update whats new

Author: Mikejmnez

doc/whats-new.rst

@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ Alfonso Ladino, Brigitta Sipőcz, Claude, Deepak Cherian, Dimitri Papadopoulos O
 New Features
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+- Improved ``pydap`` backend behavior and performance when using :py:func:`open_dataset`, :py:func:`open_datatree` when downloading dap4 (opendap) data (:issue:`10628`, :pull:`10629`).
+  ``batch=True|False`` is a new  ``backend_kwarg`` that further enables downloading multiple arrays in single response. In addition ``checksums`` is added as optional argument to be passed to ``pydap`` backend.
+  By `Miguel Jimenez-Urias <https://github.com/Mikejmnez>`_.
 - Added :py:meth:`DataTree.prune` method to remove empty nodes while preserving tree structure.
   Useful for cleaning up DataTree after time-based filtering operations (:issue:`10590`, :pull:`10598`).
   By `Alfonso Ladino <https://github.com/aladinor>`_.