strings::replace to use make_strings_children utility ([#7384](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7384)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Added in JNI support for out of core sort algorithm ([#7381](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7381)) [@revans2](https://github.com/revans2)
+- Upgrade pandas to 1.2 ([#7375](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7375)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Rename `logical_cast` to `bit_cast` and allow additional conversions ([#7373](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7373)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- jitify 2 support ([#7372](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7372)) [@cwharris](https://github.com/cwharris)
+- compile_udf: Cache PTX for similar functions ([#7371](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7371)) [@gmarkall](https://github.com/gmarkall)
+- Add string scalar replace benchmark ([#7369](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7369)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- Add gbenchmark for strings contains_re/count_re functions ([#7366](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7366)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Update orc reader and writer fuzz tests ([#7357](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7357)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Improve url_decode performance for long strings ([#7353](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7353)) [@jlowe](https://github.com/jlowe)
+- `cudf::ast` Small Refactorings ([#7352](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7352)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Remove std::cout and print in the scatter test function EmptyListsOfNullableStrings. ([#7342](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7342)) [@ttnghia](https://github.com/ttnghia)
+- Use `cudf::detail::make_counting_transform_iterator` ([#7338](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7338)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Change block size parameter from a global to a template param. ([#7333](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7333)) [@nvdbaranec](https://github.com/nvdbaranec)
+- Partial clean up of ORC writer ([#7324](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7324)) [@vuule](https://github.com/vuule)
+- Add gbenchmark for cudf::strings::to_lower ([#7316](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7316)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Update Java bindings version to 0.19-SNAPSHOT ([#7307](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7307)) [@pxLi](https://github.com/pxLi)
+- Move `cudf::test::make_counting_transform_iterator` to `cudf/detail/iterator.cuh` ([#7306](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7306)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Use string literals in `fixed_point` `release_assert`s ([#7303](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7303)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
+- Fix merge conflicts for #7295 ([#7297](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7297)) [@ajschmidt8](https://github.com/ajschmidt8)
+- Add UTF-8 chars to create_random_column<string_view> benchmark utility ([#7292](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7292)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Abstracting block reduce and block scan from cuIO kernels with `cub` apis ([#7278](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7278)) [@rgsl888prabhu](https://github.com/rgsl888prabhu)
+- Build.sh use cmake --build to drive build system invocation ([#7270](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7270)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Refactor dictionary support for reductions any/all ([#7242](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7242)) [@davidwendt](https://github.com/davidwendt)
+- Replace stream.value() with stream for stream_view args ([#7236](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7236)) [@karthikeyann](https://github.com/karthikeyann)
+- Interval index and interval_range ([#7182](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7182)) [@marlenezw](https://github.com/marlenezw)
+- avro reader integration tests ([#7156](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7156)) [@cwharris](https://github.com/cwharris)
+- Rework libcudf CMakeLists.txt to export targets for CPM ([#7107](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/7107)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Adding Interval Dtype ([#6984](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/6984)) [@marlenezw](https://github.com/marlenezw)
+- Cleaning up `for` loops with `make_(counting_)transform_iterator` ([#6546](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/6546)) [@codereport](https://github.com/codereport)
 
 # cuDF 0.18.0 (24 Feb 2021)