Version 2.0.0rc3

This pre-release is to get #1867 into something pip-installable for Coffea testing. The next pre-release will (probably) be the one that splits Awkward into two packages (#1778).

New features

(none!)

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: correctly turn ByteMaskedArray into ByteMaskedArray by @agoose77 in #1851
• fix: separate contiguity from dimension test in NumpyArray._reduce_next by @agoose77 in #1856
• fix: propagate local behaviors in ak.combinations by @lgray in #1867

Other

• refactor: ak._util by @agoose77 in #1848
• refactor: eliminate many of the compiler warnings. by @jpivarski in #1858
• refactor: removed placeholder (-1) intended for Identifier from Lookup. by @jpivarski in #1859
• docs: add rdataframe user guide by @ianna in #1836
• docs: import awkward._v2 now raises an explanatory error message. by @jpivarski in #1857
• ci: allow pushes to main to deploy by @agoose77 in #1852
• ci: don't run PR job on main by @agoose77 in #1853
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #1854

Full Changelog: v2.0.0rc2...v2.0.0rc3