v2.6.0 🌈

🧭 What's Changed

• Change default max chunk size (#1759) @farizrahman4u
• Removes sequence test (#1762) @AbhinavTuli
• [AL-1818] Adds ability to pad tensors in pytorch and compute (#1751) @AbhinavTuli
• Enable random assignment by default (#1742) @farizrahman4u
• deepcopy + s3 fixes (#1749) @farizrahman4u
• [AL-1748] Show a progress bar while pytorch shuffle buffer is getting filled (#1745) @AbhinavTuli
• Update class_labels with text (#1756) @FayazRahman
• Update README.md (#1755) @istranic
• Fixes a bug with Version control + Info modification (#1753) @AbhinavTuli
• [AL-1780] [Small] Add support for pathlib.Path arguments (#1683) @adolkhan
• [BUGFIX] Fix appending to nested class_label tensors with text (#1743) @FayazRahman
• Skip google drive root test if no --gdrive flag (#1747) @FayazRahman
• [AL-1781] Reduce duration of CI tests (#1713) @FayazRahman
• Fix linked video tests (#1740) @FayazRahman
• [AL-1785] Changes to linked tensor credential management + other fixes (#1726) @AbhinavTuli
• Prevent changing logging configuration (#1738) @FayazRahman
• [AL-1822] Register hub datasets created by deepcopy (#1732) @farizrahman4u
• [AL-1821] ds.get_view (#1729) @farizrahman4u
• [AL-1829] Support views from datasets with uneven tensors (#1737) @farizrahman4u
• Google drive fixes (#1730) @FayazRahman
• Support timestamps for linked videos (#1731) @FayazRahman
• [AL-1820] view.sample_indices (#1728) @farizrahman4u
• [Optimization] Make sample size calculation faster in pytorch (#1725) @AbhinavTuli
• spell check - Found pytorch misspelt while reading docs (#1724) @neel2299
• [AL-1806] Do partial reads to retrieve shape for samples (#1721) @AbhinavTuli
• Fix linked video playback test (#1723) @FayazRahman
• Rechunking fixes (#1701) @farizrahman4u
• [AL-1810][AL-1814] Pytorch fixes (#1719) @AbhinavTuli
• [AL-1808] Support playing linked videos (#1717) @FayazRahman
• [BUG] Fix setitem issue with list of length 1 (#1718) @AbhinavTuli
• [BUG] Fix tobytes for linked tensors (#1714) @FayazRahman
• [AL-1795] Changes .data to return both numeric and text value for class labels (#1716) @AbhinavTuli
• [AL-1787] Enable appending to class_label tensors with text (#1710) @FayazRahman
• Update README.md (#1712) @istranic

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Correctly passing credentials to gcp provider (#1715) @ProgerDav

⚙️ Who Contributes

@AbhinavTuli, @FayazRahman, @ProgerDav, @adolkhan, @davidbuniat, @farizrahman4u, @istranic, @mikayelh and @neel2299