Version 2.3.2

New features

• feat: add support for expected termination of transform functions by @agoose77 in #2595
• feat: export error classes by @agoose77 in #2613
• feat: unpickle arrays made in Awkward v1 (as v2). by @jpivarski in #2604
• feat: use pyarrow for string functions by @jpivarski in #2616
• feat: add support for dictionary encoding from Arrow by @agoose77 in #2630
• feat: add CPU kernel for to_numpy support for strings/bytestrings by @agoose77 in #2631

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: don't decorate non-Exception subclasses by @agoose77 in #2587
• fix: use to_backend_array() instead of asarray by @agoose77 in #2592
• fix: artefacts → artifacts in pyproject.toml by @agoose77 in #2612
• fix: adjust for numexpr 2.8.5, which hid getContext's frame_depth argument by @jpivarski in #2617
• fix: add inline to prevent multiple definitions by @ManasviGoyal in #2606
• fix: support lists of strings in ak.zip with optiontype_outside_record=True by @agoose77 in #2623
• fix: support counts=len(array) in ak.unflatten by @agoose77 in #2632
• fix: support non int64 index in ListArray's pad_none by @agoose77 in #2634
• fix: assert nextlen == 0 in reducer should also allow unknown_length by @jpivarski in #2610

Other

• refactor: add new module and name arguments to high_level_function decorator by @agoose77 in #2620
• docs: add guide on unflattening and grouping by @agoose77 in #2622
• docs: remove reference to old arrayclass by @agoose77 in #2640
• docs: initial user-guide pass for string functions by @agoose77 in #2635
• chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.13.1 to 2.14.1 by @dependabot in #2584
• chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8 by @dependabot in #2580
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #2565
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #2585
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #2619
• chore: use 2x faster black mirror by @henryiii in #2633
• chore: drop 3.7 classifier by @agoose77 in #2636
• chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.8 to 1.8.9 by @dependabot in #2639
• chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.14.1 to 2.15.0 by @dependabot in #2629

Full Changelog: v2.3.1...v2.3.2