Version 2.6.6

[jpivarski]

New features

• feat: add slicing CUDA kernels by @ManasviGoyal in feat: add slicing CUDA kernels #3140
• feat: add some misc CUDA kernels by @ManasviGoyal in feat: add some misc CUDA kernels #3141
• feat: Adding awkward.semipublic submodule by @tcawlfield in feat: Adding awkward.semipublic submodule #3152
• feat: 3154 from_parquet should be able to read partial columns by @tcawlfield in feat: 3154 from_parquet should be able to read partial columns #3156
• feat: add reduce kernels by @ManasviGoyal in feat: add reduce kernels #3136
• feat: copy_behaviors to make sub-classing easy by @Saransh-cpp in feat: copy_behaviors to make sub-classing easy #3137

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: use grid-stride looping for kernels with variable-length loops by @ManasviGoyal in fix: use grid-stride looping for kernels with variable-length loops #3130
• fix: don't let CuPy iterate over Index with Python for loops by @jpivarski in fix: don't let CuPy iterate over Index with Python for loops #3142
• fix: correct dtypes for numpy v2 by @ianna in fix: correct dtypes for numpy v2  #3159
• fix: ak.from_numpy should fail on zero-dimensional arrays. by @tcawlfield in fix: ak.from_numpy should fail on zero-dimensional arrays. #3161

Other

• test: reducer CUDA kernel tests by @ManasviGoyal in test: reducer CUDA kernel tests #3162
• ci: Ensure attestations for awkward-cpp sdist and wheels by @matthewfeickert in ci: Ensure attestations for awkward-cpp sdist and wheels #3135
• ci: faster wheel builds by @henryiii in ci: faster wheel builds #3146
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in chore: update pre-commit hooks #3139
• chore(deps): bump the actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot in chore(deps): bump the actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates #3153
• chore: trying atomics and tree reduction for CUDA reducer kernels by @ManasviGoyal in chore: trying atomics and tree reduction for CUDA reducer kernels #3123
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in chore: update pre-commit hooks #3145

Full Changelog: v2.6.5...v2.6.6

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