Version 2.2.2

New features

• feat!: drop string broadcasting overloading by @agoose77 in #2474
• feat: add Index._touch_XXX methods by @agoose77 in #2478
• feat: add ak.typetracer.length_one_if_typetracer by @jpivarski in #2499
• feat: add placeholder array by @agoose77 in #2479

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix!: raise error when flattening strings by @agoose77 in #2471
• fix: ak.concatenate for typetracer by @agoose77 in #2497
• fix: always touch arguments to kernels by @agoose77 in #2472
• fix: check start_at_zero in _compact_offsets by @agoose77 in #2477
• fix: convert index to shape item by @agoose77 in #2466
• fix: formatting error message (missing space). by @jpivarski in #2485
• fix: rename tonumbatype function to conform by @ianna in #2482
• fix: request non-option results for overloaded positional record reducers by @agoose77 in #2502
• fix: starts handling in RegularArray._reduce_next by @agoose77 in #2492
• fix: touch offsets in kernel call by @agoose77 in #2469
• fix: trim content when broadcasting by @agoose77 in #2489
• fix: use offsets for starts to handle length-0 arrays by @agoose77 in #2488
• refactor: cleanup and type hints by @agoose77 in #2476
• refactor: improve kernel error handling logic (1 of 3) by @agoose77 in #2505
• refactor: move JAX reducer dispatch to ak._do.reduce (2 of 3) by @agoose77 in #2506
• refactor: simplify reducer boilerplate (3 of 3) by @agoose77 in #2509

Other

• chore(deps): bump docker/setup-qemu-action from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 by @dependabot in #2511
• chore(deps): bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.3 to 2.13.0 by @dependabot in #2481
• chore: add more type hints! by @agoose77 in #2473
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #2467
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #2500
• chore: upgrade CI micromamba action by @agoose77 in #2494

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...v2.2.2