drahnreb fixed several issues with categorical arrays and Arrow conversion: PR 727.
jpivarski updated `ak.unflatten` to have an `axis` parameter (PR 731), and to make it work on PartitionedArrays (732), added `ak.run_lengths` (733) and `ak.strings_astype` (734), and implemented `ak.argsort` for strings, fixing some issues with `ak.sort` for strings (736).
Significantly, the depth of arrays was changed to not count the inner dimension of strings: PR 736. Now an unnested array of strings has the same depth as an unnested array of integers: the dimension of the lists comprising the strings themselves doesn't count.