What's Changed
- Add empty whats-new section for v2026.02.0 by @dcherian in #11110
- Add a suggestion for how to resolve chunk manager not available error by @jsignell in #11056
- DOC: Fix broken link in gallery by @VeckoTheGecko in #11115
- DOC: Various Numpydoc fixes by @VeckoTheGecko in #11122
- DOC: Correct some wording mistakes in xarray documentation by @star1327p in #11120
- DOC: Fix "latest" version displayed on landing page by @VeckoTheGecko in #11119
- Fix silent data corruption when writing dask arrays to sharded zarr stores by @kkollsga in #11117
- Slightly Amend Zarr Encoding Specification Doc #8749 by @eshort0401 in #11013
- DOC: Options A and A -> Options A and B by @star1327p in #11127
- Fix
.ploterror when using positional args withcolandrowby @jsignell in #11111 - Add a fast path that doesn't include normalized chunks in tokenize by @jsignell in #11017
- DOC: Fix link by @VeckoTheGecko in #11135
- create issue if nightly wheel upload fails by @ianhi in #11132
- Support negative step in normalize_indexer by @avalentino in #11044
- Allow 1D coords in NDPointIndex by @ianhi in #11116
- Replace
DeprecationWarningwithFutureWarningby @jsignell in #11112 - Fix sortby descending order placing NaNs at beginning instead of end by @kkollsga in #11118
- Update docstrings for pandas 3 by @jsignell in #11130
- Raise FileNotFoundError for missing local files in guess_engine by @kkollsga in #11150
- add osx-64 to the pixi config. by @ChrisBarker-NOAA in #11137
- Skip one more hypothesis test for dtype string by @jsignell in #11152
- temporarily silence shape assignment warnings raised in
netCDF4by @keewis in #11146 - DOC: Fix broken links (404 errors) by @VeckoTheGecko in #11161
- Refactor
cache-pixi-lock.ymlworkflow into external action by @VeckoTheGecko in #11096 - MAINT: Add linkcheck Pixi task by @VeckoTheGecko in #11160
- DOC: Add descriptions for pixi tasks by @VeckoTheGecko in #11155
- DOC: Update open_zarr decode_cf docstring by @VeckoTheGecko in #11165
- DOC: Add myst markdown support by @VeckoTheGecko in #11167
- raise error on slice-based selection of multi-index levels by @Mr-Neutr0n in #11168
- Update whats-new for v2026.02.0 release by @ianhi in #11163
- Add #11168 to whats-new by @ianhi in #11169
New Contributors
- @kkollsga made their first contribution in #11117
- @eshort0401 made their first contribution in #11013
- @avalentino made their first contribution in #11044
- @ChrisBarker-NOAA made their first contribution in #11137
- @Mr-Neutr0n made their first contribution in #11168
Full Changelog: v2026.01.0...v2026.02.0