v23.02.00

What’s Changed

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Remove use of is_list/is_ragged and replace with setting shapes @karlhigley (#215)
• Add a new shape field to ColumnSchema @karlhigley (#195)

🐜 Bug Fixes

• Save schema with consistent dtype when dtypes is used @oliverholworthy (#182)

🚀 Features

• Update HAS_GPU variable to account for CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES @oliverholworthy (#221)
• Clean up of make_df function @jperez999 (#205)
• separate cupy import from rapids @jperez999 (#211)
• Support partially specified value_count when used with is_ragged=False @oliverholworthy (#213)
• Fix for updated versions of cudf to parquet @jperez999 (#204)
• Create standard Merlin dtypes in the merlin.dtypes module @karlhigley (#170)

🔧 Maintenance

• Remove use of is_list/is_ragged and replace with setting shapes @karlhigley (#215)
• Reduce the overhead of using LocalExecutor (esp. dtype validation) @karlhigley (#219)
• Clean up of make_df function @jperez999 (#205)
• Add util functions for un/grouping column values/offsets in dicts @karlhigley (#216)
• Fill in some missing docstrings @karlhigley (#217)
• Serialize shapes to and from Merlin schema files @karlhigley (#214)
• Fix for updated versions of cudf to parquet @jperez999 (#204)
• add gcp label to jenkinsfile @AyodeAwe (#181)
• Add a new shape field to ColumnSchema @karlhigley (#195)
• Increase upper bound of pandas version from 1.4 to 1.6 @oliverholworthy (#210)
• Update pre-commit config with latest versions of repos @oliverholworthy (#208)
• Install latest version of NVTabular/dataloader with systems tests @oliverholworthy (#209)
• Add note on why we're using device_get_count instead of cuda.gpus @oliverholworthy (#207)
• Add Formatter (Prettier) for YAML and Markdown files @karlhigley (#199)
• Change the name of the package building action @karlhigley (#198)
• Split CPU tests and building packages for release into separate actions @karlhigley (#197)
• Simplify ColumnSchema.with methods using dataclasses.replace() @karlhigley (#194)
• Handle executor transform case when parent node provides no new columns @oliverholworthy (#226)
• Update Models/NVTabular test config @oliverholworthy (#185)
• skip notebook tests in models test @edknv (#193)
• add a build pandas column api for easier multihot column creation @jperez999 (#183)
• Use pre-commit for linting in GitHub Actions Workflow @oliverholworthy (#184)
• Convert to cudf.Series in create_multihot_col @oliverholworthy (#187)
• adding workflow for GPU CI on gha @jperez999 (#191)