ANN: pandas 1.4.0 release candidate

[Simon Hawkins]

Hi all,

The pandas team is pleased to announce a release candidate for pandas 1.4.0.

If all goes well, we'll release pandas 1.4.0 in about two weeks.

See the release notes for a list of all the changes.

The release can be installed from PyPI

    python -m pip install --upgrade --pre pandas==1.4.0rc0

Or from conda-forge

    conda install -c conda-forge/label/pandas_rc pandas==1.4.0rc0

Please report any issues with the release on the pandas issue tracker.

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible.