diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst index 59857c67bf7..6b0f52e0dcc 100644 --- a/doc/whats-new.rst +++ b/doc/whats-new.rst @@ -14,10 +14,23 @@ What's New np.random.seed(123456) -.. _whats-new.0.17.1: +.. _whats-new.0.18.0: -v0.17.1 (unreleased) ---------------------- +v0.18.0 (6 May 2021) +-------------------- + +This release brings a few important performance improvements, a wide range of +usability upgrades, lots of bug fixes, and some new features. These include +a plugin API to add backend engines, a new theme for the documentation, +curve fitting methods, and several new plotting functions. + +Many thanks to the 38 contributors to this release: Aaron Spring, Alessandro Amici, +Alex Marandon, Alistair Miles, Ana Paula Krelling, Anderson Banihirwe, Aureliana Barghini, +Baudouin Raoult, Benoit Bovy, Blair Bonnett, David Trémouilles, Deepak Cherian, +Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão, Giacomo Caria, Hauke Schulz, Illviljan, Mathias Hauser, Matthias Bussonnier, +Mattia Almansi, Maximilian Roos, Ray Bell, Richard Kleijn, Ryan Abernathey, Sam Levang, Spencer Clark, +Spencer Jones, Tammas Loughran, Tobias Kölling, Todd, Tom Nicholas, Tom White, Victor Negîrneac, +Xianxiang Li, Zeb Nicholls, crusaderky, dschwoerer, johnomotani, keewis New Features @@ -195,8 +208,8 @@ Documentation (:issue:`4803`, :pull:`4810`). By `Aureliana Barghini `_. - Add :py:meth:`Dataset.polyfit` and :py:meth:`DataArray.polyfit` under "See also" in the docstrings of :py:meth:`Dataset.polyfit` and :py:meth:`DataArray.polyfit` - (:issue:`5016`, :pull:`5020`). By `Aaron Spring `_. - + (:issue:`5016`, :pull:`5020`). + By `Aaron Spring `_. - New sphinx theme & rearrangement of the docs (:pull:`4835`). By `Anderson Banihirwe `_. @@ -233,7 +246,6 @@ Breaking changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - xarray no longer supports python 3.6 - The minimum versions of some other dependencies were changed: The minimum version policy was changed to also apply to projects with irregular releases. As a result, the minimum versions of some dependencies have changed: