Merge branch 'dev' into prepare_4.0

CHANGELOG.md

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 - The following classes have been deprecated and removed: Array, AbstractSortedArray, SortedArray, LinSpace, Query, RegionSlicer, ListSlicer, H5RegionSlicer, DataRegion, RegionBuilder. The following methods have been deprecated and removed: fmt_docval_args, call_docval_func, get_container_cls, add_child, set_dataio (now refactored as set_data_io). We have also removed all early development for region references. @mavaylon1, @rly [#1998](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/1198), [#1212](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/1212)
 - Importing from hdmf.build.map is no longer supported. Import from hdmf.build instead. @rly [#1221](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/1221)
 - Python 3.8 has reached end of life. Drop support for Python 3.8 and add support for Python 3.13. @mavaylon1 [#1209](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/1209)
+- Support for Zarr is limited to versions < 3. @rly [#1229](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/1229)
 
 ### Bug fixes
 - Added checks to ensure that group and dataset spec names and default names do not contain slashes. @bendichter [#1219](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/1219)

docs/source/conf.py

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     "matplotlib": ("https://matplotlib.org/stable/", None),
     "h5py": ("https://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/", None),
     "pandas": ("https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/", None),
-    "zarr": ("https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/", None),
+    "zarr": ("https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/v2.18.4/", None), # TODO - update when hdmf-zarr supports Zarr 3.0
 }
 
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