From 17ef5deb222a1fc1e34fa40d30ab0be81607da29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deepak Cherian <deepak@cherian.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:01:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] v2024.11.0

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 doc/whats-new.rst | 5 +++++
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diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst
index ee826e6e56f..1b674a0c533 100644
--- a/doc/whats-new.rst
+++ b/doc/whats-new.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ What's New
 v.2024.10.1 (unreleased)
 ------------------------
 
+This release brings better support for wrapping JAX arrays, :py:meth:`DataTree.persist`, algorithmic improvements
+to many methods with dask (:py:meth:`Dataset.polyfit`, :py:meth:`Dataset.ffill`, :py:meth:`Dataset.bfill`, rolling reductions), and bug fixes.
+Thanks to the 18 contributors to this release:
+Benoit Bovy, Deepak Cherian, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Holly Mandel, Justus Magin, Kai Mühlbauer, Lukas Trippe, Mathias Hauser, Maximilian Roos, Michael Niklas, Pascal Bourgault, Patrick Hoefler, Sam Levang, Sarah Charlotte Johnson, Stephan Hoyer, Tom Nicholas, joseph nowak and tvo
+
 New Features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 - Added :py:meth:`DataTree.persist` method (:issue:`9675`, :pull:`9682`).