v1.7.0

v1.7.0 Mar 16, 2022

• Enhancements
  • Add support for Python 3.10 (#1940)
  • Added the SquareRoot, NaturalLogarithm, Sine, Cosine and Tangent primitives (#1948)
• Fixes
  • Updated the conda install commands to specify the channel (#1917)
• Changes
  • Update error message when DFS returns an empty list of features (#1919)
  • Remove list_variable_types and related directories (#1929)
  • Transition to use pyproject.toml and setup.cfg (moving away from setup.py) (#1941, #1950, #1952, #1954, #1957, #1964 )
  • Replace Koalas with pandas API on Spark (#1949)
• Documentation Changes
  • Add time series guide (#1896)
  • Update minimum nlp_primitives requirement for docs (#1925)
  • Add GitHub URL for PyPi (#1928)
  • Add backport release support (#1932)
  • Update instructions in release.md (#1963)
• Testing Changes
  • Update test cases to cover main.py file (#1927)
  • Upgrade moto requirement (#1929, #1938)
  • Add Python 3.9 linting, install complete, and docs build CI tests (#1934)
  • Add CI workflow to test with latest woodwork main branch (#1936)
  • Add lower bound for wheel for minimum dependency checker and limit lint CI tests to Python 3.10 (#1945)
  • Fix non-deterministic test in test_es.py (#1961)

Thanks to the following people for contributing to this release:
@andriyor, @gsheni, @jeff-hernandez, @kushal-gopal, @mingdavidqi, @rwedge, @tamargrey, @thehomebrewnerd, @tvdboom