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