🐍 Pandas 2.0 is released! The biggest highlight is a support for pyarrow instead of numpy as a backend, which gives a better performance and a better support for missing values. A few months ago, there was a great post about it in the pandas blog: pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution.
The release notes are a bit too verbose, so I recommend reading this TL;DR instead: Everything you need to know about pandas 2.0.0.