Providing Information by Resource- Constrained Data Analysis

The Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 (Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data Analysis) brings together the research fields of data analysis (Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases, Machine Learning, Statistics) and embedded systems and enhances their methods such that information from distributed, dynamic masses of data becomes available anytime and anywhere. The research center approaches these problems with new algorithms respecting the resource constraints in the different scenarios. This Technical Report presents the work of the members of the integrated graduate school

Polymeric Micelles in Anticancer Therapy: Targeting, Imaging and Triggered Release

Micelles are colloidal particles with a size around 5–100 nm which are currently under investigation as carriers for hydrophobic drugs in anticancer therapy. Currently, five micellar formulations for anticancer therapy are under clinical evaluation, of which Genexol-PM has been FDA approved for use in patients with breast cancer. Micelle-based drug delivery, however, can be improved in different ways. Targeting ligands can be attached to the micelles which specifically recognize and bind to receptors overexpressed in tumor cells, and chelation or incorporation of imaging moieties enables tracking micelles in vivo for biodistribution studies. Moreover, pH-, thermo-, ultrasound-, or light-sensitive block copolymers allow for controlled micelle dissociation and triggered drug release. The combination of these approaches will further improve specificity and efficacy of micelle-based drug delivery and brings the development of a ‘magic bullet’ a major step forward

The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage

Background: We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, one of the most widespread, abundant, and well-studied turtles. We place the genome into a comparative evolutionary context, and focus on genomic features associated with tooth loss, immune function, longevity, sex differentiation and determination, and the species' physiological capacities to withstand extreme anoxia and tissue freezing.Results: Our phylogenetic analyses confirm that turtles are the sister group to living archosaurs, and demonstrate an extraordinarily slow rate of sequence evolution in the painted turtle. The ability of the painted turtle to withstand complete anoxia and partial freezing appears to be associated with common vertebrate gene networks, and we identify candidate genes for future functional analyses. Tooth loss shares a common pattern of pseudogenization and degradation of tooth-specific genes with birds, although the rate of accumulation of mutations is much slower in the painted turtle. Genes associated with sex differentiation generally reflect phylogeny rather than convergence in sex determination functionality. Among gene families that demonstrate exceptional expansions or show signatures of strong natural selection, immune function and musculoskeletal patterning genes are consistently over-represented.Conclusions: Our comparative genomic analyses indicate that common vertebrate regulatory networks, some of which have analogs in human diseases, are often involved in the western painted turtle's extraordinary physiological capacities. As these regulatory pathways are analyzed at the functional level, the painted turtle may offer important insights into the management of a number of human health disorders

The Dominant Inhibitory Chalcone Synthase Allele C2-Idf (Inhibitor diffuse) From Zea mays (L.) Acts via an Endogenous RNA Silencing Mechanism

The flavonoid pigment pathway in plants has been used as a model system for studying gene regulatory mechanisms. C2-Idf is a stable dominant mutation of the chalcone synthase gene, c2, which encodes the first dedicated enzyme in this biosynthetic pathway of maize. Homozygous C2-Idf plants show no pigmentation. This allele also inhibits expression of functional C2 alleles in heterozygotes, producing a less pigmented condition instead of the normal deeply pigmented phenotype. To explore the nature of this effect, the C2-Idf allele was cloned. The gene structure of the C2-Idf haplotype differs substantially from that of the normal c2 gene in that three copies are present. Two of these are located in close proximity to each other in a head-to-head orientation and the third is closely linked. Previous experiments showed that the lower level of pigmentation in heterozygotes is correlated with reduced enzyme activity and low steady-state mRNA levels. We found that c2 transcription occurs in nuclei of C2-Idf/C2 heterozygotes, but mRNA does not accumulate, suggesting that the inhibition is mediated by RNA silencing. Infection of C2-Idf/C2 heterozygotes with viruses that carry suppressors of RNA silencing relieved the phenotypic inhibition, restoring pigment production and mRNA levels. Finally, we detected small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) in plants carrying C2-Idf, but not in plants homozygous for the wild-type C2 allele. Together, our results indicate that the inhibitory effect of C2-Idf occurs through RNA silencing

