Pandas 0.24.0

This is a major release from 0.23.4 and includes a number of API changes, new
features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number
of bug fixes.

Highlights include:

• Optional Nullable Integer Support
• New APIs for accessing the array backing a Series or Index
• A new top-level pandas.array() method for creating arrays
• Store Interval and Period data in a Series or DataFrame
• Joining with two MultiIndexes

See the release notes for a full list of all the change from 0.23.4

The release candidate can be installed with conda using the defaults or conda-forge channels

conda install pandas

Or via PyPI

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pandas

Note that 0.24.x is the last series of releases to support Python 2.

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