id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,active_lock_reason,draft,pull_request,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,state_reason,repo,type
870292042,MDU6SXNzdWU4NzAyOTIwNDI=,5232,release v0.18.0,2448579,closed,0,,,60,2021-04-28T19:43:30Z,2021-05-06T21:15:02Z,2021-05-06T19:25:51Z,MEMBER,,,,"As discussed in the meeting, we should issue a release soon with the new backend refactor and the new docs theme.

Here's a list of blockers:
- [x] #5231
- [x] #5073
- [x] #5235

Would be nice and look done:
- [x] #5244 
- [x] #5258
- [x] #5101
- [x] ~#4866~ (we should let this sit on master for a while to find bugs)
- [x] #4902
- [x] ~#4972~ (this should probably also sit on master for a while)
- [x] #5227
- [x] #4740
- [x] #5149

Somewhat important, but no PR yet:
- [x] ~#5175~ (as pointed out by @shoyer, this is really a new feature, not a regression, it can wait)

@TomNicholas and @alexamici volunteered to handle this. I can be online at release time to help with things if needed. 

Release instructions are here: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/master/HOW_TO_RELEASE.md

IIRC they'll need to be added to the PyPI list and RTD list.
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