Log Message:
py-xarray: updated to 2024.11.0

v.2024.11.0 (Nov 22, 2024)
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This release brings better support for wrapping JAX arrays and Astropy Quantity \ 
objects, :py:meth:`DataTree.persist`, algorithmic improvements
to many methods with dask (:py:meth:`Dataset.polyfit`, :py:meth:`Dataset.ffill`, \ 
:py:meth:`Dataset.bfill`, rolling reductions), and bug fixes.
Thanks to the 22 contributors to this release:
Benoit Bovy, Deepak Cherian, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Holly Mandel, James \ 
Bourbeau, Joe Hamman, Justus Magin, Kai Mühlbauer, Lukas Trippe, Mathias \ 
Hauser, Maximilian Roos, Michael Niklas, Pascal Bourgault, Patrick Hoefler, Sam \ 
Levang, Sarah Charlotte Johnson, Scott Huberty, Stephan Hoyer, Tom Nicholas, \ 
Virgile Andreani, joseph nowak and tvo

New Features
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- Added :py:meth:`DataTree.persist` method (:issue:`9675`, :pull:`9682`).
  By `Sam Levang <https://github.com/slevang>`_.
- Added ``write_inherited_coords`` option to :py:meth:`DataTree.to_netcdf`
  and :py:meth:`DataTree.to_zarr` (:pull:`9677`).
  By `Stephan Hoyer <https://github.com/shoyer>`_.
- Support lazy grouping by dask arrays, and allow specifying ordered groups with \ 
``UniqueGrouper(labels=["a", "b", "c"])``
  (:issue:`2852`, :issue:`757`).
  By `Deepak Cherian <https://github.com/dcherian>`_.
- Add new ``automatic_rechunk`` kwarg to :py:meth:`DataArrayRolling.construct` and
  :py:meth:`DatasetRolling.construct`. This is only useful on ``dask>=2024.11.0``
  (:issue:`9550`). By `Deepak Cherian <https://github.com/dcherian>`_.
- Optimize ffill, bfill with dask when limit is specified
  (:pull:`9771`).
  By `Joseph Nowak <https://github.com/josephnowak>`_, and
  `Patrick Hoefler <https://github.com/phofl>`_.
- Allow wrapping ``np.ndarray`` subclasses, e.g. ``astropy.units.Quantity`` \ 
(:issue:`9704`, :pull:`9760`).
  By `Sam Levang <https://github.com/slevang>`_ and `Tien Vo \ 
<https://github.com/tien-vo>`_.
- Optimize :py:meth:`DataArray.polyfit` and :py:meth:`Dataset.polyfit` with \ 
dask, when used with
  arrays with more than two dimensions.
  (:issue:`5629`). By `Deepak Cherian <https://github.com/dcherian>`_.
- Support for directly opening remote files as string paths (for example, \ 
``s3://bucket/data.nc``)
  with ``fsspec`` when using the ``h5netcdf`` engine (:issue:`9723`, :pull:`9797`).
  By `James Bourbeau <https://github.com/jrbourbeau>`_.
- Re-implement the :py:mod:`ufuncs` module, which now dynamically dispatches to the
  underlying array's backend. Provides better support for certain wrapped array types
  like ``jax.numpy.ndarray``. (:issue:`7848`, :pull:`9776`).
  By `Sam Levang <https://github.com/slevang>`_.
- Speed up loading of large zarr stores using dask arrays. (:issue:`8902`)
  By `Deepak Cherian <https://github.com/dcherian>`_.

Breaking Changes
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- The minimum versions of some dependencies were changed