Backport PR scverse#1673: Upstream release-notes directive (scverse#1674

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* Backport PR scverse#1673: Upstream release-notes directive

* fix docs

docs/conf.py

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
     from sphinx.application import Sphinx
 
 HERE = Path(__file__).parent
-sys.path[:0] = [str(HERE / "extensions")]
+_extension_dir = HERE / "extensions"
+sys.path[:0] = [str(_extension_dir)]
 
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
@@ -62,9 +63,7 @@
     "nbsphinx",
     "IPython.sphinxext.ipython_console_highlighting",
     "sphinx_toolbox.more_autodoc.autoprotocol",
-    # other internal extensions
-    "patch_myst_cite",
-    "release_notes",
+    *(p.stem for p in _extension_dir.glob("*.py")),
 ]
 myst_enable_extensions = [
     "html_image",  # So README.md can be used on github and sphinx docs
@@ -128,7 +127,7 @@ def setup(app: Sphinx):
     scipy=("https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/", None),
     sklearn=("https://scikit-learn.org/stable/", None),
     zarr=("https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/", None),
-    xarray=("https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/", None),
+    xarray=("https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/", None),
 )
 qualname_overrides = {
     "h5py._hl.group.Group": "h5py.Group",

pyproject.toml

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ doc = [
     "sphinx-toolbox",
     "sphinxext.opengraph",
     "nbsphinx",
-    "scanpydoc[theme,typehints] >=0.13.6",
+    "scanpydoc[theme,typehints] >=0.14.1",
     "zarr",
     "awkward>=2.0.7",
     "IPython",                          # For syntax highlighting in notebooks