v0.2.17

Changes

✨ New Features

• [FEAT] Add str.reverse() function @nsalerni (#1957)
• [FEAT] Add str.lower() function @nsalerni (#1938)
• [FEAT] MapArray @colin-ho (#1959)
• [FEAT] any_value groupby aggregation @kevinzwang (#1941)
• [FEAT] adding floor function @chandbud5 (#1960)
• [FEAT] Expose coerce_int96_timestamp_unit flag on top level daft.read_parquet call @samster25 (#1936)
• [FEAT] Time Array @colin-ho (#1892)
• [FEAT] Add str.lstrip() and str.rstrip() functions @nsalerni (#1944)
• [FEAT] Add str.upper() function @nsalerni (#1942)

🚀 Performance Improvements

• [PERF] scan task in memory estimate @samster25 (#1901)
• [PERF] Spread scan tasks over Ray cluster. @clarkzinzow (#1950)

📖 Documentation

• [DOCS] [Delta Lake] Add user guide for Delta Lake reads. @clarkzinzow (#1969)
• [Catalogs] [Delta Lake] Add initial support for reading from Delta Lake. @clarkzinzow (#1879)
• [DOCS] Fix notebooks by falling back on null for URL downloads @jaychia (#1951)
• [DOCS] Add documentation for using and developing Daft on Ray @kevinzwang (#1896)
• [DOCS] Update schema hints documentation @jaychia (#1935)

🧰 Maintenance

• [CHORE] Remove non-MicroPartition and non-ScanOperator paths @clarkzinzow (#1946)
• [CHORE] Populate previews only when show() or __repr__() is called @colin-ho (#1889)
• [CHORE] Update segment endpoint @jaychia (#1902)