v2026.04.1

🚀 UXARRAY v2026.04.1

A focused release improving compatibility, strengthening validation, and enhancing developer workflows.

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🌟 Highlights

• 🔄 New Remapping Capability
  Introduced YAC as an optional remapping backend ([#1440](#1440)), expanding interoperability and flexibility.

• 🧩 Improved Compatibility
  Fixed breaking changes with xarray==2026.4.0, ensuring seamless dataset operations ([#1492](#1492)).

• 🛡️ Stronger Validation
  Enhanced grid parser checks for more reliable format handling ([#1478](#1478)).

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✨ Enhancements

• Added optional YAC remapping backend ([#1440](#1440))
• Strengthened grid parser format validation ([#1478](#1478))

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed UxDataset constructor and to_xarray() compatibility issues with latest xarray ([#1492](#1492))

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📚 Documentation

• Added missing entries to the API reference ([#1486](#1486))
• Migrated CF convention links to GitHub Pages ([#1484](#1484))

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⚙️ CI & Maintenance

• Skipped link-check step on pull requests to speed up CI ([#1482](#1482))

• Maintained NumPy version stability in upstream CI ([#1494](#1494))

• Dependency updates:

  • Bumped actions/github-script from v8 → v9 ([#1491](#1491))
  • General GitHub Actions updates ([#1485](#1485))

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👏 Contributors

Thanks to all contributors who made this release possible:

• @rajeeja
• @erogluorhan
• @dependabot[bot]

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📦 Full Changelog

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