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@@ -7,8 +7,14 @@ What's New
 
 .. _whats-new.2025.09.0:
 
-v2025.09.0 (unreleased)
------------------------
+v2025.09.0 (September 2, 2025)
+------------------------------
+
+This release brings a number of small improvements and fixes, especially related
+to writing DataTree objects and netCDF files to disk.
+
+Thanks to the 13 contributors to this release:
+Benoit Bovy, DHRUVA KUMAR KAUSHAL, Deepak Cherian, Dhruva Kumar Kaushal, Giacomo Caria, Ian Hunt-Isaak, Illviljan, Justus Magin, Kai Mühlbauer, Ruth Comer, Spencer Clark, Stephan Hoyer and Tom Nicholas
 
 New Features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -51,10 +57,6 @@ Breaking changes
   simply wrap the return value of ``to_netcdf()`` with ``bytes()``.
   By `Stephan Hoyer <https://github.com/shoyer>`_.
 
-Deprecations
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 - Fix contour plots not normalizing the colors correctly when using for example logarithmic norms. (:issue:`10551`, :pull:`10565`)
@@ -72,11 +74,6 @@ Bug fixes
   (:issue:`10654`).
   By `Stephan Hoyer <https://github.com/shoyer>`_.
 
-
-Documentation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
 Internal Changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 - Run ``TestNetCDF4Data`` as ``TestNetCDF4DataTree`` through ``open_datatree`` (:pull:`10632`).