2021.12.0

What's Changed

• Update nightly recipe / setup for 2021.11.0 release by @charlesbluca in #308
• Add test build using latest Dask/Distributed by @charlesbluca in #306
• General GHA workflow clean up by @charlesbluca in #313
• Add testing for Python 3.9 by @charlesbluca in #314
• Use Boa for nightly builds by @charlesbluca in #318
• Add handling for cuDF-backed tables in dask-sql-server by @charlesbluca in #312
• Row UDF scalar arguments by @brandon-b-miller in #311
• Update register_func() in context.py by @DaceT in #282
• Bump dask-ml dependency to 2021.11.16 by @charlesbluca in #322
• Add groupby split_out config options to dask-sql by @ayushdg in #286
• Remove null-splitting from _perform_aggregation by @charlesbluca in #273
• Revert "Remove null-splitting from _perform_aggregation" by @charlesbluca in #325
• Resolve failures in nightly package builds by @charlesbluca in #328
• Add workflow to automate gpuCI updates by @charlesbluca in #327
• Update gpuCI RAPIDS_VER to 22.02 by @github-actions in #329
• Installing Dask-SQL w/ RAPIDS by @DaceT in #324
• Remove null-splitting from _perform_aggregation by @charlesbluca in #326
• Generalize table check in _get_tables_from_stack by @charlesbluca in #333
• Add support for GPU table creation in dask / location plugins by @charlesbluca in #251
• Circumvent deep copy of context in PredictModelPlugin by @charlesbluca in #334
• Unrestrict conda-build version used for nightly builds by @charlesbluca in #335
• Update conditions for apply_sort fast codepath by @charlesbluca in #337
• [REVIEW]Add support and tests for cuML and XGBoost by @VibhuJawa in #330
• Ignore case for queries in the parser configuration by @jdye64 in #316
• Ignore .swp files by @charlesbluca in #341
• Added Alter schema and Alter Table by @rajagurunath in #285
• Bump dask dependency to >=2021.11.1,<=2021.11.2 by @charlesbluca in #345

New Contributors

• @DaceT made their first contribution in #282
• @github-actions made their first contribution in #329

Full Changelog: 2021.11.0...2021.12.0