v23.12.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Raise error in reindex when index is not unique (#14400) @galipremsagar
• Expose stream parameter to get_json_object API (#14297) @davidwendt
• Refactor cudf_kafka to use skbuild (#14292) @jdye64
• Expose stream parameter in public strings convert APIs (#14255) @davidwendt
• Upgrade to nvCOMP 3.0.4 (#13815) @vuule

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Update actions/labeler to v4 (#14562) @raydouglass
• Fix data corruption when skipping rows (#14557) @etseidl
• Fix function name typo in cudf.pandas profiler (#14514) @galipremsagar
• Fix intermediate type checking in expression parsing (#14445) @vyasr
• Forward merge branch-23.10 into branch-23.12 (#14435) @raydouglass
• Remove needs: wheel-build-cudf. (#14427) @bdice
• Fix dask dependency in custreamz (#14420) @vyasr
• Ensure nvbench initializes nvml context when built statically (#14411) @robertmaynard
• Support java AST String literal with desired encoding (#14402) @winningsix
• Raise error in reindex when index is not unique (#14400) @galipremsagar
• Always build nvbench statically so we don't need to package it (#14399) @robertmaynard
• Fix token-count logic in nvtext::tokenize_with_vocabulary (#14393) @davidwendt
• Fix as_column(pd.Timestamp/Timedelta, length=) not respecting length (#14390) @mroeschke
• cudf.pandas: cuDF subpath checking in module __getattr__ (#14388) @shwina
• Fix and disable encoding for nanosecond statistics in ORC writer (#14367) @vuule
• Add the new manylinux builds to the build job (#14351) @vyasr
• cudf jit parser now supports .pragma instructions with quotes (#14348) @robertmaynard
• Fix overflow check in cudf::merge (#14345) @divyegala
• Add cramjam (#14344) @vyasr
• Enable dask_cudf/io pytests in CI (#14338) @galipremsagar
• Temporarily avoid the current build of pydata-sphinx-theme (#14332) @vyasr
• Fix host buffer access from device function in the Parquet reader (#14328) @vuule
• Run IO tests for Dask-cuDF (#14327) @rjzamora
• Fix logical type issues in the Parquet writer (#14322) @vuule
• Remove aws-sdk-pinning and revert to arrow 12.0.1 (#14319) @vyasr
• test is_valid before reading column data (#14318) @etseidl
• Fix gtest validity setting for TextTokenizeTest.Vocabulary (#14312) @davidwendt
• Fixes stack context for json lines format that recovers from invalid JSON lines (#14309) @elstehle
• Downgrade to Arrow 12.0.0 for aws-sdk-cpp and fix cudf_kafka builds for new CI containers (#14296) @vyasr
• fixing thread index overflow issue (#14290) @hyperbolic2346
• Fix memset error in nvtext::edit_distance_matrix (#14283) @davidwendt
• Changes JSON reader's recovery option's behaviour to ignore all characters after a valid JSON record (#14279) @elstehle
• Handle empty string correctly in Parquet statistics (#14257) @etseidl
• Fixes behaviour for incomplete lines when recover_with_nulls is enabled (#14252) @elstehle
• cudf::detail::pinned_allocator doesn't throw from deallocate (#14251) @robertmaynard
• Fix strings replace for adjacent, identical multi-byte UTF-8 character targets (#14235) @davidwendt
• Fix the precision when converting a decimal128 column to an arrow array (#14230) @jihoonson
• Fixing parquet list of struct interpretation (#13715) @hyperbolic2346

📖 Documentation

• Fix io reference in docs. (#14452) @bdice
• Update README (#14374) @shwina
• Example code for blog on new row comparators (#13795) @divyegala

🚀 New Features

• Expose streams in public unary APIs (#14342) @vyasr
• Add python tests for Parquet DELTA_BINARY_PACKED encoder (#14316) @etseidl
• Update rapids-cmake functions to non-deprecated signatures (#14265) @robertmaynard
• Expose streams in public null mask APIs (#14263) @vyasr
• Expose streams in binaryop APIs (#14187) @vyasr
• Add pylibcudf.Scalar that interoperates with Arrow scalars (#14133) @vyasr
• Add decoder for DELTA_BYTE_ARRAY to Parquet reader (#14101) @etseidl
• Add DELTA_BINARY_PACKED encoder for Parquet writer (#14100) @etseidl
• Add BytePairEncoder class to cuDF (#13891) @davidwendt
• Upgrade to nvCOMP 3.0.4 (#13815) @vuule
• Use pynvjitlink for CUDA 12+ MVC (#13650) @brandon-b-miller

