Python Polars 0.16.13

🚀 Performance improvements

• use atoi in favor of lexical in strptime -25% (#7501)
• [csv] faster utf8 validation ~20% (#7500)
• [csv] SIMD accelerate SplitFields -40% (#7498)
• (csv) don't use memchr for splitfields -~0.15% (#7494)
• csv-file use fast-float for csv float parsing (#7492)

✨ Enhancements

• literal support for binary (#7519)

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix(rust, python) respect time zone in date_range (#7503)
• transparently integrate externally-registered Excel formats (#7520)
• use physical types in sort-by args (#7518)
• keep series name in arithmetic (#7513)
• Initialize with Decimal dtype (#7511)
• fix projection pushdown of asof_joins (#7487)

🛠️ Other improvements

• update show_versions with xlsxwriter (and add as optional dependency) (#7507)
• Use new LazyFrame init in docs (#7508)
• Bump some linting versions (#7505)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@CloseChoice, @MarcoGorelli, @alexander-beedie, @ecashin, @ritchie46 and @stinodego