Merge branch 'main' into release-improvements

Author: maxrjones

.github/workflows/codspeed.yml

@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ jobs:
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
         persist-credentials: false
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
     - name: Install Hatch
       uses: pypa/hatch@257e27e51a6a5616ed08a39a408a21c35c9931bc
       with:
@@ -39,4 +35,4 @@ jobs:
       uses: CodSpeedHQ/action@1c8ae4843586d3ba879736b7f6b7b0c990757fab # v4.12.1
       with:
           mode: walltime
-          run: hatch run test.py3.11-minimal:pytest tests/benchmarks --codspeed
+          run: hatch run test.py3.12-minimal:pytest tests/benchmarks --codspeed

changes/3679.feature.md

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+Adds a new in-memory storage backend called `ManagedMemoryStore`. Instances of `ManagedMemoryStore`
+function similarly to `MemoryStore`, but instances of `ManagedMemoryStore` can be constructed from
+a URL like `memory://store`.

changes/3781.feature.md

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+Added `Struct` class (subclass of `Structured`) implementing the zarr-extensions `struct` dtype spec. Uses object-style field format and dict fill values. Legacy `Structured` remains available for backward compatibility.

changes/3897.misc.md

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+Bump the minimum version of `typing-extensions` to 4.13 to support the `extra_items`
+keyword argument on `TypedDict` (PEP 728).

changes/3900.misc.md

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+Remove deprecated `zarr.convenience` and `zarr.creation` modules.

changes/3901.misc.md

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+Remove the deprecated `zarr_version` parameter from several functions and methods. That parameter is replaced with `zarr_format`.

changes/3902.misc.md

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+Remove deprecated `Group` methods `array`, `require_dataset`, and `create_dataset`.

changes/3903.misc.md

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+Remove deprecated `AsyncArray.create` and `Array.create` methods.

changes/3920.bugfix.md

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+Use the unit associated with the `Datetime64` data type when creating the default `Nat` scalar value.

changes/3924.bugfix.md

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+Apply path normalization to the `path` attribute of `FsspecStore`, ensuring that leading and trailing "/" symbols are removed.