v3.0.0-rc.1

What's Changed

• [v3] implement / deprecate zarr.tree by @jhamman in #2537
• Improve installation page by @dstansby in #2538
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #2547
• Improve pre-commit configuration by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #2551
• Apply ruff preview rule RUF036 by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #2524
• rename exists_ok to overwrite by @d-v-b in #2548
• Feat/latency store by @d-v-b in #2474
• rename RemoteStore -> FsspecStore by @jhamman in #2557
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.12.2 to 1.12.3 in the actions group by @dependabot in #2562
• Clean up optional dependency groups by @dstansby in #2541
• add warnings when using non-spec features with v3 by @normanrz in #2556
• Shorten contributing page title by @dstansby in #2565
• Remove specs pages from docs by @dstansby in #2555
• Trim trailing whitespace using pre-commit by @dstansby in #2563
• Remove config warning if only one implementation exists by @brokkoli71 in #2571
• Remove license page from docs by @dstansby in #2570
• docs/add docstrings to synchronous API by @d-v-b in #2549
• deps: add packaging to required deps by @jhamman in #2573
• correct array.nbytes, and add tests by @d-v-b in #2576
• Add default compressors to config by @brokkoli71 in #2470
• Remove temporary doc specific to branch V3 by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #2578
• Feat/write empty chunks by @d-v-b in #2429
• Multiple imports for an import name by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #2580
• test and fix indexing for scalar arrays by @brokkoli71 in #2583
• Un-mark memory store as "for testing" by @dstansby in #2601
• remove test.py by @d-v-b in #2612
• Note that whole directories can be deleted in LocalStore by @dstansby in #2606
• fix: run-coverage command now tracks src directory by @jhamman in #2615
• Don't document zarr.codec submodules by @dstansby in #2605
• Improve deprecation of zarr.creation and zarr.convenience by @dstansby in #2609
• top-level functions for reading, creating data by @d-v-b in #2463
• Improve docstrings of zarr.api.synchronous by @dstansby in #2610

Full Changelog: v3.0.0-beta.3...v3.0.0-rc.1