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CHANGES.rst
Version 6.0.0 (2023-11-25)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The new ``ConfigNamespace.help()`` method provides a convenient way to get
information about configuration items. [#13499]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support has been added to create geodetic representations not just for existing ellipsoids
from ERFA, but also with explicitly provided values, by defining a subclass of
``BaseGeodeticRepresentation`` with the equatorial radius and flattening assigned to
``_equatorial_radius`` and ``_flattening`` attributes. [#14763]
- Add ``BaseBodycentricRepresentation``, a new spheroidal representation for bodycentric
latitudes and longitudes. [#14851]
- Support Numpy broadcasting over frame data and attributes. [#15121]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Registered a ``latex`` writer for exporting a Cosmology object to a LaTex table. [#14701]
- Added argument ``rename`` to Cosmology's I/O, allowing for input and output symbols to
be renamed. [#14780]
- All non-abstract Cosmology subclasses are now automatically registered to work with
Astropy's YAML serialization. [#14979]
- Cosmology I/O now auto-identifies the '.tex' suffix with the 'ascii.latex' format. [#15088]
- The ``Cosmology`` class now has a new property to access the parameters of the
cosmology: ``.parameters``. This property return a read-only dictionary of all the
non-derived parameter values on the cosmology object. When accessed from the class (not
an instance) the dictionary contains ``Parameter`` instances, not the values. [#15168]
- The field ``default`` has been added to ``Parameter``. This can be used to introspect
the default value of a parameter on a cosmology class e.g. ``LambdaCDM.H0.default``. [#15400]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add new option ``decompress_in_memory`` to ``fits.open``, to decompress the
whole file in memory at once, instead of decompressing the file progressively
as data is needed. Default behavior is better for memory usage but sometimes
slow, especially for files with many small HDUs. [#15501]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for Parquet serialization of VOTables. Writing of this
serialization is available with using the new ``'votable.parquet'`` format. [#15281]
- Added MIVOT feature through the ``MivotBlock`` class
that allows model annotations reading and writing in VOTable. [#15390]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``GeneralSersic2D`` model that can have "boxy" or "disky"
isophotes. [#15545]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A more flexible and/or compact string representation is now available for
``NDData`` objects which visually indicates masked entries, and provides for
better for dask array support. [#14438]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The new ``Row.get()`` method, analogous to ``dict.get()``, returns the value of
the specified column from the row if the column present, otherwise it returns a
fallback value, which by default is ``None``. [#14878]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Masked ``Time`` instances now use astropy's own ``Masked`` class internally.
This means that ``Masked`` input is now properly recognized, and that masks
get propagated also to ``Quantity`` output (such as from a ``TimeDelta``
converted to a unit of time), creating ``MaskedQuantity`` instances. [#15231]
- Added a ``TimeDelta`` format ``quantity_str`` that represents the time delta as a string
with one or more ``Quantity`` components. This format provides a human-readable
multi-scale string representation of a time delta. The default output sub-format is not
considered stable in this release, please see https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/15485
for more information. [#15264]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Uncertainty ``Distribution`` now support structured data types, and as
a result it now works also with ``EarthLocation``. [#15304]
- Uncertainty ``Distribution`` can now be used inside representations, which
also allows basic support in ``SkyCoord``. While most calculations work, there
are remaining issues. For instance, the ``repr`` does not show that the
coordinates are distributions. [#15395]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for gc2gde and gd2gce erfa functions to allow geodetic representations
using equatorial radius and flattening. [#14729]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.utils.metadata.MetaData`` default dictionary can now be
set with the ``default_factory`` keyword argument. [#15265]
- ``astropy.utils.decorators.deprecated`` now adds the ``__deprecated__`` attribute to
the objects it wraps, following the practice in https://peps.python.org/pep-0702/. [#15310]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add ``WCSAxes.text_coord`` method to print text using ``SkyCoord`` objects
parallel to plotting data points with ``WCSAxes.plot_coord``. [#14661]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support WCS descriptions of basic planetary coordinate frames. [#14820]
- Updated bundled WCSLIB version to 8.1. This update adds support planetary keywords ``A_RADIUS``, ``B_RADIUS``, ``C_RADIUS``, ``BLON_OBS``, ``BLAT_OBS``, and ``BDIS_OBS`` in ``auxprm`` and adds ``wcsprm::time`` to the ``wcsprm`` struct to record the ``TIME`` axis. This update also includes several bug fixes. For a full list of changes - see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/CHANGES [#15035]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``ConfigurationMissingWarning`` class and ``update_default_config`` function;
There are no replacements as they should no be used anymore. [#15466]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Invalid kernel arithmetic operations now raise a ``KernelArithmeticError`` instead of a
bare ``Exception``. [#14728]
- Added base ``KernelError`` error class and removed ``DiscretizationError`` error class (a ``ValueError`` will be raised instead). [#14732]
- ``discretize_model`` will now raise a ``ValueError`` if
``mode='oversample'`` and ``factor`` does not have an integer value. [#14794]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated angle parsing and formatting utilities from ``angle_utilities``.
Use the functions from ``angle_formats`` instead. [#14675]
- The deprecated functionality of initializing ``Angle`` or ``Longitude`` from a
``tuple`` is no longer supported. [#15205]
- Angle-related classes and functions have been moved within ``astropy.coordinates``.
There is no change to public API as everything moved should still be imported from
``astropy.coordinates``, not a sub-module. If you are using private API, try importing
from ``astropy.coordinates`` instead. If you need something that has been moved and is
not available in ``astropy.coordinates``, please open an issue on the Astropy issue
tracker. [#15220]
- It is no longer possible to pass frame classes to the ``transform_to()`` method
of a low-level coordinate-frame class. It is still possible to pass frame
instances. The ``transform_to()`` method of the high-level ``SkyCoord`` class
is unaffected. [#15500]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed support of importing private constants and functions from ``astropy.cosmology.flrw``. [#14672]
- Removed deprecated Cosmology Parameter argument ``fmt``. [#14673]
- Removed deprecated ``vectorize_if_needed`` and ``inf_like`` from ``cosmology.utils``. [#14677]
- Removed deprecated import paths from ``astropy.cosmology.core``. [#14782]
- Cosmology ``Parameter`` is now a ``dataclass``, and can work with all of Python's dataclasses
machinery, like field introspection and type conversion. [#14874]
- A new property -- ``scale_factor0`` -- has been added to Cosmology objects.
This is the scale factor at redshift 0, and is defined to be 1.0. [#14931]
- Added registration label ``ascii.latex`` to Cosmology IO. [#14938]
- The private module ``astropy.cosmology.utils`` has been deprecated. [#14980]
- Removed deprecated ``get_cosmology_from_string`` class method in ``default_cosmology``; use ``get`` instead. [#15467]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Several arguments in functions within ``astropy.io.ascii`` have been deprecated and
are either renamed or scheduled to be removed.
``read()``:
- ``Reader`` will be removed. Instead supply the equivalent ``format`` argument.
- ``Inputter`` has been renamed to ``inputter_cls``.
- ``Outputter`` has been renamed to ``outputter_cls``.
``get_reader()``:
- ``Reader`` has been renamed to ``reader_cls``.
- ``Inputter`` has been renamed to ``inputter_cls``.
- ``Outputter`` has been renamed to ``outputter_cls``.
``write()``:
- ``Writer`` will be removed. Instead supply the equivalent ``format`` argument.
``get_writer()``:
- ``Writer`` has been renamed to ``writer_cls``. [#14914]
- Removed deprecated ``astropy.io.ascii.tests.common.raises`` test helper; use ``pytest.raises`` instead. [#15470]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecate ``_ExtensionHDU`` and ``_NonstandardExtHDU`` (use ``ExtensionHDU`` or
``NonstandardExtHDU`` instead). [#15396]
- Remove special handling of TCTYP TCUNI TCRPX TCRVL TCDLT TRPOS (#7157). [#15396]
- Rename and deprecate ``TableHDU.update`` to ``TableHDU.update_header``, for
consistency with ``ImageHDU``. [#15396]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``astropy.io.misc.asdf`` subpackage. Use ``asdf-astropy`` package instead. [#14668]
- ``fnunpickle`` and ``fnpickle`` are deprecated because they are not used anywhere within ``astropy``.
If you must, use the module from Python standard library but be advised that pickle is insecure
so you should only unpickle data that you trust. [#15418]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``pedantic`` option from the
``astropy.io.votable.table.parse()`` function and the corresponding configuration
setting. Use the ``verify`` option instead. [#14669]
- Class ``astropy.io.votable.tree.Table`` has been renamed to ``TableElement``
to avoid sharing the name with ``astropy.table.Table``. [#15372]
- Fully removed support for version = '1.0' on ``VOTableFile__init__()`` and changed its tests to check correctly.
It was raising a ``DeprecationWarning`` and now is raising a ``ValueError``. [#15490]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the ``AliasDict`` class from ``modeling.utils``. [#12943]
- Creating a model instance with parameters that have incompatible shapes will
now raise a ``ValueError`` rather than an ``IncompatibleShapeError``. [#15209]
- Removal of deprecated code ``_model_to_fit_params`` and ``_fitter_to_model_params`` from ``fitting.py``. [#15461]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``BoxLeastSquares``, ``BoxLeastSquaresResults`` and ``LombScargle`` classes
are not available from ``astropy.stats`` anymore, they are now available only
from ``astropy.timeseries``. [#15530]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated deprecation, warning, and exception handling functionality provided by ``astropy.tests.helper``. [#14670]
- ``astropy.tests.command.FixRemoteDataOption`` and ``astropy.tests.command.AstropyTest`` are deprecated.
They are no longer necessary after sunsetting ``astropy-helpers``. [#15204]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Time`` has switched to use ``Masked`` arrays internally, instead of
indicating masked values using NaN in the internal ``jd2`` attribute. As a
result, any output from instances, such as one gets with, say, the ``.isot``
format, will also use ``Masked`` by default.
For backwards compatibility, a new configuration item,
``astropy.time.conf.masked_array_type`` is introduced which is set to
"astropy" by default (which indicates one wants to use ``Masked``), but can
also be set to "numpy", in which case ``numpy.ma.MaskedArray`` will be used
where possible (essentially, for all but ``Quantity``). [#15231]
- Changed the ``TimeDelta`` init signature to be consistent with that of ``Time``.
Previously the argument order was ``val, val2, format, scale, copy``. Now the order is
``val, val2, format, scale, *, precision, in_subfmt, out_subfmt, copy``, where the
arguments after the ``*`` must be specified by keyword. [#15264]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``midpoint_epoch`` in ``fold`` function; use ``epoch_time`` instead. [#15462]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``.dtype`` attribute exposed by ``Distribution`` is now that of
the samples, rather than one that has a "samples" entry. This makes
quantities with structured data types and units easier to support, and
generally makes the ``Distribution`` appear more similar to regular
arrays. It should have little effect on code. For instance,
``distribution["samples"]`` still will return the actual distribution.
As a consequence of this refactoring, most arrays that are not
C-contiguous can now be viewed and will thus not be copied on input
any more. The only exceptions are arrays for which the strides are
negative.
Note that the true data type is considered an implementation detail.
But for reference, it now is a structured data type with a single
field, "samples", which itself is an array of "sample" fields, which
contain the actual data. [#15304]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Like ``np.ndarray``, under numpy 2.0 ``Quantity`` and all its subclasses
(``Angle``, ``Masked``, etc.) will no longer support the ``.ptp()`` method.
Use ``np.ptp(...)`` instead.
Similarly, support for the much less frequently used ``.newbyteorder()`` and
``.itemset()`` methods has been removed. [#15378]
- The following deprecated functionality has been removed:
* ``littleh`` unit and ``with_H0`` equivalency. They are still available from
``cosmology.units``.
* ``brightness_temperature`` equivalency no longer automatically swaps the
order of its arguments if it does not match the expectation.
* ``PhysicalType`` no longer supports ``str`` methods and attributes. [#15514]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``OrderedDescriptor``, ``OrderedDescriptorContainer``, and ``set_locale`` in ``astropy.utils.misc``. [#14679]
- ``is_path_hidden()`` and ``walk_skip_hidden()`` are deprecated. [#14759]
- The structure of ``utils.metadata`` has been refactored, but all the available
functions and classes are still present and should be imported as before. [#15166]
- The ``astropy.utils.metadata.MetaData`` class, which is used throughout astropy
to carry metadata on tables, columns, etc., can now also be used on dataclasses.
When accessing the meta attribute on a class ``astropy.utils.metadata.MetaData``
now returns None instead of itself. [#15237]
- The ``astropy.utils.metadata.MetaData`` class, which is used throughout astropy
to carry metadata on tables, columns, etc., can now also be used on frozen dataclasses. [#15404]
- Removed deprecated ``version_path`` in ``minversion`` function; it is no longer used. [#15468]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``bboxes``, ``ticklabels_bbox``, and ``tick_out_size`` arguments to ``astropy.visualization.wcaxes.ticklabels.TickLabels.draw()`` now have no effect and are deprecated.
This is to allow rasterized ticks to be drawn correctly on WCSAxes. [#14760]
- It is now not possible to pass any keyword arguments to ``astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.WCSAxes.draw()``.
Previously passing any keyword arguments would have errored anyway, as ``matplotlib.axes.Axes.draw()`` does not accept keyword arguments. [#14772]
- Deprecated the ``exp`` attribute in the ``LogStretch``,
``InvertedLogStretch``, ``PowerDistStretch``, and
``InvertedPowerDistStretch`` stretch classes, and the ``power``
attribute in the ``PowerStretch``. Instead, use the ``a`` attribute,
which matches the input keyword. [#15538]
- Removed the maximum value of the ``a`` parameter in the ``AsinhStretch``
and ``SinhStretch`` stretch classes. [#15539]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``accuracy`` from ``all_world2pix`` method in ``WCS``; use ``tolerance`` instead. [#15464]
- ``NoConvergence`` no longer accepts arbitrary keyword arguments. [#15504]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed minor bug when getting solar system positions of objects from Type 3 SPICE kernel files. [#15612]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The exponent in ``w0wzCDM.de_density_scale`` has been corrected to 3, from -3.
This correction has also been made to the scalar ``inv_efunc`` cpython functions. [#14991]
- ``pandas.Series`` are now uniformly converted to their underlying data type when given
as an argument to a Cosmology method. [#15600]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Reading a table from FITS now respects the TNULL property of a column, passing
it into the column's ``fill_value``. [#14723]
- Fix crash when a PrimaryHDU has a GROUPS keyword with a non-boolean value (i.e.
not a random-groups HDU). [#14998]
- Fixed a bug that caused ``Cutout2D`` to not work correctly with ``CompImageHDU.section`` [#14999]
- Fixed a bug that caused compressed images with TFORM missing the optional '1' prefix to not be readable. [#15001]
- Ensure that tables written to FITS with both masked and unmasked columns
roundtrip properly (previously, all integer columns would become masked
if any column was masked). [#15473]
- Fix segfault with error report in tile decompression. [#15489]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Output of ``repr`` for VOTable instance now clearly shows it is a VOTable and not generic astropy Table. [#14702]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- All models can be pickled now. [#14902]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Restore bitmask propagation behavior in ``NDData.mask``, plus a fix
for arithmetic between masked and unmasked ``NDData`` objects. [#14995]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Table.as_array`` now respects the ``fill_value`` property of masked columns. [#14723]
- Fix a bug where table indexes were not using a stable sort order. This was causing the
order of rows within groups to not match the original table order when an indexed table
was grouped. [#14907]
- Fixed issue #14964 that when grouping a Table on a mixin column such as ``Quantity`` or
``Time``, the grouped table keys did not reflect the original column values. For
``Quantity`` this meant that the key values were pure float values without the unit,
while for ``Time`` the key values were the pair of ``jd1`` and ``jd2`` float values. [#14966]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that the ``Time`` caches of formats and scales do not get out
of sync with the actual data, even if another instance, holding a view
of the data is written to. E.g., if one does ``t01 = t[:2]``, and
sets ``t[0]`` after, it is now guaranteed that ``t01.value`` will
correctly reflect that change in value. [#15453]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In VOunits, "pix", "au", "a", and "ct" are removed from the list of deprecated units. [#14885]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ufuncs with more than 2 operands (such as ``erfa.dtf2d``) now work
also if all inputs are scalars and more than two inputs have masks. [#15450]
- Ensured that ``str(masked_array)`` looks like ``str(unmasked_array)`` also for
array scalars. Thus, like regular array scalars, the precision is ignored for
float, and strings do not include extra quoting. [#15451]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The location of ticklabels on a WCSAxes is now correctly calculated when the figure is rasterized. [#14760]
- Fixed a bug where a ``ValueError`` would be raised in the
``AsinhStretch`` and ``SinhStretch`` classes for valid ``a`` parameter
values. [#15539]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``wcs.validate(filename)`` now properly closes the file handler. [#15054]
- Fix a regression in custom WCS mapping due to the recent introduction of
Solar System frames. [#15630]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The minimum supported version of NumPy is now 1.22. [#15006]
- Moved International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) and Leap Second
files out into standalone astropy-iers-data package, maintaining full
backward-compatibility in the ``astropy.utils.iers`` API. Deprecation
warnings may be issued when certain files are accessed directly. [#14819]
- Switch from using ``setup.cfg`` for project configuration to using ``pyproject.toml``. [#15247]
- Update bundled expat to 2.5.0. [#15585]
Version 5.3.4 (2023-10-03)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Updated ``astropy.io.misc.yaml`` so ``dump()` with a numpy object array or
``load()`` with YAML representing a Numpy object array both raise
``TypeError``. This prevents problems like a segmentation fault. [#15373]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``convert_to_writable_filelike`` where ``GzipFile`` was not
closed properly. [#15359]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In VOUnit, the spaces around the slash were removed in the formatting of
fractions, and fractional powers now also use the "**" operator. [#15282]
- We now ensure that the unit ``u.cgs.cm`` is just an alias of ``u.si.cm``,
instead of a redefinition. This ensures that ``u.Unit("cm") / u.cm``
will reliably cancel to dimensionless (instead of some "cm / cm"). [#15368]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For ``Masked``, ``np.ptp`` and the ``.ptp()`` method now properly account for
the mask, ensuring the result is identical to subtracting the maximum and
minimum (with the same arguments). [#15380]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Compatibility with Python 3.12. [#14784]
- Replaced the URL of ``IETF_LEAP_SECOND_URL`` because the original is now
defunct and IETF now defers to IANA for such look-up. [#15421]
Version v5.3.3 (2023-09-07)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``TransformGraph.to_dot_graph()`` now throws an exception for invalid ``savelayout``.
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The exponent of ``w0wzCDM`` functions in ``inv_efunc`` has been corrected to 3, from -3. [#15224]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Astropy modeling can filter non-finite data values using the ``filter_non_finite``
keyword argument in a fitter call. Now when ``filter_non_finite`` is True,
non-finite *weights* will also be filtered to prevent crashes in ``LevMarLSQFitter``. [#15215]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``astropy.units.Quantity``'s implementation of ``numpy.nanmedian()``,
where for Numpy >= 1.25 an exception was raised for some array shapes and axis
combinations. [#15228]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- v5.3.x will not support NumPy 2.0 or later. [#15234]
Version 5.3.2 (2023-08-11)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed import when called with Python ``-OO`` flag. [#15037]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix for collapse operations on ``NDData`` without masks or units. [#15082]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Modified the implementation of ``np.power()`` for instances of ``Quantity`` to
allow any array as the second operand if all its elements have the same value. [#15101]
Version 5.3.1 (2023-07-06)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The exponent in ``wowzCDM.de_density_scale`` has been corrected to 3, from -3. [#14991]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix crash when a PrimaryHDU has a GROUPS keyword with a non-boolean value (i.e.
not a random-groups HDU). [#14998]
- Fixed a bug that caused ``Cutout2D`` to not work correctly with ``CompImageHDU.section`` [#14999]
- Fixed a bug that caused compressed images with TFORM missing the optional '1' prefix to not be readable. [#15001]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- All models can be pickled now. [#14902]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Restore bitmask propagation behavior in ``NDData.mask``, plus a fix
for arithmetic between masked and unmasked ``NDData`` objects. [#14995]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug where table indexes were not using a stable sort order. This was causing the
order of rows within groups to not match the original table order when an indexed table
was grouped. [#14907]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In VOunits, "pix", "au", "a", and "ct" are removed from the list of deprecated units. [#14885]
Version 5.3 (2023-05-22)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add optional parameter ``refresh_cache`` to ``EarthLocation.of_site()`` and
``EarthLocation.get_site_names()`` to force the download of the latest site
registry. [#13993]
- Added ``atol`` argument to function ``is_O3`` and ``is_rotation`` in matrix utilities. [#14371]
- A new class ``astropy.coordinates.StokesCoord`` has been added to represent world coordinates describing polarization state.
This change introduces a breaking change to the return value of ``astropy.wcs.WCS.pixel_to_world`` where before a ``u.Quantity`` object would be returned containing numerical values representing a Stokes profile now a ``StokesCoord`` object is returned. The previous numerical values can be accessed with ``StokesCoord.value``. [#14482]
- Add an optional parameter ``location`` to ``EarthLocation.get_itrs()``
to allow the generation of topocentric ITRS coordinates with respect
to a specific location. [#14628]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Two new cosmologies have been added, ``FlatwpwaCDM`` and ``Flatw0wzCDM``, which are the
flat variants of ``wpwaCDM`` and ``w0wzCDM``, respectively. [#12353]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add ability to read and write an RST (reStructuredText) ASCII table that
includes additional header rows specifying any or all of the column dtype, unit,
format, and description. This is available via the new ``header_rows`` keyword
argument. [#14182]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for >3D data in CompImageHDU [#14252]
- Added a ``CompImageHDU.section`` property which can be used to
efficiently access subsets of the data, similarly to ``ImageHDU.section``.
When using this, only the tiles required to cover the section are
read from disk and decompressed. [#14353]
- Added support for ``'NOCOMPRESS'`` for the ``compression_type`` option in ``CompImageHDU``. [#14408]
- Added new properties ``compression_type`` and ``tile_shape`` on
``CompImageHDU``, giving the name of the compression algorithm
and the shape of the tiles in the tiled compression respectively. [#14428]
- Do not call ``gc.collect()`` when closing a ``CompImageHDU`` object as it has a
large performance penalty. [#14576]
- VLA tables can now be written with the unified I/O interface.
When object types are present or the VLA contains different types a `TypeError`
is thrown. [#14578]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for writing/reading fixed-size and variable-length array columns to the parquet formatter. [#14237]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a method ``get_infos_by_name`` to make it easier to implement
DALI-compliant protocols [#14212]
- Updating the built-in UCD list to upstream 1.5 (which requires a minor
update to the parser) [#14554]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enable check for poorly conditioned fits in ``LinearLSQFitter`` for polynomial
models with fixed inputs. [#14037]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.nddata.NDDataArray`` now has collapsing methods like ``sum``,
``mean``, ``min``, and ``max`` which operate along any axes, and better
support for ``astropy.utils.Masked`` objects. [#14175]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``vonmisesmle`` has now functioning "weights" and "axis" parameters that work equivalently
to the rest of the functions in the ``circstats`` module (``circmean``, ``rayleightest``, etc.) [#14533]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Table`` and ``QTable`` can now use the ``|`` and ``|=`` operators for
dictionary-style merge and update. [#14187]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add a ``leap_second_strict`` argument to the ``Time.to_datetime()`` method. This
controls the behavior when converting a time within a leap second to the ``datetime``
format and can take the values ``raise`` (the default), ``warn``, or ``silent``. [#14606]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Adds the ``astropy.timeseries.LombScargleMultiband`` class, which is an
extension of the ``astropy.timeseries.LombScargle`` class. It enables the
generation of periodograms for datasets with measurements taken in more than
one photometric band. [#14016]
- Add ``unit_parse_strict`` parameter to the Kepler reader to control the warnings
emitted when reading files. [#14294]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for degrees Celsius for FITS. Parsing "Celsius" and "deg C" is now
supported and astropy will output "Celsius" into FITS.
Note that "deg C" is only provided for compatibility with existing FITS files,
as it does not conform to the normal unit standard, where this should be read
as "degree * Coulomb". Indeed, compound units like "deg C kg-1" will still be
parsed as "Coulomb degree per kilogram". [#14042]
- Enabled the ``equal_nan`` keyword argument for ``np.array_equal()`` when the
arguments are ``astropy.units.Quantity`` instances. [#14135]
- Allow "console" and "unicode" formats for conversion to string of
function units. [#14407]
- Add a "fraction" options to all the unit ``format`` classes, which determine
whether, if a unit has bases raised to a negative power, a string
representation should just show the negative powers (``fraction=False``) or
use a fraction, and, in the latter case, whether to use a single-line
representation using a solidus (``fraction='inline'`` or ``fraction=True``)
or, if the format supports it, a multi-line presentation with the numerator
and denominator separated by a horizontal line (``fraction='multiline'``). [#14449]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``mean`` method on ``NDDataArray`` now avoids a division by zero
warning when taking the mean of a fully-masked slice (and still
returns ``np.nan``). [#14341]
- Ensure we can read the newer ``IERS_B`` files produced by the International
Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, and point
``astropy.utils.iers.IERS_B_URL`` to the new location. [#14382]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``get_moon()`` is deprecated and may be removed in a future version of
``astropy``. Calling ``get_moon(...)`` should be replaced with
``get_body("moon", ...)``. [#14354]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecate the auto-fixing of tile sizes for HCOMPRESS_1 tiled
image compression when the tile size could be changed by +1
to make it acceptable. [#14410]
- The ``tile_size=`` argument to ``CompImageHDU`` has been deprecated
as it was confusing that it was required to be in the opposite
order to the data shape (it was in header rather than Numpy order).
Instead, users should make use of the ``tile_shape=`` argument which
is in Numpy shape order. [#14428]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecate the ``humlicek2`` method for `~astropy.modeling.functional_models.Voigt1D` in favor
of using the ``wofz`` method using the `scipy.special.wofz` implementation of the
Fadeeva function whenever `scipy` is installed. [#14013]
- Deprecated ``astropy.modeling.utils.comb()`` function in favor of ``comb()``
from ``math`` standard library. [#14038]
- Propagate measurement uncertainties via the ``weights`` keyword argument into the
parameter covariances. [#14519]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The conversion of ``astropy.units.Quantity`` to ``bool``
that was deprecated since astropy 3.0 now raises a ``ValueError``.
This affects statements like ``if quantity``.
Use explicit comparisons like ``if quantity.value != 0``
or ``if quantity is not None`` instead. [#14124]
- Operations on ``Quantity`` in tables are sped up by only copying ``info`` when
it makes sense (i.e., when the object can still logically be thought of as the
same, such as in unit changes or slicing). ``info`` is no longer copied if a
``Quantity`` is part of an operation. [#14253]
- The ``Quantity.nansum`` method has been deprecated. It was always weird that it
was present, since ``ndarray`` does not have a similar method, and the other
``nan*`` functions such as ``nanmean`` did not have a corresponding method.
Use ``np.nansum(quantity)`` instead. [#14267]
- The unused ``units.format.Unscaled`` format class has been deprecated. [#14417]
- The order in which unit bases are displayed has been changed to match the
order bases are stored in internally, which is by descending power to which
the base is raised, and alphabetical after. This helps avoid monstrosities
like ``beam^-1 Jy`` for ``format='fits'``.
Note that this may affect doctests that use quantities with complicated units. [#14439]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For ``Masked`` instances, the ``where`` argument for any ufunc can now
also be masked (with any masked elements masked in the output as well).
This is not very useful in itself, but avoids problems in conditional
functions (like ``np.add(ma, 1, where=ma>10)``). [#14590]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The pixel attribute of ``astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.frame.Spine`` is deprecated
and will be removed in a future astropy version.
Because it is (in general) not possible to correctly calculate pixel
coordinates before Matplotlib is drawing a figure, instead set the world or data
coordinates of the ``Spine`` using the appropriate setters. [#13989]
- Passing a bare number as the ``coord_wrap`` argument to ``CoordinateHelper.set_coord_type`` is deprecated.
Pass a ``Quantity`` with units equivalent to angular degrees instead.
The ``.coord_wrap`` attribute of ``CoordinateHelper`` is now a ``Quantity`` instead of a bare number. [#14050]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Angle.to_string()`` was changed to ensure it matches the behaviour of
``Quantity.to_string()`` in having a space between the value and the unit
for display with non-degree and hourangle units (i.e., the case in which
units are displayed by their name; the sexagesimal case for degrees or
hourangle that uses symbols is not changed). [#14379]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix an issue in the ``io.ascii`` QDP format reader to allow lower-case commands in the
table data file. Previously it required all upper case in order to parse QDP files. [#14365]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Compressing/decompressing a floating point dataset containing NaN values will
no longer read in the whole tile as NaNs.
Fixed segmentation faults that occurred when compressing/decompressing data
with the PLIO_1 algorithm. [#14252]
- ``Card`` now uses the default Python representation for floating point
values. [#14508]
- ``ImageHDU`` now properly rejects Numpy scalars, avoiding data corruption. [#14528]
- Fix issues with double quotes in CONTINUE cards. [#14598]
- Fixes an issue where FITS_rec was incorrectly raising a ValueError exception when the heapsize was greater than 2**31
when the Column type was 'Q' instead of 'P'. [#14810]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Columns with big-endian byte ordering (such as those read in from a FITS table) can now be serialized with Parquet. [#14373]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bugfix for using ``getter/setter`` in properties to adjust the internal (computational)
value of a property vs its external proxy value when the values involve units. [#14512]
- Fix issue with ``filter_non_finite`` option when fitting with ``weights`` via passing
the ``weights`` through the non-finite-filter alongside the input data. [#14695]
- Fixed an issue with Parameter where a getter could be input without a
setter (or vice versa). [#14708]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Using quantities with units of time for ``Time`` format 'decimalyear' will now
raise an error instead of converting the quantity to days and then
interpreting the value as years. An error is raised instead of attempting to
interpret the unit as years, since the interpretation is ambiguous: in
'decimaltime' years are equal to 365 or 366 days, while for regular time units
the year is defined as 365.25 days. [#14566]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that ``Distribution`` can be compared with ``==`` and ``!=``
with regular arrays or scalars, and that inplace operations like
``dist[dist<0] *= -1`` work. [#14421]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Modified ``astropy.units.Quantity.__array_ufunc__()`` to return ``NotImplemented`` instead of raising a ``ValueError`` if the inputs are incompatible. [#13977]
- Modified the behavior of ``numpy.array_equal()`` and ``numpy.array_equiv()`` to
return ``False`` instead of raising an error if their arguments are
``astropy.units.Quantity`` instances with incompatible units. [#14163]
- Spaces have been regularized for the ``unicode`` and ``console`` output
formats: no extraneous spaces in front of the unit, and always a space
between a possible scale factor and the unit. [#14413]
- Prefixed degrees and arcmin are now typeset without using the symbol in
``latex`` and ``unicode`` formats (i.e., ``mdeg`` instead of ``m°``),
as was already the case for arcsec. [#14419]
- Ensure the unit is kept in ``np.median`` even if the result is a scalar ``nan``
(the unit was lost for numpy < 1.22). [#14635]
- Ensure that ``Quantity`` with structured dtype can be set using non-structured
``Quantity`` (if units match), and that structured dtype names are inferred
correctly in the creation of ``StructuredUnit``, thus avoiding mismatches
when setting units. [#14680]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When using astropy in environments with sparse file systems (e.g., where the temporary directory and astropy data directory resides in different volumes), ``os.rename`` may fail with ``OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link``.
This may affect some clean-up operations executed by the ``data`` module, causing them to fail.
This patch is to catch ``OSError`` with ``errno == EXDEV`` (i.e., Errno 18) when performing these operations and try to use ``shutil.move`` instead to relocate the data. [#13730]
- Ensure masks are propagated correctly for ``outer`` methods of ufuncs also if
one of the inputs is not actually masked. [#14624]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The location of a ``astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.frame.Spine`` in a plot is now
correctly calculated when the DPI of a figure changes between a WCSAxes being
created and the figure being drawn. [#13989]
- ``CoordinateHelper.set_ticks()`` now accepts ``number=0``. Previously it errored. [#14160]
- ``WCSAxes.plot_coord`` and ``plot_scatter`` now work correctly for APE 14 compliant WCSes where the units are not always converted to degrees. [#14251]
- Fixed a bug where coordinate overlays did not automatically determine the
longitude wrap angle or the appropriate units. [#14326]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bugs with high-level WCS API on ``wcs.WCS`` object when using ``-TAB``
coordinates. [#13571]
- Fixed a bug in how WCS handles ``PVi_ja`` header coefficients when ``CTYPE``
has ``-SIP`` suffix and in how code detects TPV distortions. [#14295]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The minimum supported version of Python is now 3.9, changing from 3.8. [#14286]
- The minimum supported version of Numpy is now 1.21. [#14349]
- The minimum supported version of matplotlib is now 3.3. [#14286, #14321]
- ``astropy`` no longer publishes wheels for i686 architecture. [#14517]
- Added a pre-commit configuration for codespell. [#13985]
- Removed a large fraction of the bundled CFITSIO code and internally refactored
FITS compression-related code, which has resulted in a speedup when compiling
astropy from source (40% faster in some cases). [#14252]
- The CFITSIO library is no longer bundled in full with astropy and
the option to build against an external installation of CFITSIO
has now been removed, so the ASTROPY_USE_SYSTEM_CFITSIO environment
variable will be ignored during building. [#14311]
- Updated CDS URL for Sesame look-up as the old URL is deprecated. [#14681]
Version 5.2.2 (2023-03-28)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- CDS and MRT tables with units that contain with multiple divisions, such as
``km/s/Mpc`` now parse correctly as being equal to ``km/(s.Mpc)``. [#14369]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``FITSDiff`` when table contains a VLA column with the Q type. [#14539]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug when creating a ``QTable`` when a ``Quantity`` input column is present and the
``units`` argument modifies the unit of that column. This now works as expected where
previously this caused an exception. [#14357]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- CDS units with multiple divisions, such as ``km/s/Mpc`` now parse
correctly as being equal to ``km/(s.Mpc)``. [#14369]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused subclasses of BaseHighLevelWCS and HighLevelWCSMixin to
not work correctly under certain conditions if they did not have ``world_n_dim``
and ``pixel_n_dim`` defined on them. [#14495]
Version 5.2.1 (2023-01-06)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix to ITRS frame ``earth_location`` attribute to give the correct result for
a topocentric frame. [#14180]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bounds are no longer passed to the scipy minimizer for methods Brent and
Golden. The scipy minimizer never used the bounds but silently accepted them.
In scipy v1.11.0.dev0+ an error is raised, so we now pass None as the bounds
to the minimizer. Users should not be affected by this change. [#14232]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Tables with multidimensional variable length array can now be properly read
and written. [#13417]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Modified the behavior of ``numpy.histogram()``,
``numpy.histogram_bin_edges()``, ``numpy.histogram2d()``, and
``numpy.histogramdd()`` so that the ``range`` argument must a compatible
instance of ``astropy.units.Quantity`` if the other arguments are instances of
``astropy.units.Quantity``. [#14213]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved the performance of drawing WCSAxes grids by skipping some unnecessary
computations. [#14164]
- Fixed WCSAxes sometimes triggering a NumPy RuntimeWarning when determining the
coordinate range of the axes. [#14211]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fix compatibility with Numpy 1.24. [#14193]
Version 5.2 (2022-12-12)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Adds new topocentric ITRS frame and direct transforms to and from the observed
frames ``AltAz`` and ``HADec`` with the ability to add or remove refraction
corrections as required. Since these frames are all within the ITRS, there are
no corrections applied other than refraction in the transforms. This makes the
topocentric ITRS frame and these transforms convenient for observers of near
Earth objects where stellar aberration should be omitted. [#13398]
- Allow comparing ``SkyCoord`` to frames with data. [#13477]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cosmology instance can be parsed from or converted to a HTML table using
the new HTML methods in Cosmology's ``to/from_format`` I/O. [#13075]
- A new comparison function has been added -- ``cosmology_equal()`` -- that
mirrors its ``numpy`` counterpart but allows for the arguments to be converted
to a ``Cosmology`` and to compare flat cosmologies with their non-flat
equivalents. [#13104]
- Cosmology equivalence for flat FLRW cosmologies has been generalized to apply
to all cosmologies using the FlatCosmology mixin. [#13261]
- The cosmological redshift unit now has a physical type of ``"redshift"``. [#13561]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add ability to read and write a fixed width ASCII table that includes additional
header rows specifying any or all of the column dtype, unit, format, and
description. This is available in the ``fixed_width`` and
``fixed_width_two_line`` formats via the new ``header_rows`` keyword argument. [#13734]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support to the ``io.fits`` API for reading and writing file paths of the
form ``~/file.fits`` or ``~<username>/file.fits``, referring to the home
directory of the current user or the specified user, respectively. [#13131]
- Added support for opening remote and cloud-hosted FITS files using the
``fsspec`` package, which has been added as an optional dependency. [#13238]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support in ``io.votable`` for reading and writing file paths of the form
``~/file.xml`` or ``~<username>/file.xml``, referring to the home directory of
the current user or the specified user, respectively. [#13149]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add option to non-linear fitters which enables automatic
exclusion of non-finite values from the fit data. [#13259]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Modified ``Cutout2D`` to allow objects of type ``astropy.io.fits.Section``
to be passed to the ``data`` parameter. [#13238]
- Add a PSF image representation to ``astropy.nddata.NDData`` and ``astropy.nddata.CCDData``. [#13743]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- An Astropy table can now be converted to a scalar NumPy object array. For NumPy
>= 1.20, a list of Astropy tables can be converted to an NumPy object array of
tables. [#13469]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the ``astropy.time.Time.mean()`` method which also enables the ``numpy.mean()`` function to be used on instances of ``astropy.time.Time``. [#13508]
- Improve the performance of getting the string representation of a large ``Time``
or ``TimeDelta`` object. This is done via a new ``to_string()`` method that does
the time string format conversion only for the outputted values. Previously the
entire array was formatted in advance. [#13555]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- It is now possible to use unit format names as string format specifiers for a
``Quantity``, e.g. ``f'{1e12*u.m/u.s:latex_inline}'`` now produces the string
``'$1 \\times 10^{12} \\; \\mathrm{m\\,s^{-1}}$'``. [#13050]
- Ensure that the ``argmin`` and ``argmax`` methods of ``Quantity`` support the
``keepdims`` argument when numpy does (numpy version 1.22 and later). [#13329]
- ``numpy.lib.recfunctions.merge_arrays()`` is registered with numpy overload for
``Quantity``. [#13669]
- Added SI prefixes for quecto ("q", :math:`10^{-30}`), ronto ("r",
:math:`10^{-27}`), ronna ("R", :math:`10^{27}`), and quetta ("Q",
:math:`10^{30}`). [#14046]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the ``use_fsspec``, ``fsspec_kwargs``, and ``close_files`` arguments
to ``utils.data.get_readable_fileobj``. [#13238]
- Ensure that the ``argmin`` and ``argmax`` methods of ``Masked`` instances
support the ``keepdims`` argument when numpy does (numpy version 1.22 and
later). [#13329]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add helper functions for WCSAxes instances to draw the instrument beam and a physical scale. [#12102]
- Add a ``scatter_coord`` method to the ``wcsaxes`` functionality based on the
existing ``plot_coord`` method but that calls ``matplotlib.pyplot.scatter``. [#13562]
- Added a ``sinh`` stretch option to ``simple_norm``. [#13746]
- It is now possible to define "tickable" gridlines for the purpose of placing ticks or tick labels in the interior of WCSAxes plots. [#13829]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``MexicanHat1DKernel`` and ``MexicanHat2DKernel``
classes. Please use ``RickerWavelet1DKernel`` and
``RickerWavelet2DKernel`` instead. [#13300]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Multiplying a ``LogQuantity`` like ``Magnitude`` with dimensionless physical
units by an array will no longer downcast to ``Quantity``. [#12579]
- Quantity normally upcasts integer dtypes to floats, unless the dtype is
specifically provided.
Before this happened when ``dtype=None``; now the default has been changed to
``dtype=numpy.inexact`` and ``dtype=None`` has the same meaning as in `numpy`. [#12941]
- In "in-place unit changes" of the form ``quantity <<= new_unit``, the result
will now share memory with the original only if the conversion could be done
through a simple multiplication with a scale factor. Hence, memory will not be
shared if the quantity has integer ```dtype``` or is structured, or when the
conversion is through an equivalency. [#13638]
- When ``Quantity`` is constructed from a structured array and ``unit`` is
``None``, the default unit is now structured like the input data. [#13676]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.utils.misc.suppress`` has been removed, use ``contextlib.suppress``
instead. ``astropy.utils.namedtuple_asdict`` has been removed, instead use
method ``._asdict`` on a ``namedtuple``. ``override__dir__`` has been deprecated
and will be removed in a future version, see the docstring for the better
alternative. [#13636]
- ``astropy.utils.misc.possible_filename`` has been removed. [#13661]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Rename number-of-samples keyword ``nsamples`` in ``ZScaleInterval`` to align
with the ``n_samples`` keyword used in all other ``Interval`` classes in
this module. [#13810]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed convolution Kernels to ensure the that returned kernels
are normalized to sum to one (e.g., ``Gaussian1DKernel``,
``Gaussian2DKernel``). Also fixed the Kernel ``truncation`` calculation. [#13299]
- Fix import error with setuptools v65.6.0 by replacing
``numpy.ctypeslib.load_library`` with Cython to load the C convolution
extension. [#14035]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``BaseCoordinateFrame.get_frame_attr_names()`` had a misleading name,
because it actually provided a ``dict`` of attribute names and
their default values. It is now deprecated and replaced by ``BaseCoordinateFrame.get_frame_attr_defaults()``.
The fastest way to obtain the attribute names is ``BaseFrame.frame_attributes.keys()``. [#13484]
- Fixed bug that caused ``earth_orientation.nutation_matrix()`` to error instead of returning output. [#13572]
- Ensure that ``angle.to_string()`` continues to work after pickling,
and that units passed on to ``to_string()`` or the ``Angle``
initializer can be composite units (like ``u.hour**1``), which might
result from preceding calculations. [#13933]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``report_diff_values()`` have now two new parameters ``rtol`` and ``atol`` to make the
report consistent with ``numpy.allclose`` results.
This fixes ``FITSDiff`` with multi-dimensional columns. [#13465]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed two bugs in validator.validator.make_validation_report:
- ProgressBar iterator was not called correctly.
- make_validation_report now handles input string urls correctly. [#14102]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a performance regression in ``timeseries.aggregate_downsample``
introduced in Astropy 5.0 / #11266. [#13069]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Unit changes of the form ``quantity <<= new_unit`` will now work also if the
quantity is integer. The result will always be float. This means that the result
will not share memory with the original. [#13638]
- Ensure dimensionless quantities can be added inplace to regular ndarray. [#13913]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an incompatibility with latest Python 3.1x versions that kept
``astropy.utils.data.download_file`` from switching to TLS+FTP mode. [#14092]
- ``np.quantile`` and ``np.percentile`` can now be used on ``Masked``
arrays and quantities also with ``keepdims=True``. [#14113]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Significantly improve performance of ``ManualInterval`` when both limits
are specified manually. [#13898]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The deprecated private ``astropy._erfa`` module has been removed. Use
``pyerfa``, which is a dependency of ``astropy`` and can be imported directly
using ``import erfa``. [#13317]
- The minimum version required for numpy is now 1.20 and that for scipy 1.5. [#13885]
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 4.2.0. [#14020]
Version 5.1.1 (2022-10-23)
==========================
API Changes
-----------
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``pixel`` argument to ``astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.ticklabels.TickLabels.add``
no longer does anything, is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
astropy version. It has been replaced by a new required ``data`` argument, which
should be used to specify the data coordinates of the tick label being added.
This changes has been made because it is (in general) not possible to correctly
calculate pixel coordinates before Matplotlib is drawing a figure. [#12630]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that prevented ``SkyOffsetFrame`` instances to be pickled by adding
a custom ``__reduce__`` method to the class (see issue #9249). [#13305]
- Fixed the check for invalid ``Latitude`` values for float32 values.
``Latitude`` now accepts the float32 value of pi/2, which was rejected
before because a comparison was made using the slightly smaller float64 representation.
