Release v0.18.0: Pandas schemas supports global configuration

✨ Highlight ✨

Pandera now supports the configuration environment variable PANDERA_VALIDATION_ENABLED.
export PANDERA_VALIDATION_ENABLED=False now globally deactivates validation.

What's Changed

• Bump urllib3 from 2.0.4 to 2.0.7 by @dependabot in #1383
• Bump urllib3 from 2.0.5 to 2.0.7 in /dev by @dependabot in #1382
• Bump urllib3 from 2.0.4 to 2.0.7 in /ci by @dependabot in #1381
• Bugfix/1278 add_missing_columns assorted bugfixes by @derinwalters in #1372
• Fix lack of support for new TimestampNTZType in Spark 3.4 datatypes by @filipeo2-mck in #1385
• Current pip-compile usage does not have --no-emit-index-url by @filipeo2-mck in #1390
• Avoid throwing exception on Union types by @mjgp2 in #1378
• Fix optional fields in PySpark SQL by @filipeo2-mck in #1387
• Add support for unique validation in PySpark by @filipeo2-mck in #1396
• Enhancement to support GeoDataFrame, Geometry coercion, and CRS (Feature/1108) by @derinwalters in #1392
• fix issue for optional fields by @coobas in #1258
• Fix validating pyspark dataframes with regex columns by @lexanth in #1397
• Bump pyarrow from 13.0.0 to 14.0.1 by @dependabot in #1417
• Bump pyarrow from 13.0.0 to 14.0.1 in /dev by @dependabot in #1416
• Bump pyarrow from 13.0.0 to 14.0.1 in /ci by @dependabot in #1415
• [BUGFIX] [PYSPARK] Avoid running nullable checks if nullable=True by @filipeo2-mck in #1403
• Add Date type to pandera.all by @diederikperdok in #1419
• Fix disabling validation for PySpark DataFrame Schemas by @maxispeicher in #1407
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #1361
• [PySpark] Improve validation performance by enabling cache()/unpersist() toggles by @filipeo2-mck in #1414
• Bump urllib3 from 2.0.5 to 2.0.7 by @dependabot in #1420
• Generate localized timestamps in multiindex examples by @rob-sil in #1426
• feature: support string column validation for pandas 2.1.3 by @karlma821 in #1425
• Add support for PANDERA_VALIDATION_ENABLED for pandas and Configuration docs by @noklam in #1354
• update total download badge and fix contributing instructions by @cosmicBboy in #1436
• update cache dataframe config args, fix tests by @cosmicBboy in #1437
• Bump jupyter-server from 2.7.3 to 2.11.2 in /dev by @dependabot in #1440
• Bump cryptography from 41.0.4 to 41.0.6 by @dependabot in #1435
• Bump jupyter-server from 2.7.2 to 2.11.2 by @dependabot in #1441

New Contributors

• @filipeo2-mck made their first contribution in #1385
• @mjgp2 made their first contribution in #1378
• @coobas made their first contribution in #1258
• @lexanth made their first contribution in #1397
• @diederikperdok made their first contribution in #1419
• @maxispeicher made their first contribution in #1407
• @rob-sil made their first contribution in #1426
• @karlma821 made their first contribution in #1425
• @noklam made their first contribution in #1354

Full Changelog: v0.17.2...v0.18.0