v0.17.0

What's Changed

• Don't report coverage on test directory by @maxrjones in #803
• Bump ruff and update pre-commit legacy alias by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #791
• update macos intel runner by @ianhi in #819
• Exclude tests dir from code coverage by @maxrjones in #823
• Suppress NumPy 2.4 VisibleDeprecationWarning for align=0 in test by @maxrjones in #822
• Move tests out of installable distribution by @maxrjones in #829
• Update README to markdown with working badges by @maxrjones in #827
• Convert RST docs to markdown by @maxrjones in #830
• Migrate build system from setuptools to meson-python by @maxrjones in #826
• Drop Python 3.11 and NumPy <2.0 per SPEC-0 by @maxrjones in #834
• Bump readthedocs build image by @maxrjones in #833
• Fix typos by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #832
• CI: Fix Meson mixup between Conda and system Python headers by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #839
• zarr-python does not depend on crc32c anymore by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #840
• chore: pin pytest and dedupe dependency groups by @d-v-b in #844
• Skip test_pyzstd when pyzstd cannot be imported by @d-v-b in #845
• update pcodec by @mwlon in #817
• Add pytest-cov to dev dependency group by @d-v-b in #846
• Bump GitHub actions by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #838
• Add free-threaded CPython (3.14t) support by @kumaraditya303 in #858
• CI: set an explicit python-version for test-crc32c and test-zarr by @glaziermag in #856

New Contributors

• @kumaraditya303 made their first contribution in #858
• @glaziermag made their first contribution in #856

Full Changelog: v0.16.5...v0.17.0