pydata/xarray: v0.9.6 (8 June 2017)

This release includes a number of backwards compatible enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements New sortby() method to Dataset and DataArray that enable sorting along dimensions (GH967). See the docs for examples. By Chun-Wei Yuan and Kyle Heuton. Add .dt accessor to DataArrays for computing datetime-like properties for the values they contain, similar to pandas.Series (GH358). By Daniel Rothenberg. Renamed internal dask arrays created by open_dataset to match new dask conventions (GH1343). By Ryan Abernathey. as_variable() is now part of the public API (GH1303). By Benoit Bovy. align() now supports join='exact', which raises an error instead of aligning when indexes to be aligned are not equal. By Stephan Hoyer. New function open_rasterio() for opening raster files with the rasterio library. See the docs for details. By Joe Hamman, Nic Wayand and Fabien Maussion Bug fixes Fix error from repeated indexing of datasets loaded from disk (GH1374). By Stephan Hoyer. Fix a bug where .isel_points wrongly assigns unselected coordinate to data_vars. By Keisuke Fujii. Tutorial datasets are now checked against a reference MD5 sum to confirm successful download (GH1392). By Matthew Gidden. DataArray.chunk() now accepts dask specific kwargs like Dataset.chunk() does. By Fabien Maussion. Support for engine='pydap' with recent releases of Pydap (3.2.2+), including on Python 3 (GH1174). Documentation A new gallery allows to add interactive examples to the documentation. By Fabien Maussion. Testing Fix test suite failure caused by changes to pandas.cut function (GH1386). By Ryan Abernathey. Enhanced tests suite by use of @network decorator, which is controlled via --run-network-tests command line argument to py.test (GH1393). By Matthew Gidden