Merge branch 'encoded_datasets' into chardata_plus_encodedarrays

Author: pp-mo

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -16,5 +16,9 @@ updates:
       day: "thursday"
       time: "01:00"
       timezone: "Europe/London"
+    groups:
+      gha:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
     labels:
       - "Bot"

.github/workflows/benchmarks_report.yml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "reports_exist=$reports_exist" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
       - name: Store artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
         with:
           name: benchmark_reports
           path: benchmark_reports
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v5
 
       - name: Download artifact
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
         with:
           name: benchmark_reports
           path: .github/workflows/benchmark_reports

.github/workflows/benchmarks_run.yml

@@ -157,15 +157,15 @@ jobs:
       - name: Upload any benchmark reports
         # Uploading enables more downstream processing e.g. posting a PR comment.
         if: success() || steps.overnight.outcome == 'failure'
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
         with:
           name: benchmark_reports
           path: .github/workflows/benchmark_reports
 
       - name: Archive asv results
         # Store the raw ASV database(s) to help manual investigations.
         if: ${{ always() }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
         with:
           name: asv-raw-results
           path: benchmarks/.asv/results

.github/workflows/ci-linkchecks.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Link Checker
         id: lychee
-        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@885c65f3dc543b57c898c8099f4e08c8afd178a2
+        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@a8c4c7cb88f0c7386610c35eb25108e448569cb0
         with:
           token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
           fail: false

.github/workflows/ci-manifest.yml

@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ concurrency:
 jobs:
   manifest:
     name: "check-manifest"
-    uses: scitools/workflows/.github/workflows/ci-manifest.yml@2025.10.3
+    uses: scitools/workflows/.github/workflows/ci-manifest.yml@2025.11.2

.github/workflows/ci-template-check.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   prompt-share:
-    uses: scitools/workflows/.github/workflows/ci-template-check.yml@2025.10.3
+    uses: scitools/workflows/.github/workflows/ci-template-check.yml@2025.11.2
     secrets: inherit
     with:
       pr_number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

.github/workflows/ci-wheels.yml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         pipx run build
 
-    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
       with:
         name: pypi-artifacts
         path: ${{ github.workspace }}/dist/*
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
 
-    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
+    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
       with:
         name: pypi-artifacts
         path: ${{ github.workspace }}/dist
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ jobs:
     name: "show artifacts"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
+    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
       with:
         name: pypi-artifacts
         path: ${{ github.workspace }}/dist
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ jobs:
     # and check for the SciTools repo
     if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.event.ref == 'refs/heads/main' && github.repository_owner == 'SciTools'
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
+    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
       with:
         name: pypi-artifacts
         path: ${{ github.workspace }}/dist
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ jobs:
     # upload to PyPI for every tag starting with 'v'
     if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags/v') && github.repository_owner == 'SciTools'
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
+    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
       with:
         name: pypi-artifacts
         path: ${{ github.workspace }}/dist

.github/workflows/refresh-lockfiles.yml

@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   refresh_lockfiles:
-    uses: scitools/workflows/.github/workflows/refresh-lockfiles.yml@2025.10.3
+    uses: scitools/workflows/.github/workflows/refresh-lockfiles.yml@2025.11.2
     secrets: inherit

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ repos:
     -   id: no-commit-to-branch
 
 -   repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: "v0.14.0"
+    rev: "v0.14.5"
     hooks:
     -   id: ruff
         types: [file, python]

docs/src/common_links.inc

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 .. _@HGWright: https://github.com/HGWright
 .. _@jamesp: https://github.com/jamesp
 .. _@jonseddon: https://github.com/jonseddon
+.. _@jrackham-mo: https://github.com/jrackham-mo
 .. _@jvegasbsc: https://github.com/jvegasbsc
 .. _@lbdreyer: https://github.com/lbdreyer
 .. _@marqh: https://github.com/marqh