pola-rs/polars: Python Polars 0.19.14

<h2> Highlights</h2> <ul> <li>Support Python 3.12 (#12094)</li> <li>make 1D numpy to polars conversion zero-copy for numeric data (#12403)</li> </ul> <h2>⚠️ Deprecations</h2> <ul> <li>Rename DataFrame column index methods (#12542)</li> <li>Rename <code>Series.set_at_idx</code> to <code>scatter</code> (#12540)</li> <li>Deprecate <code>Series.view</code> (#12539)</li> <li>Rename cumulative functions <code>cumsum -> cum_sum</code> and similar (#12513)</li> <li>Rename <code>take</code> to <code>gather</code> (#12528)</li> <li>Add dedicated horizontal aggregation methods to <code>DataFrame</code> (#12492)</li> <li>Rename <code>take_every</code> to <code>gather_every</code> (#12531)</li> <li>Deprecate <code>Series.inner_dtype</code> property (#12494)</li> <li>Deprecate <code>parse_int</code> in favor of <code>to_integer</code> (#12464)</li> <li>Deprecate DataType method <code>is_not</code> (#12458)</li> <li>Deprecate Series methods <code>is_boolean</code> and <code>is_utf8</code> (#12457)</li> <li>Add <code>DataType.is_integer</code> and other dtype groups (#12200)</li> </ul> <h2> Performance improvements</h2> <ul> <li>speed up parquet download of streaming engine (#12544)</li> <li>speed up cov/corr with SIMD + strength-reduction <code>~3x 0.19.13/ ~2x numpy</code> (#12471)</li> <li>apply predicates and statistics of parquet files in streaming mode (#12439)</li> <li>use online algorithm for cov/corr <code>~2x</code> (#12412)</li> <li>make 1D numpy to polars conversion zero-copy for numeric data (#12403)</li> </ul> <h2>✨ Enhancements</h2> <ul> <li>Add dedicated horizontal aggregation methods to <code>DataFrame</code> (#12492)</li> <li>support http scan_parquet (#12517)</li> <li>Add support for UTF-8 BOM option in <code>write_csv</code> and <code>sink_csv</code> (#12253)</li> <li>remove lexical (replace with atoi_simd, ryu, and itao). (#12512)</li> <li>more changes for versioned plugins (#12504)</li> <li>plugins add version and context (#12433)</li> <li>Add <code>DataType.is_integer</code> and other dtype groups (#12200)</li> <li>include i128 in more primitive functions (#12413)</li> <li>write rolling functions as private expressions. (#12379)</li> </ul> <h2> Bug fixes</h2> <ul> <li>fix incorrect ternary agg states (#12538)</li> <li>fix and improve ternary evaluation on groups (#12529)</li> <li>saturating sub in debug msg (#12525)</li> <li>fix panic when writing <code>Decimal</code> type to parquet (#12532)</li> <li>pre-fefetch struct columns in async projection pd (#12514)</li> <li>rechunk cross join output in streaming (#12511)</li> <li>Ensure behaviour of<code>Series</code> comparison with <code>timedelta</code> matches that of other types (#12497)</li> <li>fix as_list logical types (#12507)</li> <li>fix streaming cross join on empty df (#12491)</li> <li>dont overflow when calculating date range over very long periods (#12479)</li> <li>Allow append/zip_with/extend on local categoricals (#12369)</li> <li>Do not panic if time is invalid (#12466)</li> <li>ensure explicit "return_dtype" is respected by <code>map_dicts</code> (#12436)</li> <li>empty csv no-raise (#12434)</li> <li>Fix <code>scan_csv</code> error type (#12355)</li> <li>binary operations in aggregation context on literals (#12430)</li> <li>raw HTML output alignment was incorrect for dtype in header (#12422)</li> <li>update groups state after binary aggregation (#12415)</li> <li>Remove extra <code>\n</code> when reading file-like object wi… (#12333)</li> <li>Issue correct <code>PolarsInefficientMapWarning</code> for lshift/rshift operations (#12385)</li> <li>revert ternary special broadcast, ensure broadcast is always to max height (#12395)</li> <li>ensure first/last return null if empty (#12401)</li> </ul> <h2>️ Other improvements</h2> <ul> <li>fix and improve ternary evaluation on groups (#12529)</li> <li>Add <code>polars-ds</code> to list of community plugins (#12527)</li> <li>Future-proof consortium standard test (#12524)</li> <li>add schema test (#12523)</li> <li>remove lexical (replace with atoi_simd, ryu, and itao). (#12512)</li> <li>add test for previous commit (#12510)</li> <li>Update <code>polars-hash</code> reference (#12505)</li> <li>Add note on hash stability and mention <code>polars-hash</code> (#12496)</li> <li>Support Python 3.12 (#12094)</li> <li>Improved <code>import polars</code> timing test; now much more consistent/reliable (#12478)</li> <li>Use <code>.with_columns()</code> in all <code>.list</code> namespace examples (#12475)</li> <li>update rustc (#12468)</li> <li>Fix docs trigger (#12449)</li> <li>Update for new maturin release (#12437)</li> <li>Remove 'experimental' tag for auto-structify setting (#12435)</li> <li>make "DataFrame" and "Series" case more consistent across docs/comments/errors (#12428)</li> <li>dprint/markdown link checker minor updates (#12409)</li> <li>Use <code>manylinux_2_17</code> for building <code>x86-64</code> wheel (#12408)</li> <li>Use manylinux 2.24 instead of 2.28 for compatibility reasons (#12397)</li> <li>use with_columns in is_in example, and fix some bullet points not rendering (#12383)</li> </ul> <p>Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @MarcoGorelli, @abstractqqq, @alexander-beedie, @c-peters, @cmdlineluser, @hirohira9119, @ion-elgreco, @jerome3o, @nameexhaustion, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @stinodego and @uchiiii</p&gt

pola-rs/polars: Python Polars 0.19.13

<h2> Highlights</h2> <ul> <li>improve join performance through radix partitioned join (#12270)</li> </ul> <h2>⚠️ Deprecations</h2> <ul> <li>Rename <code>write_csv</code> parameter <code>has_header</code> to <code>include_header</code> (#12351)</li> <li>deprecate <code>_saturating</code> in duration string language, make it the default (#12301)</li> <li>Switch args for <code>Decimal</code> and set default <code>scale=0</code> (#12224)</li> <li>Rename <code>dt.seconds</code> to <code>dt.total_seconds</code> (likewise for days, hours, minutes, milliseconds, microseconds, and nanoseconds) (#12179)</li> <li>Deprecate <code>DataFrame.as_dict</code> positional input (#12131)</li> </ul> <h2> Performance improvements</h2> <ul> <li>indexvec in group-by (#12371)</li> <li>reduce allocations in hash join (#12368)</li> <li>change concurrency parameters (#12321)</li> <li>improve join performance through radix partitioned join (#12270)</li> <li>remove extra multiplication in hash_to_partition (#12233)</li> <li>allow non-power-of-two partitions (#12225)</li> <li>Reduce compute in error message for failed datetime parsing (#12147)</li> </ul> <h2>✨ Enhancements</h2> <ul> <li>updated <code>BytecodeParser</code> for Python 3.12 (#12348)</li> <li>Add <code>round_sig_figs</code> expression for rounding to significant figures (#11959)</li> <li>change concurrency parameters (#12321)</li> <li>deprecate <code>_saturating</code> in duration string language, make it the default (#12301)</li> <li>auto infer <code>ambiguous</code> for truncate and round (#12204)</li> <li>allow construction of <code>Datetime</code> series from <code>datetime.date</code> array (#12175)</li> <li>New <code>Config</code> options for numeric formatting: digit grouping and thousands/decimal separator (#12099)</li> <li>allow non-aggregation predicate in ternary groupby (#12286)</li> <li>Add <code>name=</code> in <code>.write_avro</code> to set schema name (#12255)</li> <li>Update <code>write_delta</code> to write large arrow types without casting (#12260)</li> <li>Add support for reading zstd compressed files (no-options) in read_csv (#12214)</li> <li>start prefetching all files immediately (#12201)</li> <li>expose more options to plugin registration (#12197)</li> <li>Add <code>.list.to_array</code> expression (#12192)</li> <li>consolidate & improve all casting failure error messages (#12168)</li> <li>Add Binary dtype to hypothesis tests (#12140)</li> <li>tunable concurrency (#12171)</li> <li>support reverse sort in streaming (#12169)</li> <li>Add <code>.arr.to_list</code> expression (#12136)</li> <li>Support decimals in assert utils (#12119)</li> <li>add concurrency budget (#12117)</li> <li>improved support for use of file-like objects with <code>DataFrame</code> "write" methods (#12113)</li> <li>Introduce ignore_nulls for str.concat (#12108)</li> </ul> <h2> Bug fixes</h2> <ul> <li>Do not cast lit if has same dtype (#12342)</li> <li>Fix index column name of rolling/dynamic group by (#12365)</li> <li>ternary broadcasting with empty truthy or falsy and agg predicate (#12357)</li> <li>uint64 should be correctly extracted from python object (#12338)</li> <li>ignore IDE-mediated DeprecationWarning when debugging tests under 3.12 (#12343)</li> <li>expr_output_name include literal (#12335)</li> <li>Fix Decimal dtype table repr (#12318)</li> <li>Fix behavior of month intervals in <code>date_range</code> (#12317)</li> <li>scan emtpy csv miss row_count (#12316)</li> <li>zip_with also broadcast mask (#12309)</li> <li>respect hive_partitioning flag when dealing with multiple files (#12315)</li> <li>parquet, add row_count to empty file materialization (#12310)</li> <li>Fix invalid DeprecationWarning generated from <code>date_range</code> defined with 'saturating' interval (#12311)</li> <li>fix download ranges in parquet (#12313)</li> <li>object store path derivation for local URL (#12308)</li> <li>don't move right endpoint of windows in rolling in default <code>offset==-period</code> case (#12267)</li> <li>Raise more informative error on invalid <code>reshape</code> input (#12288)</li> <li>incorrect super type for literals in nested binary exprs (#12238)</li> <li>typo in exception message (#12278)</li> <li>fix ambiguous aggregation type (#12269)</li> <li>return frames from <code>read_excel</code> in the originally specified order (#12243)</li> <li>Consistently propagate nulls