2.6.0 (2025-06-09)

Features

• Add blob.transcribe function (#1773) (86159a7)
• Implement ai.classify() (#1781) (8af26d0)
• Implement item() for Series and Index (#1792) (d2154c8)
• Implement ST_ISCLOSED geography function (#1789) (36bc179)
• Implement ST_LENGTH geography function (#1791) (c5b7fda)
• Support isin with bigframes.pandas.Index arg (#1779) (e480d29)

Bug Fixes

• Address read_csv with both index_col and use_cols behavior inconsistency with pandas (#1785) (ba7c313)
• Allow KMeans model init parameter as k-means++ alias (#1790) (0b59cf1)
• Replace function now can handle bpd.NA value. (#1786) (7269512)

Documentation

• Adjust strip method examples to match latest pandas (#1797) (817b0c0)
• Fix docstrings to improve html rendering of code examples (#1788) (38d9b73)