Release Narwhals v1.24.0 · narwhals-dev/narwhals

Changes

feat: pyspark and duckdb selectors (#1853)
feat: completely refactor alias tracking and support nw.all, nw.nth, and selectors across the API (#1866)
feat: raise if expression changes length in .over() (#1867)
feat: add DuckDB join_asof (#1860)
feat: allow any ddof value for duckdb var and std (#1858)
feat: add DuckDB Struct dtype (#1851)
feat: add DuckDB list.len method (#1850)
feat: enforce that group-by aggregations actually aggregate (#1844)
feat: add mean_horizontal for DuckDB (#1846)

fix: support various reductions in pyspark (#1870)
fix: address & / | operator errors for PySpark / chore: use F.lit in maybe_evaluate for pyspark, like we do for duckdb (#1872)
fix: allow any name in expression parsing (#1871)
fix: nw.selectors.by_dtype(nw.Datetime) was excluding tz-aware for Polars (#1869)
patch: fix duckdb narwhals_to_native_dtype for Int32 and UInt32 (#1857)
fix: raise on selectors addition (#1854)
fix: rename ewm and rolling min_periods to min_samples for polars 1.21 compatibility (#1864)
fix: address & / | operator errors for PySpark / chore: use F.lit in maybe_evaluate for pyspark, like we do for duckdb (#1872)

test: skip Ibis tests if deps aren't installed, set defaults in PandasLikeSeries.__array__ to fix cuDF is_in (#1862)
chore: parse strings as columns names at narwhals-level (#1856)
chore: some typing and default removal (#1852)
chore: validate expressions shape at narwhals/expr.py level (#1845)
chore: simplify internal renaming in _pandas_like/series.py (#1847)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@FBruzzesi, @MarcoGorelli and @raisadz