Highlights of the Ibis 1.3 release

Ibis 1.3 was just released, after 8 months of development work, with 104 new commits from 16 unique contributors. What is new? In this blog post we will discuss some important features in this new version!

First, if you are new to the Ibis framework world, you can check this blog post I wrote last year, with some introductory information about it.

Some highlighted features of this new version are:

• Addition of a PySpark backend
• Improvement of geospatial support
• Addition of JSON, JSONB and UUID data types
• Initial support for Python 3.8 added and support for Python 3.5 dropped
• Added new backends and geospatial methods to the documentation
• Renamed the mapd backend to omniscidb

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