Release v2.15.0 RC1

What's Changed

• Fix a typo in ESMValCore ESGF data source documentation by @bouweandela in #3016
• [Condalock] Update Linux condalock file by @github-actions[bot] in #3015
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3018
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3024
• Avoid depending on the order of the configured project in a unit test by @valeriupredoi in #3023
• Add an HPC configuration file for SMHI (NSC) machine (Freja) by @jlenh in #3028
• Modify ERA5 fixes to support data produced by the new GRIB to netcdf converter version of ECMWF by @jlenh in #3030
• Improve code quality and test coverage by @schlunma in #3029
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3022
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3035
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3037
• [Condalock] Update Linux condalock file by @github-actions[bot] in #3036
• Gracefully handle the case of missing facets required by esmvalcore.io.local.LocalDataSource by @bouweandela in #3021
• Make sure that histogram weights are Dask arrays when cube has lazy data by @schlunma in #3038
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3040
• [Condalock] Update Linux condalock file by @github-actions[bot] in #3039
• Fix endianness of CORDEX CCLM4-8-17 data by @bouweandela in #3033
• Update path to CEDA-JASMIN esmeval gws (group workspace) by @valeriupredoi in #3041
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3042
• [Condalock] Update Linux condalock file by @github-actions[bot] in #3047
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3046
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3050
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 8.1.0 to 8.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3049
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3054
• Bump conda-incubator/setup-miniconda from 3.3.0 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3060
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3061
• Bump conda-incubator/setup-miniconda from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3063
• Avoid a crash when running esmvaltool config show with Python 3.14 by @bouweandela in #3064
• Use pixi to manage development conda environments by @bouweandela in #3044
• Fix the PDF build of the documentation by @bouweandela in #3068
• Remove accidentally added esmvaltool config console command by @bouweandela in #3066
• Update CMOR tables to DR-1.2.2.3-v1.0.6 by @bouweandela in #3070
• Add mip to CMIP7 facets documentation page by @bouweandela in #3019
• Update links to CMIP guidance by @bouweandela in #3075
• fix drs path for dir for cmip5 at CEDA JASMIN by @valeriupredoi in #3076
• Drop range related attributes on load by @bouweandela in #3072
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3071
• Update release instructions related to Docker by @bouweandela in #3078
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 8.1.0 to 8.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #3081
• Bump prefix-dev/setup-pixi from 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #3080
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3082
• Mention the branding suffix in the error message when no entry can be found in CMOR tables by @bouweandela in #3083
• Ensure CMOR tables are loaded and match configuration when running tests by @bouweandela in #3086
• Avoid crash in fixes for time-independent CORDEX data by @bouweandela in #3032
• Add support for freshly downloaded ERA5 hourly data by @schlunma in #3087
• Nicer looking command line output by @bouweandela in #3079
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3089
• Bump prefix-dev/setup-pixi from 0.9.5 to 0.9.6 by @dependabot[bot] in #3092
• Bump actions/stale from 10.2.0 to 10.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #3091
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3097
• Update pixi lockfile by @github-actions[bot] in #3094
• Add the option to only show the configuration for a single project by @bouweandela in #3020
• Support automatic addition of supplementary variables for CORDEX by @bouweandela in #3098
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3102
• Update CircleCI Codecov orb version to 6.0.0 by @valeriupredoi in #3104
• Add use_standard_grid option for CORDEX datasets by @bouweandela in #3059
• Update dataset GitHub issue template by @bouweandela in #3107
• Add support for specifying the output directory from the command line by @lewisjared in #3101
• Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #3108
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #3113
• Update CMIP7 facets documentation page by @bouweandela in #3111
• Add CORDEX-CMIP6 support by @bouweandela in #3112
• Add support for variables phcint and amoc to ICON-XPP CMORizer by @schlunma in #3025

New Contributors

• @lewisjared made their first contribution in #3101

Full Changelog: v2.14.0...v2.15.0rc1