See issue #13708. [#13745]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed confusing chained exception messages of ``read()`` function when it fails. [#13170]
- When writing out a :class:`~astropy.table.Table` to HTML format, the
``formats`` keyword argument to the :meth:`~astropy.table.Table.write` method
will now be applied. [#13453]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``heapsize`` is now checked for VLA tables. An error is thrown whether P format is used
but the heap size is bigger than what can be indexed with a 32 bit signed int. [#13429]
- Fix parsing of ascii TFORM when precision is missing. [#13520]
- A compressed image HDU created from the header of a PRIMARY HDU, now correctly updates
'XTENSION' and 'SIMPLE' keywords. [#13557]
- Empty variable-length arrays are now properly handled when pathological combinations of
heapoffset and heapsize are encountered. [#13621]
- ``PCOUNT`` and ``GCOUNT`` keywords are now removed from an uncompressed Primary header,
for compliance with ``fitsverify`` behavior. [#13753]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bugfix for using ``MagUnit`` units on model parameters. [#13158]
- Fix bug in using non-linear fitters to fit 0-degree polynomials using weights. [#13628]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem where accessing one field of a structured column returned a Column
with the same info as the original column. This resulted in unintuitive behavior
in general and an exception if the format for the column was set. [#13269]
- Tables with columns with structured data can now be properly stacked and joined. [#13306]
- Update jQuery to 3.6.0, to pick up security fixes. [#13438]
- Fix a Python 3.11 compatibility issue. Ensure that when removing a table column
that the ``pprint_include_names`` or ``pprint_exclude_names`` attributes get
updated correctly. [#13639]
- When using ``add_columns`` with same indexes in ``indexes`` option or without
specifying the option, the order of the new columns will now be kept. [#13783]
- Fix a bug when printing or getting the representation of a multidimensional
table column that has a zero dimension. [#13838]
- Ensure that mixin columns and their ``info`` are not shared between tables
even when their underlying data is shared with ``copy=False``. [#13842]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``Time.insert()`` on times which have their ``out_subfmt`` set. [#12732]
- Prevent ``Time()`` from being initialized with an invalid precision
leading to incorrect results when representing the time as a string. [#13068]
- Fix a bug in Time where a date string like "2022-08-01.123" was being parsed
as an ISO-format time "2022-08-01 00:00:00.123". The fractional part at the
end of the string was being taken as seconds. Now this raises an exception
because the string is not in ISO format. [#13731]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Significantly improved the performance of parsing composite units with the FITS
format, by ensuring the ``detailed_exception`` argument is properly passed on
and thus used. [#12699]
- Ensure that ``np.concatenate`` on quantities can take a ``dtype`` argument (added in numpy 1.20). [#13323]
- Ensure that the units of any ``initial`` argument to reductions such as
``np.add.reduce`` (which underlies ``np.sum``) are properly taken into account. [#13340]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that ``np.concatenate`` on masked data can take a ``dtype`` argument (added in numpy 1.20). [#13323]
- Fix error when suppressing download progress bar while using non-default
``sys.stdout`` stream. [#13352]
- Ensure ``str`` and ``repr`` work properly for ``Masked`` versions of
structured subarrays. [#13404]
- If an attribute is created using ``deprecated_attribute()`` with the
``alternative`` argument then getting or setting the value of the deprecated
attribute now accesses its replacement. [#13824]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed calling ``.tight_layout()`` on a WCSAxes. [#12418]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``WCS.pixel_to_world`` now creates an ``EarthLocation`` object using ``MJD-AVG``
if present before falling back to the old behaviour of using ``MJD-OBS``. [#12598]
- The locations of ``WCSAxes`` ticks and tick-labels are now correctly calculated
when the DPI of a figure changes between a WCSAxes being created and the figure
being drawn, or when a rasterized artist is added to the WCSAxes. [#12630]
- Fix a bug where ``SlicedLowLevelWCS.world_to_pixel_values`` would break when
the result of the transform is dependent on the coordinate of a sliced out
pixel. [#13579]
- Updated bundled WCSLIB version to 7.12. This update includes bug fixes to
``wcssub()`` in how it handles temporal axes with -TAB and fixes handling
of status returns from ``linp2x()`` and ``linx2p()`` relating to distortion
functions, in particular affecting TPV distortions - see #13509. For a full
list of changes - see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/CHANGES or
`astropy/cextern/wcslib/CHANGES <https://github.com/astropy/astropy/blob/24e8730c63902d035cb9110eae2a9ebec12d8905/cextern/wcslib/CHANGES>`_. [#13635]
- Fixed WCS validation not working properly if HDUList is needed
for multi-extension FITS file. [#13668]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Development wheels of astropy should now be installed from
https://pypi.anaconda.org/astropy/simple instead of from
https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/astropy-project/astropy/_packaging/nightly/pypi/simple. [#13431]
- Compatibility with Python 3.11, 3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14 [#13614]
Version 5.1 (2022-05-24)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ephemeris used in ``astropy.coordinates`` can now be set to any version of
the JPL ephemeris available from https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/spk/planets/. [#12541]
- ``Angle.to_string()`` now accepts the ``'latex_inline'`` unit format. [#13056]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cosmology instance can be parsed from or converted to a YAML string using
the new "yaml" format in Cosmology's ``to/from_format`` I/O. [#12279]
- Register "astropy.row" into Cosmology's to/from format I/O, allowing a
Cosmology instance to be parse from or converted to an Astropy Table Row. [#12313]
- A method ``clone`` has been added to ``Parameter`` to quickly deep copy the
object and change any constructor argument.
A supporting equality method is added, and ``repr`` is enhanced to be able to
roundtrip -- ``eval(repr(Parameter()))`` -- if the Parameter's arguments can
similarly roundtrip.
Parameter's arguments are made keyword-only. [#12479]
- Add methods ``Otot`` and ``Otot0`` to FLRW cosmologies to calculate the total
energy density of the Universe. [#12590]
- Add property ``is_flat`` to cosmologies to calculate the curvature of the Universe.
``Cosmology`` is now an abstract class and subclasses must override the
abstract property ``is_flat``. [#12606]
- For converting a cosmology to a mapping, two new boolean keyword arguments are
added: ``cosmology_as_str`` for turning the class reference to a string,
instead of the class object itself, and ``move_from_meta`` to merge the
metadata with the rest of the returned mapping instead of adding it as a
nested dictionary. [#12710]
- Register format "astropy.cosmology" with Cosmology I/O. [#12736]
- Cosmological equivalency (``Cosmology.is_equivalent``) can now be extended
to any Python object that can be converted to a Cosmology, using the new
keyword argument ``format``.
This allows e.g. a properly formatted Table to be equivalent to a Cosmology. [#12740]
- The new module ``cosmology/tests/helper.py`` has been added to provide tools
for testing the cosmology module and related extensions. [#12966]
- A new property ``nonflat`` has been added to flat cosmologies
(``FlatCosmologyMixin`` subclasses) to get an equivalent cosmology, but of the
corresponding non-flat class. [#13076]
- ``clone`` has been enhanced to allow for flat cosmologies to clone on the
equivalent non-flat cosmology. [#13099]
- ``cosmology`` file I/O uses the Unified Table I/O interface, which has added
support for reading and writing file paths of the form ``~/file.ecsv`` or
``~<username>/file.ecsv``, referring to the home directory of the current user
or the specified user, respectively. [#13129]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Simplify the way that the ``converters`` argument of ``io.ascii.read`` is
provided. Previously this required wrapping each data type as the tuple returned
by the ``io.ascii.convert_numpy()`` function and ensuring that the value is a
``list``. With this update you can write ``converters={'col1': bool}`` to force
conversion as a ``bool`` instead of the previous syntax ``converters={'col1':
[io.ascii.convert_numpy(bool)]}``. Note that this update is back-compatible with
the old behavior. [#13073]
- Added support in ``io.ascii`` for reading and writing file paths of the form
``~/file.csv`` or ``~<username>/file.csv``, referring to the home directory of
the current user or the specified user, respectively. [#13130]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add option ``unit_parse_strict`` to ``astropy.io.fits.connect.read_table_fits``
to enable warnings or errors about invalid FITS units when using ``astropy.table.Table.read``.
The default for this new option is ``"warn"``, which means warnings are now raised for
columns with invalid units. [#11843]
- Changes default FITS behavior to use buffered I/O
rather than unbuffered I/O for performance reasons. [#12081]
- ``astropy.io.fits.Header`` now has a method to calculate the size
(in bytes) of the data portion (with or without padding) following
that header. [#12110]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow serialization of model unit equivalencies. [#10198]
- Built-in Cosmology subclasses can now be converted to/from YAML with the
functions ``dump`` and ``load`` in ``astropy.io.misc.yaml``. [#12279]
- Add asdf support for ``Cosine1D``, ``Tangent1D``, ``ArcSine1D``,
``ArcCosine1D``, and ``ArcTangent1D`` models. [#12895]
- Add asdf support for ``Spline1D`` models. [#12897]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support to the Unified Table I/O interface for reading and writing file
paths of the form ``~/file.csv`` or ``~<username>/file.csv``, referring to the
home directory of the current user or the specified user, respectively. [#13129]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add new fitters based on ``scipy.optimize.least_squares`` method of non-linear
least-squares optimization: [#12051]
- ``TRFLSQFitter`` using the Trust Region Reflective algorithm.
- ``LMLSQFitter`` using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm (implemented by ``scipy.optimize.least_squares``).
- ``DogBoxLSQFitter`` using the dogleg algorithm.
- Enable direct use of the ``ignored`` feature of ``ModelBoundingBox`` by users in
addition to its use as part of enabling ``CompoundBoundingBox``. [#12384]
- Switch ``modeling.projections`` to use ``astropy.wcs.Prjprm`` wrapper internally and provide access to the ``astropy.wcs.Prjprm`` structure. [#12558]
- Add error to non-finite inputs to the ``LevMarLSQFitter``, to protect against soft scipy failure. [#12811]
- Allow the ``Ellipse2D`` and ``Sersic2D`` theta parameter to be input as
an angular quantity. [#13030]
- Added ``Schechter1D`` model. [#13116]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for converting between uncertainty types. This uncertainty
conversion system uses a similar flow to the coordinate subsystem, where
Cartesian is used as the common system. In this case, variance is used as the
common system. [#12057]
- The ``as_image_hdu`` option is now available for ``CCDData.to_hdu`` and
``CCDData.write``. This option allows the user to get an ``ImageHDU`` as the
first item of the returned ``HDUList``, instead of the default ``PrimaryHDU``. [#12962]
- File I/O through ``nddata.CCDData`` uses the Unified I/O interface, which has
added support for reading and writing file paths of the form ``~/file.csv`` or
``~<username>/file.csv``, referring to the home directory of the current user
or the specified user, respectively. [#13129]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A new keyword-only argument ``kind`` was added to the ``Table.sort`` method to
specify the sort algorithm. [#12637]
- Columns which are ``numpy`` structured arrays are now fully supported,
effectively allowing tables within tables. This applies to ``Column``,
``MaskedColumn``, and ``Quantity`` columns. These structured data columns
can be stored in ECSV, FITS, and HDF5 formats. [#12644]
- Improve the performance of ``np.searchsorted`` by a factor of 1000 for a
bytes-type ``Column`` when the search value is ``str`` or an array of ``str``.
This happens commonly for string data stored in FITS or HDF5 format files. [#12680]
- Add support for using mixin columns in group aggregation operations when the
mixin supports the specified operation (e.g. ``np.sum`` works for ``Quantity``
but not ``Time``). In cases where the operation is not supported the code now
issues a warning and drops the column instead of raising an exception. [#12825]
- Added support to the Unified Table I/O interface for reading and writing file
paths of the form ``~/file.csv`` or ``~<username>/file.csv``, referring to the
home directory of the current user or the specified user, respectively. [#13129]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for calling ``numpy.linspace()`` with two ``Time`` instances to
generate a or multiple linearly spaced set(s) of times. [#13132]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``structured_to_unstructured`` and ``unstructured_to_structured`` in
``numpy.lib.recfunctions`` now work with Quantity. [#12486]
- Implement multiplication and division of LogQuantities and numbers [#12566]
- New ``doppler_redshift`` equivalency to convert between
Doppler redshift and radial velocity. [#12709]
- Added the ``where`` keyword argument to the ``mean()``,``var()``, ``std()`` and ``nansum()`` methods of
``astropy.units.Quantity``. Also added the ``initial`` keyword argument to ``astropy.units.Quantity.nansum()``. [#12891]
- Added "Maxwell" as a unit for magnetic flux to the CGS module. [#12975]
- ``Quantity.to_string()`` and ``FunctionUnitBase.to_string()`` now accept the
``'latex_inline'`` unit format. The output of ``StructuredUnit.to_string()``
when called with ``format='latex_inline'`` is now more consistent with the
output when called with ``format='latex'``. [#13056]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the ``where`` keyword argument to the ``mean()``, ``var()``, ``std()``, ``any()``, and ``all()`` methods of
``astropy.utils.masked.MaskedNDArray``. [#12891]
- Improve handling of unavailable IERS-A (predictive future Earth rotation) data
in two ways. First, allow conversions with degraded accuracy if the IERS-A data
are missing or do not cover the required time span. This is done with a new
config item ``conf.iers_degraded_accuracy`` which specifies the behavior when
times are outside the range of IERS table. The options are 'error' (raise an
``IERSRangeError``, default), 'warn' (issue a ``IERSDegradedAccuracyWarning``)
or 'ignore' (ignore the problem). Second, the logic for auto-downloads was
changed to guarantee that no matter what happens with the IERS download
operations, only warnings will be issued. [#13052]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.wcs.Celprm`` and ``astropy.wcs.Prjprm`` have been added
to allow access to lower level WCSLIB functionality and to allow direct
access to the ``cel`` and ``prj`` members of ``Wcsprm``. [#12514]
- Add ``temporal`` properties for convenient access of/selection of/testing for
the ``TIME`` axis introduced in WCSLIB version 7.8. [#13094]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``dms_to_degrees`` and ``hms_to_hours`` functions (and implicitly
tuple-based initialization of ``Angle``) is now deprecated, as it was
difficult to be sure about the intent of the user for signed values of
the degrees/hours, minutes, and seconds. [#13162]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The already deprecated ``Planck18_arXiv_v2`` has been removed.
Use ``Planck18`` instead [#12354]
- ``default_cosmology.get_cosmology_from_string`` is deprecated and will be
removed in two minor versions.
Use ``getattr(astropy.cosmology, <str>)`` instead. [#12375]
- In I/O, conversions of Parameters move more relevant information from the
Parameter to the Column.
The default Parameter ``format_spec`` is changed from ``".3g"`` to ``""``. [#12612]
- Units of redshift are added to ``z_reion`` in built-in realizations' metadata. [#12624]
- Cosmology realizations (e.g. ``Planck18``) and parameter dictionaries are now
lazily loaded from source files. [#12746]
- The Cosmology Parameter argument "fmt" for specifying a format spec
has been deprecated in favor of using the built-in string representation from
the Parameter's value's dtype. [#13072]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When reading an ECSV file, changed the type checking
to issue an ``InvalidEcsvDatatypeWarning`` instead of raising a ``ValueError``
exception if the ``datatype`` of a column is not recognized in the ECSV standard.
This also applies to older versions of ECSV files which used to silently
proceed but now warn first. [#12841]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``clobber`` argument from functions in ``astropy.io.fits``. [#12258]
- Add ``-s/--sort`` argument to ``fitsheader`` to sort the fitsort-mode output. [#13106]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecate asdf in astropy core in favor of the asdf-astropy package. [#12903, #12930]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Made ``astropy.modeling.fitting._fitter_to_model_params`` and ``astropy.modeling.fitting._model_to_fit_params``
public methods. [#12585]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change the repr of the Table object to replace embedded newlines and tabs with
``r'\n'`` and ``r'\t'`` respectively. This improves the display of such tables. [#12631]
- A new keyword-only argument ``kind`` was added to the ``Table.sort`` method to
specify the sort algorithm. The signature of ``Table.sort`` was modified so that
the ``reverse`` argument is now keyword-only. Previously ``reverse`` could be
specified as the second positional argument. [#12637]
- Changed behavior when a structured ``numpy.ndarray`` is added as a column to a
``Table``. Previously this was converted to a ``NdarrayMixin`` subclass of
``ndarray`` and added as a mixin column. This was because saving as a file (e.g.
HDF5, FITS, ECSV) was not supported for structured array columns. Now a
structured ``numpy.ndarray`` is added to the table as a native ``Column`` and
saving to file is supported. [#13236]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Backward-compatible import of ``astropy.tests.disable_internet``
has been removed; use ``pytest_remotedata.disable_internet``
from ``pytest-remotedata`` instead. [#12633]
- Backward-compatible import of ``astropy.tests.helper.remote_data``
has been removed; use ``pytest.mark.remote_data`` from ``pytest-remotedata``
instead. [#12633]
- The following are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Use ``pytest`` warning and exception handling instead: [#12633]
* ``astropy.io.ascii.tests.common.raises``
* ``astropy.tests.helper.catch_warnings``
* ``astropy.tests.helper.ignore_warnings``
* ``astropy.tests.helper.raises``
* ``astropy.tests.helper.enable_deprecations_as_exceptions``
* ``astropy.tests.helper.treat_deprecations_as_exceptions``
- Backward-compatible plugin ``astropy.tests.plugins.display``
has been removed; use ``pytest-astropy-header`` instead. [#12633]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Creating an `~astropy.time.TimeDelta` object with numerical inputs
that do not have a unit and without specifying an explicit format,
for example ``TimeDelta(5)``,
now results in a `~astropy.time.TimeDeltaMissingUnitWarning`.
This also affects statements like ``Time("2020-01-01") + 5`` or
``Time("2020-01-05") - Time("2020-01-03") < 5``, which implicitly
transform the right-hand side into an `~astropy.time.TimeDelta` instance. [#12888]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The machinery that makes observatory locations available as ``EarthLocation``
objects is now smarter about processing observatory names from its data files.
More names are available for use and the empty string is no longer considered
to be a valid name. [#12721]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``io.ascii`` read and write functions for most formats to correctly handle
data fields with embedded newlines for both the fast and pure-Python readers and
writers. [#12631]
- Fix an issue when writing ``Time`` table columns to a file when the time
``format`` is one of ``datetime``, ``datetime64``, or ``ymdhms``. Previously,
writing a ``Time`` column with one of these formats could result in an exception
or else an incorrect output file that cannot be read back in. [#12842]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add a ``mask_invalid`` option to ``Table.read`` to allow deactivating the
masking of NaNs in float columns and empty strings in string columns. This
option is necessary to allow effective use of memory-mapped reading with
``memmap=True``. [#12544]
- Fix ``CompImageHeader.clear()``. [#13102]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bugfix for ``ignore`` functionality failing in ``ModelBoundingBox`` when using
``ignore`` option alongside passing bounding box data as tuples. [#13032]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``Table.show_in_browser`` using the ``jsviewer=True`` option
to display the table with sortable columns. Previously the sort direction arrows
were not being shown due to missing image files for the arrows. [#12716]
- Fix an issue when writing ``Time`` table columns to a file when the time
``format`` is one of ``datetime``, ``datetime64``, or ``ymdhms``. Previously,
writing a ``Time`` column with one of these formats could result in an exception
or else an incorrect output file that cannot be read back in. [#12842]
- Fixed a bug where it is not possible to set the ``.info.format`` property of a
table structured column and get formatted output. [#13233]
- Fixed a bug when adding a masked structured array to a table. Previously this
was auto-converted to a ``NdarrayMixin`` which loses the mask. With this fix
the data are added to the table as a ``MaskedColumn`` and the mask is preserved. [#13236]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix an issue when writing ``Time`` table columns to a file when the time
``format`` is one of ``datetime``, ``datetime64``, or ``ymdhms``. Previously,
writing a ``Time`` column with one of these formats could result in an exception
or else an incorrect output file that cannot be read back in. [#12842]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug which caused ``numpy.interp`` to produce incorrect
results when ``Masked`` arrays were passed. [#12978]
- Fixed HAS_YAML not working as intended. [#13066]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Convert ``NoConvergence`` errors to warnings in ``world_to_pixel_values`` so that callers can work at least with the non converged solution. [#11693]
- Expose the ability to select TIME axis introduced in WCSLIB version 7.8. [#13062]
- Do not call ``wcstab`` on ``wcscopy`` and copy ``wtb`` members from the original WCS. [#13063]
- Updated bundled WCSLIB version to 7.11. This update together with 7.10
includes bug fixes to ``tabini()`` and ``tabcpy()`` as well as several
print formatting enhancements. For a full list of
changes - see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/CHANGES [#13171]
- Fixed error that occurred in ``WCS.world_to_pixel`` for ``WCS`` objects with a
spectral axis and observer location information when passing a ``SpectralCoord``
that had missing observer or target information. [#13228]
Version 5.0.4 (2022-03-31)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the ``Gaussian2D`` ``bounding_box`` when ``theta`` is an angular
``Quantity``. [#13021]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Reverted ``astropy.utils.iers.iers.IERS_A_URL`` to ``maia.usno.navy.mil`` domain instead
of NASA FTP to work around server issues. [#13004]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled WCSLIB to version 7.9 with several bugfixes and added
support for time coordinate axes in ``wcsset()`` and ``wcssub()``. The
four-digit type code for the time axis will have the first digit set to 4,
i.e., four digit code will be 4xxx where x is a digit 0-9. For a full list of
bug fixes see https://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/CHANGES [#12994]
Version 5.0.3 (2022-03-25)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bugfix in ``astropy.convolution.utils.discretize_model`` which allows the function to handle a ``CompoundModel``.
Before this fix, ``discretize_model`` was confusing ``CompoundModel`` with a callable function. [#12959]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix write and read FITS tables with multidimensional items, using ``from_columns``
without previously defined ``ColDefs`` structure. [#12863]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix VOTable linting to avoid use of shell option. [#12985]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix XML linting to avoid use of shell option. [#12985]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 4.1.0. [#12967]
Version 5.0.2 (2022-03-10)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bugfix to add backwards compatibility for reading ECSV version 0.9 files with
non-standard column datatypes (such as ``object``, ``str``, ``datetime64``,
etc.), which would raise a ValueError in ECSV version 1.0. [#12880]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bugfix for ``units_mapping`` schema's property name conflicts. Changes:
* ``inputs`` to ``unit_inputs``
* ``outputs`` to ``unit_outputs`` [#12800]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``astropy.io.votable.validate`` was printing output to
``sys.stdout`` when the ``output`` parameter was set to ``None``. ``validate``
now returns a string when ``output`` is set to ``None``, as documented.
[#12604]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix handling of units on ``scale`` parameter in BlackBody model. [#12318]
- Indexing on models can now be used with all types of integers
(like ``numpy.int64``) instead of just ``int``. [#12561]
- Fix computation of the separability of a ``CompoundModel`` where another
``CompoundModel`` is on the right hand side of the ``&`` operator. [#12907]
- Provide a hook (``Model._calculate_separability_matrix``) to allow subclasses
of ``Model`` to define how to compute their separability matrix. [#12900]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in which running ``kuiper_false_positive_probability(D,N)`` on
distributions with many data points could produce NaN values for the false
positive probability of the Kuiper statistic. [#12896]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug due to which ``naxis``, ``pixel_shape``, and
``pixel_bounds`` attributes of ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` were not restored when
an ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` object was unpickled. This fix also eliminates
``FITSFixedWarning`` warning issued during unpiclikng of the WCS objects
related to the number of axes. This fix also eliminates errors when
unpickling WCS objects originally created using non-default values for
``key``, ``colsel``, and ``keysel`` parameters. [#12844]
Version 5.0.1 (2022-01-26)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Trying to create an instance of ``astropy.coordinates.Distance`` by providing
both ``z`` and ``parallax`` now raises the expected ``ValueError``. [#12531]
- Fixed a bug where changing the wrap angle of the longitude component of a
representation could raise a warning or error in certain situations. [#12556]
- ``astropy.coordinates.Distance`` constructor no longer ignores the ``unit``
keyword when ``parallax`` is provided. [#12569]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.cosmology.utils.aszarr`` can now convert ``Column`` objects. [#12525]
- Reading a cosmology from an ECSV will load redshift and Hubble parameter units
from the cosmology units module. [#12636]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix formatting issue in ``_dump_coldefs`` and add tests for ``tabledump`` and
``tableload`` convenience functions. [#12526]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- YAML can now also represent quantities and arrays with structured dtype,
as well as structured scalars based on ``np.void``. [#12509]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixes error when fitting multiplication or division based compound models
where the sub-models have different output units. [#12475]
- Bugfix for incorrectly initialized and filled ``parameters`` data for ``Spline1D`` model. [#12523]
- Bugfix for ``keyerror`` thrown by ``Model.input_units_equivalencies`` when
used on ``fix_inputs`` models which have no set unit equivalencies. [#12597]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.table.Table.keep_columns()`` and
``astropy.table.Table.remove_columns()`` now work with generators of column
names. [#12529]
- Avoid duplicate storage of info in serialized columns if the column
used to serialize already can hold that information. [#12607]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed edge case bugs which emerged when using ``aggregate_downsample`` with custom bins. [#12527]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Structured units can be serialized to/from yaml. [#12492]
- Fix bad typing problems by removing interaction with ``NDArray.__class_getitem__``. [#12511]
- Ensure that ``Quantity.to_string(format='latex')`` properly typesets exponents
also when ``u.quantity.conf.latex_array_threshold = -1`` (i.e., when the threshold
is taken from numpy). [#12573]
- Structured units can now be copied with ``copy.copy`` and ``copy.deepcopy``
and also pickled and unpicked also for ``protocol`` >= 2.
This does not work for big-endian architecture with older ``numpy<1.21.1``. [#12583]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that a ``Masked`` instance can be used to initialize (or viewed
as) a ``numpy.ma.Maskedarray``. [#12482]
- Ensure ``Masked`` also works with numpy >=1.22, which has a keyword argument
name change for ``np.quantile``. [#12511]
- ``astropy.utils.iers.LeapSeconds.auto_open()`` no longer emits unnecessary
warnings when ``astropy.utils.iers.conf.auto_max_age`` is set to ``None``. [#12713]
Version 5.0 (2021-11-15)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added dealiasing support to ``convolve_fft``. [#11495]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added missing coordinate transformations where the starting and ending frames
are the same (i.e., loopback transformations). [#10909]
- Allow negation, multiplication and division also of representations that
include a differential (e.g., ``SphericalRepresentation`` with a
``SphericalCosLatDifferential``). For all operations, the outcome is
equivalent to transforming the representation and differential to cartesian,
then operating on those, and transforming back to the original representation
(except for ``UnitSphericalRepresentation``, which will return a
``SphericalRepresentation`` if there is a scale change). [#11470]
- ``RadialRepresentation.transform`` can work with a multiplication matrix only.
All other matrices still raise an exception. [#11576]
- ``transform`` methods are added to ``BaseDifferential`` and ``CartesianDifferential``.
All transform methods on Representations now delegate transforming differentials
to the differential objects. [#11654]
- Adds new ``HADec`` built-in frame with transformations to/from ``ICRS`` and ``CIRS``.
This frame complements ``AltAz`` to give observed coordinates (hour angle and declination)
in the ``ITRS`` for an equatorially mounted telescope. [#11676]
- ``SkyCoord`` objects now have a ``to_table()`` method, which allows them to be
converted to a ``QTable``. [#11743]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cosmologies now store metadata in a mutable parameter ``meta``.
The initialization arguments ``name`` and ``meta`` are keyword-only. [#11542]
- A new unit, ``redshift``, is defined. It is a dimensionless unit to distinguish
redshift quantities from other non-redshift values. For compatibility with
dimensionless quantities the equivalency ``dimensionless_redshift`` is added.
This equivalency is enabled by default. [#11786]
- Add equality operator for comparing Cosmology instances. Comparison is done on
all immutable fields (this excludes 'meta').
Now the following will work:
.. code-block:: python
>>> from astropy.cosmology import Planck13, Planck18
>>> Planck13 == Planck18
False
>>> Planck18 == Planck18
True [#11813]
- Added ``read/write`` methods to Cosmology using the Unified I/O registry.
Now custom file format readers, writers, and format-identifier functions
can be registered to read, write, and identify, respectively, Cosmology
objects. Details are discussed in an addition to the docs. [#11948]
- Added ``to_format/from_format`` methods to Cosmology using the Unified I/O
registry. Now custom format converters and format-identifier functions
can be registered to transform Cosmology objects.
The transformation between Cosmology and dictionaries is pre-registered.
Details are discussed in an addition to the docs. [#11998]
- Added units module for defining and collecting cosmological units and
equivalencies. [#12092]
- Flat cosmologies are now set by a mixin class, ``FlatCosmologyMixin`` and its
FLRW-specific subclass ``FlatFLRWMixin``. All ``FlatCosmologyMixin`` are flat,
but not all flat cosmologies are instances of ``FlatCosmologyMixin``. As
example, ``LambdaCDM`` **may** be flat (for the a specific set of parameter
values), but ``FlatLambdaCDM`` **will** be flat.
Cosmology parameters are now descriptors. When accessed from a class they
transparently stores information, like the units and accepted equivalencies.
On a cosmology instance, the descriptor will return the parameter value.
Parameters can have custom ``getter`` methods.
Cosmological equality is refactored to check Parameters (and the name)
A new method, ``is_equivalent``, is added to check Cosmology equivalence, so
a ``FlatLambdaCDM`` and flat ``LambdaCDM`` are equivalent. [#12136]
- Replaced ``z = np.asarray(z)`` with ``z = u.Quantity(z, u.dimensionless_unscaled).value``
in Cosmology methods. Input of values with incorrect units raises a UnitConversionError
or TypeError. [#12145]
- Cosmology Parameters allow for custom value setters.
Values can be set once, but will error if set a second time.
If not specified, the default setter is used, which will assign units
using the Parameters ``units`` and ``equivalencies`` (if present).
Alternate setters may be registered with Parameter to be specified by a str,
not a decorator on the Cosmology. [#12190]
- Cosmology instance conversion to dict now accepts keyword argument ``cls`` to
determine dict type, e.g. ``OrderedDict``. [#12209]
- A new equivalency is added between redshift and the Hubble parameter and values
with units of little-h.
This equivalency is also available in the catch-all equivalency ``with_redshift``. [#12211]
- A new equivalency is added between redshift and distance -- comoving, lookback,
and luminosity. This equivalency is also available in the catch-all equivalency
``with_redshift``. [#12212]
- Register Astropy Table into Cosmology's ``to/from_format`` I/O, allowing
a Cosmology instance to be parsed from or converted to a Table instance.
Also adds the ``__astropy_table__`` method allowing ``Table(cosmology)``. [#12213]
- The WMAP1 and WMAP3 are accessible as builtin cosmologies. [#12248]
- Register Astropy Model into Cosmology's ``to/from_format`` I/O, allowing
a Cosmology instance to be parsed from or converted to a Model instance. [#12269]
- Register an ECSV reader and writer into Cosmology's I/O, allowing a Cosmology
instance to be read from from or written to an ECSV file. [#12321]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added new way to specify the dtype for tables that are read: ``converters``
can specify column names with wildcards. [#11892]
- Added a new ``astropy.io.ascii.Mrt`` class to write tables in the American
Astronomical Society Machine-Readable Table format,
including documentation and tests for the same. [#11897, #12301, #12302]
- When writing, the input data are no longer copied, improving performance.
Metadata that might be changed, such as format and serialization
information, is copied, hence users can continue to count on no
changes being made to the input data. [#11919]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add Parquet serialization of Tables with pyarrow, including metadata support and
columnar access. [#12215]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added fittable spline models to ``modeling``. [#11634]
- Extensive refactor of ``BoundingBox`` for better usability and maintainability. [#11930]
- Added ``CompoundBoundingBox`` feature to ``~astropy.modeling``, which allows more flexibility in
defining bounding boxes for models that are applied to images with many slices. [#11942]
- Improved parameter support for ``astropy.modeling.core.custom_model`` created models. [#11984]
- Added the following trigonometric models and linked them to their appropriate inverse models:
* ``Cosine1D`` [#12158]
* ``Tangent1D``
* ``ArcSine1D``
* ``ArcCosine1D``
* ``ArcTangent1D`` [#12185]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new method ``Table.update()`` which does a dictionary-style update of a
``Table`` by adding or replacing columns. [#11904]
- Masked quantities are now fully supported in tables. This includes ``QTable``
automatically converting ``MaskedColumn`` instances to ``MaskedQuantity``,
and ``Table`` doing the reverse. [#11914]
- Added new keyword arguments ``keys_left`` and ``keys_right`` to the table ``join``
function to support joining tables on key columns with different names. In
addition the new keywords can accept a list of column-like objects which are
used as the match keys. This allows joining on arbitrary data which are not part
of the tables being joined. [#11954]
- Formatting of any numerical values in the output of ``Table.info()`` and
``Column.info()`` has been improved. [#12022]
- It is now possible to add dask arrays as columns in tables
and have them remain as dask arrays rather than be converted
to Numpy arrays. [#12219]
- Added a new registry for mixin handlers, which can be used
to automatically convert array-like Python objects into
mixin columns when assigned to a table column. [#12219]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Adds a new method ``earth_rotation_angle`` to calculate the Local Earth Rotation Angle.
Also adjusts Local Sidereal Time for the Terrestrial Intermediate Origin (``TIO``)
and adds a rigorous correction for polar motion. The ``TIO`` adjustment is approximately
3 microseconds per century from ``J2000`` and the polar motion correction is at most
about +/-50 nanoseconds. For models ``IAU1982`` and ``IAU1994``, no such adjustments are
made as they pre-date the TIO concept. [#11680]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A custom binning scheme is now available in ``aggregate_downsample``.
It allows ``time_bin_start`` and ``time_bin_size`` to be arrays, and adds
an optional ``time_bin_end``.
This scheme mirrors the API for ``BinnedTimeSeries``. [#11266]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity`` gains a ``__class_getitem__`` to create unit-aware annotations
with the syntax ``Quantity[unit or physical_type, shape, numpy.dtype]``.
If the python version is 3.9+ or ``typing_extensions`` is installed,
these are valid static type annotations. [#10662]
- Each physical type is added to ``astropy.units.physical``
(e.g., ``physical.length`` or ``physical.electrical_charge_ESU``).
The attribute-accessible names (underscored, without parenthesis) also
work with ``astropy.units.physical.get_physical_type``. [#11691]
- It is now possible to have quantities based on structured arrays in
which the unit has matching structure, giving each field its own unit,
using units constructed like ``Unit('AU,AU/day')``. [#11775]
- The milli- prefix has been added to ``astropy.units.Angstrom``. [#11788]
- Added attributes ``base``, ``coords``, and ``index`` and method ``copy()`` to
``QuantityIterator`` to match ``numpy.ndarray.flatiter``. [#11796]
- Added "angular frequency" and "angular velocity" as aliases for the "angular
speed" physical type. [#11865]
- Add light-second to units of length [#12128]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.utils.deprecated_renamed_argument()`` decorator now supports
custom warning messages. [#12305]
- The NaN-aware numpy functions such as ``np.nansum`` now work on Masked
arrays, with masked values being treated as NaN, but without raising
warnings or exceptions. [#12454]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a feature so that SphericalCircle will accept center parameter as a SkyCoord object. [#11790]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.wcs.utils.obsgeo_to_frame`` has been added to convert the obsgeo coordinate
array on ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` objects to an ``ITRS`` coordinate frame instance. [#11716]
- Updated bundled ``WCSLIB`` to version 7.7 with several bugfixes. [#12034]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``update_default_config`` and ``ConfigurationMissingWarning`` are deprecated. [#11502]
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``astropy.constants.set_enabled_constants`` context manager. [#12105]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Positions for the Moon using the 'builtin' ephemeris now use the new
``erfa.moon98`` function instead of our own implementation of the Meeus
algorithm. As this also corrects a misunderstanding of the frame returned by
the Meeus, this improves the agreement with the JPL ephemeris from about 30 to
about 6 km rms. [#11753]
- Removed deprecated ``representation`` attribute from
``astropy.coordinates.BaseCoordinateFrame`` class. [#12257]
- ``SpectralQuantity`` and ``SpectralCoord`` ``.to_value`` method can now be called without
``unit`` argument in order to maintain a consistent interface with ``Quantity.to_value`` [#12440]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``z_at_value`` now works with arrays for all arguments (except ``func``,
``verbose``, and ``method``). Consequently, ``coordinates.Distance.z`` can
be used when Distance is an array. [#11778]
- Remove deprecation warning and error remapping in ``Cosmology.clone``.
Now unknown arguments will raise a ``TypeError``, not an ``AttributeError``. [#11785]
- The ``read/write`` and ``to/from_format`` Unified I/O registries are separated
and apply only to ``Cosmology``. [#12015]
- Cosmology parameters in ``cosmology.parameters.py`` now have units,
where applicable. [#12116]
- The function ``astropy.cosmology.utils.inf_like()`` is deprecated. [#12175]
- The function ``astropy.cosmology.utils.vectorize_if_needed()`` is deprecated.
A new function ``astropy.cosmology.utils.vectorize_redshift_method()`` is added
as replacement. [#12176]
- Cosmology base class constructor now only accepts arguments ``name`` and ``meta``.
Subclasses should add relevant arguments and not pass them to the base class. [#12191]
astropy.io
^^^^^^^^^^
- When ``astropy`` raises an ``OSError`` because a file it was told to write
already exists, the error message now always suggests the use of the
``overwrite=True`` argument. The wording is now consistent for all I/O formats. [#12179]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``overwrite=None`` option for
``astropy.io.ascii.ui.write()``. Overwriting existing files now only happens if
``overwrite=True``. [#12171]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The internal class _CardAccessor is no longer registered as a subclass of
the Sequence or Mapping ABCs. [#11923]
- The deprecated ``clobber`` argument will be removed from the
``astropy.io.fits`` functions in version 5.1, and the deprecation warnings now
announce that too. [#12311]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``write`` function now is allowed to return possible content results, which
means that custom writers could, for example, create and return an instance of
some container class rather than a file on disk. [#11916]
- The registry functions are refactored into a class-based system.
New Read-only, write-only, and read/write registries can be created.
All functions accept a new argument ``registry``, which if not specified,
defaults to the global default registry. [#12015]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecated the ``pedantic`` keyword argument in the
``astropy.io.votable.table.parse`` function and the corresponding configuration
setting. It has been replaced by the ``verify`` option. [#12129]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Refactored how ``astropy.modeling.Model`` handles model evaluation in order to better
organize the code. [#11931]
- Removed the following deprecated modeling features:
``astropy.modeling.utils.ExpressionTree`` class,
``astropy.modeling.functional_models.MexicanHat1D`` model,
``astropy.modeling.functional_models.MexicanHat2D`` model,
``astropy.modeling.core.Model.inputs`` setting in model initialize,
``astropy.modeling.core.CompoundModel.inverse`` setting in model initialize, and
``astropy.modeling.core.CompoundModel.both_inverses_exist()`` method. [#11978]
- Deprecated the ``AliasDict`` class in ``modeling.utils``. [#12411]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed ``block_reduce`` and ``block_replicate`` functions from
``nddata.utils``. These deprecated functions in ``nddata.utils`` were
moved to ``nddata.blocks``. [#12288]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the following deprecated features from ``astropy.stats``:
* ``conf`` argument for ``funcs.binom_conf_interval()`` and
``funcs.binned_binom_proportion()``,
* ``conflevel`` argument for ``funcs.poisson_conf_interval()``, and
* ``conf_lvl`` argument for ``jackknife.jackknife_stats()``. [#12200]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Printing a ``Table`` now shows the qualified class name of mixin columns in the
dtype header row instead of "object". This applies to all the ``Table`` formatted output
methods whenever ``show_dtype=True`` is selected. [#11660]
- The 'overwrite' argument has been added to the jsviewer table writer.
Overwriting an existing file requires 'overwrite' to be True. [#11853]
- The 'overwrite' argument has been added to the pandas table writers.
Overwriting an existing file requires 'overwrite' to be True. [#11854]
- The table ``join`` function now accepts only the first four arguments ``left``,
``right``, ``keys``, and ``join_type`` as positional arguments. All other
arguments must be supplied as keyword arguments. [#11954]
- Adding a dask array to a Table will no longer convert
that dask to a Numpy array, so accessing t['dask_column']
will now return a dask array instead of a Numpy array. [#12219]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Along with the new method ``earth_rotation_angle``, ``sidereal_time`` now accepts
an ``EarthLocation`` as the ``longitude`` argument. [#11680]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Unit ``littleh`` and equivalency ``with_H0`` have been moved to the
``cosmology`` module and are deprecated from ``astropy.units``. [#12092]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.utils.introspection.minversion()`` now uses
``importlib.metadata.version()``. Therefore, its ``version_path`` keyword is no
longer used and deprecated. This keyword will be removed in a future release. [#11714]
- Updated ``utils.console.Spinner`` to better resemble the API of
``utils.console.ProgressBar``, including an ``update()`` method and
iterator support. [#11772]
- Removed deprecated ``check_hashes`` in ``check_download_cache()``. The function also
no longer returns anything. [#12293]
- Removed unused ``download_cache_lock_attempts`` configuration item in
``astropy.utils.data``. Deprecation was not possible. [#12293]
- Removed deprecated ``hexdigest`` keyword from ``import_file_to_cache()``. [#12293]
- Setting ``remote_timeout`` configuration item in ``astropy.utils.data`` to 0 will
no longer disable download from the Internet; Set ``allow_internet`` configuration
item to ``False`` instead. [#12293]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``imshow_only_kwargs`` keyword from ``imshow_norm``. [#12290]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Move complex logic from ``HighLevelWCSMixin.pixel_to_world`` and
``HighLevelWCSMixin.world_to_pixel`` into the helper functions
``astropy.wcs.wcsapi.high_level_api.high_level_objects_to_values`` and
``astropy.wcs.wcsapi.high_level_api.values_to_high_level_objects`` to allow
reuse in other places. [#11950]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``generate_config`` no longer outputs wrong syntax for list type. [#12037]
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where an older constants version cannot be set directly after
astropy import. [#12084]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Passing an ``array`` argument for any Kernel1D or Kernel2D subclasses (with the
exception of CustomKernel) will now raise a ``TypeError``. [#11969]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- If a ``Table`` containing a ``SkyCoord`` object as a column is written to a
FITS, ECSV or HDF5 file then any velocity information that might be present
will be retained. [#11750]
- The output of ``SkyCoord.apply_space_motion()`` now always has the same
differential type as the ``SkyCoord`` itself. [#11932]
- Fixed bug where Angle, Latitude and Longitude with NaN values could not be printed. [#11943]
- Fixed a bug with the transformation from ``PrecessedGeocentric`` to ``GCRS``
where changes in ``obstime``, ``obsgeoloc``, or ``obsgeovel`` were ignored.
This bug would also affect loopback transformations from one ``PrecessedGeocentric``
frame to another ``PrecessedGeocentric`` frame. [#12152]
- Fixed a bug with the transformations between ``TEME`` and ``ITRS`` or between ``TEME``
and itself where a change in ``obstime`` was ignored. [#12152]
- Avoid unnecessary transforms through CIRS for AltAz and HADec and
use ICRS as intermediate frame for these transformations instead. [#12203]
- Fixed a bug where instantiating a representation with a longitude component
could mutate input provided for that component even when copying is specified. [#12307]
- Wrapping an ``Angle`` array will now ignore NaN values instead of attempting to wrap
them, which would produce unexpected warnings/errors when working with coordinates
and representations due to internal broadcasting. [#12317]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Dictionaries for in-built cosmology realizations are not altered by creating
the realization and are also made immutable. [#12278]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Prevent zero-byte writes for FITS binary tables to
speed up writes on the Lustre filesystem. [#11955]
- Enable ``json.dump`` for FITS_rec with variable length (VLF) arrays. [#11957]
- Add support for reading and writing int8 images [#11996]
- Ensure header passed to ``astropy.io.fits.CompImageHDU`` does not need to contain
standard cards that can be automatically generated, such as ``BITPIX`` and ``NAXIS``. [#12061]
- Fixed a bug where ``astropy.io.fits.HDUDiff`` would ignore the ``ignore_blank_cards``
keyword argument. [#12122]
- Open uncompressed file even if extension says it's compressed [#12135]
- Fix the computation of the DATASUM in a ``CompImageHDU`` when the data is >1D. [#12138]
- Reading files where the SIMPLE card is present but with an invalid format now
issues a warning instead of raising an exception [#12234]
- Convert UNDEFINED to None when iterating over card values. [#12310]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Update ASDF tag versions in ExtensionType subclasses to match ASDF Standard 1.5.0. [#11986]
- Fix ASDF serialization of model inputs and outputs and add relevant assertion to
test helper. [#12381]
- Fix bug preventing ASDF serialization of bounding box for models with only one input. [#12385]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Now accepting UCDs containing phot.color. [#11982]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``Parameter`` descriptions to the implemented models which were
missing. [#11232]
- The ``separable`` property is now correctly set on models constructed with
``astropy.modeling.custom_model``. [#11744]
- Minor bugfixes and improvements to modeling including the following:
* Fixed typos and clarified several errors and their messages throughout
modeling.
* Removed incorrect try/except blocks around scipy code in
``convolution.py`` and ``functional_models.py``.
* Fixed ``Ring2D`` model's init to properly accept all combinations
of ``r_in``, ``r_out``, and ``width``.
* Fixed bug in ``tau`` validator for the ``Logarithmic1D`` and
``Exponential1D`` models when using them as model sets.
* Fixed ``copy`` method for ``Parameter`` in order to prevent an
automatic ``KeyError``, and fixed ``bool`` for ``Parameter`` so
that it functions with vector values.
* Removed unreachable code from ``Parameter``, the ``_Tabular`` model,
and the ``Drude1D`` model.
* Fixed validators in ``Drude1D`` model so that it functions in a
model set.
* Removed duplicated code from ``polynomial.py`` for handing of
``domain`` and ``window``.
* Fixed the ``Pix2Sky_HEALPixPolar`` and ``Sky2Pix_HEALPixPolar`` modes
so that their ``evaluate`` and ``inverse`` methods actually work
without raising an error. [#12232]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that the ``wcs=`` argument to ``NDData`` is always parsed into a high
level WCS object. [#11985]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in sigma clipping where the bounds would not be returned for
completely empty or masked data. [#11994]
- Fixed a bug in ``biweight_midvariance`` and ``biweight_scale`` where
output data units would be dropped for constant data and where the
result was a scalar NaN. [#12146]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensured that ``MaskedColumn.info`` is propagated in all cases, so that when
tables are sliced, writing will still be as requested on
``info.serialize_method``. [#11917]
- ``table.conf.replace_warnings`` and ``table.jsviewer.conf.css_urls`` configuration
items now have correct ``'string_list'`` type. [#12037]
- Fixed an issue where initializing from a list of dict-like rows (Mappings) did
not work unless the row values were instances of ``dict``. Now any object that
is an instance of the more general ``collections.abc.Mapping`` will work. [#12417]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that scalar ``QuantityDistribution`` unit conversion in ufuncs
works properly again. [#12471]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add quantity support for ``scipy.special`` dimensionless functions
erfinv, erfcinv, gammaln and loggamma. [#10934]
- ``VOUnit.to_string`` output is now compliant with IVOA VOUnits 1.0 standards. [#11565]
- Units initialization with unicode has been expanded to include strings such as
'M☉' and 'e⁻'. [#11827]
- Give a more informative ``NotImplementedError`` when trying to parse a unit
using an output-only format such as 'unicode' or 'latex'. [#11829]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``get_readable_fileobj`` that prevented the unified file read
interface from closing ASCII files. [#11809]
- The function ``astropy.utils.decorators.deprecated_attribute()`` no longer
ignores its ``message``, ``alternative``, and ``pending`` arguments. [#12184]
- Ensure that when taking the minimum or maximum of a ``Masked`` array,
any masked NaN values are ignored. [#12454]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The tick labelling for radians has been fixed to remove a redundant ``.0`` in
the label for integer multiples of pi at 2pi and above. [#12221]
- Fix a bug where non-``astropy.wcs.WCS`` WCS instances were not accepted in
``WCSAxes.get_transform``. [#12286]
- Fix compatibility with Matplotlib 3.5 when using the ``grid_type='contours'``
mode for drawing grid lines. [#12447]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enabled ``SlicedLowLevelWCS.pixel_to_world_values`` to handle slices including
non-``int`` integers, e.g. ``numpy.int64``. [#11980]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- In docstrings, Sphinx cross-reference targets now use intersphinx, even if the
target is an internal link (``link`` is now ``'astropy:link``).
