Specifiers of dtypes given to ``astype()`` and related interfaces will now raise if NumPy will implicitly convert the argument to ``object``.
``Batch.to_frame()`` now exposes ``index_constructor``, ``columns_constructor`` arguments.
Improvements to usage of ``index_constructor`` and ``columns_constructor`` arguments in ``Frame.from_concat`` when ``Series`` are provided as components.
When using a ``Batch`` to write to an archive, non-unique labels will now raise a ``StoreLabelNonUnique`` exception.