Modin

This release upgrades the pandas version to 2.1, updates the minimum supported python version up to 3.9, introduces ModinDataLoader to improve interaction with PyTorch, fixes several issues with interchange protocol that solved known compatibility issues with Plotly, Seaborn and Altair, includes new version of HDK 0.8. It also includes some other new features, and many bug fixes.

The main purpose of this release is to port as many fixes as possible to the latest version, which supports Python 3.8.

Contributors
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AndreyPavlenko
RehanSD
YarShev
anmyachev
dchigarev
mvashishtha
vnlitvinov

This release upgrades the pandas version to 2.0. It also includes '.corr' speed-up, new
features, and bug fixes.

This release includes support for pandas 2.0, '.corr' speed-up, new features and bug fixes.

Note: this is a release candidate. If everything goes well, we'll release Modin 0.23.0 in two weeks.

Patch release with main point of pinning pydantic<2 to resolve Ray issues, plus a few bugfixes.