What's Changed

First off - thanks to all those who made this release possible!! All the contributions are greatly appreciated 🙏

• Add parquet driver by @charles-turner-1 in #728
• Update README to correct cat_subset representation output by @sadielbartholomew in #673
• Update changelog by @charles-turner-1 in #731
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #733
• Update to zarr v3 by @charles-turner-1 in #735
• Force iterable column to always be tuple by @charles-turner-1 in #734
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #740
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.12.4 to 1.13.0 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in #741
• Pin polars < 1.33 by @charles-turner-1 in #749
• Replace Pydantic .dict() with .model_dump() by @will-s-hart in #746
• Bump the actions group with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #747
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #748
• Fix Pydantic 2.12 compatibility by updating @model_validator signature by @antarcticrainforest in #751
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #756
• Bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #755
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #760
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 in the actions group by @dependabot[bot] in #759
• Change chunking default to auto for compatible xarray versions by @charles-turner-1 in #737
• Fix polars remote csv panic #744 by @charles-turner-1 in #754
• Feature/xarray kerchunk engine by @chiaweh2 in #758

New Contributors

• @will-s-hart made their first contribution in #746
• @antarcticrainforest made their first contribution in #751
• @chiaweh2 made their first contribution in #758

Full Changelog: v2025.7.9...v2025.12.12

What's Changed

• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.3.1 to 5.4.0 in the actions group by @dependabot in #703
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #704
• Support Python313, add setuptools to requirements by @Zeitsperre in #707
• Update default argument for decode_timedelta by @charles-turner-1 in #706
• Remove setuptools runtime requirements by @Zeitsperre in #708
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #713
• 697- Fix segfault by @charles-turner-1 in #712
• Load with polars by @charles-turner-1 in #709
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #716
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.4.0 to 5.4.2 in the actions group by @dependabot in #714
• Fixed bug where pyarrow conversions were causing string accessor to fail in search by @charles-turner-1 in #718
• Improve test performance by @charles-turner-1 in #719
• Fix broken require_all_on example in docs by @charles-turner-1 in #720
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.4.2 to 5.4.3 in the actions group by @dependabot in #721
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #722
• Add interactive view of catalog by @charles-turner-1 in #723
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #726

New Contributors

• @Zeitsperre made their first contribution in #707

Full Changelog: v2025.2.3...v2025.7.9

What's Changed

• Bump the actions group with 16 updates by @dependabot in #658, #654, #661, #671, #686, #691, #693, #698
• Update PyPI workflow to build and upload intake-esm artifacts by @andersy005 in #659
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #662, #664, #669, #672, #675, #677, #682, #687, #692, #694
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 4.1.1 to 4.4.1 in the actions group by @dependabot in #663
• Update CONTRIBUTING guidelines to e.g. refer to new default branch by @sadielbartholomew in #674
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.9.0 to 1.10.2 in the actions group by @dependabot in #676, #680
• Fix how storage_options is passed to get_mapper by @garciampred in #678
• Changed behaviour of source._open_dataset to include coordinate variables by @charles-turner-1 in #681
• Upgrade to intake Take2 by @charles-turner-1 in #683
• Fix #684 Merge results from main and derived catalogs by @rbeucher in #685
• Update dependencies and improve import handling for xarray version compatibility by @andersy005 in #696
• Update pyproject.toml and readthedocs.yml by @andersy005 in #695
• feat: Support being able to use in-memory ESMCatalogModel instances by @lewisjared in #690
• Add flaky decorator for tests with remote resources to reduce cold start failure rate by @charles-turner-1 in #700

New Contributors

• @sadielbartholomew made their first contribution in #674
• @garciampred made their first contribution in #678
• @charles-turner-1 made their first contribution in #681
• @rbeucher made their first contribution in #685
• @lewisjared made their first contribution in #690

