v3.7.0

What's Changed

• Adjust caching for our concat tables by @ThomasHepworth in #1013
• _initialise_df_concat optionally returns list by @RobinL in #1023
• Df concat and df concat with tf return SplinkDataframe or None by @RobinL in #1033
• [Docs] Add a dev guide for creating new ComparisonLevels and Comparisons to Splink libraries by @ADBond in #1041
• correct module name duckb_base -> duckdb_base by @ADBond in #1046
• Some cache tests by @ADBond in #1050
• Improving the cache and make cache invalidation easier and more robust by @RobinL in #987
• Bump version to 3.7.0 by @RobinL in #1056
• Release 3.7.0 as dev version by @RobinL in #1057
• Adds the ability to read directly from a settings filepath by @ThomasHepworth in #1062
• Add code to produce tf cols from concat_with_tf by @ThomasHepworth in #1065
• Use Ruff as a linter by @NickCrews in #1004
• cast all value values to varchar by @ThomasHepworth in #1049
• Automatically add tables of comparison (level)s compatible with each dialect to docs by @ADBond in #1035
• add the ability to pass pandas df into the SparkLinker by @ThomasHepworth in #1068
• Ruff by @ThomasHepworth in #1070
• Replace flake8 with ruff as our main linter by @ThomasHepworth in #1071
• Loosen dependency ranges by @NickCrews in #1080
• add new award by @RossKen in #1081
• Merge load settings methods by @ThomasHepworth in #1078
• Fix docs workflow by @ADBond in #1073
• Add docs for testing and creating a venv by @ThomasHepworth in #1086
• Added ability to profile nested lists by @zslade in #1074
• Workflow test multiple python versions by @ADBond in #1090
• WIP: Update new_library_comparisons_and_levels.md by @RossKen in #1082
• Added error message to catch pandas null casting issue when read into duckdb by @zslade in #1098
• add a bash script for linting by @ThomasHepworth in #1100
• parametrize datediff tests to clean them up by @ThomasHepworth in #1101
• update with parametrize to test more file loading options by @ThomasHepworth in #1105
• Improve citation by @RobinL in #1108
• Simplify specific implementations of SplinkDataframe by @RobinL in #1116
• Create Distance in KM Comparison library function by @RossKen in #1117
• Rename target_rows argument to max_pairs in estimate_u_using_random_sampling() by @NickCrews in #1087
• Create wrapper function for date comparisons by @RossKen in #1094
• Rename target rows as max_pairs by @RossKen in #1119
• Small Fixes by @NickCrews in #1115
• Fix benchmark comment action to work better with forks by @ADBond in #1122
• Release 3.7.0 proper by @ADBond in #1126

Full Changelog: v3.6.0...v3.7.0