When built in Astropy these links are interpreted as internal links. When built
in affiliate packages, the link target is set by the key 'astropy' in the
intersphinx mapping. [#11690]
- Made PyYaml >= 3.13 a strict runtime dependency. [#11903]
- Minimum version of required Python is now 3.8. [#11934]
- Minimum version of required Scipy is now 1.3. [#11934]
- Minimum version of required Matplotlib is now 3.1. [#11934]
- Minimum version of required Numpy is now 1.18. [#11935]
- Fix deprecation warnings with Python 3.10 [#11962]
- Speed up ``minversion()`` in cases where a module with a ``__version__``
attribute is passed. [#12174]
- ``astropy`` now requires ``packaging``. [#12199]
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 4.0.0. When compiling with an external
library, version 3.35 or later is required. [#12272]
Version 4.3.1 (2021-08-11)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In ``fits.io.getdata`` do not fall back to first non-primary extension when
user explicitly specifies an extension. [#11860]
- Ensure multidimensional masked columns round-trip properly to FITS. [#11911]
- Ensure masked times round-trip to FITS, even if multi-dimensional. [#11913]
- Raise ``ValueError`` if an ``np.float32`` NaN/Inf value is assigned to a
header keyword. [#11922]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``fix_inputs`` handling of bounding boxes. [#11908]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix an error when converting to pandas any ``Table`` subclass that
automatically adds a table index when the table is created. An example is a
binned ``TimeSeries`` table. [#12018]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that unpickling quantities and units in new sessions does not change
hashes and thus cause problems with (de)composition such as getting different
answers from the ``.si`` attribute. [#11879]
- Fixed cannot import name imperial from astropy.units namespace. [#11977]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure any ``.info`` on ``Masked`` instances is propagated correctly when
viewing or slicing. As a consequence, ``MaskedQuantity`` can now be correctly
written to, e.g., ECSV format with ``serialize_method='data_mask'``. [#11910]
Version 4.3 (2021-07-26)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change padding sizes for ``fft_pad`` in ``convolve_fft`` from powers of
2 only to scipy-optimized numbers, applied separately to each dimension;
yielding some performance gains and avoiding potential large memory
impact for certain multi-dimensional inputs. [#11533]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Adds the ability to create topocentric ``CIRS`` frames. Using these,
``AltAz`` calculations are now accurate down to the milli-arcsecond
level. [#10994]
- Adds a direct transformation from ``ICRS`` to ``AltAz`` frames. This
provides a modest speedup of approximately 10 percent. [#11079]
- Adds new ``WGS84GeodeticRepresentation``, ``WGS72GeodeticRepresentation``,
and ``GRS80GeodeticRepresentation``. These are mostly for use inside
``EarthLocation`` but can also be used to convert between geocentric
(cartesian) and different geodetic representations directly. [#11086]
- ``SkyCoord.guess_from_table`` now also searches for differentials in the table.
In addition, multiple regex matches can be resolved when they are exact
component names, e.g. having both columns “dec” and “pm_dec” no longer errors
and will be included in the SkyCoord. [#11417]
- All representations now have a ``transform`` method, which allows them to be
transformed by a 3x3 matrix in a Cartesian basis. By default, transformations
are routed through ``CartesianRepresentation``. ``SphericalRepresentation`` and
``PhysicssphericalRepresentation`` override this for speed and to prevent NaN
leakage from the distance to the angular components.
Also, the functions ``is_O3`` and ``is_rotation`` have been added to
``matrix_utities`` for checking whether a matrix is in the O(3) group or is a
rotation (proper or improper), respectively. [#11444]
- Moved angle formatting and parsing utilities to
``astropy.coordinates.angle_formats``.
Added new functionality to ``astropy.coordinates.angle_utilities`` for
generating points on or in spherical surfaces, either randomly or on a grid. [#11628]
- Added a new method to ``SkyCoord``, ``spherical_offsets_by()``, which is the
conceptual inverse of ``spherical_offsets_to()``: Given angular offsets in
longitude and latitude, this method returns a new coordinate with the offsets
applied. [#11635]
- Refactor conversions between ``GCRS`` and ``CIRS,TETE`` for better accuracy
and substantially improved speed. [#11069]
- Also refactor ``EarthLocation.get_gcrs`` for an increase in performance of
an order of magnitude, which enters as well in getting observed positions of
planets using ``get_body``. [#11073]
- Refactored the usage of metaclasses in ``astropy.coordinates`` to instead use
``__init_subclass__`` where possible. [#11090]
- Removed duplicate calls to ```transform_to``` from ```match_to_catalog_sky```
and ```match_to_catalog_3d```, improving their performance. [#11449]
- The new DE440 and DE440s ephemerides are now available via shortcuts 'de440'
and 'de440s'. The DE 440s ephemeris will probably become the default
ephemeris when choosing 'jpl' in 5.0. [#11601]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cosmology parameter dictionaries now also specify the Cosmology class to which
the parameters correspond. For example, the dictionary for
``astropy.cosmology.parameters.Planck18`` has the added key-value pair
("cosmology", "FlatLambdaCDM"). [#11530]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for reading and writing ASCII tables in QDP (Quick and Dandy
Plotter) format. [#11256]
- Added support for reading and writing multidimensional column data (masked and
unmasked) to ECSV. Also added formal support for reading and writing object-type
column data which can contain items consisting of lists, dicts, and basic scalar
types. This can be used to store columns of variable-length arrays. Both of
these features use JSON to convert the object to a string that is stored in the
ECSV output. [#11569, #11662, #11720]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``append`` keyword to append table objects to an existing FITS file [#2632, #11149]
- Check that the SIMPLE card is present when opening a file, to ensure that the
file is a valid FITS file and raise a better error when opening a non FITS
one. ``ignore_missing_simple`` can be used to skip this verification. [#10895]
- Expose ``Header.strip`` as a public method, to remove the most common
structural keywords. [#11174]
- Enable the use of ``os.PathLike`` objects when dealing with (mainly FITS) files. [#11580]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Readers and writers can now set a priority, to assist with resolving which
format to use. [#11214]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Version 1.4 VOTables now use the VOUnit format specification. [#11032]
- When reading VOTables using the Unified File Read/Write Interface (i.e. using
the ``Table.read()`` or ``QTable.read()`` functions) it is now possible to
specify all keyword arguments that are valid for
``astropy.io.votable.table.parse()``. [#11643]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a state attribute to models to allow preventing the syncing of
constraint values from the constituent models. This syncing can
greatly slow down fitting if there are large numbers of fit parameters.
model.sync_constraints = True means check constituent model constraints
for compound models every time the constraint is accessed, False, do not.
Fitters that support constraints will set this to False on the model copy
and then set back to True when the fit is complete before returning. [#11365]
- The ``convolve_models_fft`` function implements model convolution so that one
insures that the convolution remains consistent across multiple different
inputs. [#11456]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Prevent unnecessary copies of the data during ``NDData`` arithmetic when units
need to be added. [#11107]
- NDData str representations now show units, if present. [#11553]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the ability to specify stdfunc='mad_std' when doing sigma clipping,
which will use a built-in function and lead to significant performance
improvements if cenfunc is 'mean' or 'median'. [#11664]
- Significantly improved the performance of sigma clipping when cenfunc and
stdfunc are passed as strings and the ``grow`` option is not used. [#11219]
- Improved performance of ``bayesian_blocks()`` by removing one ``np.log()``
call [#11356]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add table attributes to include or exclude columns from the output when
printing a table. This functionality includes a context manager to
include/exclude columns temporarily. [#11190]
- Improved the string representation of objects related to ``Table.indices`` so
they now indicate the object type and relevant attributes. [#11333]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- An exception is raised when ``n_bins`` is passed as an argument while
any of the parameters ``time_bin_start`` or ``time_bin_size`` is not
scalar. [#11463]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``physical_type`` attributes of each unit are now objects of the (new)
``astropy.units.physical.PhysicalType`` class instead of strings and the
function ``astropy.units.physical.get_physical_type`` can now translate
strings to these objects. [#11204]
- The function ``astropy.units.physical.def_physical_type`` was created to
either define entirely new physical types, or to add more physical type
names to an existing physical types. [#11204]
- ``PhysicalType``'s can be operated on using operations multiplication,
division, and exponentiation are to facilitate dimensional analysis. [#11204]
- It is now possible to define aliases for units using
``astropy.units.set_enabled_aliases``. This can be used when reading files
that have misspelled units. [#11258]
- Add a new "DN" unit, ``units.dn`` or ``units.DN``, representing data number
for a detector. [#11591]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``ssl_context`` and ``allow_insecure`` options to ``download_file``,
as well as the ability to optionally use the ``certifi`` package to provide
root CA certificates when downloading from sites secured with
TLS/SSL. [#10434]
- ``astropy.utils.data.get_pkg_data_path`` is publicly scoped (previously the
private function ``_find_pkg_data_path``) for obtaining file paths without
checking if the file/directory exists, as long as the package and module
do. [#11006]
- Deprecated ``astropy.utils.OrderedDescriptor`` and
``astropy.utils.OrderedDescriptorContainer``, as new features in Python 3
make their use less compelling. [#11094, #11099]
- ``astropy.utils.masked`` provides a new ``Masked`` class/factory that can be
used to represent masked ``ndarray`` and all its subclasses, including
``Quantity`` and its subclasses. These classes can be used inside
coordinates, but the mask is not yet exposed. Generally, the interface should
be considered experimental. [#11127, #11792]
- Add new ``utils.parsing`` module to with helper wrappers around
``ply``. [#11227]
- Change the Time and IERS leap second handling so that the leap second table is
updated only when a Time transform involving UTC is performed. Previously this
update check was done the first time a ``Time`` object was created, which in
practice occurred when importing common astropy subpackages like
``astropy.coordinates``. Now you can prevent querying internet resources (for
instance on a cluster) by setting ``iers.conf.auto_download = False``. This
can be done after importing astropy but prior to performing any ``Time``
scale transformations related to UTC. [#11638]
- Added a new module at ``astropy.utils.compat.optional_deps`` to consolidate
the definition of ``HAS_x`` optional dependency flag variables,
like ``HAS_SCIPY``. [#11490]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add IVOA UCD mappings for some FITS WCS keywords commonly used in solar
physics. [#10965]
- Add ``STOKES`` FITS WCS keyword to the IVOA UCD mapping. [#11236]
- Updated bundled version of WCSLIB to version 7.6. See
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/CHANGES for a list of
included changes. [#11549]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For input to representations, subclasses of the class required for a
given attribute will now be allowed in. [#11113]
- Except for ``UnitSphericalRepresentation``, shortcuts in representations now
allow for attached differentials. [#11467]
- Allow coordinate name strings as input to
``SkyCoord.is_transformable_to``. [#11552]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change ``z_at_value`` to use ``scipy.optimize.minimize_scalar`` with default
method ``Brent`` (other options ``Bounded`` and ``Golden``) and accept
``bracket`` option to set initial search region. [#11080]
- Clarified definition of inputs to ``angular_diameter_distance_z1z2``.
The function now emits ``AstropyUserWarning`` when ``z2`` is less than
``z1``. [#11197]
- Split cosmology realizations from core classes, moving the former to new file
``realizations``. [#11345]
- Since cosmologies are immutable, the initialization signature and values can
be stored, greatly simplifying cloning logic and extending it to user-defined
cosmology classes that do not have attributes with the same name as each
initialization argument. [#11515]
- Cloning a cosmology with changed parameter(s) now appends "(modified)" to the
new instance's name, unless a name is explicitly passed to ``clone``. [#11536]
- Allow ``m_nu`` to be input as any quantity-like or array-like -- Quantity,
array, float, str, etc. Input is passed to the Quantity constructor and
converted to eV, still with the prior mass-energy equivalence
enabled. [#11640]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For conversion between FITS tables and astropy ``Table``, the standard mask
values of ``NaN`` for float and null string for string are now properly
recognized, leading to a ``MaskedColumn`` with appropriately set mask
instead of a ``Column`` with those values exposed. Conversely, when writing
an astropy ``Table`` to a FITS tables, masked values are now consistently
converted to the standard FITS mask values of ``NaN`` for float and null
string for string (i.e., not just for tables with ``masked=True``, which no
longer is guaranteed to signal the presence of ``MaskedColumn``). [#11222]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The use of ``version='1.0'`` is now fully deprecated in constructing
a ``astropy.io.votable.tree.VOTableFile``. [#11659]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``astropy.modeling.blackbody`` module. [#10972]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``Column.value`` as an alias for the existing ``Column.data`` attribute.
This makes accessing a column's underlying data array consistent with the
``.value`` attribute available for ``Time`` and ``Quantity`` objects. [#10962]
- In reading from a FITS tables, the standard mask values of ``NaN`` for float
and null string for string are properly recognized, leading to a
``MaskedColumn`` with appropriately set mask. [#11222]
- Changed the implementation of the ``table.index.Index`` class so instantiating
from this class now returns an ``Index`` object as expected instead of a
``SlicedIndex`` object. [#11333]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``physical_type`` attribute of units now returns an instance of
``astropy.units.physical.PhysicalType`` instead of a string. Because
``PhysicalType`` instances can be compared to strings, no code changes
should be necessary when making comparisons. The string representations
of different physical types will differ from previous releases. [#11204]
- Calling ``Unit()`` with no argument now returns a dimensionless unit,
as was documented but not implemented. [#11295]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``utils.misc.InheritDocstrings`` and ``utils.timer``. [#10281]
- Removed usage of deprecated ``ipython`` stream in ``utils.console``. [#10942]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecate ``accuracy`` argument in ``all_world2pix`` which was mistakenly
*documented*, in the case ``accuracy`` was ever used. [#11055]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixes for ``convolve_fft`` documentation examples. [#11510]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow ``Distance`` instances with negative distance values as input for
``SphericalRepresentation``. This was always noted as allowed in an
exception message when a negative ``Quantity`` with length units was
passed in, but was not actually possible to do. [#11113]
- Makes the ``Angle.to_string`` method to follow the format described in the
docstring with up to 8 significant decimals instead of 4. [#11153]
- Ensure that proper motions can be calculated when converting a ``SkyCoord``
with cartesian representation to unit-spherical, by fixing the conversion of
``CartesianDifferential`` to ``UnitSphericalDifferential``. [#11469]
- When re-representing coordinates from spherical to unit-spherical and vice
versa, the type of differential will now be preserved. For instance, if only a
radial velocity was present, that will remain the case (previously, a zero
proper motion component was added). [#11482]
- Ensure that wrapping of ``Angle`` does not raise a warning even if ``nan`` are
present. Also try to make sure that the result is within the wrapped range
even in the presence of rounding errors. [#11568]
- Comparing a non-SkyCoord object to a ``SkyCoord`` using ``==`` no longer
raises an error. [#11666]
- Different ``SkyOffsetFrame`` classes no longer interfere with each other,
causing difficult to debug problems with the ``origin`` attribute. The
``origin`` attribute now no longer is propagated, so while it remains
available on a ``SkyCoord`` that is an offset, it no longer is available once
that coordinate is transformed to another frame. [#11730] [#11730]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cosmology instance names are now immutable. [#11535]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug where writing a table that has comments defined (via
``tbl.meta['comments']``) with the 'csv' format was failing. Since the
formally defined CSV format does not support comments, the comments are now
just ignored unless ``comment=<comment prefix>`` is supplied to the
``write()`` call. [#11475]
- Fixed the issue where the CDS reader failed to treat columns
as nullable if the ReadMe file contains a limits specifier. [#11531]
- Made sure that the CDS reader does not ignore an order specifier that
may be present after the null specifier '?'. Also made sure that it
checks null values only when an '=' symbol is present and reads
description text even if there is no whitespace after '?'. [#11593]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``ColDefs.add_col/del_col`` to allow in-place addition or removal of
a column. [#11338]
- Fix indexing of ``fits.Header`` with Numpy integers. [#11387]
- Do not delete ``EXTNAME`` for compressed image header if a default and
non-default ``EXTNAME`` are present. [#11396]
- Prevent warnings about ``HIERARCH`` with ``CompImageHeader`` class. [#11404]
- Fixed regression introduced in Astropy 4.0.5 and 4.2.1 with verification of
FITS headers with HISTORY or COMMENT cards with long (> 72 characters)
values. [#11487]
- Fix reading variable-length arrays when there is a gap between the data and the
heap. [#11688]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NumericArray`` converter now properly broadcasts scalar mask to array. [#11157]
- VOTables are now written with the correct namespace and schema location
attributes. [#11659]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixes the improper propagation of ``bounding_box`` from
``astropy.modeling.models`` to their inverses. For cases in which the inverses
``bounding_box`` can be determined, the proper calculation has been
implemented. [#11414]
- Bugfix to allow rotation models to accept arbitrarily-shaped inputs. [#11435]
- Bugfixes for ``astropy.modeling`` to allow ``fix_inputs`` to accept empty
dictionaries and dictionaries with ``numpy`` integer keys. [#11443]
- Bugfix for how ``SPECIAL_OPERATORS`` are handled. [#11512]
- Fixes ``Model`` crashes when some inputs are scalars and during some types of
output reshaping. [#11548]
- Fixed bug in ``LevMarLSQFitter`` when using weights and vector inputs. [#11603]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug with the ``copy=False`` option when carrying out sigma
clipping - previously if ``masked=False`` this still copied the data,
but this will now change the array in-place. [#11219]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that adding a ``Quantity`` or other mixin column to a ``Table``
does not have side effects, such as creating an associated ``info``
instance (which would lead to slow-down of, e.g., slicing afterwards). [#11077]
- When writing to a FITS tables, masked values are again always converted to
the standard FITS mask values of ``NaN`` for float and null string
for string, not just for table with ``masked=True``. [#11222]
- Using ``Table.to_pandas()`` on an indexed ``Table`` with masked integer values
now correctly construct the ``pandas.DataFrame``. [#11432]
- Fixed ``Table`` HTML representation in Jupyter notebooks so that it is
horizontally scrollable within Visual Studio Code. This was done by wrapping
the ``<table>`` in a ``<div>`` element. [#11476]
- Fix a bug where a string-valued ``Column`` that happened to have a ``unit``
attribute could not be added to a ``QTable``. Such columns are now simply
kept as ``Column`` instances (with a warning). [#11585]
- Fix an issue in ``Table.to_pandas(index=<colname>)`` where the index column name
was not being set properly for the ``DataFrame`` index. This was introduced by
an API change in pandas version 1.3.0. Previously when creating a ``DataFrame``
with the index set to an astropy ``Column``, the ``DataFrame`` index name was
automatically set to the column name. [#11921]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a thread-safety issue with initialization of the leap-second table
(which is only an issue when ERFA's built-in table is out of date). [#11234]
- Fixed converting a zero-length time object from UTC to
UT1 when an empty array is passed. [#11516]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Distribution`` instances can now be used as input to ``Quantity`` to
initialize ``QuantityDistribution``. Hence, ``distribution * unit``
and ``distribution << unit`` will work too. [#11210]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Move non-astronomy units from astrophys.py to a new misc.py file. [#11142]
- The physical type of ``astropy.units.mol / astropy.units.m ** 3`` is now
defined as molar concentration. It was previously incorrectly defined
as molar volume. [#11204]
- Make ufunc helper lookup thread-safe. [#11226]
- Make ``Unit`` string parsing (as well as ``Angle`` parsing) thread-safe. [#11227]
- Decorator ``astropy.units.decorators.quantity_input`` now only evaluates
return type annotations based on ``UnitBase`` or ``FunctionUnitBase`` types.
Other annotations are skipped over and are not attempted to convert to the
correct type. [#11506]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Make ``lazyproperty`` and ``classdecorator`` thread-safe. This should fix a
number of thread safety issues. [#11224]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that resulted in some parts of grid lines being visible when they
should have been hidden. [#11380]
- Fixed a bug that resulted in ``time_support()`` failing for intervals of
a few months if one of the ticks was the month December. [#11615]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``fit_wcs_from_points`` now produces a WCS with integer ``NAXIXn``
values. [#10865]
- Updated bundled version of ``WCSLIB`` to v7.4, fixing a bug that caused
the coefficients of the TPD distortion function to not be written to the
header. [#11260]
- Fixed a bug in assigning type when converting ``colsel`` to
``numpy.ndarray``. [#11431]
- Added ``WCSCOMPARE_*`` constants to the list of WCSLIB constants
available/exposed through the ``astropy.wcs`` module. [#11647]
- Fix a bug that caused APE 14 WCS transformations for FITS WCS with ZOPT, BETA,
VELO, VOPT, or VRAD CTYPE to not work correctly. [#11781]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The configuration file is no longer created by default when importing astropy
and its existence is no longer required. Affiliated packages should update their
``__init__.py`` module to remove the block using ``update_default_config`` and
``ConfigurationDefaultMissingWarning``. [#10877]
- Replace ``pkg_resources`` (from setuptools) with ``importlib.metadata`` which
comes from the stdlib, except for Python 3.7 where the backport package is added
as a new dependency. [#11091]
- Turn on numpydoc's ``numpydoc_xref_param_type`` to create cross-references
for the parameter types in the Parameters, Other Parameters, Returns and Yields
sections of the docstrings. [#11118]
- Docstrings across the package are standardized to enable references.
Also added is an Astropy glossary-of-terms to define standard inputs,
e.g. ``quantity-like`` indicates an input that can be interpreted by
``astropy.units.Quantity``. [#11118]
- Binary wheels are now built to the manylinux2010 specification. These wheels
should be supported on all versions of pip shipped with Python 3.7+. [#11377]
- The name of the default branch for the astropy git repository has been renamed
to ``main``, and the documentation and tooling has been updated accordingly.
If you have made a local clone you may wish to update it following the
instructions in the repository's README. [#11379]
- Sphinx cross-reference link targets are added for every ``PhysicalType``.
Now in the parameter types in the Parameters, Other Parameters, Returns and
Yields sections of the docstring, the physical type of a quantity can be
annotated in square brackets.
E.g. `` distance : `~astropy.units.Quantity` ['length'] `` [#11595]
- The minimum supported version of ``ipython`` is now 4.2. [#10942]
- The minimum supported version of ``pyerfa`` is now 1.7.3. [#11637]
Version 4.2.1 (2021-04-01)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue where specializations of the comoving distance calculation
for certain cosmologies could not handle redshift arrays. [#10980]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug where manual fixes to invalid header cards were not preserved when
saving a FITS file. [#11108]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NumericArray`` converter now properly broadcasts scalar mask to array.
[#11157]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug when initializing a ``Table`` subclass that uses ``TableAttribute``'s.
If the data were an instance of the table then attributes provided in the
table initialization call could be ignored. [#11217]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change epoch of ``TimeUnixTAI`` (``"unix_tai"``) from ``1970-01-01T00:00:00 UTC``
to ``1970-01-01T00:00:00 TAI`` to match the intended and documented behaviour.
This essentially changes the resulting times by 8.000082 seconds, the initial
offset between TAI and UTC. [#11249]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug with the ``quantity_input`` decorator where allowing
dimensionless inputs for an argument inadvertently disabled any checking of
compatible units for that argument. [#11283]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug so that ``np.shape``, ``np.ndim`` and ``np.size`` again work on
classes that use ``ShapedLikeNDArray``, like representations, frames,
sky coordinates, and times. [#11133]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix error when a user defined ``proj_point`` parameter is passed to ``fit_wcs_from_points``. [#11139]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Change epoch of ``TimeUnixTAI`` (``"unix_tai"``) from ``1970-01-01T00:00:00 UTC``
to ``1970-01-01T00:00:00 TAI`` to match the intended and documented behaviour.
This essentially changes the resulting times by 8.000082 seconds, the initial
offset between TAI and UTC. [#11249]
Version 4.2 (2020-11-24)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Methods ``convolve`` and ``convolve_fft`` both now return Quantity arrays
if user input is given in one. [#10822]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Numpy functions that broadcast, change shape, or index (like
``np.broadcast_to``, ``np.rot90``, or ``np.roll``) now work on
coordinates, frames, and representations. [#10337]
- Add a new science state ``astropy.coordinates.erfa_astrom.erfa_astrom`` and
two classes ``ErfaAstrom``, ``ErfaAstromInterpolator`` as wrappers to
the ``pyerfa`` astrometric functions used in the coordinate transforms.
Using ``ErfaAstromInterpolator``, which interpolates astrometric properties for
``SkyCoord`` instances with arrays of obstime, can dramatically speed up
coordinate transformations while keeping microarcsecond resolution.
Depending on needed precision and the obstime array in question, speed ups
reach factors of 10x to >100x. [#10647]
- ``galactocentric_frame_defaults`` can now also be used as a registry, with
user-defined parameter values and metadata. [#10624]
- Method ``.realize_frame`` from coordinate frames now accepts ``**kwargs``,
including ``representation_type``. [#10727]
- Avoid an unnecessary call to ``erfa.epv00`` in transformations between
``CIRS`` and ``ICRS``, improving performance by 50 %. [#10814]
- A new equatorial coordinate frame, with RA and Dec measured w.r.t to the True
Equator and Equinox (TETE). This frame is commonly known as "apparent place"
and is the correct frame for coordinates returned from JPL Horizons. [#10867]
- Added a context manager ``impose_finite_difference_dt`` to the
``TransformGraph`` class to override the finite-difference time step
attribute (``finite_difference_dt``) for all transformations in the graph
with that attribute. [#10341]
- Improve performance of ``SpectralCoord`` by refactoring internal
implementation. [#10398]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The final version of the Planck 2018 cosmological parameters are included
as the ``Planck18`` object, which is now the default cosmology. The
parameters are identical to those of the ``Planck18_arXiv_v2`` object,
which is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. [#10915]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added NFW profile and tests to modeling package [#10505]
- Added missing logic for evaluate to compound models [#10002]
- Stop iteration in ``FittingWithOutlierRemoval`` before reaching ``niter`` if
the masked points are no longer changing. [#10642]
- Keep a (shallow) copy of ``fit_info`` from the last iteration of the wrapped
fitter in ``FittingWithOutlierRemoval`` and also record the actual number of
iterations performed in it. [#10642]
- Added attributes for fitting uncertainties (covariance matrix, standard
deviations) to models. Parameter covariance matrix can be accessed via
``model.cov_matrix``, standard deviations by ``model.stds`` or individually
for each parameter by ``parameter.std``. Currently implemented for
``LinearLSQFitter`` and ``LevMarLSQFitter``. [#10552]
- N-dimensional least-squares statistic and specific 1,2,3-D methods [#10670]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``circstd`` function to obtain a circular standard deviation. [#10690]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow initializing a ``Table`` using a list of ``names`` in conjunction with
a ``dtype`` from a numpy structured array. The list of ``names`` overrides the
names specified in the ``dtype``. [#10419]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add new ``isclose()`` method to ``Time`` and ``TimeDelta`` classes to allow
comparison of time objects to within a specified tolerance. [#10646]
- Improve initialization time by a factor of four when creating a scalar ``Time``
object in a format like ``unix`` or ``cxcsec`` (time delta from a reference
epoch time). [#10406]
- Improve initialization time by a factor of ~25 or more for large arrays of
string times in ISO, ISOT or year day-of-year formats. This is done with a new
C-based time parser that can be adapted for other fixed-format custom time
formats. [#10360]
- Numpy functions that broadcast, change shape, or index (like
``np.broadcast_to``, ``np.rot90``, or ``np.roll``) now work on times.
[#10337, #10502]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improve memory and speed performance when iterating over the entire time
column of a ``TimeSeries`` object. Previously this involved O(N^2) operations
and memory. [#10889]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity.to`` has gained a ``copy`` option to allow copies to be avoided
when the units do not change. [#10517]
- Added the ``spat`` unit of solid angle that represents the full sphere.
[#10726]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``ShapedLikeNDArray`` has gained the capability to use numpy functions
that broadcast, change shape, or index. [#10337]
- ``get_free_space_in_dir`` now takes a new ``unit`` keyword and
``check_free_space_in_dir`` takes ``size`` defined as ``Quantity``. [#10627]
- New ``astropy.utils.data.conf.allow_internet`` configuration item to
control downloading data from the Internet. Setting ``allow_internet=False``
is the same as ``remote_timeout=0``. Using ``remote_timeout=0`` to control
internet access will stop working in a future release. [#10632]
- New ``is_url`` function so downstream packages do not have to secretly use
the hidden ``_is_url`` anymore. [#10684]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the ``Quadrangle`` patch for ``WCSAxes`` for a latitude-longitude
quadrangle. Unlike ``matplotlib.patches.Rectangle``, the edges of this
patch will be rendered as curved lines if appropriate for the WCS
transformation. [#10862]
- The position of tick labels are now only calculated when needed. If any text
parameters are changed (color, font weight, size etc.) that don't effect the
tick label position, the positions are not recomputed, improving performance.
[#10806]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``WCS.to_header()`` now appends comments to SIP coefficients. [#10480]
- A new property ``dropped_world_dimensions`` has been added to
``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` to record information about any world axes removed by
slicing a WCS. [#10195]
- New ``WCS.proj_plane_pixel_scales()`` and ``WCS.proj_plane_pixel_area()``
methods to return pixel scales and area, respectively, as Quantity. [#10872]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``set_temp_config`` now preserves the existing cache rather than deleting
it and relying on reloading it from the previous config file. This ensures
that any programmatically made changes are preserved as well. [#10474]
- Configuration path detection logic has changed: Now, it looks for ``~`` first
before falling back to older logic. In addition, ``HOMESHARE`` is no longer
used in Windows. [#10705]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The passing of frame classes (as opposed to frame instances) to the
``transform_to()`` methods of low-level coordinate-frame classes has been
deprecated. Frame classes can still be passed to the ``transform_to()``
method of the high-level ``SkyCoord`` class, and using ``SkyCoord`` is
recommended for all typical use cases of transforming coordinates. [#10475]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``grow`` parameter to ``SigmaClip``, ``sigma_clip`` and
``sigma_clipped_stats``, to allow expanding the masking of each deviant
value to its neighbours within a specified radius. [#10613]
- Passing float ``n`` to ``poisson_conf_interval`` when using
``interval='kraft-burrows-nousek'`` now raises ``TypeError`` as its value
must be an integer. [#10838]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change ``Table.columns.keys()`` and ``Table.columns.values()`` to both return
generators instead of a list. This matches the behavior for Python ``dict``
objects. [#10543]
- Removed the ``FastBST`` and ``FastRBT`` indexing engines because they depend
on the ``bintrees`` package, which is no longer maintained and is deprecated.
Instead, use the ``SCEngine`` indexing engine, which is similar in
performance and relies on the ``sortedcontainers`` package. [#10622]
- When slicing a mixin column in a table that had indices, the indices are no
longer copied since they generally are not useful, having the wrong shape.
With this, the behaviour becomes the same as that for a regular ``Column``.
(Note that this does not affect slicing of a table; sliced columns in those
will continue to carry a sliced version of any indices). [#10890]
- Change behavior so that when getting a single item out of a mixin column such
as ``Time``, ``TimeDelta``, ``SkyCoord`` or ``Quantity``, the ``info``
attribute is no longer copied. This improves performance, especially when the
object is an indexed column in a ``Table``. [#10889]
- Raise a TypeError when a scalar column is added to an unsized table. [#10476]
- The order of columns when creating a table from a ``list`` of ``dict`` may be
changed. Previously, the order was alphabetical because the ``dict`` keys
were assumed to be in random order. Since Python 3.7, the keys are always in
order of insertion, so ``Table`` now uses the order of keys in the first row
to set the column order. To alphabetize the columns to match the previous
behavior, use ``t = t[sorted(t.colnames)]``. [#10900]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Refactor ``Time`` and ``TimeDelta`` classes to inherit from a common
``TimeBase`` class. The ``TimeDelta`` class no longer inherits from ``Time``.
A number of methods that only apply to ``Time`` (e.g. ``light_travel_time``)
are no longer available in the ``TimeDelta`` class. [#10656]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``bar`` unit is no longer wrongly considered an SI unit, meaning that
SI decompositions like ``(u.kg*u.s**-2* u.sr**-1 * u.nm**-1).si`` will
no longer include it. [#10586]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Shape-related items from ``astropy.utils.misc`` -- ``ShapedLikeNDArray``,
``check_broadcast``, ``unbroadcast``, and ``IncompatibleShapeError`` --
have been moved to their own module, ``astropy.utils.shapes``. They remain
importable from ``astropy.utils``. [#10337]
- ``check_hashes`` keyword in ``check_download_cache`` is deprecated and will
be removed in a future release. [#10628]
- ``hexdigest`` keyword in ``import_file_to_cache`` is deprecated and will
be removed in a future release. [#10628]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a few issues with ``generate_config`` when used with other packages.
[#10893]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in the coordinate-frame attribute ``CoordinateAttribute`` where
the internal transformation could behave differently depending on whether
the input was a low-level coordinate frame or a high-level ``SkyCoord``.
``CoordinateAttribute`` now always performs a ``SkyCoord``-style internal
transformation, including the by-default merging of frame attributes. [#10475]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue of ``Model.render`` when the input ``out`` datatype is not
float64. [#10542]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix support for referencing WCSAxes coordinates by their world axes names.
[#10484]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Objective functions called by ``astropy.wcs.fit_wcs_from_points`` were
treating longitude and latitude distances equally. Now longitude scaled
properly. [#10759]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Minimum version of required Python is now 3.7. [#10900]
- Minimum version of required Numpy is now 1.17. [#10664]
- Minimum version of required Scipy is now 1.1. [#10900]
- Minimum version of required PyYAML is now 3.13. [#10900]
- Minimum version of required Matplotlib is now 3.0. [#10900]
- The private ``_erfa`` module has been converted to its own package,
``pyerfa``, which is a required dependency for astropy, and can be imported
with ``import erfa``. Importing ``_erfa`` from ``astropy`` will give a
deprecation warning. [#10329]
- Added ``optimize=True`` flag to calls of ``yacc.yacc`` (as already done for
``lex.lex``) to allow running in ``python -OO`` session without raising an
exception in ``astropy.units.format``. [#10379]
- Shortened FITS comment strings for some D2IM and CPDIS FITS keywords to
reduce the number of FITS ``VerifyWarning`` warnings when working with WCSes
containing lookup table distortions. [#10513]
- When importing astropy without first building the extension modules first,
raise an error directly instead of trying to auto-build. [#10883]
Version 4.1 (2020-10-21)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add new function ``generate_config`` to generate the configuration file and
include it in the documentation. [#10148]
- ``ConfigNamespace.__iter__`` and ``ConfigNamespace.keys`` now yield ``ConfigItem``
names defined within it. Similarly, ``items`` and ``values`` would yield like a
Python dictionary would. [#10139]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new ``SpectralCoord`` class that can be used to define spectral
coordinates and transform them between different velocity frames. [#10185]
- Angle parsing now supports ``cardinal direction`` in the cases
where angles are initialized as ``string`` instances. eg ``"17°53'27"W"``.[#9859]
- Allow in-place modification of array-valued ``Frame`` and ``SkyCoord`` objects.
This provides limited support for updating coordinate data values from another
coordinate object of the same class and equivalent frame attributes. [#9857]
- Added a robust equality operator for comparing ``SkyCoord``, frame, and
representation objects. A comparison like ``sc1 == sc2`` will now return a
boolean or boolean array where the objects are strictly equal in all relevant
frame attributes and coordinate representation values. [#10154]
- Added the True Equator Mean Equinox (TEME) frame. [#10149]
- The ``Galactocentric`` frame will now use the "latest" parameter definitions
by default. This currently corresponds to the values defined in v4.0, but will
change with future releases. [#10238]
- The ``SkyCoord.from_name()`` and Sesame name resolving functionality now is
able to cache results locally and will do so by default. [#9162]
- Allow in-place modification of array-valued ``Representation`` and ``Differential``
objects, including of representations with attached differentials. [#10210]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Functional Units can now be processed in CDS-tables. [#9971]
- Allow reading in ASCII tables which have duplicate column names. [#9939]
- Fixed failure of ASCII ``fast_reader`` to handle ``names``, ``include_names``,
``exclude_names`` arguments for ``RDB`` formatted tables. Homogenised checks
and exceptions for invalid ``names`` arguments. Improved performance when
parsing "wide" tables with many columns. [#10306]
- Added type validation of key arguments in calls to ``io.ascii.read()`` and
``io.ascii.write()`` functions. [#10005]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added serialization of parameter constraints fixed and bounds. [#10082]
- Added 'functional_models.py' and 'physical_models.py' to asdf/tags/transform,
with to allow serialization of all functional and physical models. [#10028, #10293]
- Fix ASDF serialization of circular model inverses, and remove explicit calls
to ``asdf.yamlutil`` functions that became unnecessary in asdf 2.6.0. [#10189, #10384]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for writing Dask arrays to disk efficiently for ``ImageHDU`` and
``PrimaryHDU``. [#9742]
- Add HDU name and ver to FITSDiff report where appropriate [#10197]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New ``exceptions.conf.max_warnings`` configuration item to control the number of times a
type of warning appears before being suppressed. [#10152]
- No longer ignore attributes whose values were specified as empty
strings. [#10583]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added Plummer1D model to ``functional_models``. [#9896]
- Added ``UnitsMapping`` model and ``Model.coerce_units`` to support units on otherwise
unitless models. [#9936]
- Added ``domain`` and ``window`` attributes to ``repr`` and ``str``. Fixed bug with
``_format_repr`` in core.py. [#9941]
- Polynomial attributes ``domain`` and ``window`` are now tuples of size 2 and are
validated. `repr` and `print` show only their non-default values. [#10145]
- Added ``replace_submodel()`` method to ``CompoundModel`` to modify an
existing instance. [#10176]
- Delay construction of ``CompoundModel`` inverse until property is accessed,
to support ASDF deserialization of circular inverses in component models. [#10384]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support in the ``bitmask`` module for using mnemonic bit flag names
when specifying the bit flags to be used or ignored when converting a bit
field to a boolean. [#10095, #10208]
- Added ``reshape_as_blocks`` function to reshape a data array into
blocks, which is useful to efficiently apply functions on block
subsets of the data instead of using loops. The reshaped array is a
view of the input data array. [#10214]
- Added a ``cache`` keyword option to allow caching for ``CCDData.read`` if
filename is a URL. [#10265]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ability to specify a custom matching function for table joins. In
particular this makes it possible to do cross-match table joins on ``SkyCoord``,
``Quantity``, or standard columns, where column entries within a specified
distance are considered to be matched. [#10169]
- Added ``units`` and ``descriptions`` keyword arguments to the Table object
initialization and ``Table.read()`` methods. This allows directly setting
the ``unit`` and ``description`` for the table columns at the time of
creating or reading the table. [#9671]
- Make table ``Row`` work as mappings, by adding ``.keys()`` and ``.values()``
methods. With this ``**row`` becomes possible, as does, more simply, turning
a ``Row`` into a dictionary with ``dict(row)``. [#9712]
- Added two new ``Table`` methods ``.items()`` and ``.values()``, which return
respectively ``tbl.columns.items()`` (iterator over name, column tuples) and
``tbl.columns.values()`` (list of columns) for a ``Table`` object ``tbl``. [#9780]
- Added new ``Table`` method ``.round()``, which rounds numeric columns to the
specified number of decimals. [#9862]
- Updated ``to_pandas()`` and ``from_pandas()`` to use and support Pandas
nullable integer data type for masked integer data. [#9541]
- The HDF5 writer, ``write_table_hdf5()``, now allows passing through
additional keyword arguments to the ``h5py.Group.create_dataset()``. [#9602]
- Added capability to add custom table attributes to a ``Table`` subclass.
These attributes are persistent and can be set during table creation. [#10097]
- Added support for ``SkyCoord`` mixin columns in ``dstack``, ``vstack`` and
``insert_row`` functions. [#9857]
- Added support for coordinate ``Representation`` and ``Differential`` mixin
columns. [#10210]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new time format ``unix_tai`` which is essentially Unix time but with
leap seconds included. More precisely, this is the number of seconds since
``1970-01-01 00:00:08 TAI`` and corresponds to the ``CLOCK_TAI`` clock
available on some linux platforms. [#10081]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``torr`` pressure unit. [#9787]
- Added the ``equal_nan`` keyword argument to ``isclose`` and ``allclose``, and
updated the docstrings. [#9849]
- Added ``Rankine`` temperature unit. [#9916]
- Added integrated flux unit conversion to ``spectral_density`` equivalency.
[#10015]
- Changed ``pixel_scale`` equivalency to allow scales defined in any unit.
[#10123]
- The ``quantity_input`` decorator now optionally allows passing through
numeric values or numpy arrays with numeric dtypes to arguments where
``dimensionless_unscaled`` is an allowed unit. [#10232]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new ``MetaAttribute`` class to support easily adding custom attributes
to a subclass of classes like ``Table`` or ``NDData`` that have a ``meta``
attribute. [#10097]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``invalid`` keyword to ``SqrtStretch``, ``LogStretch``,
``PowerStretch``, and ``ImageNormalize`` classes and the
``simple_norm`` function. This keyword is used to replace generated
NaN values. [#10182]
- Fixed an issue where ticks were sometimes not drawn at the edges of a spherical
projection on a WCSAxes. [#10442]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- WCS objects with a spectral axis will now return ``SpectralCoord``
objects when calling ``pixel_to_world`` instead of ``Quantity``,
and can now take either ``Quantity`` or ``SpectralCoord`` as input
to ``pixel_to_world``. [#10185]
- Implemented support for the ``-TAB`` algorithm (WCS Paper III). [#9641]
- Added an ``_as_mpl_axes`` method to the ``HightLevelWCSWrapper`` class. [#10138]
- Add .upper() to ctype or ctype names to wcsapi/fitwcs.py to mitigate bugs from
unintended lower/upper case issues [#10557]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The equality operator for comparing ``SkyCoord``, frame, and representation
objects was changed. A comparison like ``sc1 == sc2`` was previously
equivalent to ``sc1 is sc2``. It will now return a boolean or boolean array
where the objects are strictly equal in all relevant frame attributes and
coordinate representation values. If the objects have different frame
attributes or representation types then an exception will be raised. [#10154]
- ```SkyCoord.radial_velocity_correction``` now allows you to pass an ```obstime``` directly
when the ```SkyCoord``` also has an ```obstime``` set. In this situation, the position of the
```SkyCoord``` has space motion applied to correct to the passed ```obstime```. This allows
mm/s radial velocity precision for objects with large space motion. [#10094]
- For consistency with other astropy classes, coordinate ``Representations``
and ``Differentials`` can now be initialized with an instance of their own class
if that instance is passed in as the first argument. [#10210]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed the behavior when reading a table where both the ``names`` argument
is provided (to specify the output column names) and the ``converters``
argument is provided (to specify column conversion functions). Previously the
``converters`` dict names referred to the *input* table column names, but now
they refer to the *output* table column names. [#9739]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For FIELDs with datatype="char", store the values as strings instead
of bytes. [#9505]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Table.from_pandas`` now supports a ``units`` dictionary as argument to pass units
for columns in the ``DataFrame``. [#9472]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Require that ``in_subfmt`` and ``out_subfmt`` properties of a ``Time`` object
have allowed values at the time of being set, either when creating the object
or when setting those properties on an existing ``Time`` instance. Previously
the validation of those properties was not strictly enforced. [#9868]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed the exception raised by ``get_readable_fileobj`` on missing
compression modules (for ``bz2`` or ``lzma``/``xz`` support) to
``ModuleNotFoundError``, consistent with ``io.fits`` file handlers. [#9761]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecated the ``imshow_only_kwargs`` keyword in ``imshow_norm``.
[#9915]
- Non-finite input values are now automatically excluded in
``HistEqStretch`` and ``InvertedHistEqStretch``. [#10177]
- The ``PowerDistStretch`` and ``InvertedPowerDistStretch`` ``a``
value is restricted to be ``a >= 0`` in addition to ``a != 1``.
[#10177]
- The ``PowerStretch``, ``LogStretch``, and ``InvertedLogStretch``
``a`` value is restricted to be ``a > 0``. [#10177]
- The ``AsinhStretch`` and ``SinhStretch`` ``a`` value is restricted
to be ``0 < a <= 1``. [#10177]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug where for light deflection by the Sun it was always assumed that the
source was at infinite distance, which in the (rare and) absolute worst-case
scenario could lead to errors up to 3 arcsec. [#10666]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For FIELDs with datatype="char", store the values as strings instead
of bytes. [#9505]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug that prevented ``Time`` columns from being used to sort a table.
[#10824]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- WCS objects with a spectral axis will now return ``SpectralCoord``
objects when calling ``pixel_to_world`` instead of ``Quantity``
(note that ``SpectralCoord`` is a sub-class of ``Quantity``). [#10185]
- Add .upper() to ctype or ctype names to wcsapi/fitwcs.py to mitigate bugs from
unintended lower/upper case issues [#10557]
- Added bounds to ``fit_wcs_from_points`` to ensure CRPIX is on
input image. [#10346]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The way in which users can specify whether to build astropy against
existing installations of C libraries rather than the bundled one
has changed, and should now be done via environment variables rather
than setup.py flags (e.g. --use-system-erfa). The available variables
are ``ASTROPY_USE_SYSTEM_CFITSIO``, ``ASTROPY_USE_SYSTEM_ERFA``,
``ASTROPY_USE_SYSTEM_EXPAT``, ``ASTROPY_USE_SYSTEM_WCSLIB``, and
``ASTROPY_USE_SYSTEM_ALL``. These should be set to ``1`` to build
against the system libraries. [#9730]
- The infrastructure of the package has been updated in line with the
APE 17 roadmap (https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/master/APE17.rst).
The main changes are that the ``python setup.py test`` and
``python setup.py build_docs`` commands will no longer work. The easiest
way to replicate these commands is to install the tox
(https://tox.readthedocs.io) package and run ``tox -e test`` and
``tox -e build_docs``. It is also possible to run pytest and sphinx
directly. Other significant changes include switching to setuptools_scm to
manage the version number, and adding a ``pyproject.toml`` to opt in to
isolated builds as described in PEP 517/518. [#9726]
- Bundled ``expat`` is updated to version 2.2.9. [#10038]
- Increase minimum asdf version to 2.6.0. [#10189]
- The bundled version of PLY was updated to 3.11. [#10258]
- Removed dependency on scikit-image. [#10214]
Version 4.0.5 (2021-03-26)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug where manual fixes to invalid header cards were not preserved when
saving a FITS file. [#11108]
- Fix parsing of RVKC header card patterns that were not recognised
where multiple spaces were separating field-specifier and value like
"DP1.AXIS.1: 1". [#11301]
- Fix misleading missing END card error when extra data are found at the end
of the file. [#11285]
- Fix incorrect wrapping of long card values as CONTINUE cards when some
words in the value are longer than a single card. [#11304]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed problem when writing serialized metadata to HDF5 using h5py >= 3.0.
