v2025.01.2

This release brings non-nanosecond datetime and timedelta resolution to xarray, sharded reading in zarr, suggestion of correct names when trying to access non-existent data variables and bug fixes!

Thanks to the 16 contributors to this release: Deepak Cherian, Elliott Sales de Andrade, Jacob Prince-Bieker, Jimmy Westling, Joe Hamman, Joseph Nowak, Justus Magin, Kai Mühlbauer, Mattia Almansi, Michael Niklas, Roelof Rietbroek, Salaheddine EL FARISSI, Sam Levang, Spencer Clark, Stephan Hoyer and Tom Nicholas

What's Changed

• dev whats-new by @dcherian in #9936
• Remove outdated quantile test. by @dcherian in #9945
• Relax nanosecond datetime restriction in CF time decoding by @kmuehlbauer in #9618
• fix upstream dev issues by @kmuehlbauer in #9953
• Suggest the correct name when no key matches in the dataset by @Illviljan in #9943
• cast type to PDDatetimeUnitOptions by @kmuehlbauer in #9963
• Update time coding tests to assert exact equality by @spencerkclark in #9961
• remove dask-expr from CI runs, fix related tests by @kmuehlbauer in #9971
• Use zarr-fixture to prevent thread leakage errors by @kmuehlbauer in #9967
• fix weighted polyfit for arrays with more than 2 dimensions by @malmans2 in #9974
• Fix test_doc_example on big-endian systems by @QuLogic in #9949
• Remove unnecessary a article by @salahelfarissi in #9980
• Fix some typing by @dcherian in #9988
• Use flox for grouped first, last by @dcherian in #9986
• Add shards to valid_encodings to enable sharded Zarr writing by @jacobbieker in #9948
• Add shxarray to the xarray ecosystem list by @strawpants in #9995
• Remove repetitive that (replace it with the) by @salahelfarissi in #9994
• Enable DataTree.to_zarr(compute=False) by @slevang in #9958
• Add time_unit argument to CFTimeIndex.to_datetimeindex by @spencerkclark in #9965
• fix mean for datetime-like using the respective time resolution unit by @kmuehlbauer in #9977
• Enable passing a CFTimedeltaCoder to decode_timedelta by @spencerkclark in #9966
• Revert "Use flox for grouped first, last (#9986)" by @dcherian in #10001
• Fix infer_freq, check for subdtype "datetime64"/"timedelta64" by @kmuehlbauer in #9999
• Migrate Zarr region="auto" tests to a class by @dcherian in #9990
• Fix the push method when the limit parameter is bigger than the chunk… by @josephnowak in #9940
• Use freq="D" instead of freq="d" in pd.timedelta_range by @spencerkclark in #10004
• cast numpy scalars to arrays in NamedArray.from_array by @keewis in #10008
• remove outdated type-ignores by @kmuehlbauer in #10006
• Preserve order of variables in combine_by_coords by @kmuehlbauer in #9070
• Add FAQ answer about API stability & backwards compatibility by @TomNicholas in #9855
• release notes: 2025.01.2 by @kmuehlbauer in #10007

New Contributors

• @salahelfarissi made their first contribution in #9980
• @jacobbieker made their first contribution in #9948
• @strawpants made their first contribution in #9995

Full Changelog: v2025.01.1...v2025.01.2