For release 1.8.11

[SpacemanPaul]

Reason for this pull request

Preparing for 1.8.11 release.

Proposed changes

• Update whats_new
  -Confirm conda and pip dependencies are in sync.

• Tests added / passed

• Fully documented, including docs/about/whats_new.rst for all changes

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📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://datacube-core--1398.org.readthedocs.build/en/1398/

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[SpacemanPaul]

I don't know why the conda smoke tests are failing - seems to be unable to install shapely>=2.0.0 But it looks like conda-forge has shapely-2.0.1:

https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/shapely

[omad]

I don't know why the conda smoke tests are failing - seems to be unable to install shapely>=2.0.0 But it looks like conda-forge has shapely-2.0.1:

https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/shapely

I suspect the problem is this line, and that it should be removed: https://github.com/opendatacube/datacube-core/blob/develop/.github/workflows/test-conda-build.yml?plain=1#L38

See conda-incubator/setup-miniconda#267

The new conda-forge packages for shapely are only published as .conda files, not as .tar.bz2.

[SpacemanPaul]

Thanks, Damien - that does seem to have done the trick and it would have taken me ages to figure that out!