With the newer h5py this was writing the metadata table as a variable-length
string array instead of the previous fixed-length bytes array. Fixed astropy
to force using a fixed-length bytes array. [#11359]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change ``Voigt1D`` function to use Humlicek's approximation to avoid serious
inaccuracies + option to use (compiled) ``scipy.special.wofz`` error function
for yet more accurate results. [#11177]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug when initializing a ``Table`` with a column as list of ``Quantity``,
for example ``Table({'x': [1*u.m, 2*u.m]})``. Previously this resulted in an
``object`` dtype with no column ``unit`` set, but now gives a float array with
the correct unit. [#11329]
- Fixed byteorder conversion in ``to_pandas()``, which had incorrectly
triggered swapping when native endianness was stored with explicit
``dtype`` code ``'<'`` (or ``'>'``) instead of ``'='``. [#11288, #11294]
- Fixed a compatibility issue with numpy 1.21. Initializing a Table with a
column like ``['str', np.ma.masked]`` was failing in tests due to a change in
numpy. [#11364]
- Fixed bug when validating the inputs to ``table.hstack``, ``table.vstack``,
and ``table.dstack``. Previously, mistakenly calling ``table.hstack(t1, t2)``
(instead of ``table.hstack([t1, t2]))`` would return ``t1`` instead of raising
an exception. [#11336]
- Fixed byteorder conversion in ``to_pandas()``, which had incorrectly
triggered swapping when native endianness was stored with explicit
``dtype`` code ``'<'`` (or ``'>'``) instead of ``'='``. [#11288]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix leap second update when using a non english locale. [#11062]
- Fix default assumed location to be the geocenter when transforming times
to and from solar-system barycenter scales. [#11134]
- Fix inability to write masked times with ``formatted_value``. [#11195]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure ``keepdims`` works for taking ``mean``, ``std``, and ``var`` of
``Quantity``. [#11198]
- For ``Quantity.to_string()``, ensure that the precision argument is also
used when the format is not latex. [#11145]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow "un-setting" of auxiliary WCS parameters in the ``aux`` attribute of
``Wcsprm``. [#11166]
Version 4.0.4 (2020-11-24)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``norm()`` method for ``RadialDifferential`` no longer requires ``base``
to be specified. The ``norm()`` method for other non-Cartesian differential
classes now gives a clearer error message if ``base`` is not specified. [#10969]
- The transformations between ``ICRS`` and any of the heliocentric ecliptic
frames (``HeliocentricMeanEcliptic``, ``HeliocentricTrueEcliptic``, and
``HeliocentricEclipticIAU76``) now correctly account for the small motion of
the Sun when transforming a coordinate with velocity information. [#10970]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Partially fixed a performance issue when reading in parallel mode. Parallel
reading currently has substantially worse performance than the default serial
reading, so we now ignore the parallel option and fall back to serial reading.
[#10880]
- Fixed a bug where "" (blank string) as input data for a boolean type column
was causing an exception instead of indicating a masked value. As a
consequence of the fix, the values "0" and "1" are now also allowed as valid
inputs for boolean type columns. These new allowed values apply for both ECSV
and for basic character-delimited data files ('basic' format with appropriate
``converters`` specified). [#10995]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed use of weights with ``LinearLSQFitter``. [#10687]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue in biweight stats when MAD=0 to give the same output
with and without an input ``axis``. [#10912]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem with the ``plot_date`` format for matplotlib >= 3.3 caused by
a change in the matplotlib plot date default reference epoch in that release.
[#10876]
- Improve initialization time by a factor of four when creating a scalar ``Time``
object in a format like ``unix`` or ``cxcsec`` (time delta from a reference
epoch time). [#10406]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the calculation of the tight bounding box of a ``WCSAxes``. This should
also significantly improve the application of ``tight_layout()`` to figures
containing ``WCSAxes``. [#10797]
Version 4.0.3 (2020-10-14)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a small bug where initializing an empty ``Column`` with a structured dtype
with a length and a shape failed to give the requested dtype. [#10819]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixed installation of the source distribution with pip<19. [#10837, #10852]
Version 4.0.2 (2020-10-10)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.utils.data.download_file`` now supports FTPS/FTP over TLS. [#9964]
- ``astropy.utils.data`` now uses a lock-free mechanism for caching. This new
mechanism uses a new cache layout and so ignores caches created using earlier
mechanisms (which were causing lockups on clusters). The two cache formats can
coexist but do not share any files. [#10437, #10683]
- ``astropy.utils.data`` now ignores the config item
``astropy.utils.data.conf.download_cache_lock_attempts`` since no locking is
done. [#10437, #10683]
- ``astropy.utils.data.download_file`` and related functions now interpret the
parameter or config file setting ``timeout=0`` to mean they should make no
attempt to download files. [#10437, #10683]
- ``astropy.utils.import_file_to_cache`` now accepts a keyword-only argument
``replace``, defaulting to True, to determine whether it should replace existing
files in the cache, in a way as close to atomic as possible. [#10437, #10683]
- ``astropy.utils.data.download_file`` and related functions now treat
``http://example.com`` and ``http://example.com/`` as equivalent. [#10631]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The new auxiliary WCS parameters added in WCSLIB 7.1 are now exposed as
the ``aux`` attribute of ``Wcsprm``. [#10333]
- Updated bundled version of ``WCSLIB`` to v7.3. [#10433]
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added an extra fallback to ``os.expanduser('~')`` when trying to find the
user home directory. [#10570]
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Corrected definition of parsec to 648 000 / pi AU following IAU 2015 B2 [#10569]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where a float-typed integers in the argument ``x_range`` of
``astropy.convolution.utils.discretize_oversample_1D`` (and the 2D version as
well) fails because it uses ``numpy.linspace``, which requires an ``int``.
[#10696]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that for size-1 array ``SkyCoord`` and coordinate frames
the attributes also properly become scalars when indexed with 0.
[#10113]
- Fixed a bug where ``SkyCoord.separation()`` and ``SkyCoord.separation_3d``
were not accepting a frame object. [#10332]
- Ensure that the ``lon`` values in ``SkyOffsetFrame`` are wrapped correctly at
180 degree regardless of how the underlying data is represented. [#10163]
- Fixed an error in the obliquity of the ecliptic when transforming to/from the
``*TrueEcliptic`` coordinate frames. The error would primarily result in an
inaccuracy in the ecliptic latitude on the order of arcseconds. [#10129]
- Fixed an error in the computation of the location of solar system bodies where the
Earth location of the observer was ignored during the correction for light travel
time. [#10292]
- Ensure that coordinates with proper motion that are transformed to other
coordinate frames still can be represented properly. [#10276]
- Improve the error message given when trying to get a cartesian representation
for coordinates that have both proper motion and radial velocity, but no
distance. [#10276]
- Fixed an error where ``SkyCoord.apply_space_motion`` would return incorrect
results when no distance is set and proper motion is high. [#10296]
- Make the parsing of angles thread-safe so that ``Angle`` can be used in
Python multithreading. [#10556]
- Fixed reporting of ``EarthLocation.info`` which previously raised an exception.
[#10592]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug with the C ``fast_reader`` not correctly parsing newlines when
``delimiter`` was also set to ``\n`` or ``\r``; ensured consistent handling
of input strings without newline characters. [#9929]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix integer formats of ``TFORMn=Iw`` columns in ASCII tables to correctly read
values exceeding int32 - setting int16, int32 or int64 according to ``w``. [#9901]
- Fix unclosed memory-mapped FITS files in ``FITSDiff`` when difference found.
[#10159]
- Fix crash when reading an invalid table file. [#10171]
- Fix duplication issue when setting a keyword ending with space. [#10482]
- Fix ResourceWarning with ``fits.writeto`` and ``pathlib.Path`` object.
[#10599]
- Fix repr for commentary cards and strip spaces for commentary keywords.
[#10640]
- Fix compilation of cfitsio with Xcode 12. [#10772]
- Fix handling of 1-dimensional arrays with a single element in ``BinTableHDU`` [#10768]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix id URL in ``baseframe-1.0.0`` ASDF schema. [#10223]
- Write keys to ASDF only if the value is present, to account
for a change in behavior in asdf 2.8. [#10674]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``Table.(read|write).help`` when reader or writer has no docstring. [#10460]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed parsing failure of VOTable with no fields. When detecting a non-empty
table with no fields, the following warning/exception is issued:
E25 "No FIELDs are defined; DATA section will be ignored." [#10192]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a problem with mapping ``input_units`` and ``return_units``
of a ``CompoundModel`` to the units of the constituent models. [#10158]
- Removed hard-coded names of inputs and outputs. [#10174]
- Fixed a problem where slicing a ``CompoundModel`` by name will crash if
there ``fix_inputs`` operators are present. [#10224]
- Removed a limitation of fitting of data with units with compound models
without units when the expression involves operators other than addition
and subtraction. [#10415]
- Fixed a problem with fitting ``Linear1D`` and ``Planar2D`` in model sets. [#10623]
- Fixed reported module name of ``math_functions`` model classes. [#10694]
- Fixed reported module name of ``tabular`` model classes. [#10709]
- Do not create new ``math_functions`` models for ufuncs that are
only aliases (divide and mod). [#10697]
- Fix calculation of the ``Moffat2D`` derivative with respect to gamma. [#10784]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an API regression where ``SigmaClip.__call__`` would convert masked
elements to ``nan`` and upcast the dtype to ``float64`` in its output
``MaskedArray`` when using the ``axis`` parameter along with the defaults
``masked=True`` and ``copy=True``. [#10610]
- Fixed an issue where fully masked ``MaskedArray`` input to
``sigma_clipped_stats`` gave incorrect results. [#10099]
- Fixed an issue where ``sigma_clip`` and ``SigmaClip.__call__``
would return a masked array instead of a ``ndarray`` when
``masked=False`` and the input was a full-masked ``MaskedArray``.
[#10099]
- Fixed bug with ``funcs.poisson_conf_interval`` where an integer for N
with ``interval='kraft-burrows-nousek'`` would throw an error with
mpmath backend. [#10427]
- Fixed bug in ``funcs.poisson_conf_interval`` with
``interval='kraft-burrows-nousek'`` where certain combinations of source
and background count numbers led to ``ValueError`` due to the choice of
starting value for numerical optimization. [#10618]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug when writing a table with mixin columns to FITS, ECSV or HDF5.
If one of the data attributes of the mixin (e.g. ``skycoord.ra``) had the
same name as one of the table column names (``ra``), the column (``ra``)
would be dropped when reading the table back. [#10222]
- Fixed a bug when sorting an indexed table on the indexed column after first
sorting on another column. [#10103]
- Fixed a bug in table argsort when called with ``reverse=True`` for an
indexed table. [#10103]
- Fixed a performance regression introduced in #9048 when initializing a table
from Python lists. Also fixed incorrect behavior (for data types other than
float) when those lists contain ``np.ma.masked`` elements to indicate masked
data. [#10636]
- Avoid modifying ``.meta`` when serializing columns to FITS. [#10485]
- Avoid crash when reading a FITS table that contains mixin info and PyYAML
is missing. [#10485]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that for size-1 array ``Time``, the location also properly becomes
a scalar when indexed with 0. [#10113]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Refined test_parallax to resolve difference between 2012 and 2015 definitions. [#10569]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default IERS server has been updated to use the FTPS server hosted by
CDDIS. [#9964]
- Fixed memory allocation on 64-bit systems within ``xml.iterparse`` [#10076]
- Fix case where ``None`` could be used in a numerical computation. [#10126]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where the ``ImageNormalize`` ``clip`` keyword was
ignored when used with calling the object on data. [#10098]
- Fixed a bug where ``axes.xlabel``/``axes.ylabel`` where not correctly set
nor returned on an ``EllipticalFrame`` class ``WCSAxes`` plot. [#10446]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Handled WCS 360 -> 0 deg crossover in ``fit_wcs_from_points`` [#10155]
- Do not issue ``DATREF`` warning when ``MJDREF`` has default value. [#10440]
- Fixed a bug due to which ``naxis`` argument was ignored if ``header``
was supplied during the initialization of a WCS object. [#10532]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Improved the speed of sorting a large ``Table`` on a single column by a factor
of around 5. [#10103]
- Ensure that astropy can be used inside Application bundles built with
pyinstaller. [#8795]
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.49. See
``cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt`` for additional information.
[#10256, #10665]
- ``extract_array`` raises a ``ValueError`` if the data type of the
input array is inconsistent with the ``fill_value``. [#10602]
Version 4.0.1 (2020-03-27)
==========================
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where importing a development version of a package that uses
``astropy`` configuration system can result in a
``~/.astropy/config/package..cfg`` file. [#9975]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where a vestigal trace of a frame class could persist in the
transformation graph even after the removal of all transformations involving
that frame class. [#9815]
- Fixed a bug with ``TransformGraph.remove_transform()`` when the "from" and
"to" frame classes are not explicitly specified. [#9815]
- Read-only longitudes can now be passed in to ``EarthLocation`` even if
they include angles outside of the range of -180 to 180 degrees. [#9900]
- ```SkyCoord.radial_velocity_correction``` no longer raises an Exception
when space motion information is present on the SkyCoord. [#9980]
astropy.io
^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that prevented the unified I/O infrastructure from working with
datasets that are represented by directories rather than files. [#9866]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in the ``fast_reader`` C parsers incorrectly returning entries
of isolated positive/negative signs as ``float`` instead of ``str``. [#9918]
- Fixed a segmentation fault in the ``fast_reader`` C parsers when parsing an
invalid file with ``guess=True`` and the file contains inconsistent column
numbers in combination with a quoted field; e.g., ``"1 2\n 3 4 '5'"``.
[#9923]
- Magnitude, decibel, and dex can now be stored in ``ecsv`` files. [#9933]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Magnitude, decibel, and dex can now be stored in ``hdf5`` files. [#9933]
- Fixed serialization of polynomial models to include non default values of
domain and window values. [#9956, #9961]
- Fixed a bug which affected overwriting tables within ``hdf5`` files.
Overwriting an existing path with associated column meta data now also
overwrites the meta data associated with the table. [#9950]
- Fixed serialization of Time objects with location under time-1.0.0
ASDF schema. [#9983]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix regression with ``GroupsHDU`` which needs to modify the header to handle
invalid headers, and fix accessing ``.data`` for empty HDU. [#9711, #9934]
- Fix ``fitsdiff`` when its arguments are directories that contain other
directories. [#9711]
- Fix writing noncontiguous data to a compressed HDU. [#9958]
- Added verification of ``disp`` (``TDISP``) keyword to ``fits.Column`` and
extended tests for ``TFORM`` and ``TDISP`` validation. [#9978]
- Fix checksum verification to process all HDUs instead of only the first one
because of the lazy loading feature. [#10012]
- Allow passing ``output_verify`` to ``.close`` when using the context manager.
[#10030]
- Prevent instantiation of ``PrimaryHDU`` and ``ImageHDU`` with a scalar.
[#10041]
- Fix column access by attribute with FITS_rec: columns with scaling or columns
from ASCII tables where not properly converted when accessed by attribute
name. [#10069]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Magnitude, decibel, and dex can now be stored in ``hdf5`` files. [#9933]
- Fixed serialization of polynomial models to include non default values of
domain and window values. [#9956, #9961]
- Fixed a bug which affected overwriting tables within ``hdf5`` files.
Overwriting an existing path with associated column meta data now also
overwrites the meta data associated with the table. [#9950]
- Fixed serialization of Time objects with location under time-1.0.0
ASDF schema. [#9983]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in setting default values of parameters of orthonormal
polynomials when constructing a model set. [#9987]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``Table.reverse`` for tables that contain non-mutable mixin columns
(like ``SkyCoord``) for which in-place item update is not allowed. [#9839]
- Tables containing Magnitude, decibel, and dex columns can now be saved to
``ecsv`` files. [#9933]
- Fixed bug where adding or inserting a row fails on a table with an index
defined on a column that is not the first one. [#10027]
- Ensured that ``table.show_in_browser`` also worked for mixin columns like
``Time`` and ``SkyCoord``. [#10068]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix inaccuracy when converting between TimeDelta and datetime.timedelta. [#9679]
- Fixed exception when changing ``format`` in the case when ``out_subfmt`` is
defined and is incompatible with the new format. [#9812]
- Fixed exceptions in ``Time.to_value()``: when supplying any ``subfmt`` argument
for string-based formats like 'iso', and for ``subfmt='long'`` for the formats
'byear', 'jyear', and 'decimalyear'. [#9812]
- Fixed bug where the location attribute was lost when creating a new ``Time``
object from an existing ``Time`` or list of ``Time`` objects. [#9969]
- Fixed a bug where an exception occurred when creating a ``Time`` object
if the ``val1`` argument was a regular double and the ``val2`` argument
was a ``longdouble``. [#10034]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed issue with reference time for the ``transit_time`` parameter returned by
the ``BoxLeastSquares`` periodogram. Now, the ``transit_time`` will be within
the range of the input data and arbitrary time offsets/zero points no longer
affect results. [#10013]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix for ``quantity_input`` annotation raising an exception on iterable
types that don't define a general ``__contains__`` for checking if ``None``
is contained (e.g. Enum as of python3.8), by instead checking for instance of
Sequence. [#9948]
- Fix for ``u.Quantity`` not taking into account ``ndmin`` if constructed from
another ``u.Quantity`` instance with different but convertible unit [#10066]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``deprecated_renamed_argument`` not passing in user value to
deprecated keyword when the keyword has no new name. [#9981]
- Fixed ``deprecated_renamed_argument`` not issuing a deprecation warning when
deprecated keyword without new name is passed in as positional argument.
[#9985]
- Fixed detection of read-only filesystems in the caching code. [#10007]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug from matplotlib >=3.1 where an empty Quantity array is
sent for unit conversion as an empty list. [#9848]
- Fix bug in ``ZScaleInterval`` to return the array minimum and
maximum when there are less then ``min_npixels`` in the input array. [#9913]
- Fix a bug in simplifying axis labels that affected non-rectangular frames.
[#8004, #9991]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Increase minimum asdf version to 2.5.2. [#9996, #9819]
- Updated bundled version of ``WCSLIB`` to v7.2. [#10021]
Version 4.0 (2019-12-16)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The config and cache directories and the name of the config file are now
customizable. This allows affiliated packages to put their configuration
files in locations other than ``CONFIG_DIR/.astropy/``. [#8237]
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The version of constants can be specified via ScienceState in a way
that ``constants`` and ``units`` will be consistent. [#8517]
- Default constants now use CODATA 2018 and IAU 2015 definitions. [#8761]
- Constants can be pickled and unpickled. [#9377]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug [#9168] where having a kernel defined using unitless astropy
quantity objects would result in a crash [#9300]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed ``coordinates.solar_system_ephemeris`` to also accept local files
as input. The ephemeris can now be selected by either keyword (e.g. 'jpl',
'de430'), URL or file path. [#8767]
- Added a ``cylindrical`` property to ``SkyCoord`` for shorthand access to a
``CylindricalRepresentation`` of the coordinate, as is already available
for other common representations. [#8857]
- The default parameters for the ``Galactocentric`` frame are now controlled by
a ``ScienceState`` subclass, ``galactocentric_frame_defaults``. New
parameter sets will be added to this object periodically to keep up with
ever-improved measurements of the solar position and motion. [#9346]
- Coordinate frame classes can now have multiple aliases by assigning a list
of aliases to the class variable ``name``. Any of the aliases can be used
for attribute-style access or as the target of ``tranform_to()`` calls.
[#8834]
- Passing a NaN to ``Distance`` no longer raises a warning. [#9598]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The pre-publication Planck 2018 cosmological parameters are included as the
``Planck2018_arXiv_v2`` object. Please note that the values are preliminary,
and when the paper is accepted a final version will be included as
``Planck18``. [#8111]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed incorrect warnings on ``Overflow`` when reading in
``FloatType`` 0.0 with ``use_fast_converter``; synchronised
``IntType`` ``Overflow`` warning messages. [#9082]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Eliminate deprecated compatibility mode when writing ``Table`` metadata to
HDF5 format. [#8899]
- Add support for orthogonal polynomial models to ASDF. [#9107]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed the ``fitscheck`` and ``fitsdiff`` script to use the ``argparse``
module instead of ``optparse``. [#9148]
- Allow writing of ``Table`` objects with ``Time`` columns that are also table
indices to FITS files. [#8077]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support VOTable version 1.4. The main addition is the new element, TIMESYS,
which allows defining of metadata for temporal coordinates much like COOSYS
defines metadata for celestial coordinates. [#9475]
astropy.logger
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a configuration option to specify the text encoding of the log file,
with the default behavior being the platform-preferred encoding. [#9203]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Major rework of modeling internals. `See modeling documentation for details.
<https://docs.astropy.org/en/v4.0.x/modeling/changes_for_4.html>`_ . [#8769]
- Add ``Tabular1D.inverse``. [#9083]
- ``Model.rename`` was changed to add the ability to rename ``Model.inputs``
and ``Model.outputs``. [#9220]
- New function ``fix_inputs`` to generate new models from others by fixing
specific inputs variable values to constants. [#9135]
- ``inputs`` and ``outputs`` are now model instance attributes, and ``n_inputs``
and ``n_outputs`` are class attributes. Backwards compatible default
values of ``inputs`` and ``outputs`` are generated. ``Model.inputs`` and
``Model.outputs`` are now settable which allows renaming them on per user
case. [#9298]
- Add a new model representing a sequence of rotations in 3D around an
arbitrary number of axes. [#9369]
- Add many of the numpy ufunc functions as models. [#9401]
- Add ``BlackBody`` model. [#9282]
- Add ``Drude1D`` model. [#9452]
- Added analytical King model (KingProjectedAnalytic1D). [#9084]
- Added Exponential1D and Logarithmic1D models. [#9351]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add a way for technically invalid but unambiguous units in a fits header
to be parsed by ``CCDData``. [#9397]
- ``NDData`` now only accepts WCS objects which implement either the high, or
low level APE 14 WCS API. All WCS objects are converted to a high level WCS
object, so ``NDData.wcs`` now always returns a high level APE 14 object. Not
all array slices are valid for wcs objects, so some slicing operations which
used to work may now fail. [#9067]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``biweight_location``, ``biweight_scale``, and
``biweight_midvariance`` functions now allow for the ``axis``
keyword to be a tuple of integers. [#9309]
- Added an ``ignore_nan`` option to the ``biweight_location``,
``biweight_scale``, and ``biweight_midvariance`` functions. [#9457]
- A numpy ``MaskedArray`` can now be input to the ``biweight_location``,
``biweight_scale``, and ``biweight_midvariance`` functions. [#9466]
- Removed the warning related to p0 in the Bayesian blocks algorithm. The
caveat related to p0 is described in the docstring for ``Events``. [#9567]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved the implementation of ``Table.replace_column()`` to provide
a speed-up of 5 to 10 times for wide tables. The method can now accept
any input which convertible to a column of the correct length, not just
``Column`` subclasses. [#8902]
- Improved the implementation of ``Table.add_column()`` to provide a speed-up
of 2 to 10 (or more) when adding a column to tables, with increasing benefit
as the number of columns increases. The method can now accept any input
which is convertible to a column of the correct length, not just ``Column``
subclasses. [#8933]
- Changed the implementation of ``Table.add_columns()`` to use the new
``Table.add_column()`` method. In most cases the performance is similar
or slightly faster to the previous implementation. [#8933]
- ``MaskedColumn.data`` will now return a plain ``MaskedArray`` rather than
the previous (unintended) ``masked_BaseColumn``. [#8855]
- Added depth-wise stacking ``dstack()`` in higher level table operation.
It help will in stacking table column depth-wise. [#8939]
- Added a new table equality method ``values_equal()`` which allows comparison
table values to another table, list, or value, and returns an
element-by-element equality table. [#9068]
- Added new ``join_type='cartesian'`` option to the ``join`` operation. [#9288]
- Allow adding a table column as a list of mixin-type objects, for instance
``t['q'] = [1 * u.m, 2 * u.m]``. [#9165]
- Allow table ``join()`` using any sortable key column (e.g. Time), not
just ndarray subclasses. A column is considered sortable if there is a
``<column>.info.get_sortable_arrays()`` method that is implemented. [#9340]
- Added ``Table.iterrows()`` for making row-wise iteration faster. [#8969]
- Allow table to be initialized with a list of dict where the dict keys
are not the same in every row. The table column names are the set of all keys
found in the input data, and any missing key/value pairs are turned into
missing data in the table. [#9425]
- Prevent unnecessary ERFA warnings when indexing by ``Time`` columns. [#9545]
- Added support for sorting tables which contain non-mutable mixin columns
(like ``SkyCoord``) for which in-place item update is not allowed. [#9549]
- Ensured that inserting ``np.ma.masked`` (or any other value with a mask) into
a ``MaskedColumn`` causes a masked entry to be inserted. [#9623]
- Fixed a bug that caused an exception when initializing a ``MaskedColumn`` from
another ``MaskedColumn`` that has a structured dtype. [#9651]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The plugin that handles the custom header in the test output has been
moved to the ``pytest-astropy-header plugin`` package. `See the README at
<https://github.com/astropy/pytest-astropy-header>`__ for information about
using this new plugin. [#9214]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new time format ``ymdhms`` for representing times via year, month,
day, hour, minute, and second attributes. [#7644]
- ``TimeDelta`` gained a ``to_value`` method, so that it becomes easier to
use it wherever a ``Quantity`` with units of time could be used. [#8762]
- Made scalar ``Time`` and ``TimeDelta`` objects hashable based on JD, time
scale, and location attributes. [#8912]
- Improved error message when bad input is used to initialize a ``Time`` or
``TimeDelta`` object and the format is specified. [#9296]
- Allow numeric time formats to be initialized with numpy ``longdouble``,
``Decimal`` instances, and strings. One can select just one of these
using ``in_subfmt``. The output can be similarly set using ``out_subfmt``.
[#9361]
- Introduce a new ``.to_value()`` method for ``Time`` (and adjusted the
existing method for ``TimeDelta``) so that one can get values in a given
``format`` and possible ``subfmt`` (e.g., ``to_value('mjd', 'str')``. [#9361]
- Prevent unnecessary ERFA warnings when sorting ``Time`` objects. [#9545]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Adding ``epoch_phase``, ``wrap_phase`` and ``normalize_phase`` keywords to
``TimeSeries.fold()`` to control the phase of the epoch and to return
normalized phase rather than time for the folded TimeSeries. [#9455]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Distribution`` was rewritten such that it deals better with subclasses.
As a result, Quantity distributions now behave correctly with ``to`` methods
yielding new distributions of the kind expected for the starting
distribution, and ``to_value`` yielding ``NdarrayDistribution`` instances.
[#9429, #9442]
- The ``pdf_*`` properties that were used to calculate statistical properties
of ``Distribution`` instances were changed into methods. This allows one
to pass parameters such as ``ddof`` to ``pdf_std`` and ``pdf_var`` (which
generally should equal 1 instead of the default 0), and reflects that these
are fairly involved calculations, not just "properties". [#9613]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support for unicode parsing. Currently supported are superscripts, Ohm,
Ångström, and the micro-sign. [#9348]
- Accept non-unit type annotations in @quantity_input. [#8984]
- For numpy 1.17 and later, the new ``__array_function__`` protocol is used to
ensure that all top-level numpy functions interact properly with
``Quantity``, preserving units also in operations like ``np.concatenate``.
[#8808]
- Add equivalencies for surface brightness units to spectral_density. [#9282]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.utils.data.download_file`` and
``astropy.utils.data.get_readable_fileobj`` now provides an ``http_headers``
keyword to pass in specific request headers for the download. It also now
defaults to providing ``User-Agent: Astropy`` and ``Accept: */*``
headers. The default ``User-Agent`` value can be set with a new
``astropy.data.conf.default_http_user_agent`` configuration item.
[#9508, #9564]
- Added a new ``astropy.utils.misc.unbroadcast`` function which can be used
to return the smallest array that can be broadcasted back to the initial
array. [#9209]
- The specific IERS Earth rotation parameter table used for time and
coordinate transformations can now be set, either in a context or per
session, using ``astropy.utils.iers.earth_rotation_table``. [#9244]
- Added ``export_cache`` and ``import_cache`` to permit transporting
downloaded data to machines with no Internet connection. Several new
functions are available to investigate the cache contents; e.g.,
``check_download_cache`` can be used to confirm that the persistent
cache has not become damaged. [#9182]
- A new ``astropy.utils.iers.LeapSeconds`` class has been added to track
leap seconds. [#9365]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new ``time_support`` context manager/function for making it easy to
plot and format ``Time`` objects in Matplotlib. [#8782]
- Added support for plotting any WCS compliant with the generalized (APE 14)
WCS API with WCSAxes. [#8885, #9098]
- Improved display of information when inspecting ``WCSAxes.coords``. [#9098]
- Improved error checking for the ``slices=`` argument to ``WCSAxes``. [#9098]
- Added support for more solar frames in WCSAxes. [#9275]
- Add support for one dimensional plots to ``WCSAxes``. [#9266]
- Add a ``get_format_unit`` to ``wcsaxes.CoordinateHelper``. [#9392]
- ``WCSAxes`` now, by default, sets a default label for plot axes which is the
WCS physical type (and unit) for that axis. This can be disabled using the
``coords[i].set_auto_axislabel(False)`` or by explicitly setting an axis
label. [#9392]
- Fixed the display of tick labels when plotting all sky images that have a
coord_wrap less than 360. [#9542]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``astropy.wcs.wcsapi.pixel_to_pixel`` function that can be used to
transform pixel coordinates in one dataset with a WCS to pixel coordinates
in another dataset with a different WCS. This function is designed to be
efficient when the input arrays are broadcasted views of smaller
arrays. [#9209]
- Added a ``local_partial_pixel_derivatives`` function that can be used to
determine a matrix of partial derivatives of each world coordinate with
respect to each pixel coordinate. [#9392]
- Updated wcslib to v6.4. [#9125]
- Improved the ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` class in ``astropy.wcs.wcsapi`` to avoid
storing chains of nested ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` objects when applying multiple
slicing operations in turn. [#9210]
- Added a ``wcs_info_str`` function to ``astropy.wcs.wcsapi`` to show a summary
of an APE-14-compliant WCS as a string. [#8546, #9207]
- Added two new optional attributes to the APE 14 low-level WCS:
``pixel_axis_names`` and ``world_axis_names``. [#9156]
- Updated the WCS class to now correctly take and return ``Time`` objects in
the high-level APE 14 API (e.g. ``pixel_to_world``. [#9376]
- ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` now raises ``IndexError`` rather than ``ValueError`` on
an invalid slice. [#9067]
- Added ``fit_wcs_from_points`` function to ``astropy.wcs.utils``. Fits a WCS
object to set of matched detector/sky coordinates. [#9469]
- Fix various bugs in ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` when the WCS being sliced was one
dimensional. [#9693]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecated ``set_enabled_constants`` context manager. Use
``astropy.physical_constants`` and ``astropy.astronomical_constants``.
[#9025]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the deprecated keyword argument ``interpolate_nan`` from
``convolve_fft``. [#9356]
- Removed the deprecated keyword argument ``stddev`` from
``Gaussian2DKernel``. [#9356]
- Deprecated and renamed ``MexicanHat1DKernel`` and ``MexicanHat2DKernel``
to ``RickerWavelet1DKernel`` and ``RickerWavelet2DKernel``. [#9445]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the ``recommended_units`` attribute from Representations; it was
deprecated since 3.0. [#8892]
- Removed the deprecated frame attribute classes, ``FrameAttribute``,
``TimeFrameAttribute``, ``QuantityFrameAttribute``,
``CartesianRepresentationFrameAttribute``; deprecated since 3.0. [#9326]
- Removed ``longitude`` and ``latitude`` attributes from ``EarthLocation``;
deprecated since 2.0. [#9326]
- The ``DifferentialAttribute`` for frame classes now passes through any input
to the ``allowed_classes`` if only one allowed class is specified, i.e. this
now allows passing a quantity in for frame attributes that use
``DifferentialAttribute``. [#9325]
- Removed the deprecated ``galcen_ra`` and ``galcen_dec`` attributes from the
``Galactocentric`` frame. [#9346]
astropy.extern
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Remove the bundled ``six`` module. [#8315]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Masked column handling has changed, see ``astropy.table`` entry below.
[#8789]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Masked column handling has changed, see ``astropy.table`` entry below.
[#8789]
- Removed deprecated ``usecPickle`` kwarg from ``fnunpickle`` and
``fnpickle``. [#8890]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Masked column handling has changed, see ``astropy.table`` entry below.
[#8789]
- ``io.fits.Header`` has been made safe for subclasses for copying and slicing.
As a result of this change, the private subclass ``CompImageHeader``
now always should be passed an explicit ``image_header``. [#9229]
- Removed the deprecated ``tolerance`` option in ``fitsdiff`` and
``io.fits.diff`` classes. [#9520]
- Removed deprecated keyword arguments for ``CompImageHDU``:
``compressionType``, ``tileSize``, ``hcompScale``, ``hcompSmooth``,
``quantizeLevel``. [#9520]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed ``pedantic`` argument to ``verify`` and change it to have three
string-based options (``ignore``, ``warn``, and ``exception``) instead of
just being a boolean. In addition, changed default to ``ignore``, which means
that warnings will not be shown by default when loading VO tables. [#8715]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Eliminates support for compound classes (but not compound instances!) [#8769]
- Slicing compound models more restrictive. [#8769]
- Shape of parameters now includes n_models as dimension. [#8769]
- Parameter instances now hold values instead of models. [#8769]
- Compound model parameters now share instance and value with
constituent models. [#8769]
- No longer possible to assign slices of parameter values to model parameters
attribute (it is possible to replace it with a complete array). [#8769]
- Many private attributes and methods have changed (see documentation). [#8769]
- Deprecated ``BlackBody1D`` model and ``blackbody_nu`` and
``blackbody_lambda`` functions. [#9282]
- The deprecated ``rotations.rotation_matrix_from_angle`` was removed. [#9363]
- Deprecated and renamed ``MexicanHat1D`` and ``MexicanHat2D``
to ``RickerWavelet1D`` and ``RickerWavelet2D``. [#9445]
- Deprecated ``modeling.utils.ExpressionTree``. [#9576]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the ``iters`` keyword from sigma clipping stats functions. [#8948]
- Renamed the ``a`` parameter to ``data`` in biweight stat functions. [#8948]
- Renamed the ``a`` parameter to ``data`` in ``median_absolute_deviation``.
[#9011]
- Renamed the ``conflevel`` keyword to ``confidence_level`` in
``poisson_conf_interval``. Usage of ``conflevel`` now issues
``AstropyDeprecationWarning``. [#9408]
- Renamed the ``conf`` keyword to ``confidence_level`` in
``binom_conf_interval`` and ``binned_binom_proportion``. Usage of ``conf``
now issues ``AstropyDeprecationWarning``. [#9408]
- Renamed the ``conf_lvl`` keyword to ``confidence_level`` in
``jackknife_stats``. Usage of ``conf_lvl`` now issues
``AstropyDeprecationWarning``. [#9408]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The handling of masked columns in the ``Table`` class has changed in a way
that may impact program behavior. Now a ``Table`` with ``masked=False``
may contain both ``Column`` and ``MaskedColumn`` objects, and adding a
masked column or row to a table no longer "upgrades" the table and columns
to masked. This means that tables with masked data which are read via
``Table.read()`` will now always have ``masked=False``, though specific
columns will be masked as needed. Two new table properties
``has_masked_columns`` and ``has_masked_values`` were added. See the
`Masking change in astropy 4.0 section within
<https://docs.astropy.org/en/v4.0.x/table/masking.html>`_ for
details. [#8789]
- Table operation functions such as ``join``, ``vstack``, ``hstack``, etc now
always return a table with ``masked=False``, though the individual columns
may be masked as necessary. [#8957]
- Changed implementation of ``Table.add_column()`` and ``Table.add_columns()``
methods. Now it is possible add any object(s) which can be converted or
broadcasted to a valid column for the table. ``Table.__setitem__`` now
just calls ``add_column``. [#8933]
- Changed default table configuration setting ``replace_warnings`` from
``['slice']`` to ``[]``. This removes the default warning when replacing
a table column that is a slice of another column. [#9144]
- Removed the non-public method
``astropy.table.np_utils.recarray_fromrecords``. [#9165]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In addition to ``DeprecationWarning``, now ``FutureWarning`` and
``ImportWarning`` would also be turned into exceptions. [#8506]
- ``warnings_to_ignore_by_pyver`` option in
``enable_deprecations_as_exceptions()`` has changed. Please refer to API
documentation. [#8506]
- Default settings for ``warnings_to_ignore_by_pyver`` are updated to remove
very old warnings that are no longer relevant and to add a new warning
caused by ``pytest-doctestplus``. [#8506]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Time.get_ut1_utc`` now uses the auto-updated ``IERS_Auto`` by default,
instead of the bundled ``IERS_B`` file. [#9226]
- Time formats that do not use ``val2`` now raise ValueError instead of
silently ignoring a provided value. [#9373]
- Custom time formats can now accept floating-point types with extended
precision. Existing time formats raise exceptions rather than discarding
extended precision through conversion to ordinary floating-point. [#9368]
- Time formats (implemented in subclasses of ``TimeFormat``) now have
their input and output routines more thoroughly validated, making it more
difficult to create damaged ``Time`` objects. [#9375]
- The ``TimeDelta.to_value()`` method now can also take the ``format`` name
as its argument, in which case the value will be calculated using the
``TimeFormat`` machinery. For this case, one can also pass a ``subfmt``
argument to retrieve the value in another form than ``float``. [#9361]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Keyword ``midpoint_epoch`` is renamed to ``epoch_time``. [#9455]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Distribution`` was rewritten such that it deals better with subclasses.
As a result, Quantity distributions now behave correctly with ``to`` methods
yielding new distributions of the kind expected for the starting distribution,
and ``to_value`` yielding ``NdarrayDistribution`` instances. [#9442]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For consistency with ``ndarray``, scalar ``Quantity.value`` will now return
a numpy scalar rather than a python one. This should help keep track of
precision better, but may lead to unexpected results for the rare cases
where numpy scalars behave differently than python ones (e.g., taking the
square root of a negative number). [#8876]
- Removed the ``magnitude_zero_points`` module, which was deprecated in
favour of ``astropy.units.photometric`` since 3.1. [#9353]
- ``EquivalentUnitsList`` now has a ``_repr_html_`` method to output a HTML
table on a call to ``find_equivalent_units`` in Jupyter notebooks. [#9495]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``download_file`` and related functions now accept a list of fallback
sources, and they are able to update the cache at the user's request. [#9182]
- Allow ``astropy.utils.console.ProgressBarOrSpinner.map`` and
``.map_unordered`` to take an argument ``multiprocessing_start_method`` to
control how subprocesses are started; the different methods (``fork``,
``spawn``, and ``forkserver``) have different implications in terms of
security, efficiency, and behavioural anomalies. The option is useful in
particular for cross-platform testing because Windows supports only ``spawn``
while Linux defaults to ``fork``. [#9182]
- All operations that act on the astropy download cache now take an argument
``pkgname`` that allows one to specify which package's cache to use.
[#8237, #9182]
- Removed deprecated ``funcsigs`` and ``futures`` from
``astropy.utils.compat``. [#8909]
- Removed the deprecated ``astropy.utils.compat.numpy`` module. [#8910]
- Deprecated ``InheritDocstrings`` as it is natively supported by
Sphinx 1.7 or higher. [#8881]
- Deprecated ``astropy.utils.timer`` module, which has been moved to
``astroquery.utils.timer`` and will be part of ``astroquery`` 0.4.0. [#9038]
- Deprecated ``astropy.utils.misc.set_locale`` function, as it is meant for
internal use only. [#9471]
- The implementation of ``data_info.DataInfo`` has changed (for a considerable
performance boost). Generally, this should not affect simple subclasses, but
because the class now uses ``__slots__`` any attributes on the class have to
be explicitly given a slot. [#8998]
- ``IERS`` tables now use ``nan`` to mark missing values
(rather than ``1e20``). [#9226]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default ``clip`` value is now ``False`` in ``ImageNormalize``. [#9478]
- The default ``clip`` value is now ``False`` in ``simple_norm``.
[#9698]
- Infinite values are now excluded when calculating limits in
``ManualInterval`` and ``MinMaxInterval``. They were already excluded in
all other interval classes. [#9480]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``nan_treatment='interpolate'`` option to ``convolve_fft`` to properly
take into account ``fill_value``. [#8122]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``QuantityAttribute`` class now supports a None default value if a unit
is specified. [#9345]
- When ``Representation`` classes with the same name are defined, this no
longer leads to a ``ValueError``, but instead to a warning and the removal
of both from the name registry (i.e., one either has to use the class itself
to set, e.g., ``representation_type``, or refer to the class by its fully
qualified name). [#8561]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Implemented skip (after warning) of header cards with reserved
keywords in ``table_to_hdu``. [#9390]
- Add ``AstropyDeprecationWarning`` to ``read_table_fits`` when ``hdu=`` is
selected, but does not match single present table HDU. [#9512]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Address issue #8995 by ignoring BINARY2 null mask bits for string values
on parsing a VOTable. In this way, the reader should never create masked
values for string types. [#9057]
- Corrected a spurious warning issued for the ``value`` attribute of the
``<OPTION>`` element in VOTable, as well as a test that erroneously
treated the warning as acceptable. [#9470]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Cutout2D`` will now get the WCS from its first argument if that argument
has with WCS property. [#9492]
- ``overlap_slices`` will now raise a ``ValueError`` if the input
position contains any non-finite values (e.g. NaN or inf). [#9648]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``bayesian_blocks`` returned a single edge. [#8560]
- Fixed input data type validation for ``bayesian_blocks`` to work int
arrays. [#9513]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug where adding a column consisting of a list of masked arrays was
dropping the masks. [#9048]
- ``Quantity`` columns with custom units can now round-trip via FITS tables,
as long as the custom unit is enabled during reading (otherwise, the unit
will become an ``UnrecognizedUnit``). [#9015]
- Fix bug where string values could be truncated when inserting into a
``Column`` or ``MaskedColumn``, or when adding or inserting a row containing
string values. [#9559]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug when ``Time`` object is created with only masked elements. [#9624]
- Fix inaccuracy when converting between TimeDelta and datetime.timedelta.
[#9679]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that output from test functions of and comparisons between quantities
can be stored into pre-allocated output arrays (using ``out=array``) [#9273]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For the default ``IERS_Auto`` table, which combines IERS A and B values, the
IERS nutation parameters "dX_2000A" and "dY_2000A" are now also taken from
the actual IERS B file rather than from the B values stored in the IERS A
file. Any differences should be negligible for any practical application,
but this may help exactly reproducing results. [#9237]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Calling ``WCSAxes.set_axis_off()`` now correctly turns off drawing the Axes.
[#9411]
- Fix incorrect transformation behavior in ``WCSAxes.plot_coord`` and correctly
handle when input coordinates are not already in spherical representations.
[#8927]
- Fixed ``ImageNormalize`` so that when it is initialized without
``data`` it will still use the input ``interval`` class. [#9698]
- Fixed ``ImageNormalize`` to handle input data with non-finite
values. [#9698]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix incorrect value returned by
``wcsapi.HighLevelWCSWrapper.axis_correlation_matrix``. [#9554]
- Fix NaN-masking of world coordinates when some but not all of the coordinates
were flagged as invalid by WCSLIB. This occurred for example with WCS with >2
dimensions where two of the dimensions were celestial coordinates and pixel
coordinates outside of the 'sky' were converted to world coordinates -
previously all world coordinates were masked even if uncorrelated with the
celestial axes, but this is no longer the case. [#9688]
- The default WCS to celestial frame mapping for world coordinate systems that
specify ``TLON`` and ``TLAT`` coordinates will now return an ITRS frame with
the representation class set to ``SphericalRepresentation``. This fixes a bug
that caused ``WCS.pixel_to_world`` to raise an error for such world
coordinate systems. [#9609]
- ``FITSWCSAPIMixin`` now returns tuples not lists from ``pixel_to_world`` and
``world_to_pixel``. [#9678]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Versions of Python <3.6 are no longer supported. [#8955]
- Matplotlib 2.1 and later is now required. [#8787]
- Versions of Numpy <1.16 are no longer supported. [#9292]
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.470. See
``cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt`` for additional information. [#9233]
- The bundled ERFA was updated to version 1.7.0. This is based on
SOFA 20190722. This includes a fix to avoid precision loss for negative
JDs, and also includes additional routines to allow updates to the
leap-second table. [#9323, #9734]
- The default server for the IERS data files has been updated to reflect
long-term downtime of the canonical USNO server. [#9487, #9508]
Version 3.2.3 (2019-10-27)
==========================
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated IERS A URLs due to USNO prolonged maintenance. [#9443]
Version 3.2.2 (2019-10-07)
==========================
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``discretize_oversample_1D/2D()`` from
``astropy.convolution.utils``, which might occasionally introduce unexpected
oversampling grid dimensions due to a numerical precision issue. [#9293]
- Fixed a bug [#9168] where having a kernel defined using unitless astropy
quantity objects would result in a crash [#9300]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix concatenation of representations for cases where the units were different.
[#8877]
- Check for NaN values in catalog and match coordinates before building and
querying the ``KDTree`` for coordinate matching. [#9007]
- Fix sky coordinate matching when a dimensionless distance is provided. [#9008]
- Raise a faster and more meaningful error message when differential data units
are not compatible with a containing representation's units. [#9064]
- Changed the timescale in ICRS to CIRS from 'tdb' to 'tt' conversion and
vice-versa, as the erfa function that gets called in the process, pnm06a
accepts time in TT. [#9079]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the fast reader when used in parallel and with the multiprocessing
'spawn' method (which is the default on MacOS X with Python 3.8 and later),
and enable parallel fast reader on Windows. [#8853]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixes bug where an invalid TRPOS<n> keyword was being generated for FITS
time column when no location was available. [#8784]
- Fixed a wrong exception when converting a Table with a unit that is not FITS
compliant and not convertible to a string using ``format='fits'``. [#8906]
- Fixed an issue with A3DTABLE extension that could not be read. [#9012]
- Fixed the update of the header when creating GroupsHDU from data. [#9216]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix to ``add_array``, which now accepts ``array_small`` having dimensions
equal to ``array_large``, instead of only allowing smaller sizes of
arrays. [#9118]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``median_absolute_deviation`` for the case where ``ignore_nan=True``
and an input masked array contained both NaNs and infs. [#9307]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Comparisons between ``Column`` instances and ``Quantity`` will now
correctly take into account the unit (as was already the case for
regular operations such as addition). [#8904]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow ``Time`` to be initialized with an empty value for all formats. [#8854]
- Fixed a troubling bug in which ``Time`` could loose precision, with deviations
of 300 ns. [#9328]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed handling of ``Quantity`` input data for all methods of
``LombScarge.false_alarm_probabilty``. [#9246]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow conversion of ``Column`` with logarithmic units to a suitable
``Quantity`` subclass if ``subok=True``. [#9188]
- Ensured that we simplify powers to smaller denominators if that is
consistent within rounding precision. [#9267]
- Ensured that the powers shown in a unit's repr are always correct,
not oversimplified. [#9267]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``find_api_page`` access by using custom request headers and HTTPS
when version is specified. [#9032]
- Make ``download_file`` (and by extension ``get_readable_fileobj`` and others)
check the size of downloaded files against the size claimed by the server.
[#9302]
- Fix ``find_current_module`` so that it works properly if astropy is being used
inside a bundle such as that produced by PyInstaller. [#8845]
- Fix path to renamed classes, which previously included duplicate path/module
information under certain circumstances. [#8845]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Silence numpy runtime warnings in ``WCSAxes`` when drawing grids. [#8882]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed equality test between ``cunit`` where the first element was equal but
the following elements differed. [#9154]
- Fixed a crash while loading a WCS from headers containing duplicate SIP
keywords. [#8893]
- Fixed a possible buffer overflow when using too large negative indices for
``cunit`` or ``ctype`` [#9151]
- Fixed reference counting in ``WCSBase.__init__`` [#9166]
- Fix ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` ``world_to_pixel_values`` and
``pixel_to_world_values`` when inputs need broadcasting to the same shape.
