<h1>Release v2.1.0</h1>
<h2>Highlights</h2>
<ul>
<li>More flexible and intuitive options for data validation</li>
<li>Improved support for region-aggregation with inconsistent data/weight index</li>
<li>Fix wrong color codes for AR6 Illustrative Pathways</li>
</ul>
<h2>Individual updates</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/pull/804">#804</a> Support filters as direct keyword arguments for <code>validate()</code> method</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/pull/801">#801</a> Support initializing with <code>meta</code> dataframe in long format</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/pull/796">#796</a> Raise explicit error message if no connection to IIASA manager service</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/pull/794">#794</a> Fix wrong color codes for AR6 Illustrative Pathways</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/pull/792">#792</a> Support region-aggregation with weights-index >> data-index</li>
</ul>If you use this package, please cite the corresponding manuscript in Open Research Europe