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 What's new
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-0.8.5 (unreleased)
+0.8.5 (2024-04-11)
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 * Reverted to the chunking behaviour of xESMF 0.7 for cases where the spatial dimensions are not chunked on the source data. (:pull:`348`) By `Pascal Bourgault <https://github.com/aulemahal>`_.
 
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 * Remove usage of private method of xarray that was removed in its 2024.02.0 version (:issue:`338`, :issue:`340`) By `Pascal Bourgault <https://github.com/aulemahal>`_.
 
 Internal changes
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 * Test against ESMF 8.6
 
+
 0.8.2 (2023-09-18)
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