(i.e. when one input is sliced out) [#9250]
- Fixed a bug that caused ``WCS.array_shape``, ``WCS.pixel_shape`` and
``WCS.pixel_bounds`` to be incorrect after using ``WCS.sub``. [#9095]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixed a bug that caused files outside of the astropy module directory to be
included as package data, resulting in some cases in errors when doing
repeated builds. [#9039]
Version 3.2.1 (2019-06-14)
==========================
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Avoid reporting a warning with ``BinTableHDU.from_columns`` with keywords that
are not provided by the user. [#8838]
- Fix ``Header.fromfile`` to work on FITS files. [#8713]
- Fix reading of empty ``BinTableHDU`` when stored in a gzip-compressed file.
[#8848]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem where mask was dropped when creating a ``MaskedColumn``
from a list of ``MaskedArray`` objects. [#8826]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``None`` to be displayed as a ``world_axis_physical_types`` in
the ``WCS`` repr, as ``None`` values are now supported in ``APE14``. [#8811]
Version 3.2 (2019-06-10)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add CODATA 2018 constants but not make them default because the
redefinition of SI units that will follow has not been implemented
yet. [#8595]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New ``BarycentricMeanEcliptic``, ``HeliocentricTrueEcliptic`` and
``GeocentricTrueEcliptic`` frames.
The ecliptic frames are no longer considered experimental. [#8394]
- The default time scale for epochs like 'J2000' or 'B1975' is now "tt",
which is the correct one for 'J2000' and avoids leap-second warnings
for epochs in the far future or past. [#8600]
astropy.extern
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bundled ``six`` now emits ``AstropyDeprecationWarning``. It will be removed
in 4.0. [#8323]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- IPAC tables now output data types of ``float`` instead of ``double``, or
``int`` instead of ``long``, based on the column ``dtype.itemsize``. [#8216]
- Update handling of MaskedColumn columns when using the 'data_mask' serialization
method. This can make writing ECSV significantly faster if the data do not
actually have any masked values. [#8447]
- Fixed a bug that caused newlines to be incorrect when writing out ASCII tables
on Windows (they were ``\r\r\n`` instead of ``\r\n``). [#8659]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Implement serialization of ``TimeDelta`` in ASDF. [#8285]
- Implement serialization of ``EarthLocation`` in ASDF. [#8286]
- Implement serialization of ``SkyCoord`` in ASDF. [#8284]
- Support serialization of Astropy tables with mixin columns in ASDF. [#8337]
- No warnings when reading HDF5 files with only one table and no ``path=``
argument [#8483]
- The HDF5 writer will now create a default table instead of raising an
exception when ``path=`` is not specified and when writing to empty/new HDF5
files. [#8553]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Optimize parsing of cards within the ``Header`` class. [#8428]
- Optimize the parsing of headers to get the structural keywords that are
needed to find extensions. Thanks to this, getting a random HDU from a file
with many extensions is much faster than before, in particular when the
extension headers contain many keywords. [#8502]
- Change behavior of FITS undefined value in ``Header`` such that ``None``
is used in Python to represent FITS undefined when using dict interface.
``Undefined`` can also be assigned and is translated to ``None``.
Previously setting a header card value to ``None`` resulted in an
empty string field rather than a FITS undefined value. [#8572]
- Allow ``Header.fromstring`` and ``Card.fromstring`` to accept ``bytes``.
[#8707]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Implement ``Table`` reader and writer for ``ASDF``. [#8261]
- Implement ``Table`` reader and writer methods to wrap ``pandas`` I/O methods
for CSV, Fixed width format, HTML, and JSON. [#8381]
- Add ``help()`` and ``list_formats()`` methods to unified I/O ``read`` and
``write`` methods. For example ``Table.read.help()`` gives help on available
``Table`` read formats and ``Table.read.help('fits')`` gives detailed
help on the arguments for reading FITS table file. [#8255]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Initializing a table with ``Table(rows=...)``, if the first item is an ``OrderedDict``,
now uses the column order of the first row. [#8587]
- Added new pprint_all() and pformat_all() methods to Table. These two new
methods print the entire table by default. [#8577]
- Removed restriction of initializing a Table from a dict with copy=False. [#8541]
- Improved speed of table row access by a factor of about 2-3. Improved speed
of Table len() by a factor of around 3-10 (depending on the number of columns).
[#8494]
- Improved the Table - pandas ``DataFrame`` interface (``to_pandas()`` and
``from_pandas()``). Mixin columns like ``Time`` and ``Quantity`` can now be
converted to pandas by flattening the columns as necessary to plain
columns. ``Time`` and ``TimeDelta`` columns get converted to
corresponding pandas date or time delta types. The ``DataFrame``
index is now handled in the conversion methods. [#8247]
- Added ``rename_columns`` method to rename multiple columns in one call.
[#5159, #8070]
- Improved Table performance by reducing unnecessary calls to copy and deepcopy,
especially as related to the table and column ``meta`` attributes. Changed the
behavior when slicing a table (either in rows or with a list of column names)
so now the sliced output gets a light (key-only) copy of ``meta`` instead of a
deepcopy. Changed the ``Table.meta`` class-level descriptor so that assigning
directly to ``meta``, e.g. ``tbl.meta = new_meta`` no longer does a deepcopy
and instead just directly assigns the ``new_meta`` object reference. Changed
Table initialization so that input ``meta`` is copied only if ``copy=True``.
[#8404]
- Improved Table slicing performance with internal implementation changes
related to column attribute access and certain input validation. [#8493]
- Added ``reverse`` argument to the ``sort`` and ``argsort`` methods to allow
sorting in reverse order. [#8528]
- Improved ``Table.sort()`` performance by removing ``self[keys]`` from code
which is creating deep copies of ``meta`` attribute and adding a new keyword
``names`` in ``get_index()`` to get index by using a list or tuple containing
names of columns. [#8570]
- Expose ``represent_mixins_as_columns`` as a public function in the
``astropy.table`` subpackage. This previously-private function in the
``table.serialize`` module is used to represent mixin columns in a Table as
one or more plain Column objects. [#7729]
astropy.timeseries
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new astropy.timeseries sub-package to represent and manipulate
sampled and binned time series. [#8540]
- The ``BoxLeastSquares`` and ``LombScargle`` classes have been moved to
``astropy.timeseries.periodograms`` from ``astropy.stats``. [#8591]
- Added the ability to provide absolute ``Time`` objects to the
``BoxLeastSquares`` and ``LombScargle`` periodogram classes. [#8599]
- Added model inspection methods (``model_parameters()``, ``design_matrix()``,
and ``offset()``) to ``astropy.timeseries.LombScargle`` class [#8397].
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity`` overrides of ``ndarray`` methods such as ``sum``, ``min``,
``max``, which are implemented via reductions, have been removed since they
are dealt with in ``Quantity.__array_ufunc__``. This should not affect
subclasses, but they may consider doing similarly. [#8316] Note that this
does not include methods that use more complicated python code such as
``mean``, ``std`` and ``var``. [#8370]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``CompositeStretch``, which inherits from ``CompositeTransform`` and
also ``BaseStretch`` so that it can be used with ``ImageNormalize``. [#8564]
- Added a ``log_a`` argument to the ``simple_norm`` method. Similar to the
exposing of the ``asinh_a`` argument for ``AsinhStretch``, the new
``log_a`` argument is now exposed for ``LogStretch``. [#8436]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- WCSLIB was updated to v 6.2.
This adds support for time-related WCS keywords (WCS Paper VII).
FITS headers containing ``Time`` axis are parsed and the axis is included in
the WCS object. [#8592]
- The ``OBSGEO`` attribute as expanded to 6 members - ``XYZLBH``. [#8592]
- Added a new class ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` in ``astropy.wcs.wcsapi`` that can be
used to slice any WCS that conforms to the ``BaseLowLevelWCS`` API. [#8546]
- Updated implementation of ``WCS.__getitem__`` and ``WCS.slice`` to now return
a ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` rather than raising an error when reducing the
dimensionality of the WCS. [#8546]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``QuantityAttribute`` no longer has a default value for ``default``. The
previous value of None was misleading as it always was an error. [#8450]
- The default J2000 has been changed to use be January 1, 2000 12:00 TT instead
of UTC. This is more in line with convention. [#8594]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- IPAC tables now output data types of ``float`` instead of ``double``, or
``int`` instead of ``long``, based on the column ``dtype.itemsize``. [#8216]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Unit equivalencies can now be serialized to ASDF. [#8252]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Composition of model classes is deprecated and will be removed in 4.0.
Composition of model instances remain unaffected. [#8234, #8408]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``BoxLeastSquares`` and ``LombScargle`` classes have been moved to the
``astropy.timeseries.periodograms`` module and will now emit a deprecation
warning when imported from ``astropy.stats``. [#8591]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Converting an empty table to an array using ``as_array`` method now returns
an empty array instead of ``None``. [#8647]
- Changed the behavior when slicing a table (either in rows or with a list of column
names) so now the sliced output gets a light (key-only) copy of ``meta`` instead of
a deepcopy. Changed the ``Table.meta`` class-level descriptor so that assigning
directly to ``meta``, e.g. ``tbl.meta = new_meta`` no longer does a deepcopy
and instead just directly assigns the ``new_meta`` object reference. Changed
Table initialization so that input ``meta`` is copied only if ``copy=True``.
[#8404]
- Added a keyword ``names`` in ``Table.as_array()``. If provided this specifies
a list of column names to include for the returned structured array. [#8532]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed ``pytest_plugins`` as they are completely broken for ``pytest>=4``.
[#7786]
- Removed the ``astropy.tests.plugins.config`` plugin and removed the
``--astropy-config-dir`` and ``--astropy-cache-dir`` options from
testing. Please use caching functionality that is natively in ``pytest``.
[#7787, #8489]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default time scale for epochs like 'J2000' or 'B1975' is now "tt",
which is the correct one for 'J2000' and avoids leap-second warnings
for epochs in the far future or past. [#8600]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Unit equivalencies can now be introspected. [#8252]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``world_to_pixel``, ``world_to_array_index*``, ``pixel_to_world*`` and
``array_index_to_world*`` methods now all consistently return scalars, arrays,
or objects not wrapped in a one-element tuple/list when only one scalar,
array, or object (as was previously already the case for ``WCS.pixel_to_world``
and ``WCS.array_index_to_world``). [#8663]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- It is now possible to control the number of cores used by ``ProgressBar.map``
by passing a positive integer as the ``multiprocess`` keyword argument. Use
``True`` to use all cores. [#8083]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``BarycentricTrueEcliptic``, ``HeliocentricTrueEcliptic`` and
``GeocentricTrueEcliptic`` now use the correct transformation
(including nutation), whereas the new ``*MeanEcliptic`` classes
use the nutation-free transformation. [#8394]
- Representations with ``float32`` coordinates can now be transformed,
although the output will always be ``float64``. [#8759]
- Fixed bug that prevented using differentials with HCRS<->ICRS
transformations. [#8794]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where an exception was raised when writing a table which includes
mixin columns (e.g. a Quantity column) and the output format was specified
using the ``formats`` keyword. [#8681]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ASDF tag that inadvertently introduced dependency on ``pytest``.
[#8456]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed slowness for certain compound models consisting of large numbers
of multi-input models [#8338, #8349]
- Fixed bugs in fitting of compound models with units. [#8369]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in reading multi-extension FITS files written by earlier versions
of ``CCDData``. [#8534]
- Fixed two errors in the way ``CCDData`` handles FITS files with WCS in the
header. Some of the WCS keywords that should have been removed from the
header were not, potentially leading to FITS files with inconsistent
WCS. [#8602]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug when initializing from an empty list: ``Table([])`` no longer
results in a crash. [#8647]
- Fixed a bug when initializing from an existing ``Table``. In this case the
input ``meta`` argument was being ignored. Now the input ``meta``, if
supplied, will be used as the ``meta`` for the new ``Table``. [#8404]
- Fix the conversion of bytes values to Python ``str`` with ``Table.tolist``.
[#8739]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a number of issues to ensure a consistent output type resulting from
multiplication or division involving a ``TimeDelta`` instance. The output is
now always a ``TimeDelta`` if the result is a time unit (like u.s or u.d),
otherwise it will be a ``Quantity``. [#8356]
- Multiplication between two ``TimeDelta`` instances is now possible, resulting
in a ``Quantity`` with units of time squared (division already correctly
resulted in a dimensionless ``Quantity``). [#8356]
- Like for comparisons, addition, and subtraction of ``Time`` instances with
with non-time instances, multiplication and division of ``TimeDelta``
instances with incompatible other instances no longer immediately raise an
``UnitsError`` or ``TypeError`` (depending on the other instance), but
rather go through the regular Python mechanism of ``TimeDelta`` returning
``NotImplemented`` (which will lead to a regular ``TypeError`` unless the
other instance can handle ``TimeDelta``). [#8356]
- Corrected small rounding errors that could cause the ``jd2`` values in
``Time`` to fall outside the range of -0.5 to 0.5. [#8763]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``Quantity.to_string`` method to add flexibility to the string formatting
of quantities. It produces unadorned or LaTeX strings, and accepts two different
sets of delimiters in the latter case: ``inline`` and ``display``. [#8313]
- Ensure classes that mimic quantities by having a ``unit`` attribute and/or
``to`` and ``to_value`` methods can be properly used to initialize ``Quantity``
or set ``Quantity`` instance items. [#8535]
- Add support for ``<<`` to create logarithmic units. [#8290]
- Add support for the ``clip`` ufunc, which in numpy 1.17 is used to implement
``np.clip``. As part of that, remove the ``Quantity.clip`` method under
numpy 1.17. [#8747]
- Fix parsing of numerical powers in FITS-compatible units. [#8251]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``PyUnitListProxy_richcmp`` method in ``UnitListProxy`` class to enable
``WCS.wcs.cunit`` equality testing. It helps to check whether the two instances of
``WCS.wcs.cunit`` are equal or not by comparing the data members of
``UnitListProxy`` class [#8480]
- Fixed ``SlicedLowLevelWCS`` when ``array_shape`` is ``None``. [#8649]
- Do not attempt to delete repeated distortion keywords multiple times when
loading distortions with ``_read_distortion_kw`` and
``_read_det2im_kw``. [#8777]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Update bundled expat to 2.2.6. [#8343]
- Added instructions for uploading releases to Zenodo. [#8395]
- The bug fixes to the behaviour of ``TimeDelta`` for multiplication and
division, which ensure that the output is now always a ``TimeDelta`` if the
result is a time unit (like u.s or u.d) and otherwise a ``Quantity``, imply
that sometimes the output type will be different than it was before. [#8356]
- For types unrecognized by ``TimeDelta``, multiplication and division now
will consistently return a ``TypeError`` if the other instance cannot handle
``TimeDelta`` (rather than ``UnitsError`` or ``TypeError`` depending on
presumed abilities of the other instance). [#8356]
- Multiplication between two ``TimeDelta`` instances will no longer result in
an ``OperandTypeError``, but rather result in a ``Quantity`` with units of
time squared (division already correctly resulted in a dimensionless
``Quantity``). [#8356]
- Made running the tests insensitive to local user configuration when running
the tests in parallel mode or directly with pytest. [#8727]
- Added a narrative style guide to the documentation for contributor reference.
[#8588]
- Ensure we call numpy equality functions in a way that reduces the number
of ``DeprecationWarning``. [#8755]
Installation
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- We now require setuptools 30.3.0 or later to install the core astropy
package. [#8240]
- We now define groups of dependencies that can be installed with pip, e.g.
``pip install astropy[all]`` (to install all optional dependencies). [#8198]
Version 3.1.2 (2019-02-23)
==========================
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Convert the default of ``QuantityAttribute``, thereby catching the error case
case of it being set to None at attribute creation, and giving a more useful
error message in the process. [#8300]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix elliptic analytical solution for comoving distance. Only
relevant for non-flat cosmologies without radiation and ``Om0`` > ``Ode0``.
[#8391]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed slowness for certain compound models consisting of large numbers
of multi-input models [#8338, #8349]
astropy.visualization.wcsaxes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug that caused an error when passing an array with all values the same
to contour or contourf. [#8321]
- Fix a bug that caused contour and contourf to return None instead of the
contour set. [#8321]
Version 3.1.1 (2018-12-31)
==========================
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix error when writing out empty table. [#8279]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``fitsdiff --ignore-hdus`` now prints input filenames in the diff report
instead of ``<HDUList object at 0x1150f9778>``. [#8295]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure correctness of units when raising to a negative power. [#8263]
- Fix ``with_H0`` equivalency to use the correct direction of
conversion. [#8292]
Version 3.1 (2018-12-06)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``convolve`` now accepts any array-like input, not just ``numpy.ndarray`` or
lists. [#7303]
- ``convolve`` Now raises AstropyUserWarning if nan_treatment='interpolate' and
preserve_nan=False and NaN values are present post convolution. [#8088]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``SkyCoord.from_name`` constructor now has the ability to create
coordinate objects by parsing object catalogue names that have embedded
J-coordinates. [#7830]
- The new function ``make_transform_graph_docs`` can be used to create a
docstring graph from a custom ``TransformGraph`` object. [#7135]
- ``KDTree`` for catalog matching is now built with sliding midpoint rule
rather than standard. In code, this means setting ``compact_nodes=False``
and ``balanced_tree=False`` in ``cKDTree``. The sliding midpoint rule is much
more suitable for catalog matching, and results in 1000x speedup in some
cases. [#7324]
- Additional information about a site loaded from the Astropy sites registry is
now available in ``EarthLocation.info.meta``. [#7857]
- Added a ``concatenate_representations`` function to combine coordinate
representation data and any associated differentials. [#7922]
- ``BaseCoordinateFrame`` will now check for a method named
``_astropy_repr_in_frame`` when constructing the string forms of attributes.
Allowing any class to control how ``BaseCoordinateFrame`` represents it when
it is an attribute of a frame. [#7745]
- Some rarely-changed attributes of frame classes are now cached, resulting in
speedups (up to 50% in some cases) when creating new scalar frame or
``SkyCoord`` objects. [#7949, #5952]
- Added a ``directional_offset_by`` method to ``SkyCoord`` that computes a new
coordinate given a coordinate, position angle, and angular separation [#5727]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default cosmology has been changed from ``WMAP9`` to ``Planck15``. [#8123]
- Distance calculations with ``LambaCDM`` with no radiation (T_CMB0=0)
are now 20x faster by using elliptic integrals for non-flat cases. [#7155]
- Distance calculations with ``FlatLambaCDM`` with no radiation (T_CMB0=0)
are now 20x faster by using the hypergeometric function solution
for this special case. [#7087]
- Age calculations with ``FlatLambdaCDM`` with no radiation (Tcmb0=0)
are now 1000x faster by using analytic solutions instead of integrating.
[#7117]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Latex reader now ignores ``\toprule``, ``\midrule``, and ``\bottomrule``
commands. [#7349]
- Added the RST (Restructured-text) table format and the fast version of the
RDB reader to the set of formats that are guessed by default. [#5578]
- The read trace (used primarily for debugging) now includes guess argument
sets that were skipped entirely e.g. for not supporting user-supplied kwargs.
All guesses thus removed from ``filtered_guess_kwargs`` are now listed as
"Disabled" at the beginning of the trace. [#5578]
- Emit a warning when reading an ECSV file without specifying the ``format``
and without PyYAML installed. Previously this silently fell through to
parsing as a basic format file and the file metadata was lost. [#7580]
- Optionally allow writing masked columns to ECSV with the mask explicitly
specified as a separate column instead of marking masked elements with ""
(empty string). This allows handling the case of a masked string column
with "" data rows. [#7481]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for saving all representation classes and many coordinate
frames to the asdf format. [#7079]
- Added support for saving models with units to the asdf format. [#7237]
- Added a new ``character_as_bytes`` keyword to the HDF5 Table reading
function to control whether byte string columns in the HDF5 file
are left as bytes or converted to unicode. The default is to read
as bytes (``character_as_bytes=True``). [#7024, #8017]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``HDUList.pop()`` now accepts string and tuple extension name
specifications. [#7236]
- Add an ``ignore_hdus`` keyword to ``FITSDiff`` to allow ignoring HDUs by
NAME when diffing two FITS files [#7538]
- Optionally allow writing masked columns to FITS with the mask explicitly
specified as a separate column instead of using the FITS standard of
certain embedded null values (``NaN`` for float, ``TNULL`` for integers).
This can be used to work around limitations in the FITS standard. [#7481]
- All time coordinates can now be written to and read from FITS binary tables,
including those with vectorized locations. [#7430]
- The ``fitsheader`` command line tool now supports a ``dfits+fitsort`` mode,
and the dotted notation for keywords (e.g. ``ESO.INS.ID``). [#7240]
- Fall back to reading arrays using mode='denywrite' if mode='readonly' fails
when using memory-mapping. This solves cases on some platforms when the
available address space was less than the file size (even when using memory
mapping). [#7926]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add a ``Multiply`` model which preserves unit through evaluate, unlike
``Scale`` which is dimensionless. [#7210]
- Add a ``uses_quantity`` property to ``Model`` which allows introspection of if
the ``Model`` can accept ``Quantity`` objects. [#7417]
- Add a ``separability_matrix`` function which returns the correlation matrix
of inputs and outputs. [#7803]
- Fixed compatibility of ``JointFitter`` with the latest version of Numpy. [#7984]
- Add ``prior`` and ``posterior`` constraints to modeling parameters. These are
not used by any current fitters, but are provided to allow user code to
experiment with Bayesian fitters. [#7558]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NDUncertainty`` objects now have a ``quantity`` attribute for simple
conversion to quantities. [#7704]
- Add a ``bitmask`` module that provides functions for manipulating bitmasks
and data quality (DQ) arrays. [#7944]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add an ``astropy.stats.bls`` module with an implementation of the "box least
squares" periodogram that is commonly used for discovering transiting
exoplanets and eclipsing binaries. [#7391]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for full use of ``Time`` mixin column for join, hstack, and
vstack table operations. [#6888]
- Added a new table index engine, ``SCEngine``, based on the Sorted Containers
package. [#7574]
- Add a new keyword argument ``serialize_method`` to ``Table.write`` to
control how ``Time`` and ``MaskedColumn`` columns are written. [#7481]
- Allow mixin columns to be used in table ``group`` and ``unique``
functions. This applies to both the key columns and the other data
columns. [#7712]
- Added support for stacking ``Column``, mixin column (e.g. ``Quantity``,
``Time``) or column-like objects. [#7674]
- Added support for inserting a row into a Table that has ``Time`` or
``TimeDelta`` column(s). [#7897]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added an option ``--readonly`` to the test command to change the
permissions on the temporary installation location to read-only. [#7598]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow array-valued ``Time`` object to be modified in place. [#6028]
- Added support for missing values (masking) to the ``Time`` class. [#6028]
- Added supper for a 'local' time scale (for free-running clocks, etc.),
and round-tripping to the corresponding FITS time scale. [#7122]
- Added `datetime.timedelta` format class for ``TimeDelta``. [#7441]
- Added ``strftime`` and ``strptime`` methods to ``Time`` class.
These methods are similar to those in the Python standard library
`time` package and provide flexible input and output formatting. [#7323]
- Added ``datetime64`` format to the ``Time`` class to support working with
``numpy.datetime64`` dtype arrays. [#7361]
- Add fractional second support for ``strftime`` and ``strptime`` methods
of ``Time`` class. [#7705]
- Added an ``insert`` method to allow inserting one or more values into a
``Time`` or ``TimeDelta`` object. [#7897]
- Remove timescale from string version of FITS format time string.
The timescale is not part of the FITS standard and should not be included.
This change may cause some compatibility issues for code that relies on
round-tripping a FITS format string with a timescale. Strings generated
from previous versions of this package are still understood but a
DeprecationWarning will be issued. [#7870]
astropy.uncertainty
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This sub-package was added as a "preview" (i.e. API unstable), containing
the ``Distribution`` class and associated convenience functions. [#6945]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add complex numbers support for ``Quantity._repr_latex_``. [#7676]
- Add ``thermodynamic_temperature`` equivalency to convert between
Jy/sr and "thermodynamic temperature" for cosmology. [#7054]
- Add millibar unit. [#7863]
- Add maggy and nanomaggy unit, as well as associated ``zero_point_flux``
equivalency. [#7891]
- ``AB`` and ``ST`` are now enabled by default, and have alternate names
``ABflux`` and ``STflux``. [#7891]
- Added ``littleh`` unit and associated ``with_H0`` equivalency. [#7970]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``imshow_norm`` function, which combines imshow and creation of a
``ImageNormalize`` object. [#7785]
astropy.visualization.wcsaxes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for setting ``set_separator(None)`` in WCSAxes to use default
separators. [#7570]
- Added two keyword argument options to ``CoordinateHelper.set_format_unit``:
``decimal`` can be used to specify whether to use decimal formatting for the
labels (by default this is False for degrees and hours and True otherwise),
and ``show_decimal_unit`` can be used to determine whether the units should be
shown for decimal labels. [#7318]
- Added documentation for ``transform=`` and ``coord_meta=``. [#7698]
- Allow ``coord_meta=`` to optionally include ``format_unit=``. [#7848]
- Add support for more rcParams related to the grid, ticks, and labels, and
should work with most built-in Matplotlib styles. [#7961]
- Improved rendering of outward-facing ticks. [#7961]
- Add support for ``tick_params`` (which is a standard Matplotlib
function/method) on both the ``WCSAxes`` class and the individual
``CoordinateHelper`` classes. Note that this is provided for compatibility
with Matplotlib syntax users may be familiar with, but it is not the
preferred way to change settings. Instead, methods such as ``set_ticks``
should be preferred. [#7969]
- Moved the argument ``exclude_overlapping`` from ``set_ticks`` to
``set_ticklabel``. [#7969]
- Added a ``pad=`` argument to ``set_ticklabel`` to provide a way to control
the padding between ticks and tick labels. [#7969]
- Added support for setting the tick direction in ``set_ticks`` using the
``direction=`` keyword argument. [#7969]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Map ITRS frames to terrestrial WCS coordinates. This will make it possible to
use WCSAxes to make figures that combine both celestial and terrestrial
features. An example is plotting the coordinates of an astronomical transient
over an all- sky satellite image to illustrate the position relative to the
Earth at the time of the event. The ITRS frame is identified with WCSs that
use the ``TLON-`` and ``TLAT-`` coordinate types. There are several examples
of WCSs where this syntax is used to describe terrestrial coordinate systems:
Section 7.4.1 of `WCS in FITS "Paper II" <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002A%26A...395.1077C>`_
and the `WCSTools documentation <http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/wcstools.multiwcs.html>`_.
[#6990]
- Added the abstract base class for the low-level WCS API described in APE 14
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1188875). [#7325]
- Add ``WCS.footprint_contains()`` function to check if the WCS footprint contains a given sky coordinate. [#7273]
- Added the abstract base class for the high-level WCS API described in APE 14
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1188875). [#7325]
- Added the high-level wrapper class for low-level WCS objects as described in
APE 14 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1188875). [#7326]
- Added a new property ``WCS.has_distortion``. [#7326]
- Deprecated ``_naxis1`` and ``_naxis2`` in favor of ``pixel_shape``. [#7973]
- Added compatibility to wcslib version 6. [#8093]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``kernel`` can now be a tuple. [#7561]
- Not technically an API changes, however, the doc string indicated that ``boundary=None``
was the default when actually it is ``boundary='fill'``. The doc string has been corrected,
however, someone may interpret this as an API change not realising that nothing has actually
changed. [#7293]
- ``interpolate_replace_nans()`` can no longer accept the keyword argument
``preserve_nan``. It is explicitly set to ``False``. [#8088]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``astropy.coordinates.concatenate`` to include velocity data in the
concatenation. [#7922]
- Changed the name of the single argument to ``Frame.realize_frame()`` from the
(incorrect) ``representation_type`` to ``data``. [#7923]
- Negative parallaxes passed to ``Distance()`` now raise an error by default
(``allow_negative=False``), or are converted to NaN values with a warning
(``allow_negative=True``). [#7988]
- Negating a ``SphericalRepresentation`` object now changes the angular
coordinates (by rotating 180º) instead of negating the distance. [#7988]
- Creation of new frames now generally creates copies of frame attributes,
rather than inconsistently either copying or making references. [#8204]
- The frame class method ``is_equivalent_frame`` now checks for equality of
components to determine if a frame is the same when it has frame attributes
that are representations, rather than checking if they are the same
object. [#8218]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- If a fast reader is explicitly selected (e.g. ``fast_reader='force'``) and
options which are incompatible with the fast reader are provided
(e.g. ``quotechar='##'``) then now a ``ParameterError`` exception will be
raised. [#5578]
- The fast readers will now raise ``InconsistentTableError`` instead of
``CParserError`` if the number of data and header columns do not match.
[#5578]
- Changed a number of ``ValueError`` exceptions to ``InconsistentTableError``
in places where the exception is related to parsing a table which is
inconsistent with the specified table format. Note that
``InconsistentTableError`` inherits from ``ValueError`` so no user code
changes are required. [#7425]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``fits.table_to_hdu()`` function will translate any column ``format``
attributes to a TDISPn format string, if possible, and store it as a TDISPn
keyword in the ``HDU`` header. [#7226]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change the order of the return values from ``FittingWithOutlierRemoval``,
such that ``fitted_model`` comes first, for consistency with other fitters.
For the second value, return only a boolean outlier ``mask``, instead of the
previous ``MaskedArray`` (which included a copy of the input data that was
both redundant and inadvertently corrupted at masked points). Return a
consistent type for the second value when ``niter=0``. [#7407]
- Set the minimum value for the ``bolometric_flux`` parameter of the
``BlackBody1D`` model to zero. [#7045]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add two new uncertainty classes, ``astropy.nddata.VarianceUncertainty`` and
``astropy.nddata.InverseVariance``. [#6971]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- String values can now be used for the ``cenfunc`` and ``stdfunc``
keywords in the ``SigmaClip`` class and ``sigma_clip`` and
``sigma_clipped_stats`` functions. [#7478]
- The ``SigmaClip`` class and ``sigma_clip`` and
``sigma_clipped_stats`` functions now have a ``masked`` keyword,
which can be used to return either a masked array (default) or an
ndarray with the min/max values. [#7478]
- The ``iters`` keyword has been renamed (and deprecated) to
``maxiters`` in the ``SigmaClip`` class and ``sigma_clip`` and
``sigma_clipped_stats`` functions. [#7478]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Table.read()`` on a FITS binary table file will convert any TDISPn header
keywords to a Python formatting string when possible, and store it in the
column ``format`` attribute. [#7226]
- No values provided to stack will now raise ``ValueError`` rather than
``TypeError``. [#7674]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``from astropy.tests.helper import *`` no longer includes
``quantity_allclose``. However,
``from astropy.tests.helper import quantity_allclose`` would still work.
[#7381]
- ``warnings_to_ignore_by_pyver`` option in
``enable_deprecations_as_exceptions()`` now takes ``None`` as key.
Any deprecation message that is mapped to ``None`` will be ignored
regardless of the Python version. [#7790]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the ability to use ``local`` as time scale in ``Time`` and
``TimeDelta``. [#6487]
- Comparisons, addition, and subtraction of ``Time`` instances with non-time
instances will now return ``NotImplemented`` rather than raise the
``Time``-specific ``OperandTypeError``. This will generally lead to a
regular ``TypeError``. As a result, ``OperandTypeError`` now only occurs if
the operation is between ``Time`` instances of incompatible type or scale.
[#7584]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In ``UnitBase.compose()``, if a sequence (list|tuple) is passed in to
``units``, the default for ``include_prefix_units`` is set to
`True`, so that no units get ignored. [#6957]
- Negative parallaxes are now converted to NaN values when using the
``parallax`` equivalency. [#7988]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``InheritDocstrings`` now also works on class properties. [#7166]
- ``diff_values()``, ``report_diff_values()``, and ``where_not_allclose()``
utility functions are moved from ``astropy.io.fits.diff``. [#7444]
- ``invalidate_caches()`` has been removed from the
``astropy.utils.compat`` namespace, use it directly from ``importlib``. [#7872]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In ``ImageNormalize``, the default for ``clip`` is set to ``True``. [#7800]
- Changed ``AsymmetricPercentileInterval`` and ``MinMaxInterval`` to
ignore NaN values in arrays. [#7360]
- Automatically default to using ``grid_type='contours'`` in WCSAxes when using
a custom ``Transform`` object if the transform has no inverse. [#7847]
Performance Improvements
------------------------
- Reduced import time by more cautious use of the standard library. [#7647]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Major performance overhaul to ``convolve()``. [#7293]
- ``convolve()``: Boundaries ``fill``, ``extend``, and ``wrap`` now use a single
implementation that pads the image with the correct boundary values before convolving.
The runtimes of these three were significantly skewed. They now have
equivalent runtimes that are also faster than before due to performant contiguous
memory access. However, this does increase the memory footprint as an entire
new image array is required plus that needed for the padded region.[#7293]
- ``convolve()``: Core computation ported from Cython to C. Several optimization
techniques have been implemented to achieve performance gains, e.g. compiler
hoisting, and vectorization, etc. Compiler optimization level ``-O2`` required for
hoisting and ``-O3`` for vectorization. [#7293]
- ``convolve()``: ``nan_treatment=‘interpolate’`` was slow to compute irrespective of
whether any NaN values exist within the array. The input array is now
checked for NaN values and interpolation is disabled if non are found. This is a
significant performance boost for arrays without NaN values. [#7293]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Sped up creating SkyCoord objects by a factor of ~2 in some cases. [#7615]
- Sped up getting xyz vectors from ``CartesianRepresentation`` (which
is used a lot internally). [#7638]
- Sped up transformations and some representation methods by replacing
python code with (compiled) ``erfa`` ufuncs. [#7639]
- Sped up adding differential (velocity) data to representations by a factor of
~20, which improves the speed of frame and SkyCoord initialization. [#7924]
- Refactored ``SkyCoord`` initializer to improve performance and code clarity.
[#7958]
- Sped up initialization of ``Longitude`` by ~40%. [#7616]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``SigmaClip`` class and ``sigma_clip`` and
``sigma_clipped_stats`` functions are now significantly faster. [#7478]
- A Cython implementation for `astropy.stats.kuiper_two` and a vectorized
implementation for `astropy.stats.kuiper_false_positive_probability` have
been added, speeding up both functions. [#8104]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Sped up creating new composite units, and raising units to some power
[#7549, #7649]
- Sped up Unit.to when target unit is the same as the original unit. [#7643]
- Lazy-load ``scipy.special`` to shorten ``astropy.units`` import time. [#7636]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Significantly sped up drawing of contours in WCSAxes. [#7568]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``convolve_fft`` where masked input was copied with
``numpy.asarray`` instead of ``numpy.asanyarray``.
``numpy.asarray`` removes the mask subclass causing
``numpy.ma.ismasked(input)`` to fail, causing ``convolve_fft``
to ignore all masked input. [#8137]
- Remove function side-effects of input data from ``convolve_fft``.
It was possible for input data to remain modified if particular exceptions
were raised. [#8152]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``EarthLocation.of_address`` now uses the OpenStreetMap geocoding API by
default to retrieve coordinates, with the Google API (which now requires an
API key) as an option. [#7918]
- Fixed a bug that caused frame objects with NaN distances to have NaN sky
positions, even if valid sky coordinates were specified. [#7988]
- Fixed ``represent_as()`` to not round-trip through cartesian if the same
representation class as the instance is passed in. [#7988]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a problem when ``guess=True`` that ``fast_reader`` options
could be dropped after the first fast reader class was tried. [#5578]
- Units in CDS-formatted tables are now parsed correctly by the units
module. [#7348]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug when writing a table with masked columns to HDF5. Previously
the mask was being silently dropped. If the ``serialize_meta`` option is
enabled the data mask will now be written as an additional column and the
masked columns will round-trip correctly. [#7481]
- Fixed a bug where writing to HDF5 failed for for tables with columns of
unicode strings. Now those columns are first encoded to UTF-8 and
written as byte strings. [#7024, #8017]
- Fixed a bug with serializing the bounding_box of models initialized
with ``Quantities`` . [#8052]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for ``copy.copy`` and ``copy.deepcopy`` for ``HDUList``. [#7218]
- Override ``HDUList.copy()`` to return a shallow HDUList instance. [#7218]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix behaviour of certain models with units, by making certain unit-related
attributes readonly. [#7210]
- Fixed an issue with validating a ``bounding_box`` whose items are
``Quantities``. [#8052]
- Fix ``Moffat1D`` and ``Moffat2D`` derivatives. [#8108]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed rounding behavior in ``overlap_slices`` for even-sized small
arrays. [#7859]
- Added support for pickling ``NDData`` instances that have an uncertainty.
[#7383]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix errors in ``kuiper_false_positive_probability``. [#7975]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixing bug that prevented to run the doctests on only a single rst documentation
file rather than all of them. [#8055]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug when setting a ``TimeDelta`` array item with plain float value(s).
This was always interpreted as a JD (day) value regardless of the
``TimeDelta`` format. [#7990]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- To simplify fast creation of ``Quantity`` instances from arrays, one can now
write ``array << unit`` (equivalent to ``Quantity(array, unit, copy=False)``).
If ``array`` is already a ``Quantity``, this will convert the quantity to the
requested units; in-place conversion can be done with ``quantity <<= unit``.
[#7734]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug due to which ``report_diff_values()`` was reporting incorrect
number of differences when comparing two ``numpy.ndarray``. [#7470]
- The download progress bar is now only displayed in terminals, to avoid
polluting piped output. [#7577]
- Ignore URL mirror caching when there is no internet. [#8163]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Right ascension coordinates are now shown in hours by default, and the
``set_format_unit`` method on ``CoordinateHelper`` now works correctly
with angle coordinates. [#7215]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The documentation build now uses the Sphinx configuration from sphinx-astropy
rather than from astropy-helpers. [#7139]
- Versions of Numpy <1.13 are no longer supported. [#7058]
- Running tests now suppresses the output of the installation stage by default,
to allow easier viewing of the test results. To re-enable the output as
before, use ``python setup.py test --verbose-install``. [#7512]
- The ERFA functions are now wrapped in ufuncs instead of custom C code,
leading to some speed improvements, and setting the stage for allowing
overrides with ``__array_ufunc__``. [#7502]
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.450. See
``cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt`` for additional information. [#8014]
- The ``representation`` keywords in coordinate frames are now deprecated in
favor of the ``representation_type`` keywords (which are less
ambiguously named). [#8119]
Version 3.0.5 (2018-10-14)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in which consecutive ``StaticMatrixTransform``'s in a frame
transform path would be combined in the incorrect order. [#7707]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixing bug that doctests were not picked up from the narrative
documentation when tests were run for all modules. [#7767]
Version 3.0.4 (2018-08-02)
==========================
API Changes
-----------
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The private ``_parent`` attribute in the ``info`` attribute of table
columns was changed from a direct reference to the parent column to a weak
reference. This was in response to a memory leak caused by having a
circular reference cycle. This change means that expressions like
``col[3:5].info`` will now fail because at the point of the ``info``
property being evaluated the ``col[3:5]`` weak reference is dead. Instead
force a reference with ``c = col[3:5]`` followed by
``c.info.indices``. [#6277, #7448]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an bug when creating the ``WCS`` of a cutout (see ``nddata.Cutout2D``)
when input image's ``WCS`` contains ``SIP`` distortion corrections by
adjusting the ``crpix`` of the ``astropy.wcs.Sip`` (in addition to
adjusting the ``crpix`` of the ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` object). This bug
had the potential to produce large errors in ``WCS`` coordinate
transformations depending on the position of the cutout relative
to the input image's ``crpix``. [#7556, #7550]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix memory leak where updating a table column or deleting a table
object was not releasing the memory due to a reference cycle
in the column ``info`` attributes. [#6277, #7448]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an bug when creating the ``WCS`` slice (see ``WCS.slice()``)
when ``WCS`` contains ``SIP`` distortion corrections by
adjusting the ``WCS.sip.crpix`` in addition to adjusting
``WCS.wcs.crpix``. This bug had the potential to produce large errors in
``WCS`` coordinate transformations depending on the position of the slice
relative to ``WCS.wcs.crpix``. [#7556, #7550]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled wcslib to v 5.19.1 [#7688]
Version 3.0.3 (2018-06-01)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix stripping correct (header) comment line from ``meta['comments']``
in the ``CommentedHeader`` reader for all ``header_start`` settings. [#7508]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Raise error when attempting to open gzipped FITS file in 'append' mode.
[#7473]
- Fix a bug when writing to FITS a table that has a column description
with embedded blank lines. [#7482]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enabling running tests for multiple packages when specified comma
separated. [#7463]
Version 3.0.2 (2018-04-23)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Computing a 3D separation between two ``SkyCoord`` objects (with the
``separation_3d`` method) now works with or without velocity data attached to
the objects. [#7387]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix validate with xmllint=True. [#7255, #7283]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``FittingWithOutlierRemoval`` now handles model sets, as long as the
underlying fitter supports masked values. [#7199]
- Remove assumption that ``model_set_axis == 0`` for 2D models in
``LinearLSQFitter``. [#7317, #7199]
- Fix the shape of the outputs when a model set is evaluated with
``model_set_axis=False`` . [#7317]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Accept a tuple for the ``axis`` parameter in ``sigma_clip``, like the
underlying ``numpy`` functions and some other functions in ``stats``. [#7199]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The function ``quantity_allclose`` was moved to the ``units`` package with
the new, shorter name ``allclose``. This eliminates a runtime dependency on
``pytest`` which was causing issues for some affiliated packages. The old
import will continue to work but may be deprecated in the future. [#7252]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a units-aware ``allclose`` function (this was previously available in
the ``tests`` module as ``quantity_allclose``). To complement ``allclose``,
a new ``isclose`` function is also added and backported. [#7252]
Version 3.0.1 (2018-03-12)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a unicode decode error when reading a table with non-ASCII characters.
The fast C reader cannot handle unicode so the code now uses the pure-Python
reader in this case. [#7103]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.430. This is to remedy a critical
security vulnerability that was identified by NASA. See
``cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt`` for additional information. [#7274]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Make sure that a sufficiently recent version of ASDF is installed when
running test suite against ASDF tags and schemas. [#7205]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix reading files with serialized metadata when using a Table subclass. [#7213]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix lookup fields by ID. [#7208]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix model set evaluation over common input when model_set_axis > 0. [#7222]
- Fixed the evaluation of compound models with units. This required adding the
ability to have ``input_units_strict`` and ``input_units_allow_dimensionless``
be dictionaries with input names as keys. [#6952]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``quantity_helper`` no longer requires ``scipy>=0.18``. [#7219]
Version 3.0 (2018-02-12)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New context manager ``set_enabled_constants`` to temporarily use an older
version. [#7008]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``Distance`` object now accepts ``parallax`` as a keyword in the
initializer, and supports retrieving a parallax (as an ``Angle``) via
the ``.parallax`` attributes. [#6855]
- The coordinate frame classes (subclasses of ``BaseCoordinateFrame``) now
always have ``.velocity``, ``.proper_motion``, and ``.radial_velocity``
properties that provide shorthands to the full-space Cartesian velocity as
a ``CartesianDifferential``, the 2D proper motion as a ``Quantity``, and the
radial or line-of-sight velocity as a ``Quantity``. [#6869]
- ``SkyCoord`` objects now support storing and transforming differentials - i.e.,
both radial velocities and proper motions. [#6944]
- All frame classes now automatically get sensible representation mappings for
velocity components. For example, ``d_x``, ``d_y``, ``d_z`` are all
automatically mapped to frame component namse ``v_x``, ``v_y``, ``v_z``.
[#6856]
- ``SkyCoord`` objects now support updating the position of a source given its
space motion and a new time or time difference. [#6872]
- The frame classes now accept a representation class or differential class, or
string names for either, through the keyword arguments ``representation_type``
and ``differential_type`` instead of ``representation`` and
``differential_cls``. [#6873]
- The frame classes (and ``SkyCoord``) now give more useful error messages when
incorrect attribute names are given. Instead of using the representation
attribute names, they use the frame attribute names. [#7106]
- ``EarthLocation`` now has a method to compute the gravitational redshift due
due to solar system bodies. [#6861, #6935]
- ``EarthLocation`` now has a ``get_gcrs`` convenience method to get the
location in GCRS coordinates. [#6861, #6935]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Expanded the FITS ``Column`` interface to accept attributes pertaining to the FITS
World Coordinate System, which includes spatial(celestial) and time coordinates. [#6359]
- Added ``ver`` attribute to set the ``EXTVER`` header keyword to ``ImageHDU``
and ``TableHDU``. [#6454]
- The performance for reading FITS tables has been significantly improved,
in particular for cases where the tables contain one or more string columns
and when done through ``Table.read``. [#6821]
- The performance for writing tables from ``Table.write`` has now been
significantly improved for tables containing one or more string columns. [#6920]
- The ``Table.read`` now supports a ``memmap=`` keyword argument to control
whether or not to use memory mapping when reading the table. [#6821]
- When reading FITS tables with ``fits.open``, a new keyword argument
``character_as_bytes`` can be passed - when set to `True`, character columns
are returned as Numpy byte arrays (Numpy type S) while when set to `False`,
the same columns are decoded to Unicode strings (Numpy type U) which uses more
memory. [#6821]
- The ``table_to_hdu`` function and the ``BinTableHDU.from_columns`` and
``FITS_rec.from_columns`` methods now include a ``character_as_bytes``
keyword argument - if set to `True`, then when string columns are accessed,
byte columns will be returned, which can provide significantly improved
performance. [#6920]
- Added support for writing and reading back a table which has "mixin columns"
such as ``SkyCoord`` or ``EarthLocation`` with no loss of information. [#6912]
- Enable tab-completion for ``FITS_rec`` column names and ``Header`` keywords
with IPython 5 and later. [#7071]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When writing to HDF5 files, the serialized metadata are now saved in a new
dataset, instead of the HDF5 dataset attributes. This allows for metadata of
any dimensions. [#6304]
- Added support in HDF5 for writing and reading back a table which has "mixin
columns" such as ``SkyCoord`` or ``EarthLocation`` with no loss of
information. [#7007]
- Add implementations of astropy-specific ASDF tag types. [#6790]
- Add ASDF tag and schema for ICRSCoord. [#6904]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add unit support for tabular models. [#6529]
- A ``deepcopy()`` method was added to models. [#6515]
- Added units support to ``AffineTransformation``. [#6853]
- Added ``is_separable`` function to modeling to test the
separability of a model. [#6746]
- Added ``Model.separable`` property. It returns a boolean value or
``None`` if not set. [#6746]
- Support masked array values in ``LinearLSQFitter`` (instead of silently
ignoring the mask). [#6927]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added false alarm probability computation to ``astropy.stats.LombScargle``
[#6488]
- Implemented Kuiper functions in ``astropy.stats`` [#3724, #6565]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for reading and writing ``astropy.time.Time`` Table columns
to and from FITS tables, to the extent supported by the FITS standard. [#6176]
- Improved exception handling and error messages when column ``format``
attribute is incorrect for the column type. [#6385]
- Allow to pass ``htmldict`` option to the jsviewer writer. [#6551]
- Added new table operation ``astropy.table.setdiff`` that returns the set
difference of table rows for two tables. [#6443]
- Added support for reading time columns in FITS compliant binary tables
as ``astropy.time.Time`` Table columns. [#6442]
- Allowed to remove table rows through the ``__delitem__`` method. [#5839]
- Added a new ``showtable`` command-line script to view binary or ASCII table
files. [#6859]
- Added new table property ``astropy.table.Table.loc_indices`` that returns the
location of rows by indexes. [#6831]
- Allow updating of table by indices through the property ``astropy.table.Table.loc``. [#6831]
- Enable tab-completion for column names with IPython 5 and later. [#7071]
- Allow getting and setting a table Row using multiple column names. [#7107]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Split pytest plugins into separate modules. Move remotedata, openfiles,
doctestplus plugins to standalone repositories. [#6384, #6606]
- When testing, astropy (or the package being tested) is now installed to
a temporary directory instead of copying the build. This allows
entry points to work correctly. [#6890]
- The tests_require setting in setup.py now works properly when running
'python setup.py test'. [#6892]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecated conversion of quantities to truth values. Currently, the expression
``bool(0 * u.dimensionless_unscaled)`` evaluates to ``True``. In the future,
attempting to convert a ``Quantity`` to a ``bool`` will raise ``ValueError``.