for <code>numpy</code> ufuncs (#12212)</li> <li>respect return_scalar of list scalars (#12251)</li> <li>fix plugins system on Windows (#12230)</li> <li>potential overflow (#12206)</li> <li>always start a new thread if the thread is already blocking (#12202)</li> <li>with_row_count should block predicate push down for lazy csv (#12187)</li> <li>rechunk failed-list series before iterate (#12189)</li> <li>Fix interchange protocol boolean buffer size (#12177)</li> <li>fix incorrect desc sort behavior (#12141)</li> <li><code>take</code> should block predicate pushdown (#12130)</li> <li>use null type when read from unknown row (#12128)</li> <li>boundary predicate to block all accumulated predicates in push down (#12105)</li> <li>make python <code>schema_overrides</code> information available to the rust-side inference code when initialising from records/dicts (#12045)</li> <li>fix panic when initializing Series with array of list dtype (#12148)</li> <li>Fix schema of arr.min/max (#12127)</li> <li>ensure filter predicate inputs exist in schema (#12089)</li> </ul> <h2>️ Other improvements</h2> <ul> <li>updated <code>BytecodeParser</code> for Python 3.12 (#12348)</li> <li>Workaround for maturin issue (#12370)</li> <li>Fix incorrect boundary column name in <code>group_by_dynamic</code> docstrings (#12366)</li> <li>Fix typo in <code>rolling_*</code> docstrings (#12362)</li> <li>Fix ruff linting invocation (#12350)</li> <li>Clean up conversion utils (#11789)</li> <li>Organize Cargo.toml (#12323)</li> <li>Consolidate "getting started" and "user guide" sections (#12246)</li> <li>Minor updates to prepare for Python 3.12 support (#12314)</li> <li>Move script for testing map warning (#12306)</li> <li>simplify expr checking in predicate push down (#12287)</li> <li>Remove external link (#12223)</li> <li>Fix rebase issue breaking CI (#12296)</li> <li>Add top-level <code>make clippy</code>, simplify Rust linting workflows (#12290)</li> <li>ensure we git-ignore ALL <code>.venv</code> dirs (#12289)</li> <li>incorrect super type for literals in nested binary exprs (#12238)</li> <li>Remove recommended setting from IDE docs (#12275)</li> <li>Clean up Python test workflow (#12261)</li> <li>clarify contains selector (#12265)</li> <li>Add <code>py-polars</code> to Cargo workspace (#12256)</li> <li>Use <code>.with_columns</code> in some docstrings (#12250)</li> <li>Add test for <code>scan_csv</code> plus <code>slice</code> (#12239)</li> <li>Fix emphasis formatting in docstring (#12240)</li> <li>Fix emphasis formatting in docstring (#12237)</li> <li>add deprecation notices to the docs for expressions moved into the new <code>name</code> namespace (#12236)</li> <li>update Cargo.lock (#12226)</li> <li>make sort test work with unstable sort (#12221)</li> <li>Build Python wheels on <code>manylinux_2_28</code> (#12211)</li> <li>Include <code>rust-toolchain.toml</code> with sdist/wheels (#12184)</li> <li>Standardize project name formatting across docs (#12185)</li> <li>Update <code>sqlparser</code> to <code>0.39</code> (#12173)</li> <li>pin ring (#12176)</li> <li>Improve <code>strip_{prefix, suffix}</code> & <code>strip_chars_{start, end}</code> (#12161)</li> <li>Fix tests for pyarrow 14 (#12170)</li> <li>Fix rendering of note in <code>DataFrame.fold</code> (#12164)</li> <li>Fix triggers for docs deployment (#12159)</li> <li>Refactor some tests (#12121)</li> <li>Consolidate contributing info (#12109)</li> <li>Fix typo in user-guide/expressions/plugins.md (#12115)</li> <li>Render docstring text in single backticks as code (#12096)</li> <li>use more ergonomic syntax in select/with_columns where possible (#12101)</li> <li>Update CODEOWNERS (#12107)</li> <li>visualize plugin directory layout in user guide (#12092)</li> <li>Minor tweak in code example in section Expressions/Aggregation (#12033)</li> <li>Minor tweak in code example in section Expressions/Missing data (#12080)</li> <li>Minor improvements to the docs website (#12084)</li> </ul> <p>Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @JulianCologne, @MarcoGorelli, @Priyansh121096, @alexander-beedie, @cmdlineluser, @daviskirk, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @dgilman, @hirohira9119, @ion-elgreco, @jrycw, @mcrumiller, @moritzwilksch, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @owrior, @rancomp, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @rob-sil, @stefmolin, @stinodego and @wsyxbcl</p&gt

