Error while loading NetCDF file

[RRiva]

What happened?

Hi, I've just updated xarray to v2025.10.1. Unfortunately, now loading a NetCDF file using xr.load_dataset('file.nc') fails with

E   OSError: [Errno -101] NetCDF: HDF error: 'file.nc'

Thing is, this only fails on Linux, while on Windows it works correctly. For now I have reverted to v2025.09.1, but can you please look into that? I know that it's difficult without my file.

What did you expect to happen?

Be able to load a NetCDF file on both Linux and Windows.

Minimal Complete Verifiable Example

requires-python = ">=3.11,<3.14"

dependencies = [
    "xarray == 2025.10.1",
]

xr.load_dataset('file.nc')

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[RRiva]

Hi @kmuehlbauer, thank you for your reply, never mind, switching to the h5netcdf backend fixed my issue.