This is a minor release pre-empting some upstream deprecations in `numpy` and `pandas`.
* Avoid using deprecated `is_categorical_dtype` from `pandas` at all in pandas >=0.25. (thanks EpigeneMax, lesteve, bashtage)
* Avoid using deprecated `numpy.row_stack` in favor of `numpy.vstack` in preparation from numpy 2.0. (thanks bashtage)