Highlights

• First release to officially support SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS 8 (#456, #488, #504, #511, #512)
• Newly affiliated with NumFOCUS and pyOpenSci (#482, #510)
• We have a new logo, check it out! (#506)

Expired deprecations

• Removed gb.io.draw; use gb.viz.draw instead (#485)
• Removed A.ss.scan_rowwise, A.ss.selectk_rowwise, A.ss.compactify_rowwise, and A.ss.*_columnwise variants (#486)
  • Use e.g. A.ss.scan(order="row") instead

Enhancements

• Support SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS 8 (#456)
  • Document and improve using the JIT for user-defined operators defined in C (#512)
  • Document gb.ss.config options (#504)
  • Document gb.ss.context (#488)
  • Test against python-suitesparse-graphblas 8.0.2.1, 8.2.0.1, 8.2.1.0 (#511)
• Add matrix.power(k) to compute e.g. A @ A @ A @ ... using repeated squaring with arbitrary semiring (#483)
• Add matrix.setdiag(x, k=0) to set a diagonal of a matrix; supports mask and accum (#493)
• Add gb.ss.burble to enable SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS diagnostics; may be used as a context (#514)
• Add CSS to better stylize matrices in online docs (#502)
• Add .thunk_type attribute to SelectOp and IndexUnaryOp (#512)
• Add badge for pyOpenSci affiliation; we were peer reviewed! (#482)
• Add badge for NumFOCUS affiliation; we were added as an affiliated project! (#510)
• Created logo and color palette for python-graphblas! Notebook added that creates it (#506)

Bug fixes

• Allow scalar.__index__ for integral dtypes only (#481)
• Fix broken link to graphblas.org (#503)

Maintenance

• Drop support for:
  • Python 3.8 (#489)
  • scipy 1.8 (#489)
• Add support for:
  • Python 3.12 (#508)
  • numpy 1.26 (#493, #505)
  • pandas 2.1 (#500)
  • awkward 2.4 (#500)
• Drop usage of coveralls (use codecov instead) (#509)

New contributors

• We welcomed @alugowski, @paul-tqh-nguyen, and @Transurgeon as new code contributors this release 🎉