ianna set up Awkward's new header-only library: PRs 1523, 1524. Migrated old LayoutBuilder to v2: 1484.
ManasviGoyal developed a new GrowableBuffer, using panels and in a header-only library: PR 1535.
ioanaif fixed pre-commit issues: 1533. Initialized values behind mask in `to_numpy`: PR 1531. Fixed argument lists in deepcopy: PR 1532. Fixed `is_none`'s use of `axis`: PR 1539.
aryan26roy fixed the so-called "endianness bug on Mac" (actually the byte-swap was being optimized away): PR 1538.
jpivarski fixed `RecordArray.__repr__`: PR 1537.
1.9.0rc7
agoose77 fixed the MANIFEST file to include the new src/awkward/_v2/cpp-headers directory (which is the main reason for this pre-release): PR 1516.
jpivarski updated the type-parser for v2: PR 1514.
1.9.0rc6
(Unless otherwise noted, from this release onward, all changes described in release notes are for v2.)
ianna added a one-column implementation of `ak.from_rdataframe`: PR 1508.
jpivarski added `ak._v2.types.from_datashape`, though the parser will need work to make it accept all v2 type strings: PR 1513.
1.9.0rc5
jpivarski silenced a known-to-be-fixed NumPy warning: PR 1464.
1.9.0rc4
Changed nothing (relative to 1.9.0rc3) except for the name of the repo: scikit-hep/awkward-1.0 → scikit-hep/awkward. I just want to make sure that all of the test and deployment machinery is still working.
See [https://github.com/orgs/scikit-hep/discussions/1](https://github.com/orgs/scikit-hep/discussions/1).