Release Notes v2022.10.13

Release Notes 2022-10-13

Major updates:

• Issue #1816 - Drops support for Chapel 1.26
• Issues #1799 and #1828 - Add encoding and decoding support for idna
• Issues #1831 and #1832 - Fix bugs with strings and fancy pdarray types in DataFrame indexing
• Issue #1825 - Fixes aggregator use in median reduction
• PR #1822 - Fixes errors with large Parquet files
• Issue #1795 and PR #1812 - Add Chapel Intro and Client-Server communication docs for new developers
• Issue #1689 - Adds support for DataFrame to generic attach
• PR #1826 - Avoids flushing aggregators in lockstep

Minor fixes:

• Issue #1792 - Adds GroupBy Symbol Table Entry
• PR #1818 - Removes old re2 dependency compatibility check
• PR #1823 - Fixes Chapel version query

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Auto-generated release notes

• Resolves #1816 - Drop support for Chapel 1.26 by @ronawho in #1817
• Remove old re2 dependency check compatibility shim by @ronawho in #1818
• Fix errors with large Parquet files by @reuster986 in #1822
• Fix Chapel version query by @bmcdonald3 in #1823
• Closes #1825: Fix aggregator use in median reduction by @bmcdonald3 in #1824
• Part of #1404: Avoid flushing aggregators in lockstep by @ronawho in #1826
• Closes #1795: Chapel Intro Docs by @pierce314159 in #1821
• Closes #1799 - idna encoding/decoding by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1829
• Closes #1828 - Strings.to_ndarray() UTF-8 Bug Fix by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1830
• Part of #1800 - Client-Server communication new developer documention by @joshmarshall1 in #1812
• Closes #1832 - Revert smallIdx optimization for DF indexing by @bmcdonald3 in #1833
• Closes #1689 - Adds support for DataFrame to generic attach by @joshmarshall1 in #1798
• Closes #1792 - GroupBy Symbol Table Entry by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1805
• Closes #1831 - DataFrame._get_head_tail_server return typing bug by @Ethan-DeBandi99 in #1834

Full Changelog: v2022.09.30...v2022.10.13