v0.7.0

• Fix a FutureWarning on accessing xarray.Dataset.dims with xarray >= 2023.12.0 (pull request #124, pull request pydata/xarray#8500).
• Fix an error when creating a transect plot that does not intersect the model geometry. Previously this would raise a cryptic error, now it returns an empty transect dataset (issue #119, pull request #120).
• Drop dependency on importlib_metadata. This was only required to support Python 3.8, which was dropped in a previous release (issue #122, pull request #125).
• Fix an error with ShocSimple.get_all_depth_names() when the dataset had no depth coordinates (issue #123, pull request #126).
• Use PEP 585 generic type annotations and stop using PEP 563 postponed annotation evaluation (issue #109, pull request #127).
• Use pytest-mpl for image comparison tests for testing plotting methods (pull request #128).
• Update all URLs to the NCI THREDDS server (update notice, issue #135, pull request #136, pull request csiro-coast/emsarray-data#2).
• Correct all references to K’gari, formerly Fraser Island (issue #133, pull request csiro-coast/emsarray-data#2, pull request #134).
• Bump minimum versions of dependencies, update pinned dependencies for CI. Officially support numpy version 2.0.0 (pull request #137).
• Lint Python code in docs/ and scripts/ (pull request #141).
• Add emsarray.utils.name_to_data_array() and data_array_to_name() functions. Allow more functions to interchangeably take either a data array or the name of a data array (pull request #142).
• Add Convention.depth_coordinates and Convention.get_depth_coordinate_for_data_array(). Deprecate functions Convention.get_depth_name(), Convention.get_all_depth_names(), and Convention.get_time_name(). Remove deprecated functions Convention.get_depths() and Convention.get_times() (pull request #143).
• Swap to using pyproject.toml for all project metadata (pull request #145).
• Add new methods Convention.selector_for_indexes(), Convention.select_indexes(), and Convention.select_points(). These allow for more efficient extraction of multiple points at the same time. The return type of Convention.selector_for_index() has been changed from a dict to an xarray.Dataset, but this new value is also designed to be passed directly to Dataset.isel(). Convention.select_index() and Convention.select_indexes() have a new drop_geometry flag which defaults to True. Previously these methods would act as if drop_geometry was False, but this led to convention-dependent results as to which geometry variables were returned. The fragmented geometry variables from different conventions often did not contain enough data to be useful. By dropping geometry the results are more consistent across all conventions and do not contain potentially fragmented geometry information. (issue #106, pull request #146).
• Remove support for the deprecated emsarray.formats module, the emsarray.formats entry point, and filtered warnings for old dependencies no longer supported (pull request #146).