2.28.0 (2025-11-03)

Features

• Add bigframes.bigquery.st_simplify (#2210) (ecee2bc)
• Add Series.dt.day_name (#2218) (5e006e4)
• Polars engine supports std, var (#2215) (ef5e83a)
• Support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views inread_gbq (#1895) (d97cafc)
• Support some python standard lib callables in apply/combine (#2187) (86a2756)

Bug Fixes

• Correct connection normalization in blob system tests (#2222) (a0e1e50)
• Improve error handling in blob operations (#2194) (d410046)
• Resolve AttributeError in TableWidget and improve initialization (#1937) (4c4c9b1)

Documentation

• Update bq_dataframes_llm_output_schema.ipynb (#2004) (316ba9f)