From thomas.robitaille at gmail.com Tue Nov 2 19:16:07 2021 From: thomas.robitaille at gmail.com (Thomas Robitaille) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 23:16:07 +0000 Subject: [AstroPy] astropy v5.0rc1 ready for testing Message-ID: Hi everyone, The first release candidate (RC) of the core astropy package for the v5.0 release is now available and ready for testing! If you are interested in trying it out, you can install this release candidate by doing: pip install astropy --pre or pip install astropy==5.0rc1 You can find the documentation corresponding to this release at: https://docs.astropy.org/en/v5.0rc1/ including the full list of changes for this release: https://docs.astropy.org/en/v5.0rc1/changelog.html#rc1-2021-11-02 as well as a 'What's new in v5.0?' page, which is incomplete but will be expanded for the final release: https://docs.astropy.org/en/v5.0rc1/whatsnew/5.0.html We would appreciate if you could try out this RC and report back any success or failure via the following wiki page: https://github.com/astropy/astropy/wiki/v5.0-RC-testing For example, you can try running the test suite as mentioned on the wiki page. In addition, if you maintain any packages that use astropy, please check that your package(s) works well with this RC and let us know if there are any issues or whether everything works fine. There is a section to list packages that work/don't work at the bottom of the wiki page. Please also open an issue in the astropy core package issue tracker for any issues you encounter (and open separate issues for each problem you run into). If you use conda, be sure to either remove the existing conda astropy package or make a new environment before installing the RC. Note that there are no conda packages for the RC. Thanks! Tom (release manager for v5.0) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information about this workshop and to sign up to hear more details as they become available, please check out our website at https://code.astrodata.nyc Please share this email with your department lists and/or anyone else who you think might be interested in participating in this event. Best, Dan Foreman-Mackey (chair) Kelle Cruz Christina Hedges Rodrigo Luger Adrian Price-Whelan -- Adrian M. Price-Whelan (he / him) Associate Research Scientist Center for Computational Astrophysics Flatiron Institute http://adrn.github.io -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thomas.robitaille at gmail.com Thu Nov 11 06:04:08 2021 From: thomas.robitaille at gmail.com (Thomas Robitaille) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:04:08 +0000 Subject: [AstroPy] astropy v5.0rc2 ready for testing Message-ID: Hi everyone, The second release candidate (RC) of the core astropy package for the v5.0 release is now available and ready for testing! If you are interested in trying it out, you can install this release candidate by doing: pip install astropy --pre or pip install astropy==5.0rc2 You can find the documentation corresponding to this release at: https://docs.astropy.org/en/v5.0rc2/ including the full list of changes for this release: https://docs.astropy.org/en/v5.0rc2/changelog.html#changelog as well as a 'What's new in v5.0?' page, which I plan to polish up for the final release: https://docs.astropy.org/en/v5.0rc2/whatsnew/5.0.html We would appreciate if you could try out this RC and report back any success or failure via the following wiki page in the RC2 section: https://github.com/astropy/astropy/wiki/v5.0-RC-testing For example, you can try running the test suite as mentioned on the wiki page. In addition, if you maintain any packages that use astropy, please check that your package(s) works well with this RC and let us know if there are any issues or whether everything works fine. There is a section to list packages that work/don't work at the bottom of the wiki page. Please also open an issue in the astropy core package issue tracker for any issues you encounter (and open separate issues for each problem you run into). If you use conda, be sure to either remove the existing conda astropy package or make a new environment before installing the RC. Note that there are no conda packages for the RC. Thanks! Tom (release manager for v5.0) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thomas.robitaille at gmail.com Mon Nov 29 09:02:54 2021 From: thomas.robitaille at gmail.com (Thomas Robitaille) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:02:54 +0000 Subject: [AstroPy] ANN: astropy 5.0 released Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are very happy to announce the v5.0 release of astropy, a core Python package for Astronomy: http://www.astropy.org The astropy core package is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much of the core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and astrophysics. It is part of the Astropy Project, which aims to foster an ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages for Python. New and improved major functionality in this release includes: * Support for reading, writing, and converting Cosmology objects * A new cosmology units module * New trigonometric and spline models * Support for dask arrays in tables * Support for registering array-like objects as mixin columns * Support for reading and writing tables to Parquet format * Support for reading and writing tables to MRT format * Support for masked quantity columns, including masked FITS columns with units * Converting SkyCoord to QTable * A new unified I/O architecture In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been made. An overview of the changes is provided at: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/5.0.html The astropy v5.0.x series now replaces v4.0.x as the long term support release, and will be supported for two years. Instructions for installing astropy are provided on our website, and extensive documentation can be found at: http://docs.astropy.org If you usually use pip/vanilla Python, you can do: pip install astropy --upgrade If you make use of the Anaconda Python Distribution, soon you will be able update to Astropy v5.0 with: conda update astropy Or if you cannot wait for Anaconda to update their default version, you can use the conda-forge channel: conda update -c conda-forge astropy Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository: https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues Over 400 people have contributed code to the core astropy package so far, and you can find out more about the team here: https://www.astropy.org/team.html If you use astropy directly for your work, or as a dependency to another package, please remember to acknowledge it by citing the appropriate Astropy paper. For the most up-to-date suggestions, see the acknowledgement page, but as of this release the recommendation is: This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration, 2018). We hope that you enjoy using astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it! Thomas Robitaille v5.0 Release Coordinator on behalf of The Astropy Project https://www.astropy.org/announcements/release-5.0.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: