release docs

Author: normanrz

docs/release.rst

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Fixes
   and a warning if the version was incompatible with `zfpy`.
   This check has been removed because `zfpy` now supports the newer versions of `NumPy`.
   By :user:`Meher Gajula <me-her>`, :issue:`672`
+* Remove redundant ``id`` from codec metadata serialization in Zarr3 codecs.
+  By :user:`Norman Rzepka <normanrz>`, :issue:`685`
 
 Improvements
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numcodecs/json.py

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def __init__(
     def encode(self, buf):
         try:
             buf = np.asarray(buf)
-        except ValueError:
+        except ValueError:  # pragma: no cover
             buf = np.asarray(buf, dtype=object)
         items = np.atleast_1d(buf).tolist()
         items.append(buf.dtype.str)