Improvements
* Support for "enumerated datatypes" (aka categoricals or factors). [1790](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1790)
* Introduce `Array.read_subarray` and `Array.write_subarray` APIs. [1824](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1824)
* Avoid importing Pandas until we actually use it. [1825](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1825)
* Make VFS accept path-like objects to refer to files. [1818](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1818)
Bug Fixes
* Use object equality check in buffer conversion, fixes state serialization bug in distributed use-case. [1822](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1822)