v2.9.0

2.9.0 (2025-06-30)

Features

• Add bpd.read_arrow to convert an Arrow object into a bigframes DataFrame (#1855) (633bf98)
• Add experimental polars execution (#1747) (daf0c3b)
• Add size op support in local engine (#1865) (942e66c)
• Create deploy_remote_function and deploy_udf functions to immediately deploy functions to BigQuery (#1832) (c706759)
• Support index item assign in Series (#1868) (c5d251a)
• Support item assignment in series (#1859) (25684ff)
• Support local execution of comparison ops (#1849) (1c45ccb)

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug selecting column repeatedly (#1858) (cc339e9)
• Fix bug with DataFrame.agg for string values (#1870) (81e4d64)
• Generate GoogleSQL instead of legacy SQL data types for dry_run=True from bpd._read_gbq_colab with local pandas DataFrame (#1867) (fab3c38)
• Revert dict back to protobuf in the iam binding update (#1838) (9fb3cb4)

Documentation

• Add data visualization samples for public doc (#1847) (15e1277)
• Changed broken logo (#1866) (e3c06b4)
• Update ai.forecast notebook (#1844) (1863538)