[neutrinoceros]

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What changed

cftime now has cp311-abi3 wheels up on PyPI, so it won't be blocking anytime soon (at least for GIL-enabled builds)

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unblocks dependees that want to try out the newest and greatest Python.

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[zssherman]

Thanks as always for the PR @neutrinoceros ! Everything looks good, I'm just waiting on the final test to pass