v2023.11.0

Note

This is our 10th year anniversary release! Thank you for your love and support.

This release brings the ability to use opt_einsum for :py:func:xarray.dot by default,
support for auto-detecting region when writing partial datasets to Zarr, and the use of h5py
drivers with h5netcdf.

Thanks to the 19 contributors to this release:
Aman Bagrecha, Anderson Banihirwe, Ben Mares, Deepak Cherian, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Ezequiel Cimadevilla Alvarez,
Illviljan, Justus Magin, Katelyn FitzGerald, Kai Muehlbauer, Martin Durant, Maximilian Roos, Metamess, Sam Levang, Spencer Clark, Tom Nicholas, mgunyho, templiert

What's Changed

• [skip-ci] dev whats-new by @dcherian in #8349
• [skip-ci] Add benchmarks for Dataset binary ops, chunk by @dcherian in #8351
• Add better ASV test cases for open_dataset by @Illviljan in #8352
• Reduce dask tokenization time by @martindurant in #8339
• Deprecate tuples of chunks? by @max-sixty in #8341
• Remove unnecessary for loop when using get_axis_num by @Illviljan in #8356
• Use namedarray repr in _array_api docstrings by @Illviljan in #8355
• NamedArray.ndim can only be int by @Illviljan in #8362
• docs: add searchable word "asterisk" by @templiert in #8363
• add .imag and .real properties to NamedArray by @andersy005 in #8365
• fix NamedArray.imag and NamedArray.real typing info by @andersy005 in #8369
• Add chunkedduckarray to _typing by @Illviljan in #8376
• Do not intercept left/right keys in HTML docs by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #8379
• Docs page on interoperability by @TomNicholas in #7992
• Fix typos found by codespell by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #8375
• Use opt_einsum by default if installed. by @dcherian in #8373
• Allow Variable type as dim argument to concat by @maresb in #8384
• Remove duplicated navigation_with_keys in docs config by @Illviljan in #8390
• Add duckarray test for np.array_api by @Illviljan in #8391
• Fix sparse typing by @Illviljan in #8387
• Correct typing for _sparsearray by @Illviljan in #8395
• Port fix from pandas-dev/pandas#55283 to cftime resample by @spencerkclark in #8393
• Fix for Dataset.to_zarr with both consolidated and write_empty_chunks by @Metamess in #8326
• Test masked array by @Illviljan in #8396
• Better attr diff for testing.assert_identical by @dcherian in #8400
• Add cross-links to API docstring from tutorial and user-guide by @amanbagrecha in #8311
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #8418
• Fix for date offset strings with resample loffset by @kafitzgerald in #8422
• Declare Dataset, DataArray, Variable, GroupBy unhashable by @maresb in #8392
• Add missing DataArray.dt.total_seconds() method by @maresb in #8435
• Rename to_array to to_dataarray by @max-sixty in #8438
• Remove keep_attrs from resample signature by @dcherian in #8444
• Pin pint to >=0.22 by @dcherian in #8445
• Remove PseudoNetCDF by @dcherian in #8446
• remove cdms2 by @keewis in #8441
• Automatic region detection and transpose for to_zarr() by @slevang in #8434
• Raise exception in to_dataset if resulting variable is also the name of a coordinate by @mgunyho in #8433
• Added driver parameter for h5netcdf by @zequihg50 in #8360
• Deprecate certain cftime frequency strings following pandas by @spencerkclark in #8415
• [skip-ci] Small updates to IO docs. by @dcherian in #8452
• Fix typos found by codespell by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #8457
• Pin mypy < 1.7 by @dcherian in #8458
• preserve vlen string dtypes, allow vlen string fill_values by @kmuehlbauer in #7869
• migrate the other CI to python 3.11 by @keewis in #8416
• 2023.11.0 Whats-new by @dcherian in #8461

New Contributors

• @maresb made their first contribution in #8384
• @Metamess made their first contribution in #8326
• @amanbagrecha made their first contribution in #8311
• @kafitzgerald made their first contribution in #8422
• @zequihg50 made their first contribution in #8360

Full Changelog: v2023.10.1...v2023.11.0