chore: librarian release pull request: 20260316T210518Z (googleapis#2520)

PR created by the Librarian CLI to initialize a release. Merging this PR
will auto trigger a release.

Librarian Version: v0.8.3
Language Image:
us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:160860d189ff1c2f7515638478823712fa5b243e27ccc33a2728669fa1e2ed0c
<details><summary>bigframes: v2.38.0</summary>

##
[v2.38.0](googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes@v2.37.0...v2.38.0)
(2026-03-16)

### Features

* Add `bigframes.bigquery.rand()` function (googleapis#2501)
([5c43efb](googleapis@5c43efb7))

* add `df.bigquery` pandas accessor (googleapis#2513)
([91b6c24](googleapis@91b6c245))

* Add str, dt accessors to pd.col Expression objects (googleapis#2488)
([ce5de57](googleapis@ce5de570))

* add bigquery.ml.get_insights function (googleapis#2493)
([d29a609](googleapis@d29a6095))

* use EUC for AI IF, CLASSIFY, and SCORE when connection is not provided
(googleapis#2507)
([fe94910](googleapis@fe94910a))

### Bug Fixes

* handle unsupported types and empty results in describe (googleapis#2506)
([2326ad6](googleapis@2326ad6a))

* no longer automatically use anywidget in the `%%bqsql` magics (googleapis#2504)
([43353e2](googleapis@43353e2b))

### Documentation

* Fix typo in ExperimentOptions class docstring (googleapis#2498)
([077cb2e](googleapis@077cb2eb))

* add notebooks to user guide page (googleapis#2505)
([5cf3788](googleapis@5cf37888))

</details>

Author: tswast

.librarian/state.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 image: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:160860d189ff1c2f7515638478823712fa5b243e27ccc33a2728669fa1e2ed0c
 libraries:
   - id: bigframes
-    version: 2.37.0
+    version: 2.38.0
     last_generated_commit: ""
     apis: []
     source_roots:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,29 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/bigframes/#history
 
+## [2.38.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/compare/v2.37.0...v2.38.0) (2026-03-16)
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* add notebooks to user guide page (#2505) ([5cf37888bc0b4b1b0993dadd1e0fe5ee08341ef4](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/5cf37888bc0b4b1b0993dadd1e0fe5ee08341ef4))
+* Fix typo in ExperimentOptions class docstring (#2498) ([077cb2ebe515fc5e07bcbb5dc663edd28d3eaf00](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/077cb2ebe515fc5e07bcbb5dc663edd28d3eaf00))
+
+
+### Features
+
+* add `df.bigquery` pandas accessor (#2513) ([91b6c245521218bb78b543885e1b9424278ce2ab](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/91b6c245521218bb78b543885e1b9424278ce2ab))
+* use EUC for AI IF, CLASSIFY, and SCORE when connection is not provided (#2507) ([fe94910abff28e244dd79e1540a6c2184a12eb44](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/fe94910abff28e244dd79e1540a6c2184a12eb44))
+* Add `bigframes.bigquery.rand()` function (#2501) ([5c43efb745118f506ecc30196da68e9d6f4346dc](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/5c43efb745118f506ecc30196da68e9d6f4346dc))
+* add bigquery.ml.get_insights function (#2493) ([d29a60953ac989bb2c95e6eec3010620ac776a3c](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/d29a60953ac989bb2c95e6eec3010620ac776a3c))
+* Add str, dt accessors to pd.col Expression objects (#2488) ([ce5de57019449ca77d308946df72f04289343b51](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/ce5de57019449ca77d308946df72f04289343b51))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* handle unsupported types and empty results in describe (#2506) ([2326ad6aec15c20a66756eff093b50be484b3ba8](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/2326ad6aec15c20a66756eff093b50be484b3ba8))
+* no longer automatically use anywidget in the `%%bqsql` magics (#2504) ([43353e2bc9ffbc38b7383c24ecaac80d3b8bab32](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/commit/43353e2bc9ffbc38b7383c24ecaac80d3b8bab32))
+
 ## [2.37.0](https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-dataframes/compare/v2.36.0...v2.37.0) (2026-03-03)
 
 

bigframes/version.py

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "2.37.0"
+__version__ = "2.38.0"
 
 # {x-release-please-start-date}
-__release_date__ = "2026-03-03"
+__release_date__ = "2026-03-16"
 # {x-release-please-end}

third_party/bigframes_vendored/version.py

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__version__ = "2.37.0"
+__version__ = "2.38.0"
 
 # {x-release-please-start-date}
-__release_date__ = "2026-03-03"
+__release_date__ = "2026-03-16"
 # {x-release-please-end}