ANN: Pandas 1.2.0 released

[Simon Hawkins]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of pandas 1.2.0. This release includes some new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

See the whatsnew
<https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/1.2/whatsnew/v1.2.0.html>
for a list of all the changes.

The release can be installed from PyPI

    python -m pip install --upgrade pandas==1.2.0

Or from conda-forge

    conda install -c conda-forge pandas==1.2.0

Thanks to all of the 257 contributors
<https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/1.2/whatsnew/v1.2.0.html#contributors> who
made this release possible.

Simon