.. _whatsnew_302:

What's new in 3.0.2 (March XX, 2026)
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These are the changes in pandas 3.0.2. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
including other versions of pandas.

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.. _whatsnew_302.regressions:

Fixed regressions
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- Fixed regression in :meth:`HDFStore.select` where the ``where`` clause on a datetime index silently returned empty results when the index had non-nanosecond resolution (:issue:`64310`)
- Fixed regression in :meth:`Series.interpolate` where ``limit_direction="both"`` with ``limit`` greater than the Series length raised ``ValueError`` (:issue:`64322`)

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.. _whatsnew_302.bug_fixes:

Bug fixes
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- :func:`col` and expressions derived from it failed with power (``**``) and matrix multiplication (``@``) operators (:issue:`64267`)
- Assigning :attr:`pd.NA` to a string column could trigger a PyArrow error and corrupt data (:issue:`64320`)
- Bug when using :func:`col` with Python functions :func:`bool`, :func:`iter`, :func:`copy`, and :func:`deepcopy` either failed or produced incorrect results; these now all raise a ``TypeError`` (:issue:`64267`)

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.. _whatsnew_302.contributors:

Contributors
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.. contributors:: v3.0.1..v3.0.2|HEAD
