Version 0.8.1 (July 22, 2012)¶
This release includes a few new features, performance enhancements, and over 30 bug fixes from 0.8.0. New features include notably NA friendly string processing functionality and a series of new plot types and options.
New features¶
Add vectorized string processing methods accessible via Series.str (GH620)
Add option to disable adjustment in EWMA (GH1584)
Per column styles and secondary y-axis plotting (GH1559)
New datetime converters millisecond plotting (GH1599)
Add option to disable “sparse” display of hierarchical indexes (GH1538)
Series/DataFrame’s
set_index
method can append levels to an existing Index/MultiIndex (GH1569, GH1577)
Performance improvements¶
Improved implementation of rolling min and max (thanks to Bottleneck !)
Add accelerated
'median'
GroupBy option (GH1358)Significantly improve the performance of parsing ISO8601-format date strings with
DatetimeIndex
orto_datetime
(GH1571)Improve the performance of GroupBy on single-key aggregations and use with Categorical types
Significant datetime parsing performance improvements
Contributors¶
A total of 5 people contributed patches to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.
Chang She
Skipper Seabold
Todd DeLuca +
Vytautas Jancauskas
Wes McKinney