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Enhancements
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* Performance improvement for reading and writing chunks if any of the dimensions is size 1.
By :user:`Deepak Cherian <dcherian>` :issue:`1730`.
Maintenance
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* Enable ruff/bugbear rules (B) and fix issues.
By :user:`Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos <DimitriPapadopoulos>` :issue:`1702`.
* Minor updates to use `np.inf` instead of `np.PINF` / `np.NINF` in preparation for NumPy 2.0.0 release.
By :user:`Joe Hamman <jhamman>` :issue:`1842`.
Deprecations
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* Deprecate experimental v3 support by issuing a `FutureWarning`.
Also updated docs to warn about using the experimental v3 version.
By :user:`Joe Hamman <jhamman>` :issue:`1802` and :issue:`1807`.
* Deprecate the following stores: :class:`zarr.storage.DBMStore`, :class:`zarr.storage.LMDBStore`,
:class:`zarr.storage.SQLiteStore`, :class:`zarr.storage.MongoDBStore`, :class:`zarr.storage.RedisStore`,
and :class:`zarr.storage.ABSStore`. These stores are slated to be removed from Zarr-Python in version 3.0.
By :user:`Joe Hamman <jhamman>` :issue:`1801`.
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