v1.11 (29 Oct 2016)
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This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release
(:doc:`View all changes <index>`.)


Features
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* If available, display the ``STASH`` code instead of ``unknown / (unknown)``
  when printing cubes with no ``standard_name`` and no ``units``.

* Support for saving to netCDF with data packing has been added.

* The coordinate system :class:`iris.coord_systems.LambertAzimuthalEqualArea`
  has been added with NetCDF saving support.

Bugs Fixed
==========

* Fixed a floating point tolerance bug in
  :func:`iris.experimental.regrid.regrid_area_weighted_rectilinear_src_and_grid`
  for wrapped longitudes.

* Allow :func:`iris.util.new_axis` to promote the nominated scalar coordinate
  of a cube with a scalar masked constant data payload.

* Fixed a bug where :func:`iris.util._is_circular` would erroneously return
  false when coordinate values are decreasing.

* When saving to NetCDF, the existing behaviour of writing string attributes
  as ASCII has been maintained across known versions of netCDF4-python.


Documentation
=============

* Fuller doc-string detail added to :func:`iris.analysis.cartography.unrotate_pole` and
  :func:`iris.analysis.cartography.rotate_pole`.