v3.4.0

Summary

This release adds significant new functionality in the form of concatenate. We support general concatenation of ndarrays, and offer an optimised path with significant speedups for the case of concatenating arrays with compatible chunk and blockshapes. In addition, there are bug fixes and more functionality for slicing of lazyexprs, and the possibility to jit compile user-defined functions which operate on pandas objects using the blosc2 engine.

What's Changed

• Enable slice lazy by @lshaw8317 in #417
• Add support for new pandas UDF engine by @datapythonista in #418
• Make behaviour of compute consistent for slicing by @lshaw8317 in #419
• Update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #422
• Concatenate by @FrancescAlted in #423

Full Changelog: v3.3.4...v3.4.0