1.12.3.0

2025-08-18

• Fix cfdm.Data.reshape when the underlying data originate on disk (#348)
• New keyword parameter to cfdm.Field.dump: data (#345)
• New dependency: distributed>=2025.5.1

1.12.2.0

2025-06-05

• Implement lossy compression via quantization (#330)
• New quantization classes: cfdm.Quantization, cfdm.mixin.QuantizationMixin (#330)
• New quantization methods: cfdm.Field.get_quantization, cfdm.Field.get_quantize_on_write, cfdm.Field.set_quantize_on_write, cfdm.Field.del_quantize_on_write (#330)
• Improve performance in cfdm.read by caching any array values retrieved from disk (#313)
• New keyword parameter to cfdm.write: chunk_cache (#328)
• Read Zarr datasets with cfdm.read (#335)
• Read multiple datasets simultaneously with cfdm.read (#336)
• New keyword parameters to cfdm.read: recursive, followlinks (#336)
• New keyword parameters to cfdm.read: cdl_string (#337)
• Update CF aggregation keywords (#341)
• Set new minimum version of dask: 2025.5.1 (#339)
• New dependency: zarr>=3.0.8
• Changed dependency: dask>=2025.5.1

1.12.1.0

2025-04-01

• Set new method cfdm.Array.astype (#331)
• Set new maximum version of dask: 2025.3.0 (#332)
• Changed dependency: dask>=2025.2.0,<=2025.3.0

What's Changed

• Add astype method on Array subclasses. Pin Dask. by @davidhassell in #333

Full Changelog: v1.12.0.0...v1.12.1.0

1.12.0.0

2025-03-18

• Set new minimum version of dask: 2025.2.0 (#321)
• Set new minimum version of numpy: 2.0.0 (#318)
• Introduction of reading and writing of aggregation datasets (for CF-1.13) (#319)
• Changed dependency: Python>=3.9.0
• Changed dependency: numpy>=2.0.0
• Changed dependency: netCDF4>=1.7.2
• Changed dependency: cftime>=1.6.4
• Changed dependency: dask>=2025.2.0

What's Changed

• Prevent read error for datasets including badly-encoded UGRID meshes by @sadielbartholomew in #316
• Introduction of aggregation datasets by @davidhassell in #320
• Add missing docstrings by @davidhassell in #322
• Move to numpy version 2 by @davidhassell in #323
• Allow dask>2024.7.1 by @davidhassell in #326
• Add missing docs by @davidhassell in #327

Full Changelog: v1.11.2.1...v1.12.0.0

1.11.2.1

2025-02-26

• Re-introduction of cfdm.Data.datetime_as_string (#324)

What's Changed

• Reinstate cfdm.Data.datetime_as_string by @davidhassell in #324

Full Changelog: v1.11.2.0...v1.11.2.1

1.11.2.0

2025-01-28

• Introduction of dask for all data manipulations (#317)
• Fix bug that returned incorrect results when an invalid identifer is provided to cf.Field.cell_methods (#299)
• Upgrades to allow cfdm to work with Python 3.12 (#302)
• Extension to the HDF5 chunks API (#309)
• New function cfdm.netcdf_flattener that replaces the import of netcdf_flattener (#286)
• New function cfdm.netcdf_indexer that applies netCDF masking and unpacking to arbitrary arrays (#285)
• Allow access to netCDF-4 files in S3 object stores (#285)
• Allow a choice of netCDF engines (#285)
• Fix bug that caused cfdm.write to fail when a parametric Z dimension coordinate did not have a computed_standard_name attribute (#303)
• New class cfdm.H5netcdfArray
• New class cfdm.NetCDF4Array
• Changed dependency: numpy>=1.15,<2.0
• New dependency: h5netcdf>=1.3.0
• New dependency: h5py>=3.10.0
• New dependency: s3fs>=2024.6.0
• New dependency: dask>=2024.6.0,<=2024.7.1
• Removed dependency: netcdf_flattener

What's Changed

• Python 3.12 compatability by @davidhassell in #292
• Update linting package versions for Python 3.12 by @davidhassell in #306
• Fix cfdm.write when a parametric Z dimension coordinate does not have a compute_standard_name attribute by @davidhassell in #304
• h5netcdf read by @davidhassell in #307
• Extension to the HDF5 chunks API by @davidhassell in #310
• Fix bug that returned incorrect results when an invalid identifer is provided to cf.Field.cell_methods by @davidhassell in #300
• Introduction of Dask for all data manipulations by @davidhassell in #312

Full Changelog: v1.11.1.0...v1.11.2.0

1.11.1.0

2024-03-01

• New keyword parameter to cfdm.Field.insert_dimension: constructs (#287)
• New example field 11: discrete sampling geometry trajectory features (#289)

1.11.0.0

2023-12-06

• Python 3.7 support removed (#274)
• Implemented the reading and manipulation of UGRID mesh topologies for CF-1.11 (#270)
• New methods: cfdm.Field.cell_connectivity, cfdm.Field.cell_connectivities
• New methods: cfdm.Field.domain_topology, cfdm.Field.domain_topologies
• New methods: cfdm.Field.del_mesh_id, cfdm.Field.get_mesh_id, cfdm.Field.has_mesh_id, cfdm.Field.set_mesh_id,
• New attribute: cfdm.Data.sparse_array
• New dependency: scipy>=1.10.0

1.10.1.2

2023-08-31

• Fix bug that prevented "https://" netCDF files from being read (#268)

1.10.1.1

2023-07-21

• Fix bug that caused very slow reads of datasets with compression by gathering or DSG ragged arrays (#260)
• Fix bug that prevented cfdm.read from accessing remote files in URL locations (#262)