Release Notes v2025.01.13

Bug Fixes

• Issues #3931 and #3933: fixes bug in the Makefile preventing make install-arrow from successfully completing on some systems.
• Issue #3947: fixes bug where reshape was failing for a single integer argument.

Major changes

• Issues #3939 and #3957: refactors of the Makefile to streamline offline arkouda builds
• Issue #3960: creates a comm_diagnostics module for querying comm diagnostic statistics.

Minor changes

• Issue #3929: Adds chapel 2.1, 2.2 to the github CI
• Issue #3911: minor performance improvement to reduction module
• Issues #3881, #3882, and #3872: Completes the refactoring of all functions in EfuncMsg.chpl to the new interface.

Auto-generated release notes

• Closes #3929: Add chapel 2.1, 2.2 to CI by @ajpotts in #3930
• Part of #3931 bug in make install deps by @ajpotts in #3932
• Closes #3939: install-deps to work offline by @ajpotts in #3940
• Part 1 of #3933: failing make install-arrow by @ajpotts in #3936
• Part 2 of #3933 failing make install arrow by @ajpotts in #3944
• Part of #3911 reduction performance improvements by @ajpotts in #3914
• Closes 3943 issue with reshape by @drculhane in #3947
• Part 3 of #3933: failing make install-arrow by @ajpotts in #3946
• Part 2 of #3957: simplify offline builds by @ajpotts in #3959
• Part 4 of #3957: simplify offline builds by @ajpotts in #3965
• Closes 3881 3882 3872 etc by @drculhane in #3937
• Read multiple row groups in Parquet files correctly by @jhh67 in #3950
• Revert "Read multiple row groups in Parquet files correctly" by @ajpotts in #3969
• Closes #3960: python interface for CommDiagnostics by @ajpotts in #3966

New Contributors

• @jhh67 made their first contribution in #3950

Full Changelog: v2024.12.06...v2025.01.13