Estimated release date: April 2024, but it will be updated closer to that time.

Comment From: mroeschke

Looking like this this release will happen post April 2024. Kicking the tires on things that are left to do before 3.0

Blockers for 3.0.

  • [ ] Enforcing deprecations in 2.x https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/50578
    • Except (potentially) resampling with PeriodIndex https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/57033, https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/56588
  • [x] Doing some action around pyarrow as dependency & the default string type https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/57073, https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/54466

Notable non-blockers for 3.0

  • [x] Drop Python 3.9 support per NEP 29 and SPEC-0
  • [ ] Separate out pandas tests into it's own package https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/53007
  • [x] Deprecate make_block and introduce alternative https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/56815, https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/58197

Anything else @pandas-dev/pandas-core

Comment From: lithomas1

It's probably wise to get in a 2.2.3 release before 3.0.

Comment From: rhshadrach

Anything else pandas-dev/pandas-core

A minor issue, but I'd like some eyes on #57351, make sure we're still good with the removal of swapaxes.

Comment From: Aloqeely

Anything else

If PDEP-17 goes through it'd be great if I could to switch all our deprecations from FutureWarning to DeprecationWarning before 3.0 — not a blocker though

Comment From: EwoutH

Estimated release date: April 2024

Any update on the estimated release date? And will there be alpha, beta and/or release-candidate releases?

Comment From: BastienGauthier

Hello everyone ! I hear everywhere that pandas 3.0 will be awesome, bravo ! Do you have a better view on when we should expect a release (or rc) ? Is it next month/quarter/year ? Thanks again for the fantastic work done !