Release 3.8.0

Release 3.8.0 is a new minor version fixing warnings, updating to newer versions of our dependencies, and changing some minimum requirements.

Important Changes:

• The minimum required pandas version is now pandas 2.1.
• Support for Python 3.8 has been dropped. The minimum required Python version is now 3.9.

Fixes

• Solved a DeprecationWarning appearing when writing a TfsDataFrame to disk due to the use of .applymap, byusing the now recommended .map method.
• Solved a DeprecationWarning appearing when reading a file from disk due to the use of delim_whitespace in our reader, by using the now recommended sep option.
• Solved a FutureWarning appearing when validating a TfsDataFrame due to the use of the pd.option_context('mode.use_inf_as_na', True) context manager during validation by explicitely casting infinite values to NaNs.
• Solved a FutureWarning appearing when validating a TfsDataFrame due to object downcasting happening during validation by explicitely infering dtypes first.

What's Changed

• Deprecations and FutureWarnings Fixes by @fsoubelet in #128

Full Changelog: v3.7.3...v3.8.0