pola-rs/polars: Python Polars 0.19.10

<h2>⚠️ Deprecations</h2> <ul> <li>Deprecate <code>DataType.is_nested</code> (#11844)</li> </ul> <h2> Performance improvements</h2> <ul> <li>fix accidental quadratic behavior; cache null_count (#11889)</li> <li>fix quadratic behavior in append sorted check (#11893)</li> <li>optimise <code>read_database</code> Databricks queries made using SQLAlchemy connections (#11885)</li> <li>properly push down slice before left/asof join (#11854)</li> </ul> <h2>✨ Enhancements</h2> <ul> <li>Introduce list.sample (#11845)</li> <li>don't require empty config for cloud scan_parquet (#11819)</li> </ul> <h2> Bug fixes</h2> <ul> <li>raise a suitable error from <code>read_excel</code> and/or <code>read_ods</code> when target sheet does not exist (#11906)</li> <li>use physcial append (#11894)</li> <li>Add <code>include_nulls</code> parameter to <code>update</code> (#11830)</li> <li>recursively apply <code>cast_unchecked</code> in lists (#11884)</li> <li>recursively check allowed streaming dtypes (#11879)</li> <li>Frame slicing single column (#11825)</li> <li>fix project pushdown for double projection contains count (#11843)</li> <li>Propagate validity when cast primitive to list (#11846)</li> <li>Edge cases for list count formatting (#11780)</li> </ul> <h2>️ Other improvements</h2> <ul> <li>Further assert utils refactor (#11888)</li> <li>load 40x40 avatar from github and add loading=lazy attribute. (#11886)</li> <li>Fix Cargo warning for parquet2 dependency (#11882)</li> <li>Allow manual trigger for docs deployment (#11881)</li> <li>add section about plugins (#11855)</li> <li>fix incorrect example of valid time zones (#11873)</li> <li>fix typo in code example in section Expressions - Basic operators (#11848)</li> <li>Bump docs dependencies (#11852)</li> <li>add missing polars-ops tests to CI (#11859)</li> <li>Assert utils refactor (#11813)</li> </ul> <p>Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @Walnut356, @alexander-beedie, @dannyvankooten, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @ewoolsey, @jrycw, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @rjthoen, @romanovacca and @stinodego</p&gt

