ANN: pandas v2.1.0rc0

[Thomas Li]

We are pleased to announce a release candidate for pandas 2.1.0. If all goes well, we'll release pandas 2.1.0 in about two weeks.

See the [whatsnew][0] for a list of all the changes.

The release will be available on conda-forge and PyPI.

The release can be installed from PyPI

    python -m pip install --upgrade --pre pandas==2.1.0rc0

Or from conda-forge

    conda install -c conda-forge/label/pandas_rc pandas==2.1.0rc0

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

[0]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/2.1.0rc0/whatsnew/v2.1.0.html

[Thomas Li]

Sorry for the typo, but the actual release is planned for 1 week from now (not 2 weeks from today).

The rc has been out for a little while but I forgot to do the announcement until today.