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# What’s new in 3.0.1 (February 17, 2026)

These are the changes in pandas 3.0.1. See Release notes for a full changelog including other versions of pandas.

## Fixed regressions

- Added the `pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionArray.item()` method to fix regression with accessing the item of an array of strings, which now is an `ExtensionArray` subclass instead of a numpy `ndarray` (GH 63876)

- Fixed regression in `read_hdf()` reading a file written by pandas <= 2.2 with a datetime64 column (GH 64006)

- Fixed regression in `to_timedelta()` when converting a list with float and int (GH 64044)

- Fixed regression in `DataFrame.groupby()` and `Series.groupby()` when grouping on categorical data with NA values, `observed=False`, and `dropna=True` (GH 52445)

- Fixed regression in `DataFrame.loc()` when setting new row and new columns simultaneously filling existing columns with `b''` instead of `NaN` (GH 58316)

- Fixed regression in `DataFrame.reindex()` when using a string fill value (GH 63993)

- Fixed regression in comparing a string column or index with a `range` object (GH 63429)

- Fixed regression in comparison operation with a zero-dimensional subclass of `np.ndarray` (GH 63205)

- Fixed regression in the `DataFrame` and `DataFrame.from_records()` constructor with a list of dicts with a missing value indicator as key (GH 63889)

- Fixed regression when calling `numpy.random`’s `permutation()` on a (pyarrow-backed) string `Series` (GH 63935)

- Fixed regression where methods such as `Series.str.contains()` and `Series.str.replace()` on pyarrow-backed strings rejected RE2 unicode escapes like `\x{...}` and `\p{...}` (GH 63901)

### Bug fixes

- Fixed a bug in the `DataFrame` constructor when passed a `Series` or `Index` correctly handling Copy-on-Write (GH 63899)

- Added additional typing aliases in `pandas.api.typing.aliases` (GH 64098)

- Allow `ExtensionArray` to have dtypes involving `numpy.void` (GH 54810)

- Fixed a bug in `col()` where unary operators (`-`, `+`, `abs`) were not supported (GH 63939)

- Fixed bug in `merge()` where NaN values in pyarrow-backed string dtype join keys were incorrectly matched with non-NaN values on Windows with pyarrow 21 (GH 64060)

- Fixed thread safety issues in `DataFrame` internals on the free-threaded build (GH 63685).

- Prevent buffer overflow in `Rolling.corr()` and `Rolling.cov()` with variable windows when passing `other` with a longer index than the original window. This now raises `ValueError` (GH 62937)

## Contributors

A total of 19 people contributed patches to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

- BitToby +

- Eric Chen

- Irv Lustig

- Jacob Peacock

- Jeongmin Gil +

- Jiro Matsuzawa +

- Joris Van den Bossche

- Julian-Harbeck

- Lumberbot (aka Jack) +

- Matthew Roeschke

- Nathan Goldbaum

- Philipp A

- Richard Shadrach

- Sanchit Rishi

- jeffreykenneth

- pandas Development Team

- pre-commit-ci[bot]

- roeimed0 +

- Álvaro Kothe