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Python Polars 1.36.1

🚀 Performance improvements

• Tune partitioned sink_parquet cloud performance (#25687)

✨ Enhancements

• Allow creation of Object literal (#25690)
• Don't collect schema in SQL union processing (#25675)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Don't invalidate node in cluster-with-columns (#25714)
• Move boto3 extra from s3fs in dev requirements (#25667)
• Add missing type stubs for bin_slice, bin_head, and bin_tail (#25697)
• Binary slice methods missing from Series and docs (#25683)
• Mix-up of variable_name/value_name in unpivot (#25685)
• Invalid usage of drop_first in to_dummies when nulls present (#25435)

📖 Documentation

• Fix typos in Excel and Pandas migration guides (#25709)
• Add "right" to how options in join() docstrings (#25678)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Move Object lit fix earlier in the function (#25713)
• Remove unused decimal file (#25701)
• Move boto3 extra from s3fs in dev requirements (#25667)
• Upgrade to latest version of sqlparser-rs (#25673)
• Update slab to version without RUSTSEC (#25686)
• Fix typo (#25684)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @​AndreaBozzo, @​Kevin-Patyk, @​alexander-beedie, @​dsprenkels, @​jamesfricker, @​mcrumiller, @​nameexhaustion, @​orlp and @​ritchie46

Python Polars 1.36.0

🏆 Highlights

• Add Extension types (#25322)

✨ Enhancements

• Add SQL support for the QUALIFY clause (#25652)
• Add bin.slice(), bin.head(), and bin.tail() methods (#25647)
• Add SQL syntax support for CROSS JOIN UNNEST(col) (#25623)
• Add separate env var to log tracked metrics (#25586)
• Expose fields for generating physical plan visualization data (#25562)
• Allow pl.Object in pivot value (#25533)
• Minor improvement for as_struct repr (#25529)
• Temporal quantile in rolling context (#25479)

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• 2a151c1 Python Polars 1.36.1 (#25715)
• b394b2d fix: Don't invalidate node in cluster-with-columns (#25714)
• e5baff4 refactor: Move Object lit fix earlier in the function (#25713)
• ee79be3 docs: Fix typos in Excel and Pandas migration guides (#25709)
• 0150a18 chore: Remove unused decimal file (#25701)
• 9dd724b fix(python): Remove boto3 extra from s3fs (#25667)
• d8cdf89 feat: Allow creation of Object literal (#25690)
• 3069957 fix(python): Add missing type stubs for bin_slice, bin_head, and `bin_tai...
• 729e575 chore: Upgrade to latest version of sqlparser-rs (#25673)
• b83a259 chore: Update slab to version without RUSTSEC (#25686)
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