We are pleased to announce a release candidate for pandas 1.5.0. If all goes well, we'll release pandas 1.5.0 in about two weeks.

See the whatsnew for a list of all the changes.

The release will be available on conda-forge and PyPI.

The release can be installed from PyPI

python -m pip install --upgrade --pre pandas==1.5.0rc0

Or from conda-forge

conda install -c conda-forge/label/pandas_rc pandas==1.5.0rc0

Please report any issues with the release candidate on the pandas issue tracker.