.. _whatsnew_0701:

Version 0.7.1 (February 29, 2012)
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This release includes a few new features and addresses over a dozen bugs in
0.7.0.

New features
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  - Add ``to_clipboard`` function to pandas namespace for writing objects to
    the system clipboard (:issue:`774`)
  - Add ``itertuples`` method to DataFrame for iterating through the rows of a
    dataframe as tuples (:issue:`818`)
  - Add ability to pass fill_value and method to DataFrame and Series align
    method (:issue:`806`, :issue:`807`)
  - Add fill_value option to reindex, align methods (:issue:`784`)
  - Enable concat to produce DataFrame from Series (:issue:`787`)
  - Add ``between`` method to Series (:issue:`802`)
  - Add HTML representation hook to DataFrame for the IPython HTML notebook
    (:issue:`773`)
  - Support for reading Excel 2007 XML documents using openpyxl

Performance improvements
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  - Improve performance and memory usage of fillna on DataFrame
  - Can concatenate a list of Series along axis=1 to obtain a DataFrame (:issue:`787`)



.. _whatsnew_0.7.1.contributors:

Contributors
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.. contributors:: v0.7.0..v0.7.1
