Version 0.10.0

This minor release brings a number of enhancements and bugfixes, checkout the release blog post for a visual summary of the most important enhancements.

• 🧰 Improving the contributor experience: moving away from pyctdev to a more usual and easier approach, and adopt ruff as a linter and formatter
• 📦 Modernizing hvPlot's packaging: migrating to pyproject.toml
• 📖 Improving the documentation: adding a user guide on large time-series and improving the geographic user guide
• 📈 Enhancing the plotting API: in part to support the NumFocus SDG project that aims to modernize the HoloViz Examples
• 🐛 Fixing bugs!

Many thanks to @ahuang11, @droumis, @hoxbro, @jsignell, and @maximlt for their contributions.

Governance:

• Andrew (@ahuang11) promoted as Maintainer! (#1267)

Enhancements:

• Add bgcolor parameter to set the background color (#1308)
• Add robust parameter, similarly to Xarray (#1291)
• Add tiles_opts parameter to customize the tiles (#1299)
• Add support to xyzservices tiles (#1307)
• Allow to set the downsample algorithm as string input (#1314)
• Allow crs as Cartopy class name to match projection (#1332)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix saving Panel objects with hvplot.save (#1297)
• Fix setting group_label when plotting a histogram (#1310)
• Fix the support of HoloViews ImageStack support and usage of aggregator and by (#1316)
• Fix handling of EPSG codes (#1330)
• Explorer: fix handling of Xarray objects that have dims without coords (#1334)

Compatibility:

• Minor changes in preparation of the HoloViews Pandas index refactor (#1281)

Documentation:

• Add user guide for working with large time-series datasets (#1302)
• Clarify the geographic user guide (#1269, #1299)
• Misc (#1266, #1268, #1319)

Infrastructure / Tests:

• Migrate to pyproject.toml and improve the contributor experience (#1296, #1322)
• Format and lint the code base with ruff (#1320)
• Pin intake to version 2.0.0 (#1275)
• Fix the test suite after the latest Dask release (#1298)
• Remove the examples folder (#1287)
• Install the tests dependencies primarily with pip (#1276)
• Misc (#1317, #1321, #1323, #1324, #1327)

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