Full Changelog: v2024.2.6...v2025.2.3

What's Changed

• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.10 to 1.8.11 by @dependabot in #641
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #642
• replace black/flake/isort with ruff-format by @andersy005 in #643
• FIX: Pin older versions of sphinx to fix docs by @mgrover1 in #646
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #645
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot in #644
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.4 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot in #648
• Pin intake to <v2 by @andersy005 in #651
• Drop python 3.9 by @andersy005 in #652
• Update Dependabot configuration by @andersy005 in #653
• update changelog by @andersy005 in #655

Full Changelog: v2023.11.10...v2024.2.6

What's Changed

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #640
• Replace applymap with map by @dougiesquire in #639
• ADD: Add ci support for python 3.12 by @mgrover1 in #634

Full Changelog: v2023.10.27...v2023.11.10

What's Changed

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #618
• Add levels option to to_datatree() by @mgrover1 in #624
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8 by @dependabot in #625
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #626
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #628
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.8 to 1.8.10 by @dependabot in #627
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #630
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #631
• Fix for fsspec 2023.10.0 by @aulemahal in #636
• Update-changelog by @andersy005 in #638

Full Changelog: v2023.07.07...v2023.10.27

What's Changed

• Add support for None in search query by @aulemahal in #612
• Remove hardcoded single-threaded dask scheduler for dataset combine by @dougiesquire in #614
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 by @dependabot in #616
• Updates for pydantic v2 by @dougiesquire in #619

Full Changelog: v2023.6.14...v2023.07.07

What's Changed

• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.1 to 3.1.3 by @dependabot in #600
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #602
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5 by @dependabot in #601
• Optional aggregation control by @aulemahal in #569
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 by @dependabot in #605
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6 by @dependabot in #604
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #607
• FIX: Ensure storage options passed properly by @mgrover1 in #609
• attempt at fixing rtd docs build by @andersy005 in #610

Full Changelog: v2023.4.20...v2023.6.14

What's Changed

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #532
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 by @dependabot in #533
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #534
• Ensure intake kwargs are properly passed to Catalog by @andersy005 in #536
• Use latest ecgtools by @andersy005 in #538
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #537
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #539
• FIX: Add more options to kerchunk backend kwargs by @mgrover1 in #548
• Accept Path in esm_datastore by @aulemahal in #541
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #542
• fix badge for ci by @mgrover1 in #555
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #553
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.5.1 to 1.6.4 by @dependabot in #552
• Ensure aggregation control is optional by @mgrover1 in #551
• Fix #554: check filesystem url is a string by @observingClouds in #558
• FIX: Add dask config single-threaded to build catalog from timeseries by @mgrover1 in #559
• Pin minimum versions for fsspec, gcsfs, and s3fs by @andersy005 in #563
• Drop support for Python 3.8 by @andersy005 in #564
• Replace flake8/isort with ruff by @andersy005 in #566
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#571)Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> by @pre-commit-ci in #571
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#573)Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> by @pre-commit-ci in #573
• add in distributed for build catalog example by @mgrover1 in #574
• New opendap dataformat by @aulemahal in #570
• Add max as a codeowner by @mgrover1 in #576
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #575
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #577
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #578
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.6.4 to 1.7.1 by @dependabot in #581
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#582)Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> by @pre-commit-ci in #582
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.7.1 to 1.8.1 (#584)Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> by @dependabot in #584
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #585
• update pre-commit and dependabot schedules by @andersy005 in #586
• Add columns_with_iterables parameter to esm_datastore by @dougiesquire in #589
• Fix the link to documentation build status by @mgrover1 in #591
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.1 to 1.8.4 by @dependabot in #592
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #593

New Contributors

• @observingClouds made their first contribution in #558
• @dougiesquire made their first contribution in #589

