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What's new in 2.3.4 (November XX, 2025)
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These are the changes in pandas 2.3.4. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
including other versions of pandas.

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Bug fixes
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- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.__getitem__` returning modified columns when called with ``slice`` in Python 3.12 (:issue:`57500`)
- Bug in :meth:`Series.str.replace` raising an error on valid group references (``\1``, ``\2``, etc.) on series converted to PyArrow backend dtype (:issue:`62653`)

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.. _whatsnew_234.contributors:

Contributors
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