Python Polars 1.4.1

🚀 Performance improvements

• Integer fast path Parquet dict encoding (#18030)
• Speedup writing of Parquet primitive values (#18020)
• Remove temporary allocations in Parquet (#18013)

✨ Enhancements

• Add boolean Parquet HybridRle encoding (#18022)
• Support passing Worksheet objects to the write_excel method (#18031)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Subtraction with overflow on negative slice offset in Parquet (#18036)
• Fix drop selector (#18034)

📖 Documentation

• Update map_batches docstring (#18001)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Add @coastalwhite to parquet codeowners (#18032)
• Minor bump to comfy-table version (#18028)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@alexander-beedie, @coastalwhite, @deanm0000, @nameexhaustion and @ritchie46