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@@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ What's New
 
     np.random.seed(123456)
 
-.. _whats-new.2022.09.1:
+.. _whats-new.2022.10.0:
+
+v2022.10.0 (Oct 14 2022)
+------------------------
+
+This release brings numerous bugfixes, a change in minimum supported versions,
+and a new scatter plot method for DataArrays.
+
+Many thanks to 11 contributors to this release: Anderson Banihirwe, Benoit Bovy,
+Dan Adriaansen, Illviljan, Justus Magin, Lukas Bindreiter, Mick, Patrick Naylor,
+Spencer Clark, Thomas Nicholas
 
-v2022.09.1 (unreleased)
------------------------
 
 New Features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -53,10 +61,6 @@ Breaking changes
   ========================== =========  ========
 
 
-Deprecations
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -73,11 +77,6 @@ Bug fixes
 - Support for open_dataset backends that return datasets containing multi-indexes (:issue:`7139`, :pull:`7150`)
   By `Lukas Bindreiter <https://github.com/lukasbindreiter>`_.
 
-Documentation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Internal Changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. _whats-new.2022.09.0: