Audb

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* Added: support for repositories
on S3 and MinIO servers,
using the ``minio`` backend
of ``audbackend``
* Changed: depend on ``audbackend>=2.1.0``

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* Added: pseudo-streaming support with ``audb.stream()``,
which returns the new ``audb.DatabaseIterator`` object.
In each iteration
it will load a few rows from a requested table
and downloads corresponding media files
* Added: ``map`` argument to ``audb.load_table()``,
which behaves identical to the ``map`` argument
of ``audformat.Database.get()``
* Added: ``pickle_tables`` argument
to ``audb.load()``,
``audb.load_to()``
and ``audb.load_table()``
with default value of ``True``.
It can be used to disable
storing tables as pickle files
in cache/root folder
* Fixed: ``audb.load_table()`` now only loads additional misc tables,
that are used as scheme labels inside the requested table,
and not in the whole database

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* Added: support for publishing tables as parquet files
* Changed: depend on ``audeer >=2.1.0``
* Changed: depend on ``audformat >=1.2.0``
* Changed: depend on ``pandas >=2.1.0``
* Fixed: update progress bar at least every second
in ``audb.load()``,
``audb.load_attachment()``,
``audb.load_media()``,
``audb.load_tables()``,
``audb.load_to()``,
``audb.publish()``
* Removed: support for Python 3.8

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* Fixed: ensure correct data types
in dependency table
when loaded from a version in cache,
stored by ``audb<=1.6.3``

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* Fixed: ensure correct data types
in dependency table
when loaded from cache
* Fixed: publishing an update of a database
when the previous version
was stored in cache
by an older version of ``audb``
* Fixed: loading of database attachments
when ``audb.config.CACHE_ROOT``
and ``audb.config.SHARED_CACHE_ROOT``
point to the same folder
* Fixed: ensure ``audb.versions()``
does not fail
when database is not available
in a repository
* Fixed: loading of dependency table from cache
when the previous version
was stored in cache
by a different ``pandas`` version

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* Fixed: loading of dependency table from cache
under Python 3.8,
when stored by an older version of ``audb``