Version 0.10.0 of this package is out: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/releases/tag/v0.10.0 It includes bugfixes and new functionality. From the release notes: Changes to minimum versions of dependencies: * Old numpy < 1.11 and pandas < 0.18 are no longer supported * The minimum supported version bottleneck has increased to 1.1 This means that this bug should depend on Bug 614332.
This may be an opportunity to introduce a dask use flag to have xarray depend on dask conditionally: http://xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/dask.html
The bump to 0.10.8 was done a little while ago already.