autoupdate CITATION.cff

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
release

Research direction

Start by reading CITATION.cff, especially the version and repository fields referenced in the issue, and compare them with the Zenodo all-versions link. Determine how releases currently update citation metadata and define the desired automation; done means the file stays current after each new release.

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Description

So the CITATION.cff points to an old version:
https://github.com/xarray-contrib/cf-xarray/blob/27138584f3402cd5836ab36aaf703e6fe840fd86/CITATION.cff#L6-L9

I've been hitting this issue before when I used CITATION.cff to point to a zenodo repo. I thought I could add the "cite all versions zenodo link", e.g., 10.5281/zenodo.4749735. But then the version in the CITATION.cff file wouldn't be updated... I thought that surely there should be a way that the version of CITATION.cff is updated every time there is a new release but I haven't figured it out.

Any thoughts or solutions to this issue?

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