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From: Eli Rykoff <erykoff@stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:04:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add changelog fragment.

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+Added `lsst.daf.butler.formatters.parquet.add_pandas_index_to_astropy()` function which stores special metadata that will be used to create a pandas DataFrame index if the table is read as a DataFrame.