Release: v0.7.0

[camposandro]

Packages to release

Please check which packages you would like to be released:

• hats
• lsdb
• hats-import

Additional context

Minor release.

Breaking change on region search imports: #1034 breaks downstream users (nasa-fornax/fornax-demo-notebooks#523).

nested-* updates to include

github and pypi steps

hats

• tag in github
• confirm on pypi

lsdb

• update pinned versions (e.g. hats and nested) (or confirm no updates to pins)
• tag in github
• confirm on pypi

hats-import

• update pinned versions (e.g. hats) (or confirm no updates to pins)
• tag in github
• confirm on pypi

conda-forge steps

hats

• request new conda-forge version (open bot command issue
  with title @conda-forge-admin, please update version)
• approve conda-forge PR
• confirm on conda-forge

lsdb

• request new conda-forge version (open bot command issue
  with title @conda-forge-admin, please update version)
• confirm tagged hats and nested-pandas versions and approve
• confirm on conda-forge

hats-import

• request new conda-forge version (open bot command issue
  with title @conda-forge-admin, please update version)
• confirm tagged hats version and approve
• confirm on conda-forge

tie it together

once releases have been confirmed on conda-forge, confirm that the RSP
environment and notebooks will not be impacted:

• run the smoke-test-conda workflow
  in the lsdb-rubin repo.
• wait until it passes
• Inspect the Get dependency changes from installing LSDB stage and make sure there aren't
  "too many" new packages installed

Release announcement

• send release summary to LSSTC slack #lincc-frameworks-lsdb

[camposandro]

[lsdb v0.7.0]

• [1072] Raise ValueError if NaN values in RA/Dec cols
• [1076] Support to_hats with empty catalogs
• [1087] Move search functions from LSDB -> HATS
• [1090] Update expected shape of per_pixel_statistics
• [1091] Ignore hive cols in margin check
• [1067] Nested-Pandas v0.6 Compatibility + map_rows implementation
• [1098] Read/write catalogs with nested default columns
• [1102] Additional tips & notes for contribution documentation
• [1101] Read catalogs with custom parquet paths
• [1104] Use UV for dependencies.
• [1105] Follow-up to speed-ups and new benchmark
• [1107] Fix pyarrow filters for custom healpix order
• [1108] Test against nested-pandas @ main
• [1111] Remove nested/hats from docs requirements
• [1113] Numpy docstrings
• [1120] Make path generator a callable
• [1114] Update pre_executed notebooks

[hats v0.7.0]

• [562] Little bit nicer properties display.
• [563] Validate contents of a catalog collection.
• [567] Moved search functions from LSDB to HATS
• [570] Add uncompressed size to per_pixel_statistics.
• [571] Fix skymap reading on Windows
• [573] Additional tips & notes for contribution documentation
• [574] Use uv for faster install.
• [576] Get parquet contents on remote directories.
• [577] Conversion to numpy docstrings.

[hats-import v0.7.0]

• [602] Rename histogram directory (histograms/ -> row_count_histograms/)
• [604] Allow passing a catalog collection for verification.
• [608] Include nested fields as possible column names.
• [609] Explicit mention on input_file_list and number of workers.
• [611] Materialize nested columns in struct. (edited)