Add release notes for 0.10.0 (#1326)

Co-authored-by: Simon Høxbro Hansen <simon.hansen@me.com>

Author: maximlt

doc/releases.md

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 See [the HoloViz blog](https://blog.holoviz.org/#category=hvplot) for a visual summary of the major features added in a selection of releases.
 
+## Version 0.10.0 (2024-05-02)
+
+This minor release brings a number of enhancements and bugfixes.
+
+- 🧰 Improving the contributor experience: moving away from `pyctdev` to a more usual and easier approach, and adopt `ruff` as a linter and formatter
+- 📦 Modernizing hvPlot's packaging: migrating to `pyproject.toml`
+- 📖 Improving the documentation: adding a user guide on large time-series and improving the geographic user guide
+- 📈 Enhancing the plotting API: in part to support the [NumFocus SDG](https://opencollective.com/holoviz/projects/holoviz-sdg-2023-round-3) project that aims to modernize the [HoloViz Examples](https://examples.holoviz.org)
+- 🐛 Fixing bugs!
+
+Many thanks to @ahuang11, @droumis, @Hoxbro, @jsignell, and @maximlt for their contributions.
+
+Governance:
+
+- Andrew (@ahuang11) promoted as Maintainer! ([#1267](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1267))
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Add `bgcolor` parameter to set the background color ([#1308](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1308))
+- Add `robust` parameter, similarly to Xarray ([#1291](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1291))
+- Add `tiles_opts` parameter to customize the tiles ([#1299](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1299))
+- Add support to `xyzservices` tiles ([#1307](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1307))
+- Allow to set the `downsample` algorithm as string input ([#1314](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1314))
+- Allow `crs` as Cartopy class name to match `projection` ([#1332](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1332))
+
+Bug Fixes:
+
+- Fix saving Panel objects with `hvplot.save` ([#1297](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1297))
+- Fix setting `group_label` when plotting a histogram ([#1310](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1310))
+- Fix the support of HoloViews ImageStack support and usage of `aggregator` and `by` ([#1316](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1316))
+- Fix handling of EPSG codes ([#1330](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1330))
+- Explorer: fix handling of Xarray objects that have dims without coords ([#1334](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1334))
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+Compatibility:
+
+- Minor changes in preparation of the HoloViews Pandas index refactor ([#1281](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1281))
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+Documentation:
+
+- Add user guide for working with large time-series datasets ([#1302](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1302))
+- Clarify the geographic user guide ([#1269](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1269), [#1299](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1299))
+- Misc ([#1266](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1266), [#1268](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1268), [#1319](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1319))
+
+Infrastructure / Tests:
+
+- Migrate to pyproject.toml and improve the contributor experience ([#1296](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1296), [#1322](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1322))
+- Format and lint the code base with `ruff` ([#1320](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1320))
+- Pin intake to version 2.0.0 ([#1275](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1275))
+- Fix the test suite after the latest Dask release ([#1298](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1298))
+- Remove the `examples` folder ([#1287](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1287))
+- Install the tests dependencies primarily with pip ([#1276](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1276))
+- Misc ([#1317](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1317), [#1321](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1321), [#1323](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1323), [#1324](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1324), [#1327](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1327))
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/compare/v0.9.2...v0.9.3)
+
 ## Version 0.9.2 (2024-01-29)
 
 The 0.9.2 release is a patch release that brings a few bugfixes and documentation improvements, improving `Polars` support and documentation. Many thanks to @kevinheavey (first contribution!), @MarcoGorelli, @Hoxbro, and @maximlt for their contributions.