Pandas journey

• 2008: Wes McKinney built pandas at AQR Capital Management in 2008.

• 2009: The library is released as open-source software under the New BSD License to the public.

• 2010: pandas 0.1.0 version was released with core data structure like series and DataFrame.

• 2012: Chang She joins the project as the second-largest contributor.

• 2015: pandas becomes a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS and pandas 0.17 was introduced and methods like group by and time series functionalities was incorporated

• 2018: pandas 0.23 came with new features like improved string handling, categorical data handling.

• 2020: Release of pandas 1.0.0, introducing major improvements like native data types for strings.

• 2023: Release of pandas 2.0.0, adding optional Apache arrow backend support for drastically increased speeds.

• 2026: Release of pandas 3.0, further standardizing the performance and memory optimization of data structures