GenericMappingTools · seisman · Jun 18, 2025 · Jun 13, 2025 · Jun 13, 2025 · Jun 13, 2025
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
@@ -18,16 +18,16 @@ authors:
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2354-1988
 - given-names: Yvonne
   family-names: Fröhlich
-  affiliation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
-  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-0619
-- given-names: William
-  family-names: Schlitzer
   affiliation: Unaffiliated
-  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5843-2282
+  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-0619
 - given-names: Michael
   family-names: Grund
   affiliation: SNP Innovation Lab GmbH, Germany
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8759-2018
+- given-names: William
+  family-names: Schlitzer
+  affiliation: Unaffiliated
+  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5843-2282
 - given-names: Max
   family-names: Jones
   affiliation: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ authors:
   family-names: Wessel
   affiliation: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-7336
-date-released: 2025-03-31
-doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15071586
+date-released: 2025-06-18
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15628725
 license: BSD-3-Clause
 repository-code: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt
 type: software
-version: 0.15.0
+version: 0.16.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -137,13 +137,13 @@ Feel free to cite our work in your research using the following BibTeX:
 
 ```
 @software{
-  pygmt_2025_15071586,
+  pygmt_2025_15628725,
   author       = {Tian, Dongdong and
                   Uieda, Leonardo and
                   Leong, Wei Ji and
                   Fröhlich, Yvonne and
-                  Schlitzer, William and
                   Grund, Michael and
+                  Schlitzer, William and
                   Jones, Max and
                   Toney, Liam and
                   Yao, Jiayuan and
@@ -157,12 +157,12 @@ Feel free to cite our work in your research using the following BibTeX:
                   Quinn, Jamie and
                   Wessel, Paul},
   title        = {{PyGMT: A Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools}},
-  month        = mar,
+  month        = jun,
   year         = 2025,
   publisher    = {Zenodo},
-  version      = {0.15.0},
-  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.15071586},
-  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15071586}
+  version      = {0.16.0},
+  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.15628725},
+  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15628725}
 }
 ```
 

diff --git a/doc/_static/version_switch.js b/doc/_static/version_switch.js
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   var all_versions = {
     'latest': 'latest',
     'dev': 'dev',
+    'v0.16.0': 'v0.16.0',
     'v0.15.0': 'v0.15.0',
     'v0.14.2': 'v0.14.2',
     'v0.14.1': 'v0.14.1',

diff --git a/doc/changes.md b/doc/changes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,63 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Release v0.16.0 (2025/06/18)
+
+[![Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.16.0](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.15628725.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15628725)
+
+### Highlights
+
+* 🎉 **Sixteenth minor release of PyGMT** 🎉
+* Implement gmt xarray BackendEntrypoint to load raster files via GMT ([#3919](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3919), [#3932](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3932))
+* Remove the dependency of netCDF4 ([#3643](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3643))
+
+### Enhancements
+
+* pygmt.grdclip: Parameters 'between' and 'replace'  accept a 2-D sequence ([#3883](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3883))
+* pygmt.grdlandmask: Improve the checking of parameters 'maskvalues'/'bordervalues' ([#3963](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3963))
+* Figure.coast/pygmt.select/pygmt.grdlandmask: Use long names ("crude"/"low"/"intermediate"/"high"/"full") for the 'resolution' parameter ([#3013](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3013))
+* Add a helper function sequence_join to join a sequence by a separator ([#3961](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3961))
+* Improve decorators @use_alias/@fmt_docstrings to list non-aliased aliases ([#3965](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3965))
+* Store first tile as source encoding for tiled grids ([#3950](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3950))
+
+### Deprecations
+
+* Figure: Deprecate the private _preprocess method (will be removed in v0.18.0) ([#3948](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3948))
+* Deprecate pygmt.io.load_dataarray, use xarray.load_dataarray instead ([#3922](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3922))
+* Session.virtualfile_in: Deprecate the parameter 'extra_arrays'. Prepare and pass a dictionary of arrays instead (will be removed in v0.20.0) ([#3823](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3823))
+* Session.virtualfile_in: Deprecate parameter 'required_z'. Use 'mincols' instead (will be removed in v0.20.0) ([#3369](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3369))
+* Session.virtualfile_in: Deprecate parameter 'required_data' to 'required' (will be removed in v0.20.0) ([#3931](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3931))
+* Session.virtualfile_from_vectors: Remove the deprecated '*args' parameter [deprecated since v0.14.0] ([#3893](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3893))
+* SPEC 0: Bump minimum supported versions to NumPy 1.26, xarray>=2023.07 and pandas>=2.1 ([#3916](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3916), [#3918](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3918), [#3895](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3895))
+* Bump minimum supported version to pyarrow>=16, packaging>=24.2, geopandas>=1.0, and contextily>=1.5 ([#3917](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3917), [#3933](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3933), [#3908](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3908), [#3912](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3912))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* pygmt.select: Parameter 'mask' accepts a sequence of strings ([#3956](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3956))
+
+### Documentation
+
+* GMTDataArrayAccessor: Improve the documentation to clarify how the accessor works ([#3955](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3955))
+
+### Maintenance
+
+* Update the AUTHORSHIP and Maintainers' Guides to reflect co-author contributions ([#3904](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3904))
+* Set registration and gtype properly as enums on gmt accessor init ([#3942](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3942))
+* Set license and license-files key in project metadata to follow PEP639 ([#3699](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3699))
+* CI: Test NumPy 2.3 in the GMT Tests workflow ([#3968](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3968))
+* Bump to ruff>=0.12.0 and fix violations ([#3980](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3980))
+
+**Full Changelog**: <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/compare/v0.15.0...v0.16.0>
+
+### Contributors
+
+* [Dongdong Tian](https://github.com/seisman)
+* [Wei Ji Leong](https://github.com/weiji14)
+* [Yvonne Fröhlich](https://github.com/yvonnefroehlich)
+* [Michael Grund](https://github.com/michaelgrund)
+* [Federico Esteban](https://github.com/Esteban82)
+
+---
+
 ## Release v0.15.0 (2025/03/31)
 
 [![Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.15.0](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.15071586.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15071586)

diff --git a/doc/minversions.md b/doc/minversions.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ compatibility reasons.
 | PyGMT Version | Documentation | GMT | Python | NumPy | pandas | Xarray |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | [Dev][]* | <doc:dev>, [HTML+ZIP](doc:dev/pygmt-docs.zip), [PDF](doc:dev/pygmt-docs.pdf) | {{ requires.gmt }} | {{ requires.python }} | {{ requires.numpy }} | {{ requires.pandas }} | {{ requires.xarray }} |
+| <tag:v0.16.0> | <doc:v0.16.0>, <html:v0.16.0>, <pdf:v0.16.0> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.26 | >=2.1 | >=2023.07 |
 | <tag:v0.15.0> | <doc:v0.15.0>, <html:v0.15.0>, <pdf:v0.15.0> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.25 | >=2.0 | >=2023.04 |
 | <tag:v0.14.2> | <doc:v0.14.2>, <html:v0.14.2> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.25 | >=2.0 | >=2023.04 |
 | <tag:v0.14.1> | <doc:v0.14.1>, <html:v0.14.1> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.25 | >=2.0 | >=2023.04 |