Merge pull request SciTools#1582 from rhattersley/v1.7.x_whats_new

v1.7.4rc1 what's new

docs/iris/src/whatsnew/1.7.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 What's new in Iris 1.7
 **********************
 
-:Release: 1.7.3
+:Release: 1.7.4
 :Date: ???
 
 Iris 1.7 features
@@ -198,6 +198,17 @@ Bugs fixed in v1.7.3
 * Cubes that contain a pseudo-level coordinate can now be saved to PP.
 * Fixed a bug in the FieldsFile loader that prevented it always loading all available fields.
 
+Bugs fixed in v1.7.4
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+* :meth:`Coord.guess_bounds` can now deal with circular coordinates.
+* :meth:`Coord.nearest_neighbour_index` can now work with descending bounds.
+* Passing `weights` to :meth:`Cube.rolling_window` no longer prevents other
+  keyword arguments from being passed to the aggregator.
+* Several minor fixes to allow use of Iris on Windows.
+* Made use of the new standard_parallels keyword in Cartopy's LambertConformal
+  projection (Cartopy v0.12). Older versions of Iris will not be able to
+  create LambertConformal coordinate systems with Cartopy >= 0.12.
+
 Incompatible changes
 ====================
 * Saving a cube with a STASH attribute to NetCDF now produces a variable

lib/iris/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# (C) British Crown Copyright 2010 - 2014, Met Office
+# (C) British Crown Copyright 2010 - 2015, Met Office
 #
 # This file is part of Iris.
 #
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def callback(cube, field, filename):
 
 
 # Iris revision.
-__version__ = '1.7.4-DEV'
+__version__ = '1.7.4rc1'
 
 # Restrict the names imported when using "from iris import *"
 __all__ = ['load', 'load_cube', 'load_cubes', 'load_raw',