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 What's New
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-v0.6.1 (unreleased)
-===================
+v0.6.1 (August 16, 2021)
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 - Support detecting pint-backed Variables with units-based criteria. By `Deepak Cherian`_.
 - Support reshaping nD bounds arrays to (n-1)D vertex arrays. By `Deepak Cherian`_.
 - Support rich comparisons  with ``DataArray.cf`` and :py:meth:`DataArray.cf.isin` for `flag variables`_.