From 1fd5286716457f9e843a5e56ecf8ead7e09664e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Cherian Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 12:36:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Whats-new for 2023.12.0 (#8532) * Whats-new for 2023.12.0 * Update doc/whats-new.rst Co-authored-by: Spencer Clark * Update doc/whats-new.rst * Update whats-new.rst --------- Co-authored-by: Spencer Clark --- doc/whats-new.rst | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst index 0743a29316b..478b687154d 100644 --- a/doc/whats-new.rst +++ b/doc/whats-new.rst @@ -15,10 +15,18 @@ What's New np.random.seed(123456) -.. _whats-new.2023.11.1: +.. _whats-new.2023.12.0: -v2023.11.1 (unreleased) ------------------------ +v2023.12.0 (2023 Dec 08) +------------------------ + +This release brings new `hypothesis `_ strategies for testing, significantly faster rolling aggregations as well as +``ffill`` and ``bfill`` with ``numbagg``, a new :py:meth:`Dataset.eval` method, and improvements to +reading and writing Zarr arrays (including a new ``"a-"`` mode). + +Thanks to our 16 contributors: + +Anderson Banihirwe, Ben Mares, Carl Andersson, Deepak Cherian, Doug Latornell, Gregorio L. Trevisan, Illviljan, Jens Hedegaard Nielsen, Justus Magin, Mathias Hauser, Max Jones, Maximilian Roos, Michael Niklas, Patrick Hoefler, Ryan Abernathey, Tom Nicholas New Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -27,7 +35,7 @@ New Features Accessible under :py:mod:`testing.strategies`, and documented in a new page on testing in the User Guide. (:issue:`6911`, :pull:`8404`) By `Tom Nicholas `_. -- :py:meth:`rolling` uses numbagg `_ for +- :py:meth:`rolling` uses `numbagg `_ for most of its computations by default. Numbagg is up to 5x faster than bottleneck where parallelization is possible. Where parallelization isn't possible — for example a 1D array — it's about the same speed as bottleneck, and 2-5x faster @@ -36,7 +44,7 @@ New Features By `Maximilian Roos `_. - Use a concise format when plotting datetime arrays. (:pull:`8449`). By `Jimmy Westling `_. -- Avoid overwriting unchanged existing coordinate variables when appending by setting ``mode='a-'``. +- Avoid overwriting unchanged existing coordinate variables when appending with :py:meth:`Dataset.to_zarr` by setting ``mode='a-'``. By `Ryan Abernathey `_ and `Deepak Cherian `_. - :py:meth:`~xarray.DataArray.rank` now operates on dask-backed arrays, assuming the core dim has exactly one chunk. (:pull:`8475`).