[#6580, #6590]
- Modify the ``brightness_temperature`` equivalency to provide a surface
brightness equivalency instead of the awkward assumed-per-beam equivalency
that previously existed [#5173, #6663]
- Support was added for a number of ``scipy.special`` functions. [#6852]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.utils.console.ProgressBar.map`` class method now supports the
``ipython_widget`` option. You can now pass it both ``multiprocess=True`` and
``ipython_widget=True`` to get both multiprocess speedup and a progress bar
widget in an IPython Notebook. [#6368]
- The ``astropy.utils.compat.funcsigs`` module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'inspect' module directly instead. [#6598]
- The ``astropy.utils.compat.futures`` module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'concurrent.futures' module directly instead. [#6598]
- ``JsonCustomEncoder`` is expanded to handle ``Quantity`` and ``UnitBase``.
[#5471]
- Added a ``dcip_xy`` method to IERS that interpolates along the dX_2000A and
dY_2000A columns of the IERS table. Hence, the data for the CIP offsets is
now available for use in coordinate frame conversion. [#5837]
- The functions ``matmul``, ``broadcast_arrays``, ``broadcast_to`` of the
``astropy.utils.compat.numpy`` module have been deprecated. Use the
NumPy functions directly. [#6691]
- The ``astropy.utils.console.ProgressBar.map`` class method now returns
results in sequential order. Previously, if you set ``multiprocess=True``,
then the results could arrive in any arbitrary order, which could be a nasty
shock. Although the function will still be evaluated on the items in
arbitrary order, the return values will arrive in the same order in which the
input items were provided. The method is now a thin wrapper around
``astropy.utils.console.ProgressBar.map_unordered``, which preserves the old
behavior. [#6439]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enable Matplotlib's subtraction shorthand syntax for composing and
inverting transformations for the ``WCSWorld2PixelTransform`` and
``WCSPixel2WorldTransform`` classes by setting ``has_inverse`` to ``True``.
In order to implement a unit test, also implement the equality comparison
operator for both classes. [#6531]
- Added automatic hiding of axes labels when no tick labels are drawn on that
axis. This parameter can be configured with
``WCSAxes.coords[*].set_axislabel_visibility_rule`` so that labels are automatically
hidden when no ticks are drawn or always shown. [#6774]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new function ``celestial_frame_to_wcs`` to convert from
coordinate frames to WCS (the opposite of what ``wcs_to_celestial_frame``
currently does. [#6481]
- ``wcslib`` was updated to v 5.18. [#7066]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Gaussian2DKernel`` now accepts ``x_stddev`` in place of ``stddev`` with
an option for ``y_stddev``, if different. It also accepts ``theta`` like
``Gaussian2D`` model. [#3605, #6748]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecated ``recommended_units`` for representations. These were used to
ensure that any angle was presented in degrees in sky coordinates and
frames. This is more logically done in the frame itself. [#6858]
- As noted above, the frame class attributes ``representation`` and
``differential_cls`` are being replaced by ``representation_type`` and
``differential_type``. In the next version, using ``representation`` will raise
a deprecation warning. [#6873]
- Coordinate frame classes now can't be added to the frame transform graph if
they have frame attribute names that conflict with any component names. This
is so ``SkyCoord`` can uniquely identify and distinguish frame attributes from
frame components. [#6871]
- Slicing and reshaping of ``SkyCoord`` and coordinate frames no longer passes
the new object through ``__init__``, but directly sets attributes on a new
instance. This speeds up those methods by an order of magnitude, but means
that any customization done in ``__init__`` is by-passed. [#6941]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow ECSV files to be auto-identified by ``Table.read`` or
``Table.write`` based on the ``.ecsv`` file name suffix. In this case it
is not required to provide the ``format`` keyword. [#6552]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Automatically detect and handle compression in FITS files that are opened by
passing a file handle to ``fits.open`` [#6373]
- Remove the ``nonstandard`` checksum option. [#6571]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When writing to HDF5 files, the serialized metadata are now saved in a new
dataset instead of the HDF5 dataset attributes. This allows for metadata of
any dimensions. [#6304]
- Deprecated the ``usecPickle`` kwarg of ``fnunpickle`` and ``fnpickle`` as
it was needed only for Python2 usage. [#6655]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add handling of ``tree.Group`` elements to ``tree.Resource``. Unified I/O
or conversion to astropy tables is not affected. [#6262]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``GaussianAbsorption1D`` model.
Use ``Const1D - Gaussian1D`` instead. [#6542]
- Removed the registry from modeling. [#6706]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When setting the column ``format`` attribute the value is now immediately
validated. Previously one could set to any value and it was only checked
when actually formatting the column. [#6385]
- Deprecated the ``python3_only`` kwarg of the
``convert_bytestring_to_unicode`` and ``convert_unicode_to_bytestring``
methods it was needed only for Python2 usage. [#6655]
- When reading in FITS tables with ``Table.read``, string columns are now
represented using Numpy byte (dtype ``S``) arrays rather than Numpy
unicode arrays (dtype ``U``). The ``Column`` class then ensures the
bytes are automatically converted to string as needed. [#6821]
- When getting a table row using multiple column names, if one of the
names is not a valid column name then a ``KeyError`` exception is
now raised (previously ``ValueError``). When setting a table row,
if the right hand side is not a sequence with the correct length
then a ``ValueError`` is now raised (previously in certain cases
a ``TypeError`` was raised). [#7107]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``download_files_in_parallel`` now always uses ``cache=True`` to make the
function work on Windows. [#6671]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The Astropy matplotlib plot style has been deprecated. It will continue to
work in future but is no longer documented. [#6991]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Frame objects now use the default differential even if the representation is
explicitly provided as long as the representation provided is the same type as
the default representation. [#6944]
- Coordinate frame classes now raise an error when they are added to the frame
transform graph if they have frame attribute names that conflict with any
component names. [#6871]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for reading very large tables in chunks to reduce memory
usage. [#6458]
- Strip leading/trailing white-space from latex lines to avoid issues when
matching ``\begin{tabular}`` statements. This is done by introducing a new
``LatexInputter`` class to override the ``BaseInputter``. [#6311]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Properly handle opening of FITS files from ``http.client.HTTPResponse`` (i.e.
it now works correctly when passing the results of ``urllib.request.urlopen``
to ``fits.open``). [#6378]
- Fix the ``fitscheck`` script for updating invalid checksums, or removing
checksums. [#6571]
- Fixed potential problems with the compression module [#6732]
- Always use the 'D' format for floating point values in ascii tables. [#6938]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix getting a table row when using multiple column names (for example
``t[3]['a', 'b', 'c']``). Also fix a problem when setting an entire row:
if setting one of the right-hand side values failed this could result in
a partial update of the referenced parent table before the exception is
raised. [#7107]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Initialization of ``Time`` instances with bytes or arrays with dtype ``S``
will now automatically attempt to decode as ASCII. This ensures ``Column``
instances with ASCII strings stored with dtype ``S`` can be used.
[#6823, #6903]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused PLY files to not be generated correctly in Python 3.
[#7174]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``deprecated`` decorator applied to a class will now modify the class
itself, rather than to create a class that just looks and behave like the
original. This is needed so that the Python 3 ``super`` without arguments
works for decorated classes. [#6615]
- Fixed ``HomogeneousList`` when setting one item or a slice. [#6773]
- Also check the type when creating a new instance of
``HomogeneousList``. [#6773]
- Make ``HomogeneousList`` work with iterators and generators when creating the
instance, extending it, or using when setting a slice. [#6773]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Versions of Python <3.5 are no longer supported. [#6556]
- Versions of Pytest <3.1 are no longer supported. [#6419]
- Versions of Numpy <1.10 are no longer supported. [#6593]
- The bundled CFITSIO was updated to version 3.41 [#6477]
- ``analytic_functions`` sub-package is removed.
Use ``astropy.modeling.blackbody``. [#6541]
- ``astropy.vo`` sub-package is removed. Use ``astropy.samp`` for SAMP and
``astroquery`` for VO cone search. [#6540]
- The guide to setting up Emacs for code development was simplified, and
updated to recommend ``flycheck`` and ``flake8`` for syntax checks. [#6692]
- The bundled version of PLY was updated to 3.10. [#7174]
Version 2.0.16 (2019-10-27)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a troubling bug in which ``Time`` could loose precision, with deviations
of 300 ns. [#9328]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated IERS A URLs due to USNO prolonged maintenance. [#9443]
Version 2.0.15 (2019-10-06)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where the string representation of a ``BaseCoordinateFrame``
object could become garbled under specific circumstances when the frame
defines custom component names via ``RepresentationMapping``. [#8869]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix uint conversion in ``FITS_rec`` when slicing a table. [#8982]
- Fix reading of unsigned 8-bit integer with compressed fits. [#9219]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``overlap_slices`` where the ``"strict"`` mode was
too strict for a small array along the upper edge of the large array.
[#8901]
- Fixed a bug in ``overlap_slices`` where a ``NoOverlapError`` would
be incorrectly raised for a 0-shaped small array at the origin.
[#8901]
astropy.samp
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused an incorrectly constructed warning message
to raise an error. [#8966]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``FixedWidthNoHeader`` to pay attention to ``data_start`` keyword when
finding first data line to split columns [#8485, #8511]
- Fix bug when initializing ``Table`` with ``rows`` as a generator. [#9315]
- Fix ``join`` when there are multiple mixin (Quantity) columns as keys. [#9313]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity`` now preserves the ``dtype`` for anything that is floating
point, including ``float16``. [#8872]
- ``Unit()`` now accepts units with fractional exponents such as ``m(3/2)``
in the default/``fits`` and ``vounit`` formats that would previously
have been rejected for containing multiple solidi (``/``). [#9000]
- Fixed the LaTeX representation of units containing a superscript. [#9218]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed compatibility issues with latest versions of Matplotlib. [#8961]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated required version of Cython to v0.29.13 to make sure that
generated C files are compatible with the upcoming Python 3.8 release
as well as earlier supported versions of Python. [#9198]
Version 2.0.14 (2019-06-14)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``Header.update`` which was dropping the comments when passed
a ``Header`` object. [#8840]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Moffat1D.fwhm`` and ``Moffat2D.fwhm`` will return a positive value when
``gamma`` is negative. [#8801, #8815]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that prevented ``EarthLocation`` from being initialized with
numpy >=1.17. [#8849]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``quantity_support`` to work around the fact that matplotlib
does not detect subclasses in its ``units`` framework. With this,
``Angle`` and other subclasses work correctly. [#8818]
- Fixed ``quantity_support`` to work properly if multiple context managers
are nested. [#8844]
Version 2.0.13 (2019-06-08)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``ColDefs._init_from_array()`` that caused unsigned datatypes
with the opposite endianness as the host architecture to fail the
TestColumnFunctions.test_coldefs_init_from_array unit test. [#8460]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Explicitly set PyYAML default flow style to None to ensure consistent
astropy YAML output for PyYAML version 5.1 and later. [#8500]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Block floating-point columns from using repr format when converted to Table
[#8358]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed issue in ``bayesian_blocks`` when called with the ``ncp_prior``
keyword. [#8339]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``take`` when one gets only a single element from a ``Quantity``,
ensuring it returns a ``Quantity`` rather than a scalar. [#8617]
Version 2.0.12 (2019-02-23)
===========================
New Features
------------
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``deprecated_renamed_argument`` decorator now capable deprecating an
argument without renaming it. It also got a new ``alternative`` keyword
argument to suggest alternative functionality instead of the removed
one. [#8324]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``ColDefs._init_from_array()`` that caused non-scalar unsigned
entries to not have the correct bzero value set. [#8353]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed compatibility of ``JointFitter`` with the latest version of Numpy.
[#7984]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``.quantity`` property of ``Column`` class for function-units (e.g.,
``dex``). Previously setting this was possible, but getting raised
an error. [#8425]
- Fixes a bug where initializing a new ``Table`` from the final row of an
existing ``Table`` failed. This happened when that row was generated using
the item index ``[-1]``. [#8422]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug that caused ``WCS.has_celestial``, ``wcs_to_celestial_frame``, and
other functionality depending on it to fail in the presence of correlated
celestial and other axes. [#8420]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixed ``make clean`` for the documentation on Windows to ensure it
properly removes the ``api`` and ``generated`` directories. [#8346]
- Updating bundled ``pytest-openfiles`` to v0.3.2. [#8434]
- Making ``ErfaWarning`` and ``ErfaError`` available via
``astropy.utils.exceptions``. [#8441]
Version 2.0.11 (2018-12-31)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix fast reader C tokenizer to handle double quotes in quoted field.
[#8283]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug in ``io.fits`` with writing Fortran-ordered arrays to file
objects. [#8282]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for ``np.matmul`` as a ``ufunc`` (new in numpy 1.16).
[#8264, #8305]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix failures caused by IERS_A_URL being unavailable by introducing
IERS_A_URL_MIRROR. [#8308]
Version 2.0.10 (2018-12-04)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix Moffat2DKernel's FWHM computation, which has an influence on the default
size of the kernel when no size is given. [#8105]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Disable ``of_address`` usage due to Google API now requiring API key. [#7993]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``fits.append`` now correctly handles file objects with valid modes other
than ``ostream``. [#7856]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``Table.show_in_notebook`` failure when mixin columns are present. [#8069]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Explicitly disallow incompatible versions of ``pytest`` when using the test
runner. [#8188]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the spelling of the 'luminous emittance/illuminance' physical
property. [#7942]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused origin to be incorrect if not specified. [#7927]
- Fixed a bug that caused an error when plotting grids multiple times
with grid_type='contours'. [#7927]
- Put an upper limit on the number of bins in ``hist`` and ``histogram`` and
factor out calculation of bin edges into public function
``calculate_bin_edges``. [#7991]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixing ``astropy.__citation__`` to provide the full bibtex entry of the 2018
paper. [#8110]
- Pytest 4.0 is not supported by the 2.0.x LTS releases. [#8173]
- Updating bundled ``pytest-remotedata`` to v0.3.1. [#8174]
- Updating bundled ``pytest-doctestplus`` to v0.2.0. [#8175]
- Updating bundled ``pytest-openfiles`` to v0.3.0. [#8176]
- Adding ``warning_type`` keyword argument to the "deprecated" decorators to
allow issuing custom warning types instead of the default
``AstropyDeprecationWarning``. [#8178]
Version 2.0.9 (2018-10-14)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix reading of big files with the fast reader. [#7885]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``HDUList.__contains__()`` now works with ``HDU`` arguments. That is,
``hdulist[0] in hdulist`` now works as expected. [#7282]
- ``HDUList`` s can now be written to streams in Python 3 [#7850]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the bug in CCData.read when the HDU is not specified and the first one
is empty so the function searches for the first HDU with data which may not
have an image extension. [#7739]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bugs in biweight statistics functions where a constant data
array (or if using the axis keyword, constant along an axis) would
return NaN. [#7737]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``to_pandas()`` where integer type masked columns were always
getting converted to float. This could cause loss of precision. Now this only
occurs if there are actually masked data values, in which case ``pandas``
does require the values to be float so that ``NaN`` can be used to mark the
masked values. [#7741, #7747]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Change the name of the configuration variable controlling the location of the
Astropy cache in the Pytest plugin from ``cache_dir`` to
``astropy_cache_dir``. The command line flag also changed to
``--astropy-cache-dir``. This prevents a conflict with the ``cache_dir``
variable provided by pytest itself. Also made similar change to
``config_dir`` option as a precaution. [#7721]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``UnrecognizedUnit`` instances can now be compared to any other object
without raising `TypeError`. [#7606]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix compatibility with Matplotlib 3.0. [#7839]
- Fix an issue that caused a crash when using WCSAxes with a custom Transform
object and when using ``grid_type='contours'`` to plot a grid. [#7846]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Instead of raising an error ``astropy.wcs`` now returns the input when
the input has zero size. [#7746]
- Fix ``malloc(0)`` bug in ``pipeline_all_pixel2world()`` and
``pipeline_pix2foc()``. They now raise an exception for input with
zero coordinates, i.e. shape = (0, n). [#7806]
- Fixed an issue with scalar input when WCS.naxis is one. [#7858]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Added a new ``astropy.__citation__`` attribute which gives a citation
for Astropy in bibtex format. Made sure that both this and
``astropy.__bibtex__`` works outside the source environment, too. [#7718]
Version 2.0.8 (2018-08-02)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Correct data type conversion for non-float masked kernels. [#7542]
- Fix non-float or masked, zero sum kernels when ``normalize_kernel=False``.
Non-floats would yield a type error and masked kernels were not being filled.
[#7541]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that relative humidities can be given as Quantities, rather than take
any quantity and just strip its unit. [#7668]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``Cutout2D`` output WCS NAXIS values to reflect the cutout
image size. [#7552]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``add_columns`` method where ``rename_duplicate=True`` would
cause an error if there were no duplicates. [#7540]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``python setup.py test --coverage`` on Windows machines. [#7673]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Avoid rounding errors when converting ``Quantity`` to ``TimeDelta``. [#7625]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused the position of the tick values in decimal mode
to be incorrectly determined. [#7332]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused ``wcs_to_celestial_frame``, ``skycoord_to_pixel``, and
``pixel_to_skycoord`` to raise an error if the axes of the celestial WCS were
swapped. [#7691]
Version 2.0.7 (2018-06-01)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``Tabular`` models to not change the shape of data. [#7411]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In ``freedman_bin_width``, if the data has too small IQR,
raise ``ValueError``. [#7248, #7402]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a performance issue in ``MaskedColumn`` where initialization was
extremely slow for large arrays with the default ``mask=None``. [#7422]
- Fix printing table row indexed with unsigned integer. [#7469]
- Fix copy of mask when copying a Table, as this is no more done systematically
by Numpy since version 1.14. Also fixed a problem when MaskedColumn was
initialized with ``mask=np.ma.nomask``. [#7486]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in Time that raised an error when initializing a subclass of Time
with a Time object. [#7453]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that improperly handled unicode case of URL mirror in Python 2.
[#7493]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that prevented legends from being added to plots done with
units. [#7510]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Bundled ``pytest-remotedata`` plugin is upgraded to 0.3. [#7493]
Version 2.0.6 (2018-04-23)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- convolve(boundary=None) requires the kernel to be smaller than the image.
This was never actually checked, it now is and an exception is raised.
[#7313]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``u.quantity_input`` no longer errors if the return annotation for a
function is ``None``. [#7336, #7380]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Explicitly default to origin='lower' in WCSAxes. [#7331]
- Lists of units are now converted in the Matplotlib unit converter. This means
that for Matplotlib versions later than 2.2, more plotting functions now work
with units (e.g. errorbar). [#7037]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.44. This is to remedy another
critical security vulnerability that was identified by NASA. See
``cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt`` for additional information. [#7370]
Version 2.0.5 (2018-03-12)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add a workaround for a bug in the einsum function in Numpy 1.14.0. [#7187]
- Fix problems with printing ``Angle`` instances under numpy 1.14.1. [#7234]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the ``fitsdiff`` script for matching fits file with one in a
directory path. [#7085]
- Make sure that lazily-loaded ``HDUList`` is automatically loaded when calling
``hdulist.pop``. [#7186]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Propagate weights to underlying fitter in ``FittingWithOutlierRemoval`` [#7249]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support dotted package names as namespace packages when gathering test
coverage. [#7170]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Matplotlib axes have the ``axisbelow`` property to control the z-order of
ticks, tick labels, and grid lines. WCSAxes will now respect this property.
This is useful for drawing scale bars or inset boxes, which should have a
z-order that places them above all ticks and gridlines. [#7098]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.430. This is to remedy a critical
security vulnerability that was identified by NASA. See
``cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt`` for additional information. [#7274, #7275]
Version 2.0.4 (2018-02-06)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed IndexError when ``preserve_nan=True`` in ``convolve_fft``. Added
testing with ``preserve_nan=True``. [#7000]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``sites.json`` file is now parsed explicitly with a UTF-8 encoding. This
means that future revisions to the file with unicode observatory names can
be done without breaking the site registry parser. [#7082]
- Working around a bug in Numpy 1.14.0 that broke some coordinate
transformations. [#7105]
- Fixed a bug where negative angles could be rounded wrongly when converting
to a string with seconds omitted. [#7148]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When datafile is missing, fits.tabledump uses input file name to build
output file name. Fixed how it gets input file name from HDUList. [#6976]
- Fix in-place updates to scaled columns. [#6956]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in identifying inherited registrations from multiple ancestors [#7156]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``LevMarLSQFitter`` when fitting 2D models with constraints. [#6705]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``download_file`` function will check for cache downloaded from mirror URL
first before attempting actual download if primary URL is unavailable. [#6987]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed test failures for ``astropy.visualization.wcsaxes`` which were due to
local matplotlibrc files being taken into account. [#7132]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixed broken links in the documentation. [#6745]
- Substantial performance improvement (potentially >1000x for some cases) when
converting non-scalar ``coordinates.Angle`` objects to strings. [#7004]
Version 2.0.3 (2017-12-13)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ecliptic frame classes now support attributes ``v_x``, ``v_y``, ``v_z`` when
using with a Cartesian representation. [#6569]
- Added a nicer error message when accidentally calling ``frame.representation``
instead of ``frame.data`` in the context of methods that use ``._apply()``.
[#6561]
- Creating a new ``SkyCoord`` from a list of multiple ``SkyCoord`` objects now
yield the correct type of frame, and works at all for non-equatorial frames.
[#6612]
- Improved accuracy of velocity calculation in ``EarthLocation.get_gcrs_posvel``.
[#6699]
- Improved accuracy of radial velocity corrections in
``SkyCoord.radial_velocity_correction```. [#6861]
- The precision of ecliptic frames is now much better, after removing the
nutation from the rotation and fixing the computation of the position of the
Sun. [#6508]
astropy.extern
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Version 0.2.1 of ``pytest-astropy`` is included as an external package.
[#6918]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix writing the result of ``fitsdiff`` to file with ``--output-file``. [#6621]
- Fix a minor bug where ``FITS_rec`` instances can not be indexed with tuples
and other sequences that end up with a scalar. [#6955, #6966]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``ImportError`` when ``hdf5`` is imported first in a fresh Python
interpreter in Python 3. [#6604, #6610]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Suppress errors during WCS creation in CCDData.read(). [#6500]
- Fixed a problem with ``CCDData.read`` when the extension wasn't given and the
primary HDU contained no ``data`` but another HDU did. In that case the header
were not correctly combined. [#6489]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue where the biweight statistics functions would
sometimes cause runtime underflow/overflow errors for float32 input
arrays. [#6905]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a problem when printing a table when a column is deleted and
garbage-collected, and the format function caching mechanism happens
to reuse the same cache key. [#6714]
- Fixed a problem when comparing a unicode masked column (on left side) to
a bytes masked column (on right side). [#6899]
- Fixed a problem in comparing masked columns in bytes and unicode when the
unicode had masked entries. [#6899]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that causes tests for rst files to not be run on certain
platforms. [#6555, #6608]
- Fixed a bug that caused the doctestplus plugin to not work nicely with the
hypothesis package. [#6605, #6609]
- Fixed a bug that meant that the data.astropy.org mirror could not be used when
using --remote-data=astropy. [#6724]
- Support compatibility with new ``pytest-astropy`` plugins. [#6918]
- When testing, astropy (or the package being tested) is now installed to
a temporary directory instead of copying the build. This allows
entry points to work correctly. [#6890]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Initialization of Time instances now is consistent for all formats to
ensure that ``-0.5 <= jd2 < 0.5``. [#6653]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that ``Quantity`` slices can be set with objects that have a ``unit``
attribute (such as ``Column``). [#6123]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``download_files_in_parallel`` now respects the given ``timeout`` value.
[#6658]
- Fixed bugs in remote data handling and also in IERS unit test related to path
URL, and URI normalization on Windows. [#6651]
- Fixed a bug that caused ``get_pkg_data_fileobj`` to not work correctly when
used with non-local data from inside packages. [#6724]
- Make sure ``get_pkg_data_fileobj`` fails if the URL can not be read, and
correctly falls back on the mirror if necessary. [#6767]
- Fix the ``finddiff`` option in ``find_current_module`` to properly deal
with submodules. [#6767]
- Fixed ``pyreadline`` import in ``utils.console.isatty`` for older IPython
versions on Windows. [#6800]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the vertical orientation of the ``fits2bitmap`` output bitmap
image to match that of the FITS image. [#6844, #6969]
- Added a workaround for a bug in matplotlib so that the ``fits2bitmap``
script generates the correct output file type. [#6969]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- No longer require LaTeX to build the documentation locally and
use mathjax instead. [#6701]
- Ensured that all tests use the Astropy data mirror if needed. [#6767]
Version 2.0.2 (2017-09-08)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure transformations via ICRS also work for coordinates that use cartesian
representations. [#6440]
- Fixed a bug that was preventing ``SkyCoord`` objects made from lists of other
coordinate objects from being written out to ECSV files. [#6448]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support the ``GZIP_2`` FITS image compression algorithm as claimed
in docs. [#6486]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that wrote out VO table as version 1.2 instead of 1.3. [#6521]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug when combining unicode columns via join or vstack. The character
width of the output column was a factor of 4 larger than needed. [#6459]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed running the test suite using --parallel. [#6415]
- Added error handling for attempting to run tests in parallel without having
the ``pytest-xdist`` package installed. [#6416]
- Fixed issue running doctests with pytest>=3.2. [#6423, #6430]
- Fixed issue caused by antivirus software in response to malformed compressed
files used for testing. [#6522]
- Updated top-level config file to properly ignore top-level directories.
[#6449]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Quantity._repr_latex_ now respects precision option from numpy
printoptions. [#6412]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For the ``deprecated_renamed_argument`` decorator, refer to the deprecation‘s
caller instead of ``astropy.utils.decorators``, to makes it easier to find
where the deprecation warnings comes from. [#6422]
Version 2.0.1 (2017-07-30)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed Earth radius to be the IAU2015 value for the equatorial radius.
The polar value had erroneously been used in 2.0. [#6400]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added old frame attribute classes back to top-level namespace of
``astropy.coordinates``. [#6357]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Scaling an image always uses user-supplied values when given. Added
defaults for scaling when bscale/bzero are not present (float images).
Fixed a small bug in when to reset ``_orig_bscale``. [#5955]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in initializing compound models with units. [#6398]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Updating CCDData.read() to be more flexible with inputs, don't try to
delete keywords that are missing from the header. [#6388]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the test command that is run from ``setuptools`` to allow it to
gracefully handle keyboard interrupts and pass them on to the ``pytest``
subprocess. This prompts ``pytest`` to teardown and display useful traceback
and test information [#6369]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ticks and tick labels are now drawn in front of, rather than behind,
gridlines in WCS axes. This improves legibility in situations where
tick labels may be on the interior of the axes frame, such as the right
ascension axis of an all-sky Aitoff or Mollweide projection. [#6361]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix the missing wcskey part in _read_sip_kw, this will cause error when
reading sip wcs while there is no default CRPIX1 CRPIX2 keywords and only
CRPIX1n CRPIX2n in header. [#6372]
Version 2.0 (2017-07-07)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Constants are now organized into version modules, with physical CODATA
constants in the ``codata2010`` and ``codata2014`` sub-modules,
and astronomical constants defined by the IAU in the ``iau2012`` and
``iau2015`` sub-modules. The default constants in ``astropy.constants``
in Astropy 2.0 have been updated from ``iau2012`` to ``iau2015`` and
from ``codata2010`` to ``codata2014``. The constants for 1.3 can be
accessed in the ``astropyconst13`` sub-module and the constants for 2.0
(the default in ``astropy.constants``) can also be accessed in the
``astropyconst20`` sub-module [#6083]
- The GM mass parameters recommended by IAU 2015 Resolution B 3 have been
added as ``GM_sun``, ``GM_jup``, and ``GM_earth``, for the Sun,
Jupiter and the Earth. [#6083]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Major change in convolution behavior and keyword arguments. Additional
details are in the API section. [#5782]
- Convolution with un-normalized and un-normalizable kernels is now possible.
[#5782]
- Add a new argument, ``normalization_rtol``, to ``convolve_fft``, allowing
the user to specify the relative error tolerance in the normalization of
the convolution kernel. [#5649, #5177]
- Models can now be convoluted using ``convolve`` or ``convolve_fft``,
which generates a regular compound model. [#6015]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Frame attributes set on ``SkyCoord`` are now always validated, and any
ndarray-like operation (like slicing) will also be done on those. [#5751]
- Caching of all possible frame attributes was implemented. This greatly
speeds up many ``SkyCoord`` operations. [#5703, #5751]
- A class hierarchy was added to allow the representation layer to store
differentials (i.e., finite derivatives) of coordinates. This is intended
to enable support for velocities in coordinate frames. [#5871]
- ``replicate_without_data`` and ``replicate`` methods were added to
coordinate frames that allow copying an existing frame object with various
reference or copy behaviors and possibly overriding frame attributes. [#6182]
- The representation class instances can now contain differential objects.
This is primarily useful for internal operations that will provide support
for transforming velocity components in coordinate frames. [#6169]
- ``EarthLocation.to_geodetic()`` (and ``EarthLocation.geodetic``) now return
namedtuples instead of regular tuples. [#6237]
- ``EarthLocation`` now has ``lat`` and ``lon`` properties (equivalent to, but
preferred over, the previous ``latitude`` and ``longitude``). [#6237]
- Added a ``radial_velocity_correction`` method to ``SkyCoord`` to do compute
barycentric and heliocentric velocity corrections. [#5752]
- Added a new ``AffineTransform`` class for coordinate frame transformations.
This class supports matrix operations with vector offsets in position or
any differential quantities (so far, only velocity is supported). The
matrix transform classes now subclass from the base affine transform.
[#6218]
- Frame objects now have experimental support for velocity components. Most
frames default to accepting proper motion components and radial velocity,
and the velocities transform correctly for any transformation that uses
one of the ``AffineTransform``-type transformations. For other
transformations a finite-difference velocity transformation is available,
although it is not as numerically stable as those that use
``AffineTransform``-type transformations. [#6219, #6226]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow to specify encoding in ``ascii.read``, only for Python 3 and with the
pure-Python readers. [#5448]
- Writing latex tables with only a ``tabular`` environment is now possible by
setting ``latexdict['tabletyle']`` to ``None``. [#6205]
- Allow ECSV format to support reading and writing mixin columns like
``Time``, ``SkyCoord``, ``Latitude``, and ``EarthLocation``. [#6181]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Checking available disk space before writing out file. [#5550, #4065]
- Change behavior to warn about units that are not FITS-compliant when
writing a FITS file but not when reading. [#5675]
- Added absolute tolerance parameter when comparing FITS files. [#4729]
- New convenience function ``printdiff`` to print out diff reports. [#5759]
- Allow to instantiate a ``BinTableHDU`` directly from a ``Table`` object.
[#6139]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- YAML representer now also accepts numpy types. [#6077]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New functions to unregister readers, writers, and identifiers. [#6217]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``SmoothlyBrokenPowerLaw1D`` model. [#5656]
- Add ``n_submodels`` shared method to single and compound models, which
allows users to get the number of components of a given single (compound)
model. [#5747]
- Added a ``name`` setter for instances of ``_CompoundModel``. [#5741]
- Added FWHM properties to Gaussian and Moffat models. [#6027]
- Added support for evaluating models and setting the results for inputs
outside the bounding_box to a user specified ``fill_value``. This
is controlled by a new optional boolean keyword ``with_bounding_box``. [#6081]
- Added infrastructure support for units on parameters and during
model evaluation and fitting, added support for units on all
functional, power-law, polynomial, and rotation models where this
is appropriate. A new BlackBody1D model has been added.
[#4855, #6183, #6204, #6235]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added an image class, ``CCDData``. [#6173]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``biweight_midcovariance`` function. [#5777]
- Added ``biweight_scale`` and ``biweight_midcorrelation``
functions. [#5991]
- ``median_absolute_deviation`` and ``mad_std`` have ``ignore_nan`` option
that will use ``np.ma.median`` with nans masked out or ``np.nanmedian``
instead of ``np.median`` when computing the median. [#5232]
- Implemented statistical estimators for Ripley's K Function. [#5712]
- Added ``SigmaClip`` class. [#6206]
- Added ``std_ddof`` keyword option to ``sigma_clipped_stats``.
[#6066, #6207]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Issue a warning when assigning a string value to a column and
the string gets truncated. This can occur because numpy string
arrays are fixed-width and silently drop characters which do not
fit within the fixed width. [#5624, #5819]
- Added functionality to allow ``astropy.units.Quantity`` to be written
as a normal column to FITS files. [#5910]
- Add support for Quantity columns (within a ``QTable``) in table
``join()``, ``hstack()`` and ``vstack()`` operations. [#5841]
- Allow unicode strings to be stored in a Table bytestring column in
Python 3 using UTF-8 encoding. Allow comparison and assignment of
Python 3 ``str`` object in a bytestring column (numpy ``'S'`` dtype).
If comparison with ``str`` instead of ``bytes`` is a problem
(and ``bytes`` is really more logical), please open an issue on GitHub.
[#5700]
- Added functionality to allow ``astropy.units.Quantity`` to be read
from and written to a VOtable file. [#6132]
- Added support for reading and writing a table with mixin columns like
``Time``, ``SkyCoord``, ``Latitude``, and ``EarthLocation`` via the
ASCII ECSV format. [#6181]
- Bug fix for ``MaskedColumn`` insert method, where ``fill_value`` attribute
was not being passed along to the copy of the ``MaskedColumn`` that was
returned. [#7585]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``enable_deprecations_as_exceptions`` function now accepts additional
user-defined module imports and warning messages to ignore. [#6223, #6334]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.units.quantity_input`` decorator will now convert the output to
the unit specified as a return annotation under Python 3. [#5606]
- Passing a logarithmic unit to the ``Quantity`` constructor now returns the
appropriate logarithmic quantity class if ``subok=True``. For instance,
``Quantity(1, u.dex(u.m), subok=True)`` yields ``<Dex 1.0 dex(m)>``. [#5928]
- The ``quantity_input`` decorator now accepts a string physical type in
addition to of a unit object to specify the expected input ``Quantity``'s
physical type. For example, ``@u.quantity_input(x='angle')`` is now
functionally the same as ``@u.quantity_input(x=u.degree)``. [#3847]
- The ``quantity_input`` decorator now also supports unit checking for
optional keyword arguments and accepts iterables of units or physical types
for specifying multiple valid equivalent inputs. For example,
``@u.quantity_input(x=['angle', 'angular speed'])`` or
``@u.quantity_input(x=[u.radian, u.radian/u.yr])`` would both allow either
a ``Quantity`` angle or angular speed passed in to the argument ``x``.
[#5653]
- Added a new equivalence ``molar_mass_amu`` between g/mol to
atomic mass units. [#6040, #6113]
- ``Quantity`` has gained a new ``to_value`` method which returns the value
of the quantity in a given unit. [#6127]
- ``Quantity`` now supports the ``@`` operator for matrix multiplication that
was introduced in Python 3.5, for all supported versions of numpy. [#6144]
- ``Quantity`` supports the new ``__array_ufunc__`` protocol introduced in
numpy 1.13. As a result, operations that involve unit conversion will be
sped up considerably (by up to a factor of two for costly operations such
as trigonometric ones). [#2583]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new ``dataurl_mirror`` configuration item in ``astropy.utils.data``
that is used to indicate a mirror for the astropy data server. [#5547]
- Added a new convenience method ``get_cached_urls`` to ``astropy.utils.data``
for getting a list of the URLs in your cache. [#6242]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Upgraded the included wcslib to version 5.16. [#6225]
The minimum required version of wcslib in is 5.14.
API Changes
-----------
astropy.analytic_functions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This entire sub-package is deprecated because blackbody has been moved to
``astropy.modeling.blackbody``. [#6191]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Major change in convolution behavior and keyword arguments.
``astropy.convolution.convolve_fft`` replaced ``interpolate_nan`` with
``nan_treatment``, and ``astropy.convolution.convolve`` received a new
``nan_treatment`` argument. ``astropy.convolution.convolve`` also no longer
double-interpolates interpolates over NaNs, although that is now available
as a separate ``astropy.convolution.interpolate_replace_nans`` function. See
`the backwards compatibility note
<https://docs.astropy.org/en/v2.0.16/convolution/index.html#a-note-on-backward-compatibility-pre-v2-0>`_
for more on how to get the old behavior (and why you probably don't want to.)
[#5782]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.coordinates.Galactic`` frame previously was had the cartesian
ordering 'w', 'u', 'v' (for 'x', 'y', and 'z', respectively). This was an
error and against the common convention. The 'x', 'y', and 'z' axes now
map to 'u', 'v', and 'w', following the right-handed ('u' points to
the Galactic center) convention. [#6330]
- Removed deprecated ``angles.rotation_matrix`` and
``angles.angle_axis``. Use the routines in
``coordinates.matrix_utilities`` instead. [#6170]
- ``EarthLocation.latitude`` and ``EarthLocation.longitude`` are now
deprecated in favor of ``EarthLocation.lat`` and ``EarthLocation.lon``.
They former will be removed in a future version. [#6237]
- The ``FrameAttribute`` class and subclasses have been renamed to just contain
``Attribute``. For example, ``QuantityFrameAttribute`` is now
``QuantityAttribute``. [#6300]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cosmological models do not include any contribution from neutrinos or photons
by default -- that is, the default value of Tcmb0 is 0. This does not affect
built in models (such as WMAP or Planck). [#6112]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Remove deprecated ``NumCode`` and ``ImgCode`` properties on FITS
``_ImageBaseHDU``. Use module-level constants ``BITPIX2DTYPE`` and
``DTYPE2BITPIX`` instead. [#4993]
- ``comments`` meta key (which is ``io.ascii``'s table convention) is output
to ``COMMENT`` instead of ``COMMENTS`` header. Similarly, ``COMMENT``
headers are read into ``comments`` meta [#6097]
- Remove compatibility code which forced loading all HDUs on close. The old
behavior can be used with ``lazy_load_hdus=False``. Because of this change,
trying to access the ``.data`` attribute from an HDU which is not loaded
now raises a ``IndexError`` instead of a ``ValueError``. [#6082]
- Deprecated ``clobber`` keyword; use ``overwrite``. [#6203]
- Add EXTVER column to the output of ``HDUList.info()``. [#6124]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``Redshift`` model; Use ``RedshiftScaleFactor``. [#6053]
- Removed deprecated ``Pix2Sky_AZP.check_mu`` and ``Pix2Sky_SZP.check_mu``
methods. [#6170]
- Deprecated ``GaussianAbsorption1D`` model, as it can be better represented
by subtracting ``Gaussian1D`` from ``Const1D``. [#6200]
- Added method ``sum_of_implicit_terms`` to ``Model``, needed when performing
a linear fit to a model that has built-in terms with no corresponding
parameters (primarily the ``1*x`` term of ``Shift``). [#6174]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated usage of parameter ``propagate_uncertainties`` as a
positional keyword. [#6170]
- Removed deprecated ``support_correlated`` attribute. [#6170]
- Removed deprecated ``propagate_add``, ``propagate_subtract``,
``propagate_multiply`` and ``propagate_divide`` methods. [#6170]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the deprecated ``sig`` and ``varfunc`` keywords in the
``sigma_clip`` function. [#5715]
- Added ``modify_sample_size`` keyword to ``biweight_midvariance``
function. [#5991]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In Python 3, when getting an item from a bytestring Column it is now
converted to ``str``. This means comparing a single item to a ``bytes``
object will always fail, and instead one must compare with a ``str``
object. [#5700]
- Removed the deprecated ``data`` property of Row. [#5729]
- Removed the deprecated functions ``join``, ``hstack``, ``vstack`` and
``get_groups`` from np_utils. [#5729]
- Added ``name`` parameter to method ``astropy.table.Table.add_column`` and
``names`` parameter to method ``astropy.table.Table.add_columns``, to
provide the flexibility to add unnamed columns, mixin objects and also to
specify explicit names. Default names will be used if not
specified. [#5996]
- Added optional ``axis`` parameter to ``insert`` method for ``Column`` and
``MaskedColumn`` classes. [#6092]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Moved ``units.cgs.emu`` to ``units.deprecated.emu`` due to ambiguous
definition of "emu". [#4918, #5906]
- ``jupiterMass``, ``earthMass``, ``jupiterRad``, and ``earthRad`` no longer
have their prefixed units included in the standard units. If needed, they
can still be found in ``units.deprecated``. [#5661]
- ``solLum``,``solMass``, and ``solRad`` no longer have their prefixed units
included in the standard units. If needed, they can still be found in
``units.required_by_vounit``, and are enabled by default. [#5661]
- Removed deprecated ``Unit.get_converter``. [#6170]
- Internally, astropy replaced use of ``.to(unit).value`` with the new
``to_value(unit)`` method, since this is somewhat faster. Any subclasses
that overwrote ``.to``, should also overwrite ``.to_value`` (or
possibly just the private ``._to_value`` method. (If you did this,
please let us know what was lacking that made this necessary!). [#6137]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the deprecated compatibility modules for Python 2.6 (``argparse``,
``fractions``, ``gzip``, ``odict``, ``subprocess``) [#5975,#6157,#6164]
- Removed the deprecated ``zest.releaser`` machinery. [#6282]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed the deprecated ``scale_image`` function. [#6170]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Cone Search now issues deprecation warning because it is moved to
Astroquery 0.3.5 and will be removed from Astropy in a future version.
[#5558, #5904]
- The ``astropy.vo.samp`` package has been moved to ``astropy.samp``, and no
longer supports HTTPS/SSL. [#6201, #6213]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed deprecated ``wcs.rotateCD``. [#6170]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Major change in convolution behavior and keyword arguments:
``astropy.convolution.convolve`` was not performing normalized convolution
in earlier versions of astropy. [#5782]
- Direct convolution previously implemented the wrong definition of
convolution. This error only affects *asymmetric* kernels. [#6267]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.coordinates.Galactic`` frame had an incorrect ordering for the
'u', 'v', and 'w' cartesian coordinates. [#6330]
- The ``astropy.coordinates.search_around_sky``,
``astropy.coordinates.search_around_3d``, and ``SkyCoord`` equivalent methods
now correctly yield an ``astropy.coordinates.Angle`` as the third return type
even if there are no matches (previously it returned a raw Quantity). [#6347]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix an issue where the fast C-reader was dropping table comments for a
table with no data lines. [#8274]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``comments`` meta key (which is ``io.ascii``'s table convention) is output
to ``COMMENT`` instead of ``COMMENTS`` header. Similarly, ``COMMENT``
headers are read into ``comments`` meta [#6097]
- Use more sensible fix values for invalid NAXISj header values. [#5935]
- Close file on error to avoid creating a ``ResourceWarning`` warning
about an unclosed file. [#6168, #6177]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Creating a compound model where one of the submodels is
a compound model whose parameters were changed now uses the
updated parameters and not the parameters of the original model. [#5741]
- Allow ``Mapping`` and ``Identity`` to be fittable. [#6018]
- Gaussian models now impose positive ``stddev`` in fitting. [#6019]
- OrthoPolynomialBase (Chebyshev2D / Legendre2D) models were being evaluated
incorrectly when part of a compound model (using the parameters from the
original model), which in turn caused fitting to fail as a no-op. [#6085]
- Allow ``Ring2D`` to be defined using ``r_out``. [#6192]
- Make ``LinearLSQFitter`` produce correct results with fixed model
parameters and allow ``Shift`` and ``Scale`` to be fitted with
``LinearLSQFitter`` and ``LevMarLSQFitter``. [#6174]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow to choose which median function is used in ``mad_std`` and
``median_absolute_deviation``. And allow to use these functions with
a multi-dimensional ``axis``. [#5835]
- Fixed ``biweight_midvariance`` so that by default it returns a
variance that agrees with the standard definition. [#5991]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem with vstack for bytes columns in Python 3. [#5628]
- Fix QTable add/insert row for multidimensional Quantity. [#6092]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the initial condition of ``TimeFITS`` to allow scale, FITS scale
and FITS realization to be checked and equated properly. [#6202]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused the default WCS to return coordinates offset by
one. [#6339]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in vo.samp when stopping a hub for which a lockfile was
not created. [#6211]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Numpy 1.7 and 1.8 are no longer supported. [#6006]
- Python 3.3 is no longer supported. [#6020]
- The bundled ERFA was updated to version 1.4.0. [#6239]
- The bundled version of pytest has now been removed, but the
astropy.tests.helper.pytest import will continue to work properly.
Affiliated packages should nevertheless transition to importing pytest
directly rather than from astropy.tests.helper. This also means that
pytest is now a formal requirement for testing for both Astropy and
for affiliated packages. [#5694]
Version 1.3.3 (2017-05-29)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``StaticMatrixTransform`` erroneously copied frame
attributes from the input coordinate to the output frame. In practice, this
didn't actually affect any transforms in Astropy but may change behavior for
users who explicitly used the ``StaticMatrixTransform`` in their own code.
[#6045]
- Fixed ``get_icrs_coordinates`` to loop through all the urls in case one
raises an exception. [#5864]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix table header not written out properly when ``fits.writeto()``
convenience function is used. [#6042]
- Fix writing out read-only arrays. [#6036]
- Extension headers are written out properly when the ``fits.update()``
convenience function is used. [#6058]
- Angstrom, erg, G, and barn are no more reported as deprecated FITS units.
