v0.22.0: Improve validation runtime performance by 4x

⭐️ Highlight

In this release, dependencies on multimethod and wrapt were removed and optimizations were made to speed up validation performance by up to 4x (depending on the validation rules. For simple cases speedup is ~4x see here).

What's Changed

• change order of Engine datatype resolution by @cosmicBboy in #1869
• Add missing Polars data types to docs by @ksolarski in #1872
• Fixing bug related to using coerce on a non-existent non-required column by @matt035343 in #1871
• handle non-bool dtypes in empty check outputs by @cosmicBboy in #1878
• Optimize validation runtime performance by @cosmicBboy in #1882
• bugfix/1846: remove wrapt as dependency from decorators.py by @cosmicBboy in #1883

New Contributors

• @ksolarski made their first contribution in #1872
• @matt035343 made their first contribution in #1871

Full Changelog: v0.21.1...v0.22.0