Add a blog post for the 2.10.0 release (#482)

* Add a blog post for the 2.10.0 release

* fixes and clarifications

* shameless plug for imdclient

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Co-authored-by: Oliver Beckstein <[email protected]>

Author: IAlibay

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+title: Release 2.10.0 of MDAnalysis
+---
+
+We are happy to release version 2.10.0 of MDAnalysis!
+
+This is a minor release of the MDAnalysis library, which means that it
+contains enhancements, bug fixes, deprecations, and other
+backwards-compatible changes.
+
+
+## Supported environments
+
+This release supports NumPy 2.0+ and offers backwards compatibility
+through to NumPy 1.26.0.
+
+Supported Python versions: **3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14**.
+Note: not all optional dependencies currently work with Python 3.14.
+
+Supported Operating Systems:
+  - **Linux** (on [x86-64][])
+  - **Windows** (on [x86-64][])
+  - **MacOS** (on [x86-64][] and [ARM64][])
+
+
+## Upgrading to MDAnalysis version 2.10.0
+
+To update with `mamba` (or `conda`)  from the [conda-forge channel][] run
+
+```bash
+mamba update -c conda-forge mdanalysis
+```
+
+To update from [PyPi][] with `pip` run
+
+```bash
+python -m pip install --upgrade MDAnalysis
+```
+
+For more help with installation see the [installation instructions in the User Guide][]. 
+Make sure you are using a Python version compatible with MDAnalysis 
+before upgrading (Python >= 3.11).
+
+
+## Notable changes
+
+For a full list of changes, bug fixes and deprecations see the [CHANGELOG][].
+
+#### Enhancements:
+
+* Support for setting custom `dt` when reading/writing XTC and TRR trajectories ([PR #4908][])
+* New parallelization support for the following analyses:
+  * `LinearDensity` ([PR #5007][])
+  * `PersistenceLength` ([PR #5074][])
+  * `InterRDF` and `InterRDF_s` ([PR #4884][])
+* Enable the selection of distance library backend in RDF analyses ([PR #5038][])
+* Improve the speed of the GROMOS11 reader ([PR #5080][])
+* Improvements to the RDKit inferring code ([PR #4305][])
+* Support for position and velocity reading from TPR files ([PR #4873][])
+* Support for non-linear time averaged MSD ([PR #5066][])
+* Support for interactive MD (IMDv3) stream reading using the IMDReader and the [imdclient][] package ([PR #4923][])
+* Performance improvements to `InterRDF_s` ([PR #5073][])
+
+#### Changes:
+
+* The output precision for LAMMPS DATA files is now set to 10 decimals ([PR #5053][])
+* Support for Python 3.10 was removed in line with [SPEC 0][] ([PR #5121][])
+* Bond order and charges inferring code from the RDKit converter has been moved to
+  a new `RDKitInferring` module ([PR #4305][])
+
+## Author statistics
+
+This release was the work of 25 contributors, **16** of which are **new contributors**.
+
+Our **new contributors** are:
+
+* @namiroues
+* @lexi-x
+* @BHM-Bob
+* @yuyuan871111
+* @jpkrowe
+* @TRY-ER
+* @Abdulrahman-PROG
+* @pbuslaev
+* @tulga-rdn
+* @Gareth-elliott
+* @schuhmc
+* @gitsirsha
+* @Pradyumn-cloud
+* @amruthesht
+* @gitzhangch
+* @raulloiscuns
+
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+MDAnalysis thanks [NumFOCUS][] for its continued support as our fiscal sponsor and 
+the [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative][] for supporting MDAnalysis under EOSS4 and EOSS5 awards.
+
+— @IAlibay on behalf of the [MDAnalysis Team][]
+
+
+----
+
+
+[SPEC 0]: https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/
+[x86-64]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
+[ARM64]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1
+[installation instructions in the User Guide]: https://userguide.mdanalysis.org/stable/installation.html
+[conda-forge channel]: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/mdanalysis
+[PyPi]: https://pypi.org/project/MDAnalysis/
+[NumFOCUS]: https://www.numfocus.org
+[CHANGELOG]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/blob/release-2.10.0/package/CHANGELOG
+[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]: https://chanzuckerberg.com/
+[MDAnalysis Team]: {{ site.baseurl }}/pages/team
+[MDAKits]: https://mdakits.mdanalysis.org/
+[distopia]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/distopia
+[imdclient]: https://imdclient.readthedocs.io/
+[PR #4908]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/4908
+[PR #5007]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5007
+[PR #4884]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/4884
+[PR #5038]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5038
+[PR #5080]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5080
+[PR #4305]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/4305
+[PR #4873]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/4873
+[PR #5066]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5066
+[PR #4923]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/4923
+[PR #5073]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5073
+[PR #5053]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5053
+[PR #5121]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/pull/5121