[#5929]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix problem with Table pprint/pformat raising an exception for
non-UTF-8 compliant bytestring data. [#6117]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow strings 'nan' and 'inf' as Quantity inputs. [#5958]
- Add support for ``positive`` and ``divmod`` ufuncs (new in numpy 1.13).
[#5998, #6020, #6116]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- On systems that do not have ``pkg_resources`` non-numerical additions to
version numbers like ``dev`` or ``rc1`` are stripped in ``minversion`` to
avoid a ``TypeError`` in ``distutils.version.LooseVersion`` [#5944]
- Fix ``auto_download`` setting ignored in ``Time.ut1``. [#6033]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug in ManualInterval which caused the limits to be returned incorrectly
if set to zero, and fix defaults for ManualInterval in the presence of NaNs.
[#6088]
- Get rid of warnings that occurred when slicing a cube due to the tick
locator trying to find ticks for the sliced axis. [#6104]
- Accept normal Matplotlib keyword arguments in set_xlabel and set_ylabel
functions. [#5686, #5692, #6060]
- Fix a bug that caused labels to be missing from frames with labels that
could change direction mid-axis, such as EllipticalFrame. Also ensure
that empty tick labels do not cause any warnings. [#6063]
Version 1.3.2 (2017-03-30)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure that checking equivalence of ``SkyCoord`` objects works with
non-scalar attributes [#5884, #5887]
- Ensure that transformation to frames with multi-dimensional attributes
works as expected [#5890, #5897]
- Make sure all ``BaseRepresentation`` objects can be output as strings.
[#5889, #5897]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for ``heaviside`` ufunc (new in numpy 1.13). [#5920]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix to allow the C-based _fast_iterparse() VOTable XML parser to
relloc() its buffers instead of overflowing them. [#5824, #5869]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- File permissions are revised in the released source distribution. [#5912]
Version 1.3.1 (2017-03-18)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``deprecated_renamed_argument`` decorator got a new ``pending``
parameter to suppress the deprecation warnings. [#5761]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed ``SkyCoord`` so that frame attributes which are not valid for the
current ``frame`` (but are valid for other frames) are stored on the
``SkyCoord`` instance instead of the underlying ``frame`` instance (e.g.,
setting ``relative_humidity`` on an ICRS ``SkyCoord`` instance.) [#5750]
- Ensured that ``position_angle`` and ``separation`` give correct answers for
frames with different equinox (see #5722). [#5762]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix problem with padding bytes written for BinTable columns converted
from unicode [#5280, #5287, #5288, #5296].
- Fix out-of-order TUNITn cards when writing tables to FITS. [#5720]
- Recognize PrimaryHDU when non boolean values are present for the
'GROUPS' header keyword. [#5808]
- Fix the insertion of new keywords in compressed image headers
(``CompImageHeader``). [#5866]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a problem with setting ``bounding_box`` on 1D models. [#5718]
- Fixed a broadcasting problem with weighted fitting of 2D models
with ``LevMarLSQFitter``. [#5788]
- Fixed a problem with passing kwargs to fitters, specifically ``verblevel``. [#5815]
- Changed FittingWithOutlierRemoval to reject on the residual to the fit [#5831]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix the psd normalization for Lomb-Scargle periodograms in the presence
of noise. [#5713]
- Fix bug in the autofrequency range when ``minimum_frequency`` is specified
but ``maximum_frequency`` is not. [#5738]
- Ensure that a masked array is returned when sigma clipping fully masked
data. [#5711]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix problem where key for caching column format function was not
sufficiently unique. [#5803]
- Handle sorting NaNs and masked values in jsviewer. [#4052, #5572]
- Ensure mixin columns can be added to a table using a scalar value for the
right-hand side if the type supports broadcasting. E.g., for an existing
``QTable``, ``t['q'] = 3*u.m`` will now add a column as expected. [#5820]
- Fixes the bug of setting/getting values from rows/columns of a table using
numpy array scalars. [#5772]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed problem where IrreducibleUnits could fail to unpickle. [#5868]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Avoid importing ``ipython`` in ``utils.console`` until it is necessary, to
prevent deprecation warnings when importing, e.g., ``Column``. [#5755]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Avoid importing matplotlib.pyplot when importing
astropy.visualization.wcsaxes. [#5680, #5684]
- Ignore Numpy warnings that happen in coordinate transforms in WCSAxes.
[#5792]
- Fix compatibility issues between WCSAxes and Matplotlib 2.x. [#5786]
- Fix a bug that caused WCSAxes frame visual properties to not be copied
over when resetting the WCS. [#5791]
astropy.extern
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where PLY was overwriting its generated files. [#5728]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixed a deprecation warning that occurred when running tests with
astropy.test(). [#5689]
- The deprecation of the ``clobber`` argument (originally deprecated in 1.3.0)
in the ``io.fits`` write functions was changed to a "pending" deprecation
(without displaying warnings) for now. [#5761]
- Updated bundled astropy-helpers to v1.3.1. [#5880]
Version 1.3 (2016-12-22)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``convolve`` and ``convolve_fft`` arguments now support a ``mask`` keyword,
which allows them to also support ``NDData`` objects as inputs. [#5554]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added an ``of_address`` classmethod to ``EarthLocation`` to enable fast creation of
``EarthLocation`` objects given an address by querying the Google maps API [#5154].
- A new routine, ``get_body_barycentric_posvel`` has been added that allows
one to calculate positions as well as velocities for solar system bodies.
For JPL kernels, this roughly doubles the execution time, so if one requires
only the positions, one should use ``get_body_barycentric``. [#5231]
- Transformations between coordinate systems can use the more accurate JPL
ephemerides. [#5273, #5436]
- Arithmetic on representations, such as addition of two representations,
multiplication with a ``Quantity``, or calculating the norm via ``abs``,
has now become possible. Furthermore, there are new methods ``mean``,
``sum``, ``dot``, and ``cross``. For all these, the representations are
treated as vectors in cartesian space (temporarily converting to
``CartesianRepresentation`` if necessary). [#5301]
has now become possible. Furthermore, there are news methods ``mean``,
``sum``, ``dot``, and ``cross`` with obvious meaning. [#5301]
multiplication with a ``Quantity`` has now become possible. Furthermore,
there are new methods ``norm``, ``mean``, ``sum``, ``dot``, and ``cross``.
In all operations, the representations are treated as vectors. They are
temporarily converted to ``CartesianRepresentation`` if necessary. [#5301]
- ``CartesianRepresentation`` can be initialized with plain arrays by passing
in a ``unit``. Furthermore, for input with a vector array, the coordinates
no longer have to be in the first dimension, but can be at any ``xyz_axis``.
To complement the latter, a new ``get_xyz(xyz_axis)`` method allows one to
get a vector array out along a given axis. [#5439]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Files with "Fortran-style" columns (i.e. double-precision scientific notation
with a character other than "e", like ``1.495978707D+13``) can now be parsed by
the fast reader natively. [#5552]
- Allow round-tripping masked data tables in most formats by using an
empty string ``''`` as the default representation of masked values
when writing. [#5347]
- Allow reading HTML tables with unicode column values in Python 2.7. [#5410]
- Check for self-consistency of ECSV header column names. [#5463]
- Produce warnings when writing an IPAC table from an astropy table that
contains metadata not supported by the IPAC format. [#4700]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- "Lazy" loading of HDUs now occurs - when an HDU is requested, the file is
only read up to the point where that HDU is found. This can mean a
substantial speedup when accessing files that have many HDUs. [#5065]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``io.misc.yaml`` module to support serializing core astropy objects
using the YAML protocol. [#5486]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``delay_doc_updates`` contextmanager to postpone the formatting of
the documentation for the ``read`` and ``write`` methods of the class to
optionally reduce the import time. [#5275]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a class to combine astropy fitters and functions to remove outliers
e. g., sigma clip. [#4760]
- Added a ``Tabular`` model. [#5105]
- Added ``Hermite1D`` and ``Hermite2D`` polynomial models [#5242]
- Added the injection of EntryPoints into astropy.modeling.fitting if
they inherit from Fitters class. [#5241]
- Added bounding box to ``Lorentz1D`` and ``MexicanHat1D`` models. [#5393]
- Added ``Planar2D`` functional model. [#5456]
- Updated ``Gaussian2D`` to accept no arguments (will use default x/y_stddev
and theta). [#5537]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``keep`` and ``**kwargs`` parameter to ``support_nddata``. [#5477]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``axis`` keyword to ``biweight_location`` and
``biweight_midvariance``. [#5127, #5158]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow renaming mixin columns. [#5469]
- Support generalized value formatting for mixin columns in tables. [#5274]
- Support persistence of table indices when pickling and copying table. [#5468]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Install both runtime and test dependencies when running the
./setup.py test command. These dependencies are specified by the
install_requires and tests_require keywords via setuptools. [#5092]
- Enable easier subclassing of the TestRunner class. [#5505]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``light_travel_time`` can now use more accurate JPL ephemerides. [#5273, #5436]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``pixel_scale`` and ``plate_scale`` equivalencies. [#4987]
- The ``spectral_density`` equivalency now supports transformations of
luminosity density. [#5151]
- ``Quantity`` now accepts strings consisting of a number and unit such
as '10 km/s'. [#5245]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new decorator: ``deprecated_renamed_argument``. This can be used to
rename a function argument, while it still allows for the use of the older
argument name. [#5214]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``make_lupton_rgb`` function to generate color images from three
greyscale images, following the algorithm of Lupton et al. (2004). [#5535]
- Added ``data`` and ``interval`` inputs to the ``ImageNormalize``
class. [#5206]
- Added a new ``simple_norm`` convenience function. [#5206]
- Added a default stretch for the ``Normalization`` class. [#5206].
- Added a default ``vmin/vmax`` for the ``ManualInterval`` class.
[#5206].
- The ``wcsaxes`` subpackage has now been integrated in astropy as
``astropy.visualization.wcsaxes``. This allows plotting of astronomical
data/coordinate systems in Matplotlib. [#5496]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved ``footprint_to_file``: allow to specify the coordinate system, and
use by default the one from ``RADESYS``. Overwrite the file instead of
appending to it. [#5494]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``discretize_model`` now raises an exception if non-integer ranges are used.
Previously it had incorrect behavior but did not raise an exception. [#5538]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``SkyCoord``, ``ICRS``, and other coordinate objects, as well as the
underlying representations such as ``SphericalRepresentation`` and
``CartesianRepresentation`` can now be reshaped using methods named like the
numpy ones for ``ndarray`` (``reshape``, ``swapaxes``, etc.)
[#4123, #5254, #5482]
- The ``obsgeoloc`` and ``obsgeovel`` attributes of ``GCRS`` and
``PrecessedGeocentric`` frames are now stored and returned as
``CartesianRepresentation`` objects, rather than ``Quantity`` objects.
Similarly, ``EarthLocation.get_gcrs_posvel`` now returns a tuple of
``CartesianRepresentation`` objects. [#5253]
- ``search_around_3d`` and ``search_around_sky`` now return units
for the distance matching their input argument when no match is
found, instead of ``dimensionless_unscaled``. [#5528]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ASCII writers now accept an 'overwrite' argument.
The default behavior is changed so that a warning will be
issued when overwriting an existing file unless ``overwrite=True``.
In a future version this will be changed from a warning to an
exception to prevent accidentally overwriting a file. [#5007]
- The default representation of masked values when writing tables was
changed from ``'--'`` to the empty string ``''``. Previously any
user-supplied ``fill_values`` parameter would overwrite the class
default, but now the values are prepended to the class default. [#5347]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The old ``Header`` interface, deprecated since Astropy 0.1 (PyFITS 3.1), has
been removed entirely. See :ref:`header-transition-guide` for explanations
on this change and help on the transition. [#5310]
- The following functions, classes and methods have been removed:
``CardList``, ``Card.key``, ``Card.cardimage``, ``Card.ascardimage``,
``create_card``, ``create_card_from_string``, ``upper_key``,
``Header.ascard``, ``Header.rename_key``, ``Header.get_history``,
``Header.get_comment``, ``Header.toTxtFile``, ``Header.fromTxtFile``,
``new_table``, ``tdump``, ``tcreate``, ``BinTableHDU.tdump``,
``BinTableHDU.tcreate``.
- Removed ``txtfile`` argument to the ``Header`` constructor.
- Removed usage of ``Header.update`` with ``Header.update(keyword, value,
comment)`` arguments.
- Removed ``startColumn`` and ``endColumn`` arguments to the ``FITS_record``
constructor.
- The ``clobber`` argument in FITS writers has been renamed to
``overwrite``. This change affects the following functions and
methods: ``tabledump``, ``writeto``, ``Header.tofile``,
``Header.totextfile``, ``_BaseDiff.report``,
``_BaseHDU.overwrite``, ``BinTableHDU.dump`` and
``HDUList.writeto``. [#5171]
- Added an optional ``copy`` parameter to ``fits.Header`` which controls if
a copy is made when creating an ``Header`` from another ``Header``.
[#5005, #5326]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``.fts`` and ``.fts.gz`` files will be automatically identified as
``io.fits`` files if no explicit ``format`` is given. [#5211]
- Added an optional ``readwrite`` parameter for ``get_formats`` to filter
formats for read or write. [#5275]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Gaussian2D`` now raises an error if ``theta`` is set at the same time as
``cov_matrix`` (previously ``theta`` was silently ignored). [#5537]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Setting an existing table column (e.g. ``t['a'] = [1, 2, 3]``) now defaults
to *replacing* the column with a column corresponding to the new value
(using ``t.replace_column()``) instead of doing an in-place update. Any
existing meta-data in the column (e.g. the unit) is discarded. An
in-place update is still done when the new value is not a valid column,
e.g. ``t['a'] = 0``. To force an in-place update use the pattern
``t['a'][:] = [1, 2, 3]``. [#5556]
- Allow ``collections.Mapping``-like ``data`` attribute when initializing a
``Table`` object (``dict``-like was already possible). [#5213]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The inputs to the ``TestRunner.run_tests()`` method now must be
keyword arguments (no positional arguments). This applies to the
``astropy.test()`` function as well. [#5505]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Renamed ``ignored`` context manager in ``compat.misc`` to ``suppress``
to be consistent with https://bugs.python.org/issue19266 . [#5003]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Deprecated the ``scale_image`` function. [#5206]
- The ``mpl_normalize`` module (containing the ``ImageNormalize``
class) is now automatically imported with the ``visualization``
subpackage. [#5491]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``clobber`` argument in ``VOSDatabase.to_json()`` has been
renamed to ``overwrite``. [#5171]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``wcs.rotateCD()`` was deprecated without a replacement. [#5240]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Transformations between CIRS and AltAz now correctly account for the
location of the observer. [#5591]
- GCRS frames representing a location on Earth with multiple obstimes are now
allowed. This means that the solar system routines ``get_body``,
``get_moon`` and ``get_sun`` now work with non-scalar times and a
non-geocentric observer. [#5253]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix issue with units or other astropy core classes stored in table meta.
[#5605]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Copying a ``fits.Header`` using ``copy`` or ``deepcopy`` from the ``copy``
module will use ``Header.copy`` to ensure that modifying the copy will
not alter the other original Header and vice-versa. [#4990, #5323]
- ``HDUList.info()`` no longer raises ``AttributeError`` in presence of
``BZERO``. [#5508]
- Avoid exceptions with numpy 1.10 and up when using scaled integer data
where ``BZERO`` has float type but integer value. [#4639, #5527]
- Converting a header card to a string now calls ``self.verify('fix+warn')``
instead of ``self.verify('fix')`` so headers with invalid keywords will
not raise a ``VerifyError`` on printing. [#887,#5054]
- ``FITS_Record._convert_ascii`` now converts blank fields to 0 when a
non-blank null column value is set. [#5134, #5394]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``read`` now correctly raises an IOError if a file with an unknown
extension can't be found, instead of raising IORegistryError:
"Format could not be identified." [#4779]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure ``Time`` instances holding a single ``delta_ut1_utc`` can be copied,
flattened, etc. [#5225]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Operations involving ``Angle`` or ``Distance``, or any other
``SpecificTypeQuantity`` instance, now also keep return an instance of the
same type if the instance was the second argument (if the resulting unit
is consistent with the specific type). [#5327]
- Inplace operations on ``Angle`` and ``Distance`` instances now raise an
exception if the final unit is not equivalent to radian and meter, resp.
Similarly, views as ``Angle`` and ``Distance`` can now only be taken
from quantities with appropriate units, and views as ``Quantity`` can only
be taken from logarithmic quanties such as ``Magnitude`` if the physical
unit is dimensionless. [#5070]
- Conversion from quantities to logarithmic units now correctly causes a
logarithmic quantity such as ``Magnitude`` to be returned. [#5183]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- SIP distortion for an alternate WCS is correctly initialized now by
looking at the "CTYPE" values matching the alternate WCS. [#5443]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The bundled ERFA was updated to version 1.3.0. This includes the
leap second planned for 2016 Dec 31.
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Initialization of ``Angle`` has been sped up for ``Quantity`` and ``Angle``
input. [#4970]
- The use of ``np.matrix`` instances in the transformations has been
deprecated, since this class does not allow stacks of matrices. As a
result, the semi-public functions ``angles.rotation_matrix`` and
``angles.angle_axis`` are also deprecated, in favour of the new routines
with the same name in ``coordinates.matrix_utilities``. [#5104]
- A new ``BaseCoordinateFrame.cache`` dictionary has been created to expose
the internal cache. This is useful when modifying representation data
in-place without using ``realize_frame``. Additionally, documentation for
in-place operations on coordinates were added. [#5575]
- Coordinates and their representations are printed with a slightly different
format, following how numpy >= 1.12 prints structured arrays. [#5423]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default cosmological model has been changed to Planck 2015,
and the citation strings have been updated. [#5372]
astropy.extern
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Updated the bundled ``six`` module to version 1.10.0. [#5521]
- Updated the astropy shipped version of ``PLY`` to version 3.9. [#5526]
- Updated the astropy shipped version of jQuery to v3.3.1, and dataTables
to v1.10.12. [#5564]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Performance improvements for tables with many columns. [#4985]
- Removed obsolete code that was previously needed to properly
implement the append mode. [#4793]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Reduced the time spent in the ``get_formats`` function. This also reduces
the time it takes to import astropy subpackages, i.e.
``astropy.coordinates``. [#5262]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The functions ``add_enabled_units``, ``set_enabled_equivalencies`` and
``add_enabled_equivalencies`` have been sped up by copying the current
``_UnitRegistry`` instead of building it from scratch. [#5306]
- To build the documentation, the ``build_sphinx`` command has been deprecated
in favor of ``build_docs``. [#5179]
- The ``--remote-data`` option to ``python setup.py test`` can now take
different arguments: ``--remote-data=none`` is the same as not specifying
``--remote-data`` (skip all tests that require the internet),
``--remote-data=astropy`` skips all tests that need remote data except those
that require only data from data.astropy.org, and ``--remote-data=any`` is
the same as ``--remote-data`` (run all tests that use remote data). [#5506]
- The pytest ``recwarn`` fixture has been removed from the tests in favor of
``utils.catch_warnings``. [#5489]
- Deprecated escape sequences in strings (Python 3.6) have been removed. [#5489]
Version 1.2.2 (2016-12-22)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug where the ``fill_values`` parameter was ignored when writing a
table to HTML format. [#5379]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Handle unicode FITS BinTable column names on Python 2 [#5204, #4805]
- Fix reading of float values from ASCII tables, that could be read as
float32 instead of float64 (with the E and F formats). These values are now
always read as float64. [#5362]
- Fixed memoryleak when using the compression module. [#5399, #5464]
- Able to insert and remove lower case HIERARCH keywords in a consistent
manner [#5313, #5321]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed broadcasting in ``sigma_clip`` when using negative ``axis``. [#4988]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Assigning a logarithmic unit to a ``QTable`` column that did not have a
unit yet now correctly turns it into the appropriate function quantity
subclass (such as ``Magnitude`` or ``Dex``). [#5345]
- Fix default value for ``show_row_index`` in ``Table.show_in_browser``.
[#5562]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For inverse trig functions that operate on quantities, catch any warnings
that occur from evaluating the function on the unscaled quantity value
between __array_prepare__ and __array_wrap__. [#5153]
- Ensure ``!=`` also works for function units such as ``MagUnit`` [#5345]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix use of the ``relax`` keyword in ``to_header`` when used to change the
output precision. [#5164]
- ``wcs.to_header(relax=True)`` adds a "-SIP" suffix to ``CTYPE`` when SIP
distortion is present in the WCS object. [#5239]
- Improved log messages in ``to_header``. [#5239]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The bundled ERFA was updated to version 1.3.0. This includes the
leap second planned for 2016 Dec 31.
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``poisson_conf_interval`` with ``'kraft-burrows-nousek'`` interval is now
faster and usable with SciPy versions < 0.14. [#5064, #5290]
Version 1.2.1 (2016-06-22)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused TFIELDS to not be in the correct position in
compressed image HDU headers under certain circumstances, which created
invalid FITS files. [#5118, #5125]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an ``ImportError`` that occurred whenever ``astropy.constants`` was
imported before ``astropy.units``. [#5030, #5121]
- Magnitude zero points used to define ``STmag``, ``ABmag``, ``M_bol`` and
``m_bol`` are now collected in ``astropy.units.magnitude_zero_points``.
They are not enabled as regular units by default, but can be included
using ``astropy.units.magnitude_zero_points.enable()``. This makes it
possible to round-trip magnitudes as originally intended. [#5030]
Version 1.2 (2016-06-19)
========================
General
-------
- Astropy now requires Numpy 1.7.0 or later. [#4784]
New Features
------------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add ``L_bol0``, the luminosity corresponding to absolute bolometric
magnitude zero. [#4262]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``CartesianRepresentation`` now includes a transform() method that can take
a 3x3 matrix to transform coordinates. [#4860]
- Solar system and lunar ephemerides accessible via ``get_body``,
``get_body_barycentric`` and ``get_moon`` functions. [#4890]
- Added astrometric frames (i.e., a frame centered on a particular
point/object specified in another frame). [#4909, #4941]
- Added ``SkyCoord.spherical_offsets_to`` method. [#4338]
- Recent Earth rotation (IERS) data are now auto-downloaded so that AltAz
transformations for future dates now use the most accurate available
rotation values. [#4436]
- Add support for heliocentric coordinate frames. [#4314]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``angular_diameter_distance_z1z2`` now supports the computation of
the angular diameter distance between a scalar and an array like
argument. [#4593] The method now supports models with negative
Omega_k0 (positive curvature universes) [#4661] and allows z2 < z1.
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- File name could be passed as ``Path`` object. [#4606]
- Check that columns in ``formats`` specifier exist in the output table
when writing. [#4508, #4511]
- Allow trailing whitespace in the IPAC header lines. [#4758]
- Updated to filter out the default parser warning of BeautifulSoup.
[#4551]
- Added support for reading and writing reStructuredText simple tables.
[#4812]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- File name could be passed as ``Path`` object. [#4606]
- Header allows a dictionary-like cards argument during creation. [#4663]
- New function ``convenience.table_to_hdu`` to allow creating a FITS
HDU object directly from an astropy ``Table``. [#4778]
- New optional arguments ``ignore_missing`` and ``remove_all`` are added
to ``astropy.io.fits.header.remove()``. [#5020]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added custom ``IORegistryError``. [#4833]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- File name could be passed as ``Path`` object. [#4606]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the fittable=True attribute to the Scale and Shift models with tests. [#4718]
- Added example plots to docstrings for some built-in models. [#4008]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``UnknownUncertainty`` new subclass of ``NDUncertainty`` that can be used to
save uncertainties that cannot be used for error propagation. [#4272]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: ``add``, ``subtract``, ``multiply`` and ``divide``
can be used as classmethods but require that two operands are given. These
operands don't need to be NDData instances but they must be convertible to
NDData. This conversion is done internally. Using it on the instance does
not require (but also allows) two operands. [#4272, #4851]
- ``NDDataRef`` new subclass that implements ``NDData`` together with all
currently available mixins. This class does not implement additional
attributes, methods or a numpy.ndarray-like interface like ``NDDataArray``.
attributes, methods or a numpy.ndarray-like interface like ``NDDataArray``.
[#4797]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``axis`` keyword for ``mad_std`` function. [#4688, #4689]
- Added Bayesian and Akaike Information Criteria. [#4716]
- Added Bayesian upper limits for Poisson count rates. [#4622]
- Added ``circstats``; a module for computing circular statistics. [#3705, #4472]
- Added ``jackknife`` resampling method. [#3708, #4439]
- Updated ``bootstrap`` to allow bootstrapping statistics with multiple
outputs. [#3601]
- Added ``LombScargle`` class to compute Lomb-Scargle periodograms [#4811]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Table.show_in_notebook`` and ``Table.show_in_browser(jsviewer=True)`` now
yield tables with an "idx" column, allowing easy identification of the index
of a row even when the table is re-sorted in the browser. [#4404]
- Added ``AttributeError`` when trying to set mask on non-masked table. [#4637]
- Allow to use a tuple of keys in ``Table.sort``. [#4671]
- Added ``itercols``; a way to iterate through columns of a table. [#3805,
#4888]
- ``Table.show_in_notebook`` and the default notebook display (i.e.,
``Table._repr_html_``) now use consistent table styles which can be set
using the ``astropy.table.default_notebook_table_class`` configuration
item. [#4886]
- Added interface to create ``Table`` directly from any table-like object
that has an ``__astropy_table__`` method. [#4885]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Enable test runner to obtain documentation source files from directory
other than "docs". [#4748]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added caching of scale and format transformations for improved performance.
[#4422]
- Recent Earth rotation (IERS) data are now auto-downloaded so that UT1
transformations for future times now work out of the box. [#4436]
- Add support for barycentric/heliocentric time corrections. [#4314]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The option to use tuples to indicate fractional powers of units,
deprecated in 0.3.1, has been removed. [#4449]
- Added slug to imperial units. [#4670]
- Added Earth radius (``R_earth``) and Jupiter radius (``R_jup``) to units.
[#4818]
- Added a ``represents`` property to allow access to the definition of a
named unit (e.g., ``u.kpc.represents`` yields ``1000 pc``). [#4806]
- Add bolometric absolute and apparent magnitudes, ``M_bol`` and ``m_bol``.
[#4262]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Path`` object could be passed to ``get_readable_fileobj``. [#4606]
- Implemented a generic and extensible way of merging metadata. [#4459]
- Added ``format_doc`` decorator which allows to replace and/or format the
current docstring of an object. [#4242]
- Added a new context manager ``set_locale`` to temporarily set the
current locale. [#4363]
- Added new IERS_Auto class to auto-download recent IERS (Earth rotation)
data when required by coordinate or time transformations. [#4436]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add zscale interval based on Numdisplay's implementation. [#4776]
API changes
-----------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The deprecated ``ConfigurationItem`` and ``ConfigAlias`` classes and the
``save_config``, ``get_config_items``, and ``generate_all_config_items``
functions have now been removed. [#2767, #4446]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed compatibility layer for pre-v0.4 API. [#4447]
- Added ``copy`` keyword-only argument to allow initialization without
copying the (possibly large) input coordinate arrays. [#4883]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improve documentation of z validity range of cosmology objects [#4882, #4949]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add a way to control HTML escaping when writing a table as an HTML file. [#4423]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Two optional boolean arguments ``ignore_missing`` and ``remove_all`` are
added to ``Header.remove``. [#5020]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Renamed ``Redshift`` model to ``RedshiftScaleFactor``. [#3672]
- Inputs (``coords`` and ``out``) to ``render`` function in ``Model`` are
converted to float. [#4697]
- ``RotateNative2Celestial`` and ``RotateCelestial2Native`` are now
implemented as subclasses of ``EulerAngleRotation``. [#4881, #4940]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NDDataBase`` does not set the private uncertainty property anymore. This
only affects you if you subclass ``NDDataBase`` directly. [#4270]
- ``NDDataBase``: the ``uncertainty``-setter is removed. A similar one is
added in ``NDData`` so this also only affects you if you subclassed
``NDDataBase`` directly. [#4270]
- ``NDDataBase``: ``uncertainty``-getter returns ``None`` instead of the
private uncertainty and is now abstract. This getter is moved to
``NDData`` so it only affects direct subclasses of ``NDDataBase``. [#4270]
- ``NDData`` accepts a Quantity-like data and an explicitly given unit.
Before a ValueError was raised in this case. The final instance will use the
explicitly given unit-attribute but doesn't check if the units are
convertible and the data will not be scaled. [#4270]
- ``NDData`` : the given mask, explicit or implicit if the data was masked,
will be saved by the setter. It will not be saved directly as the private
attribute. [#4879]
- ``NDData`` accepts an additional argument ``copy`` which will copy every
parameter before it is saved as attribute of the instance. [#4270]
- ``NDData``: added an ``uncertainty.getter`` that returns the private
attribute. It is equivalent to the old ``NDDataBase.uncertainty``-getter.
[#4270]
- ``NDData``: added an ``uncertainty.setter``. It is slightly modified with
respect to the old ``NDDataBase.uncertainty``-setter. The changes include:
- if the uncertainty has no uncertainty_type an info message is printed
instead of a TypeError and the uncertainty is saved as
``UnknownUncertainty`` except the uncertainty is None. [#4270]
- the requirement that the uncertainty_type of the uncertainty needs to be a
string was removed. [#4270]
- if the uncertainty is a subclass of NDUncertainty the parent_nddata
attribute will be set so the uncertainty knows to which data it belongs.
This is also a Bugfix. [#4152, #4270]
- ``NDData``: added a ``meta``-getter, which will set and return an empty
OrderedDict if no meta was previously set. [#4509, #4469]
- ``NDData``: added an ``meta``-setter. It requires that the meta is
dictionary-like (it also accepts Headers or ordered dictionaries and others)
or None. [#4509, #4469, #4921]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: The operand in arithmetic methods (``add``, ...)
doesn't need to be a subclass of ``NDData``. It is sufficient if it can be
converted to one. This conversion is done internally. [#4272]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: The arithmetic methods allow several new arguments to
control how or if different attributes of the class will be processed during
the operation. [#4272]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: Giving the parameter ``propagate_uncertainties`` as
positional keyword is deprecated and will be removed in the future. You now
need to specify it as keyword-parameter. Besides ``True`` and ``False`` also
``None`` is now a valid value for this parameter. [#4272, #4851]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: The wcs attribute of the operands is not compared and
thus raises no ValueError if they differ, except if a ``compare_wcs``
parameter is specified. [#4272]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: The arithmetic operation was split from a general
``_arithmetic`` method to different specialized private methods to allow
subclasses more control on how the attributes are processed without
overriding ``_arithmetic``. The ``_arithmetic`` method is now used to call
these other methods. [#4272]
- ``NDSlicingMixin``: If the attempt at slicing the mask, wcs or uncertainty
fails with a ``TypeError`` a Warning is issued instead of the TypeError. [#4271]
- ``NDUncertainty``: ``support_correlated`` attribute is deprecated in favor of
``supports_correlated`` which is a property. Also affects
``StdDevUncertainty``. [#4272]
- ``NDUncertainty``: added the ``__init__`` that was previously implemented in
``StdDevUncertainty`` and takes an additional ``unit`` parameter. [#4272]
- ``NDUncertainty``: added a ``unit`` property without setter that returns the
set unit or if not set the unit of the parent. [#4272]
- ``NDUncertainty``: included a ``parent_nddata`` property similar to the one
previously implemented in StdDevUncertainty. [#4272]
- ``NDUncertainty``: added an ``array`` property with setter. The setter will
convert the value to a plain numpy array if it is a list or a subclass of a
numpy array. [#4272]
- ``NDUncertainty``: ``propagate_multiply`` and similar were removed. Before
they were abstract properties and replaced by methods with the same name but
with a leading underscore. The entry point for propagation is a method
called ``propagate``. [#4272]
- ``NDUncertainty`` and subclasses: implement a representation (``__repr__``).
[#4787]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: error propagation allows an explicitly given
correlation factor, which may be a scalar or an array which will be taken
into account during propagation.
This correlation must be determined manually and is not done by the
uncertainty! [#4272]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: the ``array`` is converted to a plain numpy array
only if it's a list or a subclass of numpy.ndarray. Previously it was always
cast to a numpy array but also allowed subclasses. [#4272]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: setting the ``parent_nddata`` does not compare if the
shape of it's array is identical to the parents data shape. [#4272]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: the ``array.setter`` doesn't compare if the array has
the same shape as the parents data. [#4272]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: deprecated ``support_correlated`` in favor of
``supports_correlated``. [#4272, #4828]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: deprecated ``propagate_add`` and similar methods in
favor of ``propagate``. [#4272, #4828]
- Allow ``data`` to be a named argument in ``NDDataArray``. [#4626]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``operations.unique`` now has a ``keep`` parameter, which allows
one to select whether to keep the first or last row in a set of
duplicate rows, or to remove all rows that are duplicates. [#4632]
- ``QTable`` now behaves more consistently by making columns act as a
``Quantity`` even if they are assigned a unit after the table is
created. [#4497, #4884]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Remove deprecated ``register`` argument for Unit classes. [#4448]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The astropy.utils.compat.argparse module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'argparse' module directly instead. [#4462]
- The astropy.utils.compat.odict module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'collections' module directly instead. [#4466]
- The astropy.utils.compat.gzip module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'gzip' module directly instead. [#4464]
- The deprecated ``ScienceStateAlias`` class has been removed. [#2767, #4446]
- The astropy.utils.compat.subprocess module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'subprocess' module instead. [#4483]
- The astropy.utils.xml.unescaper module now also unescapes ``'%2F'`` to
``'/'`` and ``'&&'`` to ``'&'`` in a given URL. [#4699]
- The astropy.utils.metadata.MetaData descriptor has now two optional
parameters: doc and copy. [#4921]
- The default IERS (Earth rotation) data now is now auto-downloaded via a
new class IERS_Auto. When extrapolating UT1-UTC or polar motion values
outside the available time range, the values are now clipped at the last
available value instead of being linearly extrapolated. [#4436]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- WCS objects can now be initialized with an ImageHDU or
PrimaryHDU object. [#4493, #4505]
- astropy.wcs now issues an INFO message when the header has SIP coefficients but
"-SIP" is missing from CTYPE. [#4814]
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ameliorate a problem with ``get_sun`` not round-tripping due to
approximations in the light deflection calculation. [#4952]
- Ensure that ``angle_utilities.position_angle`` accepts floats, as stated
in the docstring. [#3800]
- Ensured that transformations for ``GCRS`` frames are correct for
non-geocentric observers. [#4986]
- Fixed a problem with the ``Quantity._repr_latex_`` method causing errors
when showing an ``EarthLocation`` in a Jupyter notebook. [#4542, #5068]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem where the fast reader (with use_fast_converter=False) can
fail on non-US locales. [#4363]
- Fix astropy.io.ascii.read handling of units for IPAC formatted files.
Columns with no unit are treated as unitless not dimensionless.
[#4867, #4947]
- Fix problems the header parsing in the sextractor reader. [#4603, #4910]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``GroupsHDU.is_image`` property is now set to ``False``. [#4742]
- Ensure scaling keywords are removed from header when unsigned integer data
is converted to signed type. [#4974, #5053]
- Made TFORMx keyword check more flexible in test of compressed images to
enable compatibility of the test with cfitsio 3.380. [#4646, #4653]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The astropy.io.votable.validator.html module is updated to handle division
by zero when generating validation report. [#4699]
- KeyError when converting Table v1.2 numeric arrays fixed. [#4782]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Refactored ``AiryDisk2D``, ``Sersic1D``, and ``Sersic2D`` models
to be able to combine them as classes as well as instances. [#4720]
- Modified the "LevMarLSQFitter" class to use the weights in the
calculation of the Jacobian. [#4751]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NDData`` giving masked_Quantities as data-argument will use the
implicitly passed mask, unit and value. [#4270]
- ``NDData`` using a subclass implementing ``NDData`` with
``NDArithmeticMixin`` now allows error propagation. [#4270]
- Fixed memory leak that happened when uncertainty of ``NDDataArray`` was
set. [#4825, #4862]
- ``StdDevUncertainty``: During error propagation the unit of the uncertainty
is taken into account. [#4272]
- ``NDArithmeticMixin``: ``divide`` and ``multiply`` yield correct
uncertainties if only one uncertainty is set. [#4152, #4272]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix ``sigma_clipped_stats`` to use the ``axis`` argument. [#4726, #4808]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug where Tables created from existing Table objects were not
inheriting the ``primary_key`` attribute. [#4672, #4930]
- Provide more detail in the error message when reading a table fails due to a
problem converting column string values. [#4759]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Exponentiation using a ``Quantity`` with a unit equivalent to dimensionless
as base and an ``array``-like exponent yields the correct result. [#4770]
- Ensured that with ``spectral_density`` equivalency one could also convert
between ``photlam`` and ``STmag``/``ABmag``. [#5017]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The astropy.utils.compat.fractions module has now been deprecated. Use the
Python 'fractions' module directly instead. [#4463]
- Added ``format_doc`` decorator which allows to replace and/or format the
current docstring of an object. [#4242]
- Attributes using the astropy.utils.metadata.MetaData descriptor are now
included in the sphinx documentation. [#4921]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Relaxed expected accuracy of Cone Search prediction test to reduce spurious
failures. [#4382]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- astropy.wcs.to_header removes "-SIP" from CTYPE when SIP coefficients
are not written out, i.e. ``relax`` is either ``False`` or ``None``.
astropy.wcs.to_header appends "-SIP" to CTYPE when SIP coefficients
are written out, i.e. ``relax=True``. [#4814]
- Made ``wcs.bounds_check`` call ``wcsprm_python2c``, which means it
works even if ``wcs.set`` has not been called yet. [#4957, #4966].
- WCS objects can no longer be reverse-indexed, which was technically
permitted but incorrectly implemented previously [#4962]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Python 2.6 is no longer supported. [#4486]
- The bundled version of py.test has been updated to 2.8.3. [#4349]
- Reduce Astropy's import time (``import astropy``) by almost a factor 2. [#4649]
- Cython prerequisite for building changed to v0.19 in install.rst [#4705,
#4710, #4719]
- All astropy.modeling functionality that was deprecated in Astropy 1.0 has
been removed. [#4857]
- Added instructions for installing Astropy into CASA. [#4840]
- Added an example gallery to the docs demonstrating short
snippets/examples. [#4734]
Version 1.1.2 (2016-03-10)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.wcs`` module now exposes ``WCSHDO_P*`` constants that can be
used to allow more control over output precision when using the ``relax``
keyword argument. [#4616]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed handling of CDS data file when no description is given and also
included stripping out of markup for missing value from description. [#4437, #4474]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed possible segfault during error handling in FITS tile
compression. [#4489]
- Fixed crash on pickling of binary table columns with the 'X', 'P', or
'Q' format. [#4514]
- Fixed memory / reference leak that could occur when copying a ``FITS_rec``
object (the ``.data`` for table HDUs). [#520]
- Fixed a memory / reference leak in ``FITS_rec`` that occurred in a wide
range of cases, especially after writing FITS tables to a file, but in
other cases as well. [#4539]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug to allow instantiation of a modeling class having a parameter
with a custom setter that takes two parameters ``(value, model)`` [#4656]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug when replacing a table column with a mixin column like
Quantity or Time. [#4601]
- Disable initial ordering in jsviewer (``show_in_browser``,
``show_in_notebook``) to respect the order from the Table. [#4628]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed sphinx issues on plotting quantities. [#4527]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed latex representation of function units. [#4563]
- The ``zest.releaser`` hooks included in Astropy are now injected locally to
Astropy, rather than being global. [#4650]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``fits2bitmap`` script to allow ext flag to contain extension
names or numbers. [#4468]
- Fixed ``fits2bitmap`` default output filename generation for
compressed FITS files. [#4468]
- Fixed ``quantity_support`` to ensure its conversion returns ndarray
instances (needed for numpy >=1.10). [#4654]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed possible exception in handling of SIP headers that was introduced in
v1.1.1. [#4492]
- Fixed a bug that caused WCS objects with a high dynamic range of values for
certain parameters to lose precision when converted to a header. This
occurred for example in cases of spectral cubes, where a spectral axis in
Hz might have a CRVAL3 value greater than 1e10 but the spatial coordinates
would have CRVAL1/2 values 8 to 10 orders of magnitude smaller. This bug
was present in Astropy 1.1 and 1.1.1 but not 1.0.x. This has now been fixed
by ensuring that all WCS keywords are output with 14 significant figures by
default. [#4616]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled astropy-helpers to v1.1.2. [#4678]
- Updated bundled copy of WCSLIB to 5.14. [#4579]
Version 1.1.1 (2016-01-08)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow ``pathlib.Path`` objects (available in Python 3.4 and later) for
specifying the file name in registry read / write functions. [#4405]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``console.human_file_size`` now accepts quantities with byte-equivalent
units [#4373]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.analytic_functions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the blackbody functions' handling of overflows on some platforms
(Windows with MSVC, older Linux versions) with a buggy ``expm1`` function.
[#4393]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an bug where updates to string columns in FITS tables were not saved
on Python 3. [#4452]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled astropy-helpers to v1.1.1. [#4413]
Version 1.1 (2015-12-11)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added new tools ``set_temp_config`` and ``set_temp_cache`` which can be
used either as function decorators or context managers to temporarily
use alternative directories in which to read/write the Astropy config
files and download caches respectively. This is especially useful for
testing, though ``set_temp_cache`` may also be used as a way to provide
an alternative (application specific) download cache for large data files,
rather than relying on the default cache location in users' home
directories. [#3975]
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the Thomson scattering cross-section. [#3839]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added Moffat2DKernel. [#3965]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``get_constellation`` function and ``SkyCoord.get_constellation``
convenience method to determine the constellation that a coordinate
is in. [#3758]
- Added ``PrecessedGeocentric`` frame, which is based on GCRS, but precessed
to a specific requested mean equinox. [#3758]
- Added ``Supergalactic`` frame to support de Vaucouleurs supergalactic
coordinates. [#3892]
- ``SphericalRepresentation`` now has a ``._unit_representation`` class attribute to specify
an equivalent UnitSphericalRepresentation. This allows subclasses of
representations to pair up correctly. [#3757]
- Added functionality to support getting the locations of observatories by
name. See ``astropy.coordinates.EarthLocation.of_site``. [#4042]
- Added ecliptic coordinates, including ``GeocentricTrueEcliptic``,
``BarycentricTrueEcliptic``, and ``HeliocentricTrueEcliptic``. [#3749]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add Planck 2015 cosmology [#3476]
- Distance calculations now > 20-40x faster for the supplied
cosmologies due to implementing Cython scalar versions of
``FLRW.inv_efunc``.[#4127]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Automatically use ``guess=False`` when reading if the file ``format`` is
provided and the format parameters are uniquely specified. This update
also removes duplicate format guesses to improve performance. [#3418]
- Calls to ascii.read() for fixed-width tables may now omit one of the keyword
arguments ``col_starts`` or ``col_ends``. Columns will be assumed to begin and
end immediately adjacent to each other. [#3657]
- Add a function ``get_read_trace()`` that returns a traceback of the
attempted read formats for the last call to ``astropy.io.ascii.read``. [#3688]
- Supports LZMA decompression via ``get_readable_fileobj`` [#3667]
- Allow ``-`` character is Sextractor format column names. [#4168]
- Improve DAOphot reader to read multi-aperture files [#3535, #4207]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support reading and writing from bzip2 compressed files. i.e. ``.fits.bz2``
files. [#3789]
- Included a new command-line script called ``fitsinfo`` to display
a summary of the HDUs in one or more FITS files. [#3677]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support saving all meta information, description and units of tables and columns
in HDF5 files [#4103]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A new method was added to ``astropy.io.votable.VOTable``,
``get_info_by_id`` to conveniently find an ``INFO`` element by its
``ID`` attribute. [#3633]
- Instances in the votable tree now have better ``__repr__`` methods. [#3639]
astropy.logger.py
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added log levels (e.g., DEBUG, INFO, CRITICAL) to ``astropy.log`` [#3947]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new ``Parameter.validator`` interface for setting a validation
method on individual model parameters. See the ``Parameter``
documentation for more details. [#3910]
- The projection classes that are named based on the 3-letter FITS
WCS projections (e.g. ``Pix2Sky_TAN``) now have aliases using
longer, more descriptive names (e.g. ``Pix2Sky_Gnomonic``).
[#3583]
- All of the standard FITS WCS projection types have been
implemented in ``astropy.modeling.projections`` (by wrapping
WCSLIB). [#3906]
- Added ``Sersic1D`` and ``Sersic2D`` model classes. [#3889]
- Added the Voigt profile to existing models. [#3901]
- Added ``bounding_box`` property and ``render_model`` function [#3909]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``block_reduce`` and ``block_replicate`` functions. [#3453]
- ``extract_array`` now offers different options to deal with array
boundaries [#3727]
- Added a new ``Cutout2D`` class to create postage stamp image cutouts
with optional WCS propagation. [#3823]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``sigma_lower`` and ``sigma_upper`` keywords to
``sigma_clip`` to allow for non-symmetric clipping. [#3595]
- Added ``cenfunc``, ``stdfunc``, and ``axis`` keywords to
``sigma_clipped_stats``. [#3792]
- ``sigma_clip`` automatically masks invalid input values (NaNs, Infs) before
performing the clipping [#4051]
- Added the ``histogram`` routine, which is similar to ``np.histogram`` but
includes several additional options for automatic determination of optimal
histogram bins. Associated helper routines include ``bayesian_blocks``,
``friedman_bin_width``, ``scott_bin_width``, and ``knuth_bin_width``.
This functionality was ported from the astroML library. [#3756]
- Added the ``bayesian_blocks`` routine, which implements a dynamic algorithm
for locating change-points in various time series. [#3756]
- A new function ``poisson_conf_interval()`` was added to allow easy calculation
of several standard formulae for the error bars on the mean of a Poisson variable
estimated from a single sample.
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``add_column()`` and ``add_columns()`` now have ``rename_duplicate``
option to rename new column(s) rather than raise exception when its name
already exists. [#3592]
- Added ``Table.to_pandas`` and ``Table.from_pandas`` for converting to/from
pandas dataframes. [#3504]
- Initializing a ``Table`` with ``Column`` objects no longer requires
that the column ``name`` attribute be defined. [#3781]
- Added an ``info`` property to ``Table`` objects which provides configurable
summary information about the table and its columns. [#3731]
- Added an ``info`` property to column classes (``Column`` or mixins). This
serves a dual function of providing configurable summary information about
the column, and acting as a manager of column attributes such as
name, format, or description. [#3731]
- Updated table and column representation to use the ``dtype_info_name``
function for the dtype value. Removed the default "masked=False"
from the table representation. [#3868, #3869]
- Updated row representation to be consistent with the corresponding
table representation for that row. Added HTML representation so a
row displays nicely in IPython notebook.
