08-08-2019 12:28 PDT

New Features

• Add bqstorage_client param to QueryJob.to_arrow() (#8693)
• Include SQL query and job ID in exception messages. (#8748)
• Allow using TableListItem to construct a Table object. (#8738)
• Add StandardSqlDataTypes enum to BigQuery (#8782)
• Add to_standard_sql() method to SchemaField (#8880)
• Add debug logging statements to track when BQ Storage API is used. (#8838)
• Hide error traceback in BigQuery cell magic (#8808)
• Allow choice of compression when loading from dataframe (#8938)
• Additional clustering metrics for BQML K-means models (via synth). (#8945)

Documentation

• Add compatibility check badges to READMEs. (#8288)
• Link to googleapis.dev documentation in READMEs. (#8705)
• Remove redundant service account key code sample. (#8891)

Internal / Testing Changes

• Fix several pytest "skip if" markers (#8694)
• Update tests to support conversion of NaN as NULL in pyarrow 0.14.*. (#8785)
• Mock external calls in one of BigQuery unit tests (#8727)
• Set IPython user agent when running queries with IPython cell magic (#8713)
• Use configurable bucket name for GCS samples data in systems tests. (#8783)
• Move maybe_fail_import() to top level test utils (#8840)
• Set BQ Storage client user-agent when in Jupyter cell (#8734)