Awkward

Bug-fixes and performance
* fix: support placeholder arrays in `ArrayModuleNumpyLike.frombuffer` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2693
* fix: drop zero-cost views of `ak.Array` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2697

Other
* chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2689
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2692

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.1...v2.4.2

Other
- Fix docs version selector

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.4.0...v2.4.1

New features
* feat: `Form.expected_from_buffers` for names/dtypes `ak.from_buffers` needs. by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2660
* feat: support out-of-band buffers in pickling by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2665
* feat: add `touch_data` to `ak.typetracer` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2672
* feat: add support for custom picklers by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2682
* feat!: deprecate `forget_length`, add parameters to `typetracer_with_report` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2671
* feat!: remove deprecations for 1.4.0 release by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2688* fix: support placeholders in shape-only routines by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2652

Bug-fixes and performance
* fix: multiple-output ufuncs e.g. `divmod` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2654
* fix: support unflattening a typetracer-backed array at `axis != 0` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2657
* fix: fix IPython inspection by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2658
* fix: using `numba.core.errors.Numba<Error>` instead of `Error` in a Numba typing context. by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2659
* fix: raise error for invalid object in `from_dlpack` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2662
* fix: fix/harden broadcasting through tuples by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2663
* fix: update string to search for in determing parquet column list separator by douglasdavis in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2670
* fix: guard `broadcast_and_apply` from mixed backends by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2678
* fix: support typetracer in `ak.str.` operations by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2679

Other
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2645
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2677
* chore: bump numba and pyarrow test pins by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2684
* chore: bump C++ standard version by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2685
* chore(deps): bump aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials from 2 to 3 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2669
* test: keep testing Windows 32-bit. by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2681




**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.3.3...v2.4.0

New features

* feat: add support for `__arrow_array__` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2650
* feat: add `__dlpack__`, `from_dlpack` support by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2649

Bug-fixes and performance

* fix: rename cppyy test by ianna in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2643
* fix: support `highlevel=False` in all branches for `from_parquet` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2646
* fix: support non-hashable values in `parameters_union` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2651
* fix: remove unneeded cast by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2653

Other

* chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.9 to 1.8.10 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2641

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.3.2...v2.3.3

New features

* feat: add support for expected termination of transform functions by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2595
* feat: export error classes by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2613
* feat: unpickle arrays made in Awkward v1 (as v2). by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2604
* feat: use pyarrow for string functions by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2616
* feat: add support for dictionary encoding from Arrow by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2630
* feat: add CPU kernel for `to_numpy` support for strings/bytestrings by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2631

Bug-fixes and performance

* fix: don't decorate non-`Exception` subclasses by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2587
* fix: use `to_backend_array()` instead of `asarray` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2592
* fix: `artefacts` → `artifacts` in `pyproject.toml` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2612
* fix: adjust for numexpr 2.8.5, which hid getContext's frame_depth argument by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2617
* fix: add inline to prevent multiple definitions by ManasviGoyal in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2606
* fix: support lists of strings in `ak.zip` with `optiontype_outside_record=True` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2623
* fix: support `counts=len(array)` in `ak.unflatten` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2632
* fix: support non `int64` index in `ListArray`'s `pad_none` by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2634
* fix: `assert nextlen == 0` in reducer should also allow `unknown_length` by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2610

Other

* refactor: add new `module` and `name` arguments to `high_level_function` decorator by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2620
* docs: add guide on unflattening and grouping by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2622
* docs: remove reference to old arrayclass by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2640
* docs: initial user-guide pass for string functions by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2635
* chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.13.1 to 2.14.1 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2584
* chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2580
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2565
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2585
* chore: update pre-commit hooks by pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2619
* chore: use 2x faster black mirror by henryiii in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2633
* chore: drop 3.7 classifier by agoose77 in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2636
* chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.8 to 1.8.9 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2639
* chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.14.1 to 2.15.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2629

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.3.1...v2.3.2

New features

_(none!)_

Bug-fixes and performance

* fix: added kernel specializations for `awkward_ListOffsetArray_reduce_local_nextparents_64` by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/pull/2572

Other

_(none!)_

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/compare/v2.3.0...v2.3.1