Version 0.15.2

This release adds antialiased line support for inspection reductions such as max_n and where, including within categorical by reductions. It also improves support for summary reductions and adds CUDA implementations of std and var reductions.

Thanks to regular contributors @hoxbro, @ianthomas23, @maximlt and @thuydotm.

Enhancements:

• Antialiasing line support for inspection reductions:

  • Pre-compile antialias stage 2 combination (#1258)
  • Antialiased min and max row index reductions (#1259)
  • CPU shift_and_insert function (#1260)
  • Refactor of CUDA *_n reductions (#1261)
  • Support antialiased lines in *_n reductions (#1262)
  • Replace accumulate with copy on first call to antialiased stage 2 combine (#1264)
  • Separate where combine_cpu functions by ndim (#1265)
  • Antialiased line support for where reductions (#1269)

• Improved support for summary reductions:

  • Support by reduction within summary reduction (#1254)
  • Support summary containing by reduction with other reductions (#1257)
  • Support summary containing multiple where with the same selector (#1271)

• CUDA support for std and var reductions (#1267)

General code improvements:

• Remove pyarrow pin (#1248)

Improvements to CI:

• Update holoviz_tasks to v0.1a15 (#1251)
• Use holoviz_tasks/install action for docs (#1272)

Improvements to documentation:

• Update readme to include Python 3.11 (#1249)
• Correct links to pandas docs (#1250)
• Remove twitter from index page (#1253)
• Create FUNDING.yml (#1263)