v0.2.4

This is the release notes of v0.2.4. See here for the complete list of solved issues and merged PRs.

New Features

• Add mt.sort support (#862)
• Support DataFrame rechunk (#866)
• Support Series's setitem and getitem by iloc operation (#868)
• Add tree reduction method for DataFrame groupby aggregations (#869)

Enhancements

• Backport CUDA-related changes in utils (#846)
• Resolve compatibility issue for Python 3.8 (#858)

Bug fixes

• Fix incorrect behavior of dataframe arithmetic (#840)
• Mark resource as processing once allocated (#851)
• Kill process tree when terminating a worker process (#867)
• Fix read_csv execution on GPU (#870)

Tests

• Add separate environment to test HDFS (#835)