Awkward

What's Changed
* fix: backport 2809 by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2810


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.9...v2.4.10

New Features
* feat: add `to_buffer` and helper methods in layout builder by ManasviGoyal in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2766
* feat: add helper methods to `utils.h` by ManasviGoyal in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2771
* feat!: rework ufunc type promotion handling by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2767
* feat: extend `to_layout` options by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2763

Bug Fixes and Performance
* fix: add `highlevel`, `behavior` arguments to composite reducers by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2754
* fix: export `nan` variants by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2758
* fix: update `__class__` for both `layout` and `behavior` consistently by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2759
* fix: support all-`None` index in `awkward_Index_nones_as_index.cpp` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2769
* fix: handle unhashable behaviour type by ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2770
* fix: protect RecordForm against len(fields) != len(contents) by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2776
* fix: drop lengths recursively by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2775
* fix: `ak.num` should always return a useful (non-unknown length) type by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2785
* fix: remove old argument from `broadcast_and_apply` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2790
* fix: don't preserve unexpected option for is_in by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2792
* fix: support scalar strings in `fill_none` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2793
* fix: support arbitrary ufuncs with respect to NEP-50 by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2799

Other
* chore: add trove classifier to awkward-cpp by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2729
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2733
* chore: set `pyupgrade` version by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2756
* chore: prepare for ruff-format by henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2773
* chore: move to Ruff-format by henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2777
* chore: run mypy in CI by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2789
* chore: run mypy on `ak.types` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2791
* ci: fix oldest-supported-dependencies test workflow by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2783
* refactor: drop `behavior` broadcasting by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2761
* refactor: introduce parametrised nplike types by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2795
* chore(deps): bump amannn/action-semantic-pull-request from 5.3.0 to 5.4.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2796



**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.6...v2.4.8

New Features
* feat!: revert breaking component of `asarray` PR by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2752* fix: update cppyy module by ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2747

Bug-fixes and performance
* fix: update cppyy version by ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2748
* fix: don't call asarray on `Index` objects internally by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2749

Other
* chore: update CITATION.cff by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2750



**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.5...v2.4.6

New features
* feat: add `recursive` argument to `expected_from_buffers` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2724
* feat: infer unknown lengths from context in `from_buffers` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2732

Bug-fixes and performance
* fix: don't use `np.asarray` on `Index` or `Content` objects by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2740
* fix: swap names for `__dlpack__` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2741
* fix: `__array__` accepts positional arguments by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2744

Other
* test: add dask-awkward to at least one of our tests. by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2739
* chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.16.1 to 2.16.2 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2736
* ci: improve deployment environment UX by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2742


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.4...v2.4.5

New features
* feat: add `buffer_key` to `typetracer_with_report` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2719

Bug-fixes and performance
* fix: catch cases in which fields required by a JSON schema are not in the JSON object by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2712
* fix: support concrete buffers in `TypeTracer.frombuffer` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2718
* fix: make the examples consistent with the changes in 2553 by ManasviGoyal in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2725
* fix: reduction with `axis=None`, `keepdims=True` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2728

Other
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2722
* chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2716
* chore(deps): bump amannn/action-semantic-pull-request from 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2721
* chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2723

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.3...v2.4.4

New features
* feat: add ak_to_feather and ak_from_feather functions by zbilodea in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2683
* feat: expose simplification from `ak.from_buffers` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2713

Bug-fixes and performance
* fix: unpickling of `unknown_length` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2710
* fix: support placeholders in `from_buffers` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2714

Other
* chore: try to reintroduce Python 3.12, now that NumPy has released a beta. by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2644
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2705
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2715* chore(deps): bump aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials from 3 to 4 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2706
* chore(deps): bump docker/setup-qemu-action from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2707
* docs: update obsolete comment in docs (relevant only in v1). by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2699

New Contributors
* zbilodea made their first contribution in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2683

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.2...v2.4.3