Python Polars 0.19.6

🚀 Performance improvements

• don't load N metadata files when globbing N files (#11422)

🐞 Bug fixes

• raise on invalid sort_by group lengths (#11423)
• fix outer join on bools (#11417)
• fix categorical collect (#11414)
• fix opaque python reader schema (#11412)
• async parquet. (#11403)
• Fix edge-case where the Array dtype could (internally) be considered numeric (#11398)
• handle ambiguous datetimes in pl.lit (#11386)
• fix panic in hive read of booleans (#11376)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Split Python release into build / release jobs (#11421)
• Refactor Python release workflow (#11382)
• clarify use of "batch_size" for read_database (#11377)
• large windows runner for release (#11370)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@MarcoGorelli, @alexander-beedie, @bowlofeggs, @c-peters, @jonashaag, @orlp, @ritchie46 and @stinodego