Version 5.0.0rc7

[jpivarski]

New features

• feat: support categorical axes on boost histograms by @lobis in feat: support categorical axes on boost histograms #764
• feat: warn about TBranch name, alias name conflict. by @jpivarski in feat: warn about TBranch name, alias name conflict. #776
• feat: any Mapping assigned to a WritableDirectory is interpreted as a TTree or failure, no fall-through. by @jpivarski in feat: any Mapping assigned to a WritableDirectory is interpreted as a TTree or failure, no fall-through. #779
• feat: add 'interp_options' mechanism and ak_add_doc. by @jpivarski in feat: add 'interp_options' mechanism and ak_add_doc. #784
• feat: Use awkward pandas, instead of the existing code that explodes Pandas Dataframes by @kkothari2001 in feat: Use awkward pandas, instead of the existing code that explodes Pandas Dataframes #734
• feat: made 'very optional' arguments keyword-only by @jpivarski in feat: made 'very optional' arguments keyword-only #787
• feat: adjust for name change in feat: rename toXXX methods awkward#1919. by @jpivarski in feat: adjust for name change in scikit-hep/awkward#1919. #788

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: histogram weights not handled correctly in hist / boost conversion by @lobis in fix: histogram weights not handled correctly in hist / boost conversion #774
• perf: streamline metadata handling for TBranch name lookup and uproot.dask by @jpivarski in perf: streamline metadata handling for TBranch name lookup and uproot.dask #772
• fix: ensure AwkwardForth fallback path is tested without history. by @jpivarski in fix: ensure AwkwardForth fallback path is tested without history. #780
• fix: all AwkwardForth Forms now agree with awkward_form method output. by @jpivarski in fix: all AwkwardForth Forms now agree with awkward_form method output. #790

Other

• refactor: final refactoring for Forth generation by @aryan26roy in refactor: final refactoring for Forth generation #749
• test: make tests parallelizable (custom_classes in uproot.open). by @jpivarski in test: make tests parallelizable (custom_classes in uproot.open). #786
• docs: fix TRef.py doc urls by @veprbl in docs: fix TRef.py doc urls #782
• docs: uproot.dask docs by @kkothari2001 in docs: uproot.dask docs #702
• ci: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in ci: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #773
• ci: pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in ci: pre-commit autoupdate #783
• ci: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in ci: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #789
• ci: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in ci: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #793
• chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.5.1 to 1.6.1 by @dependabot in chore(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.5.1 to 1.6.1 #792

Full Changelog: v5.0.0rc6...v5.0.0rc7

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