Added support for Birdhouse Helper Bot (for bumping versions). CI Actions and Python dependencies are now pinned to commit hashes. Permissions have been set and restricted as needed for all workflows. Pinned cf-xarray below v0.9.3. Reformatted and renamed CHANGES.rst to CHANGELOG.rst. Dropped support for Python 3.8 and 3.9. The supported versions are now Python 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12. black has been updated to v2024.10.0, and coding conventions have been updated to Python3.10+. Several dependencies now are pinned to baseline versions, including anyascii, dask, ipython, matplotlib, nbsphinx numpy, and sphinxcontrib-bibtex. Added xscen dependency. Now used in spatial averaging of ensemble processes. Updated the build system to use flit v3.9.0 (PEP 517 and PEP 621). Several configuration files have been migrated to pyproject.toml and .flake8. finch now uses a src-based layout for the package. The finch package is now located in the src directory. The pre-commit configuration has been updated to use pre-commit v3.5.0. Several hooks have been added, including pygrep-hooks (security fixes), ruff (code formatting), and vulture (dead code). Documentation examples now build without warnings. ReadTheDocs is now configured to fail_on_warning. xclim has been updated to v0.52.2. Modernized the documentation to reflect recent changes. Added pylint to the linting checks and pre-commit steps. Added deployment workflows for PyPI and TestPyPI. Synchronized more dependencies.