Update release version for v2.12.0

CITATION.cff

@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ authors:
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2333-3358"
 
 cff-version: 1.2.0
-date-released: 2025-02-21
+date-released: 2025-02-27
 doi: "10.5281/zenodo.3387139"
 license: "Apache-2.0"
 message: "If you use this software, please cite it using these metadata."
 repository-code: "https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/"
 title: ESMValCore
-version: "v2.12.0rc2"
+version: "v2.12.0"
 ...

doc/changelog.rst

@@ -10,25 +10,39 @@ v2.12.0
 -------
 
 Highlights
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Preprocessor :func:`esmvalcore.preprocessor.extract_time` now allows to
+   extract time blocks in each year by making parameters ``start_year`` and
+   ``end_year`` optional.
+-  A new way of configuring the tool has been developed.
+-  Performance improvements:
+
+    -  An iris-esmf-regrid scheme has been added to
+       preprocessor :func:`esmvalcore.preprocessor.regrid`, which improves
+       the regridding of 2D grids and adds the capability to regrid UGRID meshes
+       out of the box.
+    -  Data is now saved from one preprocessing task at the time when using the
+       distributed scheduler, in order to avoid running out of memory.
+    -  A better default ``num_workers`` has been set when using more than one
+       ``max_parallel_tasks`` with an unconfigured threaded scheduler.
 
-Preprocessor :func:`esmvalcore.preprocessor.extract_time` now allows to
-extract time blocks in each year by making parameters ``start_year`` and
-``end_year`` optional.
+-  An on-the-fly cmorizer for ACCESS native data is now available.
 
 This release includes
 
 Backwards incompatible changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 -  Make derivation of total column ozone (`toz`) more flexible and add derivation of stratospheric and tropospheric column ozone (:pull:`2509`) by :user:`schlunma`
--  Merge configuration object from multiple files (instead of one single file) (:pull:`2448`) by :user:`schlunma`
 -  Remove deprecated CMOR fix/check code (:pull:`2552`) by :user:`schlunma`
 -  Remove deprecated statistical operators (:pull:`2553`) by :user:`schlunma`
 -  Save all files in a task at the same time to avoid recomputing intermediate results (:pull:`2522`) by :user:`bouweandela`
 
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+-  Merge configuration object from multiple files (instead of one single file) (:pull:`2448`) by :user:`schlunma`
 -  Make Dask configurable in our configuration (:pull:`2616`) by :user:`schlunma`
 
 Bug fixes