Full Changelog: v2022.9.18...v2023.4.20

What's Changed

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #363
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 by @dependabot in #362
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #364
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 2.0.3 to 2.1.0 by @dependabot in #365
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #366
• Update pydantic models by @andersy005 in #367
• Update pre-commit hooks by @andersy005 in #369
• Add Query Model by @andersy005 in #370
• Use ESMCatModel Pydantic model by @andersy005 in #368
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #371
• Add ESMDataSource by @andersy005 in #372
• Fix catalog serialization by @andersy005 in #373
• Fix __repr__ and __repr_html__ by @andersy005 in #374
• Ensure multi variable catalogs are parsed properly by @andersy005 in #375
• Update Pull Request Template by @andersy005 in #376
• Use pydantic.validate_arguments decorator to validate individual functions by @andersy005 in #377
• Upgrade setup/build requirements by @andersy005 in #383
• Add functionality for derived variables by @andersy005 in #379
• Rename _types module to cat by @andersy005 in #381
• Add method for loading registry from a Python module by @andersy005 in #386
• Add query to derived variables by @andersy005 in #389
• Add skip_on_error option when loading datasets by @andersy005 in #390
• Fix .nunique() and .unique() methods by @andersy005 in #391
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #392
• Properly check whether dataframe is empty by @andersy005 in #394
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #396
• Remove linting workflow: use pre-commit.ci by @andersy005 in #399
• ESMCat pydantic Model: make id optional by @andersy005 in #398
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #402
• Exclude buggy xarray versions by @andersy005 in #406
• Add to_dask() method to esm_datastore by @d70-t in #403
• Use mamba when building docs on Readthedocs by @andersy005 in #408
• Add to_collection method returning an Xcollection by @jukent in #405
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #410
• Added detection of "*" to enable opening of multi-file datasets. by @andersy005 in #395
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #411
• Add Docs Based on ESDS Blog Posts by @mgrover1 in #409
• Switch over to the furo theme by @andersy005 in #412
• Reorganize docs by @andersy005 in #413
• Search returns same class as self - allowing subclassing by @aulemahal in #417
• Support mixed data formats by @aulemahal in #416
• Expose pd.DataFrame.to_csv and json.dump keyword arguments by @andersy005 in #421
• Pin importlib-metadata to 2.0 by @andersy005 in #422
• Fix CI failures: don't turn warnings into errors by @andersy005 in #429
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #430
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.4.2 to 1.5.0 by @dependabot in #431
• Fix dependency version conflict by @andersy005 in #432
• Add Python 3.10 to CI by @andersy005 in #400
• Improve search with derived variables by @aulemahal in #428
• Add pyupgrade to pre-commit hooks by @andersy005 in #433
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #438
• Support iterable columns with require_all_on by @aulemahal in #435
• Remove unused @df.setter by @andersy005 in #440
• Add last_updated to the ESMCatalogModel by @andersy005 in #442
• Derived Catalog: test for all needed variables and skip if existing by @aulemahal in #441
• Subset derived variable registry only with used derived variables by @aulemahal in #446
• Bump actions/setup-python from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #451
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #450
• Add tutorial module by @jukent in #454
• Tutorial url by @jukent in #455
• Ensure fsspec storage options are propagated to xr.open_dataset by @jukent in #453
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #459
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #463
• Change import to have configurable prefixes via set_options by @aulemahal in #460
• updating google-cmip6 cat to have more datasets by @jukent in #464
• replace references to collection with catalog by @jukent in #457
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #466
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #467
• Allow saving catalog via fsspec protocols by @andersy005 in #469
• Ensure storage_options are passed to esmcat.save() by @andersy005 in #471
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0 by @dependabot in #472
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #473
• Support for the grid mapping attribute and variable by @RondeauG in #449
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 by @dependabot in #475
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #476
• ENH: Support Kerchunk Files by @mgrover1 in #480
• Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #482
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #483
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #484
• FIX: Add fixes to allow reading kerchunk catalog by @mgrover1 in #485
• Bump styfle/cancel-workflow-action from 0.9.1 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot in #486
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #488
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #489
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #492
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 by @dependabot in #493
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #494
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #497
• Drop support for Python 3.7 by @andersy005 in #499
• use micromamba in CI by @andersy005 in #500
• Add get_available_cats() method to tutorial.py by @jukent in #458
• Docs improvement: use sphinx-design tabs by @andersy005 in #504
• add sphinx-design to list of extensions by @andersy005 in #505
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/intake/intake-esm/pull/...