Update changelog for 2.4.0rc1 (#1366)

* Update changelog for 2.4.0

* Remove empty section from changelog

Author: Klaus Zimmermann

doc/changelog.rst

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 Changelog
 =========
 
+.. _changelog-v2-4-0:
+
+v2.4.0
+------
+
+This release includes
+
+Bug fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Crop on the ID-selected region(s) and not on the whole shapefile (`#1151 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1151>`__) `Stef Smeets <https://github.com/stefsmeets>`__
+-  Add 'comment' to list of removed attributes (`#1244 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1244>`__) `Peter Kalverla <https://github.com/Peter9192>`__
+-  Speed up multimodel statistics and fix bug in peak computation (`#1301 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1301>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  No longer make plots of provenance (`#1307 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1307>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  No longer embed provenance in output files (`#1306 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1306>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Removed automatic addition of areacello to obs4mips datasets (`#1316 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1316>`__) `Manuel Schlund <https://github.com/schlunma>`__
+-  Pin docutils <0.17 to fix bullet lists on readthedocs (`#1320 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1320>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+-  Fix obs4MIPs capitalization (`#1328 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1328>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Fix Python 3.7 tests (`#1330 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1330>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Handle fx variables in `extract_levels` and some time operations (`#1269 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1269>`__) `sloosvel <https://github.com/sloosvel>`__
+-  Refactored mask regridding for irregular grids (fixes #772) (`#865 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/865>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+-  Fix `da.broadcast_to` call when the fx cube has different shape than target data cube (`#1350 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1350>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Add tests for _aggregate_time_fx (`#1354 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1354>`__) `sloosvel <https://github.com/sloosvel>`__
+-  Fix extra facets (`#1360 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1360>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Pin pip!=21.3 to avoid pypa/pip#10573 with editable installs (`#1359 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1359>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+
+Deprecations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Remove write_netcdf and write_plots from config-user.yml (`#1300 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1300>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+
+Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Set version to 2.3.0 (`#1162 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1162>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+-  Final changelog for 2.3.0 (`#1163 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1163>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+-  Add link to plot directory in index.html (`#1256 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1256>`__) `Stef Smeets <https://github.com/stefsmeets>`__
+-  Work around issue with yapf not following PEP8 (`#1277 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1277>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Update the core development team (`#1278 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1278>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Update the documentation of the provenance interface (`#1305 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1305>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Update version number to first release candidate 2.4.0rc1 (`#1363 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1363>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+
+Fixes for datasets
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Add fix for differing latitude coordinate between historical and ssp585 in MPI-ESM1-2-HR r2i1p1f1 (`#1292 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1292>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Add fixes for time and latitude coordinate of EC-Earth3 r3i1p1f1 (`#1290 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1290>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Apply latitude fix to all CCSM4 variables (`#1295 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1295>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Fix lat and lon bounds for FGOALS-g3 mrsos (`#1289 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1289>`__) `Thomas Crocker <https://github.com/thomascrocker>`__
+-  Add grid fix for tos in fgoals-f3-l (`#1326 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1326>`__) `sloosvel <https://github.com/sloosvel>`__
+-  Add fix for CIESM pr (`#1344 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1344>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Fix DRS for IPSLCM : split attribute 'freq' into : 'out' and 'freq' (`#1304 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1304>`__) `Stéphane Sénési - work <https://github.com/senesis>`__
+
+CMOR standard
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Remove history attribute from coords (`#1276 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1276>`__) `Javier Vegas-Regidor <https://github.com/jvegasbsc>`__
+-  Increased flexibility of CMOR checks for datasets with generic alevel coordinates (`#1032 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1032>`__) `Manuel Schlund <https://github.com/schlunma>`__
+-  Automatically fix small deviations in vertical levels (`#1177 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1177>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+
+Preprocessor
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Implemented fully lazy climate_statistics (`#1194 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1194>`__) `Manuel Schlund <https://github.com/schlunma>`__
+-  Run the multimodel statistics preprocessor last (`#1299 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1299>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+
+Automatic testing
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Pin Python to 3.9 in environment.yml on CircleCI and skip mypy tests in conda build (`#1176 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1176>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Improving test coverage for _task.py (`#514 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/514>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Upload coverage to codecov (`#1190 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1190>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Improve codecov status checks (`#1195 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1195>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Fix curl install in CircleCI (`#1228 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1228>`__) `Javier Vegas-Regidor <https://github.com/jvegasbsc>`__
+-  Drop support for Python 3.6 (`#1200 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1200>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Allow more recent version of `scipy` (`#1182 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1182>`__) `Manuel Schlund <https://github.com/schlunma>`__
+-  Speed up conda build `conda_build` Circle test by using `mamba` solver via `boa` (and use it for Github Actions test too) (`#1243 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1243>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Fix numpy deprecation warnings (`#1274 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1274>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Unpin upper bound for iris (previously was at <3.0.4)  (`#1275 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1275>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Modernize `conda_install` test on Circle CI by installing from conda-forge with Python 3.9 and change install instructions in documentation (`#1280 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1280>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Run a nightly Github Actions workflow to monitor tests memory per test (configurable for other metrics too) (`#1284 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1284>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Speed up tests of tasks (`#1302 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1302>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Fix upper case to lower case variables and functions for flake compliance in `tests/unit/preprocessor/_regrid/test_extract_levels.py` (`#1347 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1347>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Cleaned up a bit Github Actions workflows (`#1345 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1345>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Update circleci jobs: renaming tests to more descriptive names and removing conda build test (`#1351 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1351>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+-  Pin iris to latest `>=3.1.0` (`#1341 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1341>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+
+Installation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Pin esmpy to anything but 8.1.0 since that particular one changes the CPU affinity (`#1310 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1310>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+
+Improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  Add a more friendly and useful message when using default config file (`#1233 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1233>`__) `Valeriu Predoi <https://github.com/valeriupredoi>`__
+-  Replace os.walk by glob.glob in data finder (only look for data in the specified locations) (`#1261 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1261>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Machine-specific directories for auxiliary data in the `config-user.yml` file (`#1268 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1268>`__) `Rémi Kazeroni <https://github.com/remi-kazeroni>`__
+-  Add an option to download missing data from ESGF (`#1217 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1217>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Speed up provenance recording (`#1327 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1327>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Improve results web page (`#1332 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1332>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Move institutes from config-developer.yml to default extra facets config and add wildcard support for extra facets (`#1259 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1259>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Add support for re-using preprocessor output from previous runs (`#1321 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1321>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Log fewer messages to screen and hide stack trace for known recipe errors (`#1296 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1296>`__) `Bouwe Andela <https://github.com/bouweandela>`__
+-  Log ESMValCore and ESMValTool versions when running (`#1263 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1263>`__) `Javier Vegas-Regidor <https://github.com/jvegasbsc>`__
+-  Add "grid" as a tag to the output file template for CMIP6 (`#1356 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1356>`__) `Klaus Zimmermann <https://github.com/zklaus>`__
+-  Implemented ICON project to read native ICON model output (`#1079 <https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/pull/1079>`__) `Brei Soliño <https://github.com/bsolino>`__
+
+
 .. _changelog-v2-3-1:
 
 v2.3.1