We are pleased to announce the release of pandas 2.1.0.
This release includes some new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

See the full whatsnew for a list of all the changes.
Pandas 2.1.0 supports Python 3.9 and higher.

The release will be available on the defaults and conda-forge channels:

conda install pandas

Or via PyPI:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pandas

Please report any issues with the release on the pandas issue tracker.

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible.