v0.7.0

🎉 This release unpins dask! Thanks to @melonora
It also brings many improvements—see notes below.

What's Changed

Added

• pandas 3.0 support by @LucaMarconato in #1034
• Added parameter to sd.concatenate to control whether to merge coordinate systems with the same name by @timtreis in #919
• [experimental] z support get_dims for shapes by @LucaMarconato in #997
• Add User Guide by @Bisho2122 in #909
• Geometry encoding parameter for shapes by @keller-mark in #951
• Added filter_table_by_query by @srivarra in #894

Changed

• unpinning dask by @melonora in #1006

Fixed

• Change: fixed the read_zarr function for zarr.Group objects by @DiDeoxy in #962
• Lazy load torch by @quentinblampey in #1027
• use chunks parameter for dataarray models by @MSHelm in #1031
• Fix attrs-expr bug bounding_box_query points by @LucaMarconato in #1038
• fix categories import by @jonas2612 in #1010
• Design doc: Add note about on-disk locations of point metadata attributes by @keller-mark in #957
• Design doc: Add intrinsic coordinate system name example by @keller-mark in #963
• Remove reference cycle within SpatialData to fix memory leak in bounding_box_query by @nickodell in #914
• When transforming DataTree elements, discard scales resulting in zero shape by @m-albert in #948
• Tests and warnings for issue 399 (nan in table columns) by @LucaMarconato in #1050
• Exclude 1.17.0 for issue anndata 339 by @LucaMarconato in #1057

New Contributors

• @DiDeoxy made their first contribution in #962
• @MSHelm made their first contribution in #1031
• @jonas2612 made their first contribution in #1010
• @keller-mark made their first contribution in #957
• @Bisho2122 made their first contribution in #909
• @nickodell made their first contribution in #914
• @m-albert made their first contribution in #948
• @srivarra made their first contribution in #894

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.7.0