Merge pull request #516 from MAAP-Project/release/4.3.0

updated release notes with 4.3.0

Author: grallewellyn

docs/source/release_notes.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,23 @@ Release Notes
 
 Release notes will mention the release date, a summary for each release, and comprehensive descriptions of major changes, minor changes, feature removal, and bug-fixes. This is typically more comprehensive than the announcements on the GitHub Discussion board: https://github.com/orgs/MAAP-Project/discussions/categories/announcements.
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+4.3.0
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+| September 10, 2025
+| Release with several important improvements. To use the new features, please start a new v4.3.0 workspace.
+
+Breaking changes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+* Update to R 4.4.3 to resolve vulnerability CVE-2024-27322 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27322 
+* This vulnerability enabled a maliciously crafted RDS (R Data Serialization) formatted file or R package to run arbitrary code on an end user’s system when interacted with
+* Updated packages in the R image 
+* Removed basemap, r-lwgeom and r-tmap packages to be able to update R 
+
+Added
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+* Improved security and error handling for the MAAP API 
+
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 4.2.0
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docs/source/technical_tutorials/access/accessing_external_data.ipynb

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
    "source": [
     "To use `maap-py` outside the MAAP ADE, you need to pass the MAAP host explicitly and set the `MAAP_PGT` token in your environment. \n",
     "\n",
-    "The token can be obtained on the [MAAP profile](https://maap-project.org/profile/) .Then, before running any code that accesses protected data:"
+    "The token can be obtained on the [MAAP profile](https://maap-project.org/profile/). Then, before running any code that accesses protected data:"
    ]
   },
   {