Zarr

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This release of Zarr Python is the first release of Zarr to not support Python 3.6.

Enhancements
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* Update ABSStore for compatibility with newer `azure.storage.blob`.
By :user:`Tom Augspurger <TomAugspurger>`; :issue:`759`.

* Pathlib support.
By :user:`Chris Barnes <clbarnes>`; :issue:`768`.

Documentation
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* Clarify that arbitrary key/value pairs are OK for attributes.
By :user:`Stephan Hoyer <shoyer>`; :issue:`751`.

* Clarify how to manually convert a DirectoryStore to a ZipStore.
By :user:`pmav99 <pmav99>`; :issue:`763`.

Bug fixes
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* Fix dimension_separator support.
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`775`.

* Extract ABSStore to zarr._storage.absstore.
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`781`.

* avoid NumPy 1.21.0 due to https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/19325
By :user:`Gregory Lee <grlee77>`; :issue:`791`.

Maintenance
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* Drop 3.6 builds.
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`774`, :issue:`778`.

* Fix build with Sphinx 4.
By :user:`Elliott Sales de Andrade <QuLogic>`; :issue:`799`.

* TST: add missing assert in test_hexdigest.
By :user:`Gregory Lee <grlee77>`; :issue:`801`.

.. _release_2.8.3:

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Bug fixes
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* FSStore: default to normalize_keys=False
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`755`.
* ABSStore: compatibility with ``azure.storage.python>=12``
By :user:`Tom Augspurger <tomaugspurger>`; :issue:`618`


.. _release_2.8.2:

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Documentation
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* Add section on rechunking to tutorial
By :user:`David Baddeley <David-Baddeley>`; :issue:`730`.

Bug fixes
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* Expand FSStore tests and fix implementation issues
By :user:`Davis Bennett <d-v-b>`; :issue:`709`.

Maintenance
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* Updated ipytree warning for jlab3
By :user:`Ian Hunt-Isaak <ianhi>`; :issue:`721`.

* b170a48a - (issue-728, copy-nested) Updated ipytree warning for jlab3 (721) (3 weeks ago) <Ian Hunt-Isaak>
* Activate dependabot
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`734`.

* Update Python classifiers (Zarr is stable!)
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`731`.

.. _release_2.8.1:

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Bug fixes
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* raise an error if create_dataset's dimension_separator is inconsistent
By :user:`Gregory R. Lee <grlee77>`; :issue:`724`.

.. _release_2.8.0:

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V2 Specification Update
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* Introduce optional dimension_separator .zarray key for nested chunks.
By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`715`, :issue:`716`.

.. _release_2.7.1:

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Bug fixes
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* Update Array to respect FSStore's key_separator (718)
By :user:`Gregory R. Lee <grlee77>`; :issue:`718`.

.. _release_2.7.0: