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This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release
(:doc:`View all changes <index>`.)


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   The highlights for this major/minor release of Iris include:

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   And finally, get in touch with us on :issue:`GitHub<new/choose>` if you have
   any issues or feature requests for improving Iris. Enjoy!


📢 Announcements
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✨ Features
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#. `@ukmo-ccbunney`_ added new *cube component* convenience methods that allow
   for manipulation of any named dimensional component that can be attached to a
   cube (i.e. coordinates, cell measures and ancillary variables) via a common
   interface. The following methods are provided:

   * :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.component` and :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.components`:
     get one or more components from a cube
   * :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.add_component`: add a component to a cube
   * :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.remove_component`: remove a component from a cube
   * :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.component_dims`: return the cube dimension(s)
     spanned by a component.

   (:issue:`5819`, :pull:`6854`)

#. `@ESadek-MO`_ added functionality to allow :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.concatenate`,
   :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.rolling_window` and :func:`~iris.cube.Cube.intersection`
   to work with dataless cubes. (:pull:`6860`, :pull:`6757`)

🐛 Bugs Fixed
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💣 Incompatible Changes
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🚀 Performance Enhancements
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🔥 Deprecations
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🔗 Dependencies
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📚 Documentation
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#. `@tkknight`_ added a gallery carousel to the documentation homepage. (:pull:`6884`)


💼 Internal
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#. `@trexfeathers`_ and `@hdyson`_ updated ``_ff_replacement.py`` to clarify
   that Iris supports Ancillaries. (:pull:`6792`)

#. `@trexfeathers`_ adapted ``test_OceanSigmaZFactory`` for NumPy 2.4 - only
   0-dimensional arrays can now be converted to scalars. (:pull:`6876`)

#. `@trexfeathers`_ updated benchmarking to source Mule from its new home:
   https://github.com/MetOffice/mule . (:pull:`6879`)

#. `@tkknight`_ removed flake8, we have ruff now instead.  (:pull:`6889`)

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    Whatsnew author names (@github name) in alphabetical order. Note that,
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.. _@hdyson: https://github.com/hdyson



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    Whatsnew resources in alphabetical order: