Planning for next release: 0.17.0

[bluss]

Upcoming Version: 0.17.0

Highlights

• Array reference type RFC: Array Reference Type #879 (PR: Adds an array reference type #1440)
• Meshgrid implementation Implementation of numpy's meshgrid function for ndarray #1355 (PR: Meshgrid implementation #1477)
• .dot defined for dynamic-dimensional arrays Dot product with dyn arrays #886 and Dot product is only a valid call for ndarray::Array2 #1439 (PR: Add dot product support for ArrayD #1483)
• ArrayBase is now covariant ArrayView should be covariant over lifetime #1332 (PR: Uses a simple fix to enable arraybase to be covariant. #1480)

Breaking Changes

These will need special attention in terms of careful communication:

• RFC: Array Reference Type #879 (PR: Adds an array reference type #1440)

Documentation Updates

• Feature gates are now called out in on docs.rs via built-in flags Confusing Features #1470 (PR: Simplify features and make documentation call out feature gates #1479)

Dev Updates

• Cargo.lock now tracked in git Alleviating MSRV issues #1484 (PR: Tries to stabilize MSRV CI/CD. #1485)
• New CI/CD in Alleviating MSRV issues #1484 and Fixes CI for checking against latest dependencies #1490

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[akern40]

@bluss is there documentation or a guide for how to execute a release for ndarray? I don't know if this is as simple as tagging a commit, if I need to do anything over at crates.io, etc...