Merge branch 'main' into categorical-missing

.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           platforms: all
       - name: Build wheels
-        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.13.1
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.14.1
         env:
           CIBW_ARCHS_LINUX: auto
           CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS: x86_64 arm64

.github/workflows/build_wheels_release.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           platforms: all
       - name: Build wheels
-        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.13.1
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.14.1
         env:
           CIBW_ARCHS_LINUX: auto aarch64
           CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS: x86_64 arm64
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
           name: artifact
           path: dist
 
-      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.8.7
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.8.8
         with:
           user: __token__
           password: ${{ secrets.GH_TESTPYPI_UPLOAD }}
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
           name: artifact
           path: dist
 
-      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.8.7
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.8.8
         with:
           user: __token__
           password: ${{ secrets.GH_PYPI_UPLOAD }}

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Project-specific
 benchmark/*.csv
+benchmark/data/*.pkl
 
 # Files created by templating
 dense.cpp

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-3.2.0 - 2023-XX-XX
-------------------
+Unreleased
+----------
 
 **New features:**
 
 - Add support for missing values in ``CategoricalMatrix`` by either creating a separate category for them or treating them as all-zero rows.
 
+**Other changes:**
+
+- Improve the performance of ``from_pandas`` in the case of low-cardinality categorical variables.
+
 3.1.10 - 2023-06-23
 -------------------