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@jreback jreback released this 09 Oct 12:32
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This is a major release from 0.16.2 and includes a small number of API changes, several new features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

Highlights include:

  • Release the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) on some cython operations, see here
  • Plotting methods are now available as attributes of the .plot accessor, see here
  • The sorting API has been revamped to remove some long-time inconsistencies, see here
  • Support for a datetime64[ns] with timezones as a first-class dtype, see here
  • The default for to_datetime will now be to raise when presented with unparseable formats, previously this would return the original input, see here
  • The default for dropna in HDFStore has changed to False, to store by default all rows even if they are all NaN, see here
  • Datetime accessor (dt) now supports Series.dt.strftime to generate formatted strings for datetime-likes, and Series.dt.total_seconds to generate each duration of the timedelta in seconds. See here
  • Period and PeriodIndex can handle multiplied freq like 3D, which corresponding to 3 days span. See here
  • Development installed versions of pandas will now have PEP440 compliant version strings GH9518
  • Development support for benchmarking with the Air Speed Velocity library GH8361
  • Support for reading SAS xport files, see here
  • Removal of the automatic TimeSeries broadcasting, deprecated since 0.8.0, see here
  • Display format with plain text can optionally align with Unicode East Asian Width, see here
  • Compatibility with Python 3.5 GH11097
  • Compatibility with matplotlib 1.5.0 GH11111

See the Whatsnew for much more information. Please report any issues here

You an install the latest version of pandas via conda:

conda install pandas -u pandas

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