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 Version 0.25 (Date TBD)
 =======================
 
+This version contains a lot of maintenance work and updating internal
+portions of the code to use more modern Python features and methods.
+There was a lot of work done in path transformations to provide more
+robust Shapely to Matplotlib Path and vice versa transformations. Additionally,
+there are several new projections that were added in this release.
+
 The new minimum supported versions of dependencies that have been updated are:
 
 * Shapely 2.0
 
 
-Features
---------
+🎉 Features
+-----------
 
 * Ruth Comer introduced `~cartopy.mpl.path.shapely_to_path` and
   `~cartopy.mpl.path.path_to_shapely` which map a single Shapely geometry or
   collection to a single Matplotlib path and *vice versa*. (:pull:`2455`)
 
+* The Orthographic projection now supports a ``rotation`` keyword argument
+  that applies azimuthal rotation to the projection.
+  Thanks Ken Hirata for this work. (:pull:`2504`)
+
+* The Spilhaus projection was added by Wenrui Jiang (requires PROJ 9.6+).
+  (:pull:`2529`)
+
+
+🐛 Bug Fixes
+------------
+
+* Greg Lucas fixed the image transform code to add a half-pixel shift to
+  the y coordinate (the x coordinate was already shifted a half-pixel).
+  (:pull:`2461`)
+
+* Ruth Comer fixed cases where a single inverted polygon was being
+  projected incorrectly. (:pull:`2470`)
+
+* Transforming multipolygons with holes was improved by Ruth Comer to
+  avoid some libgeos errors. (:pull:`2521`)
+
+* Greg Lucas fixed gridline handling of offset central longitudes.
+  The gridlines now extend to the edges of the maps. (:pull:`2489`)
+
+* Romain Jolivet fixed a potential initialization error when downloading with
+  a PosixPath. (:pull:`2500`)
+
+📚 Documentation
+----------------
+
+* Philippe Miron updated the logo to center the Cartopy text. (:pull:`2460`)
+
+* Warrick Ball updated the BibTex citation. (:pull:`2485`)
+
+* Edwin added an example demonstrating how to reproject a raster image.
+  :ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_scalar_data_raster_reprojections.py` (:pull:`2496`)
+
+* Ruth Comer added an example aligning Cartopy and Matplotlib Axes.
+  :ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_gridlines_and_labels_map_latitudes.py` (:pull:`2502`)
+
+* Jan Meischner updated the gridliner label example.
+  :ref:`sphx_glr_gallery_gridlines_and_labels_gridliner.py` (:pull:`2505`)
+
+
+🛠️ Maintenance
+--------------
+
+* Greg Lucas changed all internal function calls to prefer the (lon, lat)
+  ordering for all inputs and outputs to provide more consistency. (:pull:`2453`)
+
+* Greg Lucas replaced the deprecated ``utcnow()`` calls.
+
+* Miroslav Šedivý updated path and math functions with modern replacements.
+  (:pull:`2508` and :pull:`2509`)
+
+* Mattias Cuntz updated the French WFS server addresses for tests.
+  (:pull:`2524`)
+
+* Katelyn Fitzgerald updated the Cython code to use ``libc.math`` instead of
+  ``numpy.math``. (:pull:`2528`)
+
+* Bill Little updated the license and license-file fields to conform with
+  PEP 639. (:pull:`2526`)
+
 
-Deprecations and Removals
--------------------------
+🚫 Deprecations and Removals
+----------------------------
 
 * The ``cartopy.mpl.clip_path`` module is deprecated without replacement.
   Please vendor these functions if you need them.