What's Changed

• New whatsnew section by @TomNicholas in #10496
• Update HOW_TO_RELEASE.md to reflect inability to push to main by @TomNicholas in #10497
• Enforce ruff/flake8-simplify rules (SIM) by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10480
• Unnecessary generator by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10506
• Use is when comparing type of two objects by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10504
• More f-strings, less format() by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10505
• Unnecessary lambda expression by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10502
• Clean-up indexing adapter classes by @benbovy in #10355
• Add NDPointIndex (KDTree) by @benbovy in #10478
• Use a set comprehension by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10509
• Update pre-commit ruff legacy alias by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10511
• DOC: add Pandas(Multi)Index to API reference by @benbovy in #10515
• Allow setting (or skipping) new indexes in open_dataset by @benbovy in #8051
• Raise if Index.create_variables returns more variables than passed in through set_xindex by @dhruvak001 in #10503
• Expression not assigned by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #10507
• Update Custom Indexes section in api.rst by @dcherian in #10517
• Updates for Zarr 3 Dtypes by @ianhi in #10456
• Add release notes for v2025.07.1 by @dcherian in #10520

Full Changelog: v2025.07.0...v2025.07.1