Version 5.2.0rc2

New features

• feat: improve uri scheme parsing with list of available schemes from fsspec by @lobis in #1009
• feat: use only loop executor for fsspec source by @lobis in #999
• feat: modify how multipart bytes header is built (no space) on http source by @lobis in #1018
• feat: basic fsspec writing by @lobis in #1016
• feat: correct fsspec source serialization by @lobis in #1033

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: url and object splitting for local files by @lobis in #1007
• fix: s3 source options and repr by @lobis in #1024
• fix: processing of pathlib.Path argument for writing by @lobis in #1031
• fix: multithreaded file source breaks interpretation by @lobis in #1036

Other

• test: local http server for tests by @lobis in #1010
• test: testing sshfs with local ssh server by @lobis in #1013
• test: use paramiko for ssh instead of sshfs by @lobis in #1014
• test: cover more fsspec backends by @lobis in #1015
• test: review skipped tests (networking timeouts) by @lobis in #1027
• test: s3fs pytest unraisable exception by @lobis in #1012
• test: improve path object split tests by @lobis in #1039
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #1005
• chore: replace some old code (python 2) by @lobis in #1020

Full Changelog: v5.1.2...v5.2.0rc2