pola-rs/polars: Python Polars 0.19.8

Highlights <ul> <li>Enable additional flags for x86-64 wheels (#11487)</li> </ul> ⚠️ Deprecations <ul> <li>Rename <code>.list.lengths</code> and <code>.str.lengths</code> (#11613)</li> <li>Deprecate default value for <code>radix</code> in <code>parse_int</code> (#11615)</li> <li>Rename <code>write_csv</code> parameter <code>quote</code> to <code>quote_char</code> (#11583)</li> </ul> Performance improvements <ul> <li>actually use projection information in async parquet reader (#11637)</li> <li>improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607)</li> <li>use try_binary_elementwise over try_binary_elementwise_values (#11596)</li> <li>skip empty chunks in concat (#11565)</li> <li>improve sparse sample performance (#11544)</li> </ul> ✨ Enhancements <ul> <li>Standardize error message format (#11598)</li> <li>allow coalesce in streaming (#11633)</li> <li>Implement <code>schema</code>, <code>schema_override</code> for <code>pl.read_json</code> with array-like input (#11492)</li> <li>add SQL support for <code>UNION [ALL] BY NAME</code>, add "diagonal_relaxed" strategy for <code>pl.concat</code> (#11597)</li> <li>improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607)</li> <li>add time_unit argument to duration, default to "us" (#11586)</li> <li>support <code>read_database</code> options passthrough to the underlying connection's <code>execute</code> method (enables parameterised SQL queries, etc) (#11562)</li> <li>elide overflow checks on i64 (#11563)</li> <li>add <code>INITCAP</code> string function for SQL (#9884)</li> </ul> Bug fixes <ul> <li>Fix input replacement logic for slice (#11631)</li> <li>slice expr can be taken in cse (#11628)</li> <li>ensure nested logical types are converted to physical (#11621)</li> <li>correctly convert nullability of nested parquet fields to arrow (#11619)</li> <li>improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607)</li> <li>normalize filepath in sink_parquet (#11605)</li> <li>parse time unit properly in pl.lit (#11573)</li> <li>expand all literals before group_by (#11590)</li> <li>fix as_dict with include_key=False for partition_by (#9865)</li> <li>mark take_group_last function as unsafe (#11587)</li> <li>handle unary operators applied to numbers used in SQL <code>IN</code> clauses (#11574)</li> <li>Align new_columns argument for <code>scan_csv</code> and <code>read_csv</code> (#11575)</li> <li>don't conflate supported UNION ops in the SQL parser with (currently) unsupported UNION "BY NAME" variations (#11576)</li> <li>Add initialization support for python Timedeltas (#11566)</li> <li>incomplete reading of list types from parquet (#11578)</li> <li>respect identity in horizontal sum (#11559)</li> <li>bug in BitMask::get_u32 (#11560)</li> <li>take slice into account in parallel unions (#11558)</li> <li>correct schema empty df in hive partitioning read (#11557)</li> <li>ensure ListChunked::full_null uses physical types (#11554)</li> <li>respect 'hive_partitioning' argument in parquet (#11551)</li> <li>fix parquet deserialization Overflow error by using i64 offset types when promoting Arrow Lists to LargeLists (#11549)</li> <li>streamline <code>is_in</code> handling of mismatched dtypes and fix a minor regression (#11533)</li> <li>fix comparing tz-aware series with stdlib datetime (#11480)</li> <li>catch use of non equi-joins in SQL interface and raise appropriate error (#11526)</li> <li>rework SQL join constraint processing to properly account for all <code>USING</code> columns (#11518)</li> </ul> ️ Other improvements <ul> <li>Improved user guide for cloud functionality (#11646)</li> <li>Improve some docstrings (#11644)</li> <li>Disable clippy lint "too many arguments" for <code>py-polars</code> (#11616)</li> <li>Make backwardfill and forwardfill function expr non-anonymous (#11630)</li> <li>Make all expr in dt namespace non-anonymous (#11627)</li> <li>Fix changelog for language-specific breaking changes (#11617)</li> <li>Make value_counts and unique_counts function expr non-anonymous (#11601)</li> <li>Make arg_min(max), diff in list namespace non-anonymous (#11602)</li> <li>Rename <code>write_csv</code> parameter <code>quote</code> to <code>quote_char</code> (#11583)</li> <li>improve struct documentation (#11585)</li> <li>Remove <code>**kwargs</code> from <code>LazyFrame.collect()</code> (#11567)</li> <li>use a generic consistent total ordering, also for floats (#11468)</li> <li>fix lints (#11555)</li> <li>Remove toolchain specification workaround (#11552)</li> <li>Trigger Python release from Actions workflow dispatch (#11538)</li> <li>Enable additional flags for x86-64 wheels (#11487)</li> </ul> <p>Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @ByteNybbler, @MarcoGorelli, @TheDataScientistNL, @alexander-beedie, @andysham, @c-peters, @jhorstmann, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @romanovacca, @stinodego and @svaningelgem</p&gt