🛠️ Improvements

• Build concurrency for nightly and merge triggers (#14441) @bdice
• Cleanup remaining usages of dask dependencies (#14407) @galipremsagar
• Update to Arrow 14.0.1. (#14387) @bdice
• Remove Cython libcpp wrappers (#14382) @vyasr
• Forward-merge branch-23.10 to branch-23.12 (#14372) @bdice
• Upgrade to arrow 14 (#14371) @galipremsagar
• Fix a pytest typo in test_kurt_skew_error (#14368) @galipremsagar
• Use new rapids-dask-dependency metapackage for managing dask versions (#14364) @vyasr
• Change nullable() to has_nulls() in cudf::detail::gather (#14363) @divyegala
• Split up scan_inclusive.cu to improve its compile time (#14358) @davidwendt
• Implement user_datasource_wrapper is_empty() and is_device_read_preferred(). (#14357) @tpn
• Added streams to CSV reader and writer api (#14340) @shrshi
• Upgrade wheels to use arrow 13 (#14339) @vyasr
• Rework nvtext::byte_pair_encoding API (#14337) @davidwendt
• Improve performance of nvtext::tokenize_with_vocabulary for long strings (#14336) @davidwendt
• Upgrade arrow to 13 (#14330) @galipremsagar
• Expose stream parameter in public nvtext replace APIs (#14329) @davidwendt
• Drop pyorc dependency and use pandas/pyarrow instead (#14323) @galipremsagar
• Avoid pyarrow.fs import for local storage (#14321) @rjzamora
• Unpin dask and distributed for 23.12 development (#14320) @galipremsagar
• Expose stream parameter in public nvtext tokenize APIs (#14317) @davidwendt
• Added streams to JSON reader and writer api (#14313) @shrshi
• Minor improvements in source_info (#14308) @vuule
• Forward-merge branch-23.10 to branch-23.12 (#14307) @bdice
• Add stream parameter to Set Operations (Public List APIs) (#14305) @SurajAralihalli
• Expose stream parameter to get_json_object API (#14297) @davidwendt
• Sort dictionary data alphabetically in the ORC writer (#14295) @vuule
• Expose stream parameter in public strings filter APIs (#14293) @davidwendt
• Refactor cudf_kafka to use skbuild (#14292) @jdye64
• Update shared-action-workflows references (#14289) @AyodeAwe
• Register partd encode dispatch in dask_cudf (#14287) @rjzamora
• Update versioning strategy (#14285) @vyasr
• Move and rename byte-pair-encoding source files (#14284) @davidwendt
• Expose stream parameter in public strings combine APIs (#14281) @davidwendt
• Expose stream parameter in public strings contains APIs (#14280) @davidwendt
• Add stream parameter to List Sort and Filter APIs (#14272) @SurajAralihalli
• Use branch-23.12 workflows. (#14271) @bdice
• Refactor LogicalType for Parquet (#14264) @etseidl
• Centralize chunked reading code in the parquet reader to reader_impl_chunking.cu (#14262) @nvdbaranec
• Expose stream parameter in public strings replace APIs (#14261) @davidwendt
• Expose stream parameter in public strings APIs (#14260) @davidwendt
• Cleanup of namespaces in parquet code. (#14259) @nvdbaranec
• Make parquet schema index type consistent (#14256) @hyperbolic2346
• Expose stream parameter in public strings convert APIs (#14255) @davidwendt
• Add in java bindings for DataSource (#14254) @revans2
• Reimplement cudf::merge for nested types without using comparators (#14250) @divyegala
• Add stream parameter to List Manipulation and Operations APIs (#14248) @SurajAralihalli
• Expose stream parameter in public strings split/partition APIs (#14247) @davidwendt
• Improve contains_column by invoking contains_table (#14238) @PointKernel
• Detect and report errors in Parquet header parsing (#14237) @etseidl
• Normalizing offsets iterator (#14234) @davidwendt
• Forward merge 23.10 into 23.12 (#14231) @galipremsagar
• Return error if BOOL8 column-type is used with integers-to-hex (#14208) @davidwendt
• Enable indexalator for device code (#14206) @davidwendt
• Marginally reduce memory footprint of joins (#14197) @wence-
• Add nvtx annotations to spilling-based data movement (#14196) @wence-
• Optimize ORC writer for decimal columns (#14190) @vuule
• Remove the use of volatile in ORC (#14175) @vuule
• Add bytes_per_second to distinct_count of stream_compaction nvbench. (#14172) @Blonck
• Add bytes_per_second to transpose benchmark (#14170) @Blonck
• cuDF: Build CUDA 12.0 ARM conda packages. (#14112) @bdice
• Add bytes_per_second to shift benchmark (#13950) @Blonck
• Extract debug_utilities.hpp/cu from column_utilities.hpp/cu (#13720) @ttnghia