v1.2.0

This release brings a stricter internal model for manifest paths, support for appending to existing icechunk stores, an experimental non-kerchunk-based HDF5 reader, handling of nested groups in DMR++ files, as well as many other bugfixes and documentation improvements.

What's Changed

• FAQ updates by @TomNicholas in #266
• Import top-level version of xarray classes by @TomNicholas in #267
• Update index.md by @thodson-usgs in #275
• Remove unused ManifestBackendArray class by @TomNicholas in #282
• Fix bug in RT of parquet detection by @norlandrhagen in #278
• Search for coord_names in separate_coords by @ayushnag in #191
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #283
• Bump minimum Xarray dependency to 2024.10.0 by @TomNicholas in #284
• Dont write _ARRAY_DIMENSIONS to icechunk by @TomNicholas in #286
• Fix release notes for v1.1.0 by @TomNicholas in #288
• dmrpp root and nested group parsing fix by @ayushnag in #265
• Update README.md by @joshmoore in #294
• Remove numcodecs specific install by @mpiannucci in #301
• Update contributors guide by @TomNicholas in #298
• Clarify which features are currently available in FAQ by @TomNicholas in #296
• Fix sphinx warnings by @maxrjones in #300
• Update pkg install in docs contribution guide by @douglatornell in #304
• Support downstream type checking by including py.typed by @maxrjones in #306
• Non-kerchunk backend for HDF5/netcdf4 files. by @sharkinsspatial in #87
• Release note for #87 by @TomNicholas in #307
• Add status badges to README by @douglatornell in #303
• Expand xarray openable type hint with ReadBuffer by @TomNicholas in #316
• Consolidate hdf reader tests into their own tests module by @TomNicholas in #314
• Refactor kerchunk reader tests to call open_virtual_dataset by @TomNicholas in #317
• Add virtual_backend_kwargs argument to open_virtual_dataset by @TomNicholas in #315
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #322
• Refactor dmrpp tests to expose data file path by @TomNicholas in #323
• Paths as URIs by @TomNicholas in #243
• Add list of previous talks to readme by @TomNicholas in #313
• Correct some documentation links to function the public API by @TomNicholas in #325
• Ignore spontaneous mypy errors for h5py classes. ref #324 by @sharkinsspatial in #328
• Append to icechunk stores by @abarciauskas-bgse in #272
• Add new page with links to example notebooks by @TomNicholas in #331
• Release summary for v1.2.0 by @TomNicholas in #332

New Contributors

• @joshmoore made their first contribution in #294
• @douglatornell made their first contribution in #304
• @sharkinsspatial made their first contribution in #87

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0