v3.17.0.dev16 (17 Sep 2026) [unreleased]

This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release (View all changes.)

v3.17.0.dev16 Release Highlights

The highlights for this major/minor release of Iris include:

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And finally, get in touch with us on GitHub if you have any issues or feature requests for improving Iris. Enjoy!

✨ Features

• #7236: @mo-AndrewCreswick added the option to set the step between rolling windows in iris.cube.Cube.rolling_window(). ( #7217)

🐛 Bugs Fixed

• #7253: @stephenworsley fixed a bug which caused indexing to fail when start_index was 1. ( #7246)

• #7257: @stephenworsley fixed the default value for TEST_DATA_DIR.

🔗 Dependencies

• #7270: @trexfeathers modernised the Iris gallery tests, and set several to skip if using the incompatible combination of PROJ>=9.8 and Cartopy<0.26.

💼 Internal

• #7198: @01luyicheng added unit tests for coord_dims(). ( #4552)

• #7254: @trexfeathers made CI compatible with PROJ 9.8, including known incompatibilities with Cartopy <0.26 when plotting coastlines.

• #7267: @rcomer moved the developers’ conda yaml file. It is now environment.yml in the repository root directory. ( #7205)

• #7269: @rcomer updated the scipy intersphinx mapping to make documentation builds more reliable.