- Added a new table indexing engine allowing for the creation of
indices on one or more columns of a table using ``add_index``. These
indices enable new functionality such as searching for rows by value
using ``loc`` and ``iloc``, as well as increased performance for
certain operations. [#3915, #4202]
- Added capability to include a structured array or recarray in a table
as a mixin column. This allows for an approximation of nested tables.
[#3925]
- Added ``keep_byteorder`` option to ``Table.as_array()``. See the
"API Changes" section below. [#4080]
- Added a new method ``Table.replace_column()`` to replace an existing
column with a new data column. [#4090]
- Added a ``tableclass`` option to ``Table.pformat()`` to allow specifying
a list of CSS classes added to the HTML table. [#4131]
- New CSS for jsviewer table [#2917, #2982, #4174]
- Added a new ``Table.show_in_notebook`` method that shows an interactive view
of a Table (similar to ``Table.show_in_browser(jsviewer=True)``) in an
Python/Jupyter notebook. [#4197]
- Added column alignment formatting for better pprint viewing
experience. [#3644]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added new test config options, ``config_dir`` and ``cache_dir`` (these
can be edited in ``setup.cfg`` or as extra command-line options to
py.test) for setting the locations to use for the Astropy config files
and download caches (see also the related ``set_temp_config/cache``
features added in ``astropy.config``). [#3975]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for FITS standard time strings. [#3547]
- Allow the ``format`` attribute to be updated in place to change the
default representation of a ``Time`` object. [#3673]
- Add support for shape manipulation (reshape, ravel, etc.). [#3224]
- Add argmin, argmax, argsort, min, max, ptp, sort methods. [#3681]
- Add ``Time.to_datetime`` method for converting ``Time`` objects to
timezone-aware datetimes. [#4119, #4124]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added furlong to imperial units. [#3529]
- Added mil to imperial units. [#3716]
- Added stone to imperial units. [#4192]
- Added Earth Mass (``M_earth``) and Jupiter mass (``M_jup``) to units [#3907]
- Added support for functional units, in particular the logarithmic ones
``Magnitude``, ``Decibel``, and ``Dex``. [#1894]
- Quantities now work with the unit support in matplotlib. See
:ref:`plotting-quantities`. [#3981]
- Clarified imperial mass measurements and added pound force (lbf),
kilopound (kip), and pound per square inch (psi). [#3409]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added new ``OrderedDescriptor`` and ``OrderedDescriptorContainer`` utility
classes that make it easier to implement classes with declarative APIs,
wherein class-level attributes have an inherit "ordering" to them that is
specified by the order in which those attributes are defined in the class
declaration (by defining them using special descriptors that have
``OrderedDescriptor`` as a base class). See the API documentation for
these classes for more details. Coordinate frames and models now use this
interface. [#3679]
- The ``get_pkg_data_*`` functions now take an optional ``package`` argument
which allows specifying any package to read package data filenames or
content out of, as opposed to only being able to use data from the package
that the function is called from. [#4079]
- Added function ``dtype_info_name`` to the ``data_info`` module to provide
the name of a ``dtype`` for human-readable informational purposes. [#3868]
- Added ``classproperty`` decorator--this is to ``property`` as
``classmethod`` is to normal instance methods. [#3982]
- ``iers.open`` now handles network URLs, as well as local paths. [#3850]
- The ``astropy.utils.wraps`` decorator now takes an optional
``exclude_args`` argument not shared by the standard library ``wraps``
decorator (as it is unique to the Astropy version's ability of copying
the wrapped function's argument signature). ``exclude_args`` allows
certain arguments on the wrapped function to be excluded from the signature
of the wrapper function. This is particularly useful when wrapping an
instance method as a function (to exclude the ``self`` argument). [#4017]
- ``get_readable_fileobj`` can automatically decompress LZMA ('.xz')
files using the ``lzma`` module of Python 3.3+ or, when available, the
``backports.lzma`` package on earlier versions. [#3667]
- The ``resolve_name`` utility now accepts any number of additional
positional arguments that are automatically dotted together with the
first ``name`` argument. [#4083]
- Added ``is_url_in_cache`` for resolving paths to cached files via URLS
and checking if files exist. [#4095]
- Added a ``step`` argument to the ``ProgressBar.map`` method to give
users control over the update frequency of the progress bar. [#4191]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a function / context manager ``quantity_support`` for enabling
seamless plotting of ``Quantity`` instances in matplotlib. [#3981]
- Added the ``hist`` function, which is similar to ``plt.hist`` but
includes several additional options for automatic determination of optimal
histogram bins. This functionality was ported from the astroML library.
[#3756]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The included version of wcslib has been upgraded to 5.10. [#3992, #4239]
The minimum required version of wcslib in the 4.x series remains 4.24.
The minimum required version of wcslib in the 5.x series is
5.8. Building astropy against a wcslib 5.x prior to 5.8
will raise an ``ImportError`` when ``astropy.wcs`` is imported.
The wcslib changes relevant to astropy are:
- The FITS headers returned by ``astropy.wcs.WCS.to_header`` and
``astropy.wcs.WCS.to_header_string`` now include values with
more precision. This will result in numerical differences in
your results if you convert ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` objects to FITS
headers and use the results.
- ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` now recognises the ``TPV``, ``TPD``,
``TPU``, ``DSS``, ``TNX`` and ``ZPX`` polynomial distortions.
- Added relaxation flags to allow ``PC0i_0ja``, ``PV0j_0ma``, and
``PS0j_0ma`` (i.e. with leading zeroes on the index).
- Tidied up error reporting, particularly relating to translating
status returns from lower-level functions.
- Changed output formatting of floating point values in
``to_header``.
- Enhanced text representation of ``WCS`` objects. [#3604]
- The ``astropy.tests.helper`` module is now part of the public API (and has a
documentation page). This module was in previous releases of astropy,
but was not considered part of the public API until now. [#3890]
- There is a new function ``astropy.online_help`` to search the
astropy documentation and display the result in a web
browser. [#3642]
API changes
-----------
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``FLRW._tfunc`` and ``FLRW._xfunc`` are marked as deprecated. Users
should use the new public interfaces ``FLRW.lookback_time_integrand``
and ``FLRW.abs_distance_integrand`` instead. [#3767]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default header line processing was made to be consistent with data line
processing in that it now ignores blank lines that may have whitespace
characters. Any code that explicitly specifies a ``header_start`` value
for parsing a file with blank lines in the header containing whitespace will
need to be updated. [#2654]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``uint`` argument to ``fits.open`` is now True by default; that is,
arrays using the FITS unsigned integer convention will be detected, and
read as unsigned integers by default. A new config option for
``io.fits``, ``enable_uint``, can be changed to False to revert to the
original behavior of ignoring the ``uint`` convention unless it is
explicitly requested with ``uint=True``. [#3916]
- The ``ImageHDU.NumCode`` and ``ImageHDU.ImgCode`` attributes (and same
for other classes derived from ``_ImageBaseHDU``) are deprecated. Instead,
the ``astropy.io.fits`` module-level constants ``BITPIX2DTYPE`` and
``DTYPE2BITPIX`` can be used. [#3916]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Note: Comparisons of model parameters with array-like values now
yields a Numpy boolean array as one would get with normal Numpy
array comparison. Previously this returned a scalar True or False,
with True only if the comparison was true for all elements compared,
which could lead to confusing circumstances. [#3912]
- Using ``model.inverse = None`` to reset a model's inverse to its
default is deprecated. In the future this syntax will explicitly make
a model not have an inverse (even if it has a default). Instead, use
``del model.inverse`` to reset a model's inverse to its default (if it
has a default, otherwise this just deletes any custom inverse that has
been assigned to the model and is still equivalent to setting
``model.inverse = None``). [#4236]
- Adds a ``model.has_user_inverse`` attribute which indicates whether or not
a user has assigned a custom inverse to ``model.inverse``. This is just
for informational purposes, for example, for software that introspects
model objects. [#4236]
- Renamed the parameters of ``RotateNative2Celestial`` and
``RotateCelestial2Native`` from ``phi``, ``theta``, ``psi`` to
``lon``, ``lat`` and ``lon_pole``. [#3578]
- Deprecated the ``Pix2Sky_AZP.check_mu`` and ``Sky2Pix_AZP.check_mu``
methods (these were obscure "accidentally public" methods that were
probably not used by anyone). [#3910]
- Added a phase parameter to the Sine1D model. [#3807]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Renamed the ``sigma_clip`` ``sig`` keyword as ``sigma``. [#3595]
- Changed the ``sigma_clip`` ``varfunc`` keyword to ``stdfunc``. [#3595]
- Renamed the ``sigma_clipped_stats`` ``mask_val`` keyword to
``mask_value``. [#3595]
- Changed the default ``iters`` keyword value to 5 in both the
``sigma_clip`` and ``sigma_clipped_stats`` functions. [#4067]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Table.as_array()`` always returns a structured array with each column in
the system's native byte order. The optional ``keep_byteorder=True``
option will keep each column's data in its original byteorder. [#4080]
- ``Table.simple_table()`` now creates tables with int64 and float64 types
instead of int32 and float64. [#4114]
- An empty table can now be initialized without a ``names`` argument as long
as a valid ``dtype`` argument (with names embedded) is supplied. [#3977]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy_time`` attribute and time format has been removed from the
public interface. Existing code that instantiates a new time object using
``format='astropy_time'`` can simply omit the ``format``
specification. [#3857]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Single-item ``Quantity`` instances with record ``dtype`` will now have
their ``isscalar`` property return ``True``, consistent with behaviour for
numpy arrays, where ``np.void`` records are considered scalar. [#3899]
- Three changes relating to the FITS unit format [#3993]:
- The FITS unit format will no longer parse an arbitrary number as a
scale value. It must be a power of 10 of the form ``10^^k``,
``10^k``, ``10+k``, ``10-k`` and ``10(k)``. [#3993]
- Scales that are powers of 10 can be written out. Previously, any
non-1.0 scale was rejected.
- The ``*`` character is accepted as a separator between the scale
and the units.
- Unit formatter classes now require the ``parse`` and ``to_string``
methods are now required to be classmethods (and the formatter
classes themselves are assumed to be singletons that are not
instantiated). As unit formatters are mostly an internal implementation
detail this is not likely to affect any users. [#4001]
- CGS E&M units are now defined separately from SI E&M units, and have
distinct physical types. [#4255, #4355]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- All of the ``get_pkg_data_*`` functions take an optional ``package``
argument as their second positional argument. So any code that previously
passed other arguments to these functions as positional arguments might
break. Use keyword argument passing instead to mitigate this. [#4079]
- ``astropy.utils.iers`` now uses a ``QTable`` internally, which means that
the numerical columns are stored as ``Quantity``, with full support for
units. Furthermore, the ``ut1_utc`` method now returns a ``Quantity``
instead of a float or an array (as did ``pm_xy`` already). [#3223]
- ``astropy.utils.iers`` now throws an ``IERSRangeError``, a subclass
of ``IndexError``, rather than a raw ``IndexError``. This allows more
fine-grained catching of situations where a ``Time`` is beyond the range
of the loaded IERS tables. [#4302]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- When compiled with wcslib 5.9 or later, the FITS headers returned
by ``astropy.wcs.WCS.to_header`` and
``astropy.wcs.WCS.to_header_string`` now include values with more
precision. This will result in numerical differences in your
results if you convert ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` objects to FITS headers
and use the results.
- If NAXIS1 or NAXIS2 is not passed with the header object to
WCS.calc_footprint, a ValueError is raised. [#3557]
Bug fixes
---------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The constants ``Ry`` and ``u`` are now properly used inside the
corresponding units. The latter have changed slightly as a result. [#4229]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Internally, ``coordinates`` now consistently uses the appropriate time
scales for using ERFA functions. [#4302]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a segfault in the fast C parser when one of the column headers
is empty [#3545].
- Fix several bugs that prevented the fast readers from being used
when guessing the file format. Also improved the read trace
information to better understand format guessing. [#4115]
- Fix an underlying problem that resulted in an uncaught TypeError
exception when reading a CDS-format file with guessing enabled. [#4120]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Simplex`` fitter now correctly passes additional keywords arguments to
the scipy solver. [#3966]
- The keyword ``acc`` (for accuracy) is now correctly accepted by
``Simplex``. [#3966]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The units ``Ryd`` and ``u`` are no longer hard-coded numbers, but depend
on the appropriate values in the ``constants`` module. As a result, these
units now imply slightly different conversions. [#4229]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The ``./setup.py test`` command is now implemented in the ``astropy.tests``
module again (previously its implementation had been moved into
astropy-helpers). However, that made it difficult to synchronize changes
to the Astropy test runner with changes to the ``./setup.py test`` UI.
astropy-helpers v1.1 and above will detect this implementation of the
``test`` command, when present, and use it instead of the old version that
was included in astropy-helpers (most users will not notice any difference
as a result of this change). [#4020]
- The repr for ``Table`` no longer displays ``masked=False`` since tables
are not masked by default anyway. [#3869]
- The version of ``PLY`` that ships with astropy has been updated to 3.6.
- WCSAxes is now required for doc builds. [#4074]
- The migration guide from pre-v0.4 coordinates has been removed to avoid
cluttering the ``astropy.coordinates`` documentation with increasingly
irrelevant material. To see the migration guide, we recommend you simply look
to the archived documentation for previous versions, e.g.
https://docs.astropy.org/en/v1.0/coordinates/index.html#migrating-from-pre-v0-4-coordinates
[#4203]
- In ``astropy.coordinates``, the transformations between GCRS, CIRS,
and ITRS have been adjusted to more logically reflect the order in
which they actually apply. This should not affect most coordinate
transformations, but may affect code that is especially sensitive to
machine precision effects that change when the order in which
transformations occur is changed. [#4255]
- Astropy v1.1.0 will be the last release series to officially support
Python 2.6. A deprecation warning will now be issued when using Astropy
in Python 2.6 (this warning can be disabled through the usual Python warning
filtering mechanisms). [#3779]
Version 1.0.13 (2017-05-29)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix use of quantize level parameter for ``CompImageHDU``. [#6029]
- Prevent crash when a header contains non-ASCII (e.g. UTF-8) characters, to
allow fixing the problematic cards. [#6084]
Version 1.0.12 (2017-03-05)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in ``discretize_integrate_2D`` in which x and y coordinates
where swapped. [#5634]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``get_transform`` could sometimes produce confusing errors
because of a typo in the input validation. [#5645]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Guard against extremely unlikely problems in compressed images, which
could lead to memory unmapping errors. [#5775]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where stdlib ``realloc()`` was used instead of
``PyMem_Realloc()`` [#5696, #4739, #2100]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ImportError with NumPy < 1.7 and Python 3.x in
``_register_patched_dtype_reduce``. [#5848]
Version 1.0.11 (2016-12-22)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Initialising a SkyCoord from a list containing a single SkyCoord no longer removes
the distance from the coordinate. [#5270]
- Fix errors in the implementation of the conversion to and from FK4 frames
without e-terms, which will have affected coordinates not on the unit
sphere (i.e., with distances). [#4293]
- Fix bug where with cds units enabled it was no longer possible to initialize
an ``Angle``. [#5483]
- Ensure that ``search_around_sky`` and ``search_around_3d`` return
integer type index arrays for empty (non) matches. [#4877, #5083]
- Return an empty set of matches for ``search_around_sky`` and
``search_around_3d`` when one or both of the input coordinate
arrays is empty. [#4875, #5083]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug with empty value at end of tab-delimited table on Windows. [#5370]
- Fix reading of big ASCII tables (more than 2Gb) with the fast reader.
[#5319]
- Fix segfault with FastCsv and row with too many columns. [#5534]
- Fix problem reading an AASTex format table that does not have ``\\``
at the end of the last table row. [#5427]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Removed raising of AssertionError that could occur after closing or
deleting compressed image data. [#4690, #4694, #4948]
- Fixed bug that caused an ignored exception to be displayed under certain
conditions when terminating a script after using fits.getdata(). [#4977]
- Fixed usage of inplace operations that were raising an exception with
recent versions of Numpy due to implicit casting. [#5250]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug of ``Resource.__repr__()`` having undefined attributes and
variables. [#5382]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- CompoundModel now correctly inherits _n_models, allowing the use of model sets [#5358]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in Ci definition. [#5106]
- Non-ascii cds unit strings are now correctly represented using ``str`` also
on python2. This solves bugs in parsing coordinates involving strings too.
[#5355]
- Ensure ``Quantity`` supports ``np.float_power``, which is new in numpy 1.12.
[#5480]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed AttributeError when calling ``utils.misc.signal_number_to_name`` with
Python3 [#5430].
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Update the ``_naxis{x}`` attributes when calling ``WCS.slice``. [#5411]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The bundled ERFA was updated to version 1.3.0. This includes the
leap second planned for 2016 Dec 31. [#5418]
Version 1.0.10 (2016-06-09)
===========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``SkyCoord`` objects created before a new frame which has frame attributes
is created no longer raise ``AttributeError`` when the new attributes are
accessed [#5021]
- Fix some errors in the implementation of aberration for ``get_sun``. [#4979]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix problem reading a zero-length ECSV table with a bool type column. [#5010]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix convenience functions (``getdata``, ``getheader``, ``append``,
``update``) to close files. [#4786]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The astropy.io.votable.validator.html module is updated to handle division
by zero when generating validation report. [#4699]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``pprint()`` sometimes raises ``UnicodeDecodeError``
in Python 2. [#4946]
- Fix bug when doing outer join on multi-dimensional columns. [#4060]
- Fixed bug where Tables created from existing Table objects were not
inheriting the ``primary_key`` attribute. [#4672]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix coverage reporting in Python 3. [#4822]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Duplicates between long and short names are now removed in the ``names``
and ``aliases`` properties of units. [#5036]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The astropy.utils.xml.unescaper module now also unescapes ``'%2F'`` to
``'/'`` and ``'&&'`` to ``'&'`` in a given URL. [#4699]
- Fix two problems related to the download cache: clear_download_cache() does
not work in Python 2.7 and downloading in Python 2.7 and then Python 3
can result in an exception. [#4810]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Cache option now properly caches both downloaded JSON database and XML VO
tables. [#4699]
- The astropy.vo.validator.conf.conesearch_urls listing is updated to reflect
external changes to some VizieR Cone Search services. [#4699]
- VOSDatabase decodes byte-string to UTF-8 instead of ASCII to avoid
UnicodeDecodeError for some rare cases. Fixed a Cone Search test that is
failing as a side-effect of #4699. [#4757]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated ``astropy.tests`` test runner code to work with Coverage v4.0 when
generating test coverage reports. [#4176]
Version 1.0.9 (2016-03-10)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NDArithmeticMixin`` check for matching WCS now works with
``astropy.wcs.WCS`` objects [#4499, #4503]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Correct a bug in which ``psf_pad`` and ``fft_pad`` would be ignored [#4366]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed addition of new line characters after last row of data in
ascii.latex.AASTex. [#4561]
- Fixed reading of Latex tables where the ``\tabular`` tag is in the first
line. [#4595]
- Fix use of plain format strings with the fast writer. [#4517]
- Fix bug writing space-delimited file when table has empty fields. [#4417]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed possible segfault during error handling in FITS tile
compression. [#4489]
- Fixed crash on pickling of binary table columns with the 'X', 'P', or
'Q' format. [#4514]
- Fixed memory / reference leak that could occur when copying a ``FITS_rec``
object (the ``.data`` for table HDUs). [#520]
- Fixed a memory / reference leak in ``FITS_rec`` that occurred in a wide
range of cases, especially after writing FITS tables to a file, but in
other cases as well. [#4539]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed display of compound model expressions and components when printing
compound model instances. [#4414, #4482]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- the input for median_absolute_deviation will not be cast to plain numpy
arrays when given subclasses of numpy arrays
(like Quantity, numpy.ma.MaskedArray, etc.) [#4658]
- Fixed incorrect results when using median_absolute_deviation with masked
arrays. [#4658]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``zest.releaser`` hooks included in Astropy are now injected locally to
Astropy, rather than being global. [#4650]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``fits2bitmap`` script to allow ext flag to contain extension
names or numbers. [#4468]
- Fixed ``fits2bitmap`` default output filename generation for
compressed FITS files. [#4468]
Version 1.0.8 (2016-01-08)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an bug where updates to string columns in FITS tables were not saved
on Python 3. [#4452]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In-place peak-to-peak calculations now work on ``Quantity``. [#4442]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``find_api_page`` to work correctly on python 3.x [#4378, #4379]
Version 1.0.7 (2015-12-04)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Pickling of ``EarthLocation`` instances now also works on Python 2. [#4304]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix fast writer so bytestring column output is not prefixed by 'b' in
Python 3. [#4350]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a regression that could cause writes of large FITS files to be
truncated. [#4307]
- Astropy v1.0.6 included a fix (#4228) for an obscure case where the TDIM
of a table column is smaller than the repeat count of its data format.
This updates that fix in such a way that it works with Numpy 1.10 as well.
[#4266]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug when pickling a Table with mixin columns (e.g. Time). [#4098]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix incorrect ``value`` attribute for epoch formats like "unix"
when ``scale`` is different from the class ``epoch_scale``. [#4312]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue where if ipython is installed but ipykernel is not
installed then importing astropy from the ipython console gave an
IPython.kernel deprecation warning. [#4279]
- Fixed crash that could occur in ``ProgressBar`` when ``astropy`` is
imported in an IPython startup script. [#4274]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled astropy-helpers to v1.0.6. [#4372]
Version 1.0.6 (2015-10-22)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.analytic_functions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed blackbody analytic functions to properly support arrays of
temperatures. [#4251]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed errors in transformations for objects within a few AU of the
Earth. Included substantive changes to transformation machinery
that may change distances at levels ~machine precision for other
objects. [#4254]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``fitsdiff`` and related functions now do a better job reporting differences
between values that are different types but have the same representation
(ex: the string '0' versus the number 0). [#4122]
- Miscellaneous fixes for supporting Numpy 1.10. [#4228]
- Fixed an issue where writing a column of unicode strings to a FITS table
resulted in a quadrupling of size of the column (i.e. the format of the
FITS column was 4 characters for every one in the original strings).
[#4228]
- Added support for an obscure case (but nonetheless allowed by the FITS
standard) where a column has some TDIMn keyword, but a repeat count in
the TFORMn column greater than the number of elements implied by the
TDIMn. For example TFORMn = 100I, but TDIMn = '(5,5)'. In this case
the TDIMn implies 5x5 arrays in the column, but the TFORMn implies
a 100 element 1-D array in the column. In this case the TDIM takes
precedence, and the remaining bytes in the column are ignored. [#4228]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed crash with Python compiler optimization level = 2. [#4231]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``check_conesearch_sites`` with ``parallel=True`` on Python >= 3.3
and on Windows (it was broken in both those cases for separate reasons).
[#2970]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- All tests now pass against Numpy v1.10.x. This implies nominal support for
Numpy 1.10.x moving forward (but there may still be unknown issues). For
example, there is already a known performance issue with tables containing
large multi-dimensional columns--for example, tables that contain entire
images in one or more of their columns. This is a known upstream issue in
Numpy. [#4259]
Version 1.0.5 (2015-10-05)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Rename units -> unit and error -> uncertainty in the ``repr`` and ``str``
of constants to match attribute names. [#4147]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix string representation of ``SkyCoord`` objects transformed into
the ``AltAz`` frame [#4055, #4057]
- Fix the ``search_around_sky`` function to allow ``storekdtree`` to be
``False`` as was intended. [#4082, #4212]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug when extending one header (without comments) with another
(with comments). [#3967]
- Somewhat improved resource usage for FITS data--previously a new ``mmap``
was opened for each HDU of a FITS file accessed through an ``HDUList``.
Each ``mmap`` used up a single file descriptor, causing problems with
system resource limits for some users. Now only a single ``mmap`` is
opened, and shared for the data of all HDUs. Note: The problem still
persists with using the "convenience" functions. For example using
``fits.getdata`` will create one ``mmap`` per HDU read this way (as
opposed to opening the file with ``fits.open`` and accessing the HDUs
through the ``HDUList`` object). [#4097]
- Fix bug where reading a file without a newline failed with an
unrelated / unhelpful exception. [#4160]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Cleaned up ``repr`` of models that have no parameters. [#4076]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Initializing ``NDDataArray`` from another instance now sets ``flags`` as
expected and no longer fails when ``uncertainty`` is set [#4129].
Initializing an ``NDData`` subclass from a parent instance
(eg. ``NDDataArray`` from ``NDData``) now sets the attributes other than
``data`` as it should [#4130, #4137].
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix an issue with setting fill value when column dtype is changed. [#4088]
- Fix bug when unpickling a bare Column where the _parent_table
attribute was not set. This impacted the Column representation. [#4099]
- Fix issue with the web browser opening with an empty page, and ensure that
the url is correctly formatted for Windows. [#4132]
- Fix NameError in table stack exception message. [#4213]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``resolve_name`` no longer causes ``sys.modules`` to be cluttered with
additional copies of modules under a package imported like
``resolve_name('numpy')``. [#4084]
- ``console`` was updated to support IPython 4.x and Jupyter 1.x.
This should suppress a ShimWarning that was appearing at
import of astropy with IPython 4.0 or later. [#4078]
- Temporary downloaded files created by ``get_readable_fileobj`` when passed
a URL are now deleted immediately after the file is closed. [#4198]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The color for axes labels was set to white. Since white labels on white
background are hard to read, the label color has been changed to black.
[#4143]
- ``ImageNormalize`` now automatically determines ``vmin``/``vmax``
(via the ``autoscale_None`` method) when they have not been set
explicitly. [#4117]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Cone Search validation no longer crashes when the provider gives an
incomplete test query. It also ensures search radius for a test query
is not too large to avoid timeout. [#4158, #4159]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Astropy now supports Python 3.5. [#4027]
- Updated bundled version of astropy-helpers to 1.0.5. [#4215]
- Updated tests to support py.test 2.7, and upgraded the bundled copy of
py.test to v2.7.3. [#4027]
Version 1.0.4 (2015-08-11)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Modified Cython functions to release the GIL. This enables convolution
to be parallelized effectively and gives large speedups when used with
multithreaded task schedulers such as Dask. [#3949]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Some transformations for an input coordinate that's a scalar now correctly
return a scalar. This was always the intended behavior, but it may break
code that has been written to work-around this bug, so it may be viewed as
an unplanned API change [#3920, #4039]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy_mpl_style`` no longer sets ``interactive`` to ``True``, but
instead leaves it at the user preference. This makes using the style
compatible with building docs with Sphinx, and other non-interactive
contexts. [#4030]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix bug where coordinate representation setting gets reset to default value
when coordinate array is indexed or sliced. [#3824]
- Fixed confusing warning message shown when using dates outside current IERS
data. [#3844]
- ``get_sun`` now yields a scalar when the input time is a scalar (this was a
regression in v1.0.3 from v1.0.2) [#3998, #4039]
- Fixed bug where some scalar coordinates were incorrectly being changed to
length-1 array coordinates after transforming through certain frames.
[#3920, #4039]
- Fixed bug causing the ``separation`` methods of ``SkyCoord`` and frame
classes to fail due to infinite recursion [#4033, #4039]
- Made it so that passing in a list of ``SkyCoord`` objects that are in
UnitSphericalRepresentation to the ``SkyCoord`` constructor appropriately
yields a new object in UnitSphericalRepresentation [#3938, #4039]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed wCDM to not ignore the Ob0 parameter on initialization. [#3934]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed crash when updating data in a random groups HDU opened in update
mode. [#3730]
- Fixed incorrect checksum / datasum being written when re-writing a scaled
HDU (i.e. non-trivial BSCALE and/or BZERO) with
``do_not_scale_image_data=False``. [#3883]
- Fixed stray deprecation warning in ``BinTableHDU.copy()``. [#3798]
- Better handling of the ``BLANK`` keyword when auto-scaling scaled image
data. The ``BLANK`` keyword is now removed from the header after
auto-scaling is applied, and it is restored properly (with floating point
NaNs replaced by the filler value) when updating a file opened with the
``scale_back=True`` argument. Invalid usage of the ``BLANK`` keyword is
also better warned about during validation. [#3865]
- Reading memmaped scaled images won't fail when
``do_not_scale_image_data=True`` (that is, since we're just reading the raw
/ physical data there is no reason mmap can't be used). [#3766]
- Fixed a reference cycle that could sometimes cause FITS table-related
objects (``BinTableHDU``, ``ColDefs``, etc.) to hang around in memory
longer than expected. [#4012]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved support for pickling of compound models, including both compound
model instances, and new compound model classes. [#3867]
- Added missing default values for ``Ellipse2D`` parameters. [#3903]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed iteration of scalar ``Time`` objects so that ``iter()`` correctly
raises a ``TypeError`` on them (while still allowing ``Time`` arrays to be
iterated). [#4048]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added frequency-equivalency check when declaring doppler equivalencies
[#3728]
- Define ``floor_divide`` (``//``) for ``Quantity`` to be consistent
``divmod``, such that it only works where the quotient is dimensionless.
This guarantees that ``(q1 // q2) * q2 + (q1 % q2) == q1``. [#3817]
- Fixed the documentation of supported units to correctly report support for
SI prefixes. Previously the table of supported units incorrectly showed
several derived unit as not supporting prefixes, when in fact they do.
[#3835]
- Fix a crash when calling ``astropy.units.cds.enable()``. This will now
"set" rather than "add" units to the active set to avoid the namespace
clash with the default units. [#3873]
- Ensure in-place operations on ``float32`` quantities work. [#4007]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``deprecated`` decorator did not correctly wrap classes that have a
custom metaclass--the metaclass could be dropped from the deprecated
version of the class. [#3997]
- The ``wraps`` decorator would copy the wrapped function's name to the
wrapper function even when ``'__name__'`` is excluded from the ``assigned``
argument. [#4016]
Misc
^^^^
- ``fitscheck`` no longer causes scaled image data to be rescaled when
adding checksums to existing files. [#3884]
- Fixed an issue where running ``import astropy`` from within the source
tree did not automatically build the extension modules if the source is
from a source distribution (as opposed to a git repository). [#3932]
- Fixed multiple instances of a bug that prevented Astropy from being used
when compiled with the ``python -OO`` flag, due to it causing all
docstrings to be stripped out. [#3923]
- Removed source code template files that were being installed
accidentally alongside installed Python modules. [#4014]
- Fixed a bug in the exception logging that caused a crash in the exception
handler itself on Python 3 when exceptions do not include a message.
[#4056]
Version 1.0.3 (2015-06-05)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Greatly improved the speed of printing a large table to the screen when
only a few rows are being displayed. [#3796]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Add support for the 2015-Jun-30 leap second. [#3794]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Note that HTML formatted tables will not always be found with guess mode
unless it passes certain heuristics that strongly suggest the presence of
HTML in the input. Code that expects to read tables from HTML should
specify ``format='html'`` explicitly. See bug fixes below for more
details. [#3693]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix issue with repeated normalizations of ``Kernels``. [#3747]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``get_sun`` to yield frames with the ``obstime`` set to what's passed into the function (previously it incorrectly always had J2000). [#3750]
- Fixed ``get_sun`` to account for aberration of light. [#3750]
- Fixed error in the GCRS->ICRS transformation that gave incorrect distances. [#3750]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Remove HTML from the list of automatically-guessed formats when reading if
the file does not appear to be HTML. This was necessary to avoid a
commonly-encountered segmentation fault occurring in the libxml parser on
MacOSX. [#3693]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixes to support the upcoming Numpy 1.10. [#3419]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Polynomials are now scaled when used in a compound model. [#3702]
- Fixed the ``Ellipse2D`` model to be consistent with ``Disk2D`` in
how pixels are included. [#3736]
- Fixed crash when evaluating a model that accepts no inputs. [#3772]
astropy.testing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The Astropy py.test plugins that disable unintentional internet access
in tests were also blocking use of local UNIX sockets in tests, which
prevented testing some multiprocessing code--fixed. [#3713]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Supported full SI prefixes for the barn unit ("picobarn", "femtobarn",
etc.) [#3753]
- Fix loss of precision when multiplying non-whole-numbered powers
of units together. For example, before this change, ``(u.m **
1.5) ** Fraction(4, 5)`` resulted in an inaccurate floating-point
power of ``1.2000000000000002``. After this change, the exact
rational number of ``Fraction(6, 5)`` is maintained. [#3790]
- Fixed printing of object ndarrays containing multiple Quantity
objects with differing / incompatible units. Note: Unit conversion errors
now cause a ``UnitConversionError`` exception to be raised. However, this
is a subclass of the ``UnitsError`` exception used previously, so existing
code that catches ``UnitsError`` should still work. [#3778]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Added a new ``astropy.__bibtex__`` attribute which gives a citation
for Astropy in bibtex format. [#3697]
- The bundled version of ERFA was updated to v1.2.0 to address leapsecond
updates. [#3802]
Version 0.4.6 (2015-05-29)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ERFA code to handle the 2015-Jun-30 leap second. [#3795]
Version 1.0.2 (2015-04-16)
==========================
New Features
------------
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for polynomials with degree 0 or degree greater than 15.
[#3574, 3589]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The pre-astropy-0.4 configuration API has been fixed. It was
inadvertently broken in 1.0.1. [#3627]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a severe memory leak that occurred when reading tile compressed
images. [#3680]
- Fixed bug where column data could be unintentionally byte-swapped when
copying data from an existing FITS file to a new FITS table with a
TDIMn keyword for that column. [#3561]
- The ``ColDefs.change_attrib``, ``ColDefs.change_name``, and
``ColDefs.change_unit`` methods now work as advertised. It is also
possible (and preferable) to update attributes directly on ``Column``
objects (for example setting ``column.name``), and the change will be
accurately reflected in any associated table data and its FITS header.
[#3283, #1539, #2618]
- Fixes an issue with the ``FITS_rec`` interface to FITS table data, where a
``FITS_rec`` created by copying an existing FITS table but adding new rows
could not be sliced or masked correctly. [#3641]
- Fixed handling of BINTABLE with TDIMn of size 1. [#3580]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Loading a ``TABLE`` element without any ``DATA`` now correctly
creates a 0-row array. [#3636]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added workaround to support inverses on compound models when one of the
sub-models is itself a compound model with a manually-assigned custom
inverse. [#3542]
- Fixed instantiation of polynomial models with constraints for parameters
(constraints could still be assigned after instantiation, but not during).
[#3606]
- Fixed fitting of 2D polynomial models with the ``LeVMarLSQFitter``. [#3606]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure ``QTable`` can be pickled [#3590]
- Some corner cases when instantiating an ``astropy.table.Table``
with a Numpy array are handled [#3637]. Notably:
- a zero-length array is the same as passing ``None``
- a scalar raises a ``ValueError``
- a one-dimensional array is treated as a single row of a table.
- Ensure a ``Column`` without units is treated as an ``array``, not as an
dimensionless ``Quantity``. [#3648]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure equivalencies that do more than just scale a ``Quantity`` are
properly handled also in ``ufunc`` evaluations. [#2496, #3586]
- The LaTeX representation of the Angstrom unit has changed from
``\overset{\circ}{A}`` to ``\mathring{A}``, which should have
better support across regular LaTeX, MathJax and matplotlib (as of
version 1.5) [#3617]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Using HTTPS/SSL for communication between SAMP hubs now works
correctly on all supported versions of Python [#3613]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- When no ``relax`` argument is passed to ``WCS.to_header()`` and
the result omits non-standard WCS keywords, a warning is
emitted. [#3652]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- The number of retries for connections in ``astropy.vo.samp`` can now be
configured by a ``n_retries`` configuration option. [#3612]
- Testing
- Running ``astropy.test()`` from within the IPython prompt has been
provisionally re-enabled. [#3184]
Version 1.0.1 (2015-03-06)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure constants can be turned into ``Quantity`` safely. [#3537, #3538]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a segfault in the fast C parser when one of the column headers
is empty [#3545].
- Fixed support for reading inf and nan values with the fast reader in
Windows. Also fixed in the case of using ``use_fast_converter=True``
with the fast reader. [#3525]
- Fixed use of mmap in the fast reader on Windows. [#3525]
- Fixed issue where commented header would treat comments defining the table
(i.e. column headers) as purely information comments, leading to problems
when trying to round-trip the table. [#3562]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed propagation of parameter constraints ('fixed', 'bounds', 'tied')
between compound models and their components. There is may still be some
difficulty defining 'tied' constraints properly for use with compound
models, however. [#3481]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Restore several properties to the compatibility class ``NDDataArray`` that
were inadvertently omitted [#3466].
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Time objects now always evaluate to ``True``, except when empty. [#3530]
Miscellaneous
-------------
- The ERFA wrappers are now written directly in the Python/C API
rather than using Cython, for greater performance. [#3521]
- Improve import time of astropy [#3488].
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled astropy-helpers version to v1.0.1 to address installation
issues with some packages that depend on Astropy. [#3541]
Version 1.0 (2015-02-18)
========================
General
-------
- Astropy now requires Numpy 1.6.0 or later.
New Features
------------
astropy.analytic_functions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.analytic_functions`` was added to contain analytic functions
useful for astronomy [#3077].
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.coordinates`` now has a full stack of frames allowing
transformations from ICRS or other celestial systems down to Alt/Az
coordinates. [#3217]
- ``astropy.coordinates`` now has a ``get_sun`` function that gives
the coordinates of the Sun at a specified time. [#3217]
- ``SkyCoord`` now has ``to_pixel`` and ``from_pixel`` methods that convert
between celestial coordinates as ``SkyCoord`` objects and pixel coordinates
given an ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` object. [#3002]
- ``SkyCoord`` now has ``search_around_sky`` and ``search_around_3d``
convenience methods that allow searching for all coordinates within
a certain distance of another ``SkyCoord``. [#2953]
- ``SkyCoord`` can now accept a frame instance for the ``frame=`` keyword
argument. [#3063]
- ``SkyCoord`` now has a ``guess_from_table`` method that can be used to
quickly create ``SkyCoord`` objects from an ``astropy.table.Table``
object. [#2951]
- ``astropy.coordinates`` now has a ``Galactocentric`` frame, a coordinate
frame centered on a (user specified) center of the Milky Way. [#2761, #3286]
- ``SkyCoord`` now accepts more formats of the coordinate string when the
representation has ``ra`` and ``dec`` attributes. [#2920]
- ``SkyCoord`` can now accept lists of ``SkyCoord`` objects, frame objects,
or representation objects and will combine them into a single object.
[#3285]
- Frames and ``SkyCoord`` instances now have a method ``is_equivalent_frame``
that can be used to check that two frames are equivalent (ignoring the
data). [#3330]
- The ``__repr__`` of coordinate objects now shows scalar coordinates in the
same format as vector coordinates. [#3350, 3448]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``lookback_distance``, which is ``c * lookback_time``. [#3145]
- Add baryonic matter density and dark matter only density parameters
to cosmology objects [#2757].
- Add a ``clone`` method to cosmology objects to allow copies
of cosmological objects to be created with the specified variables
modified [#2592].
- Increase default numerical precision of ``z_at_value`` following
the accurate by default, fast by explicit request model [#3074].
- Cosmology functions that take a single (redshift) input now
broadcast like numpy ufuncs. So, passing an arbitrarily shaped
array of inputs will produce an output of the same shape. [#3178, #3194]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Simplify the way new Reader classes are defined, allowing custom behavior
entirely by overriding inherited class attributes instead of setting
instance attributes in the Reader ``__init__`` method. [#2812]
- There is now a faster C/Cython engine available for reading and writing
simple ASCII formats like CSV. Both are enabled by default, and fast
reading will fall back on an ordinary reader in case of a parsing
failure. Their behavior can be altered with the parameter ``fast_reader``
in ``read`` and ``fast_writer`` in ``write``. [#2716]
- Make Latex/AASTex tables use unit attribute of Column for output. [#3064]
- Store comment lines encountered during reading in metadata of the
output table via ``meta['comment_lines']``. [#3222]
- Write comment lines in Table metadata during output for all basic formats,
IPAC, and fast writers. This functionality can be disabled with
``comment=False``. [#3255]
- Add reader / writer for the Enhanced CSV format which stores table and
column meta data, in particular data type and unit. [#2319]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``fitsdiff`` script ignores some things by default when comparing fits
files (e.g. empty header lines). This adds a ``--exact`` option where
nothing is ignored. [#2782, #3110]
- The ``fitsheader`` script now takes a ``--keyword`` option to extract a
specific keyword from the header of a FITS file, and a ``--table`` option
to export headers into any of the data formats supported by
``astropy.table``. [#2555, #2588]
- ``Section`` now supports all advanced indexing features ``ndarray`` does
(slices with any steps, integer arrays, boolean arrays, None, Ellipsis).
It also properly returns scalars when this is appropriate. [#3148]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.io.votable.parse`` now takes a ``datatype_mapping``
keyword argument to map invalid datatype names to valid ones in
order to support non-compliant files. [#2675]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added the capability of creating new "compound" models by combining
existing models using arithmetic operators. See the "What's New in 1.0"
page in the Astropy documentation for more details. [#3231]
- A new ``custom_model`` decorator/factory function has been added for
converting normal functions to ``Model`` classes that can work within
the Astropy modeling framework. This replaces the old ``custom_model_1d``
function which is now deprecated. The new function works the same as
the old one but is less limited in the types of models it can be used to
created. [#1763]
- The ``Model`` and ``Fitter`` classes have ``.registry`` attributes which
provide sets of all loaded ``Model`` and ``Fitter`` classes (this is
useful for building UIs for models and fitting). [#2725]
- A dict-like ``meta`` member was added to ``Model``. it is to be used to
store any optional information which is relevant to a project and is not
in the standard ``Model`` class. [#2189]
- Added ``Ellipse2D`` model. [#3124]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New array-related utility functions in ``astropy.nddata.utils`` for adding
and removing arrays from other arrays with different sizes/shapes. [#3201]
- New metaclass ``NDDataBase`` for enforcing the nddata interface in
subclasses without restricting implementation of the data storage. [#2905]
- New mixin classes ``NDSlicingMixin`` for slicing, ``NDArithmeticMixin``
for arithmetic operations, and ``NDIOMixin`` for input/output in NDData. [#2905]
- Added a decorator ``support_nddata`` that can be used to write functions
that can either take separate arguments or NDData objects. [#2855]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``mad_std()`` function. [#3208]
- Added ``gaussian_fwhm_to_sigma`` and ``gaussian_sigma_to_fwhm``
constants. [#3208]
- New function ``sigma_clipped_stats`` which can be used to quickly get
common statistics for an array, using sigma clipping at the same time.
[#3201]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed the internal implementation of the ``Table`` class changed so that
it no longer uses numpy structured arrays as the core table data container.
[#2790, #3179]
- Tables can now be written to an html file that includes interactive
browsing capabilities. To write out to this format, use
``Table.write('filename.html', format='jsviewer')``. [#2875]
- A ``quantity`` property and ``to`` method were added to ``Table``
columns that allow the column values to be easily converted to
``astropy.units.Quantity`` objects. [#2950]
- Add ``unique`` convenience method to table. [#3185]
astropy.tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new Quantity-aware ``assert_quantity_allclose``. [#3273]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Time`` can now handle arbitrary array dimensions, with operations
following standard numpy broadcasting rules. [#3138]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support for VOUnit has been updated to be compliant with version
1.0 of the standard. [#2901]
- Added an ``insert`` method to insert values into a ``Quantity`` object.
This is similar to the ``numpy.insert`` function. [#3049]
- When viewed in IPython, ``Quantity`` objects with array values now render
using LaTeX and scientific notation. [#2271]
- Added ``units.quantity_input`` decorator to validate quantity inputs to a
function for unit compatibility. [#3072]
- Added ``units.astronomical_unit`` as a long form for ``units.au``. [#3303]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new decorator ``astropy.utils.wraps`` which acts as a replacement
for the standard library's ``functools.wraps``, the only difference being
that the decorated function also preserves the wrapped function's call
signature. [#2849]
- ``astropy.utils.compat.numpy`` has been revised such that it can include
patched versions of routines from newer ``numpy`` versions. The first
addition is a version of ``broadcast_arrays`` that can be used with
``Quantity`` and other ``ndarray`` subclasses (using the ``subok=True``
flag). [#2327]
- Added ``astropy.utils.resolve_name`` which returns a member of a module
or class given the fully qualified dotted name of that object as a
string. [#3389]
- Added ``astropy.utils.minversion`` which can be used to check minimum
version requirements of Python modules (to test for specific features and/
or bugs and the like). [#3389]
astropy.visualization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Created ``astropy.visualization`` module and added functionality relating
to image normalization (i.e. stretching and scaling) as well as a new
script ``fits2bitmap`` that can produce a bitmap image from a FITS file.
[#3201]
- Added dictionary ``astropy.visualization.mpl_style.astropy_mpl_style``
which can be used to set a uniform plotstyle specifically for tutorials
that is improved compared to matplotlib defaults. [#2719, #2787, #3200]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``wcslib`` has been upgraded to version 4.25. This brings a
single new feature:
- ``equinox`` and ``radesys`` will now be given default values
conforming with the WCS specification if ``EQUINOXa`` and
``RADESYSa``, respectively, are not present in the header.
- The minimum required version of ``wcslib`` is now 4.24. [#2503]
- Added a new function ``wcs_to_celestial_frame`` that can be used to find
the astropy.coordinates celestial frame corresponding to a particular WCS.
[#2730]
- ``astropy.wcs.WCS.compare`` now supports a ``tolerance`` keyword argument
to allow for approximate comparison of floating-point values. [#2503]
- added ``pixel_scale_matrix``, ``celestial``, ``is_celestial``, and
``has_celestial`` convenience attributes. Added
``proj_plane_pixel_scales``, ``proj_plane_pixel_area``, and
``non_celestial_pixel_scales`` utility functions for retrieving WCS pixel
scale and area information [#2832, #3304]
- Added two functions ``pixel_to_skycoord`` and
``skycoord_to_pixel`` that make it easy to convert between
SkyCoord objects and pixel coordinates. [#2885]
- ``all_world2pix`` now uses a much more sophisticated and complete
algorithm to iteratively compute the inverse WCS transform. [#2816]
- Add ability to use ``WCS`` object to define projections in Matplotlib,
using the ``WCSAxes`` package. [#3183]
- Added ``is_proj_plane_distorted`` for testing if pixels are
distorted. [#3329]
Misc
^^^^
- ``astropy._erfa`` was added as a new subpackage wrapping the functionality
of the ERFA library in python. This is primarily of use for other astropy
subpackages, but the API may be made more public in the future. [#2992]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Subclasses of ``BaseCoordinateFrame`` which define a custom ``repr`` should
be aware of the format expected in ``SkyCoord.__repr__()``, which changed in
this release. [#2704, #2882]
- The ``CartesianPoints`` class (deprecated in v0.4) has now been removed.
[#2990]
- The previous ``astropy.coordinates.builtin_frames`` module is now a
subpackage. Everything that was in the
``astropy.coordinates.builtin_frames`` module is still accessible from the
new package, but the classes are now in separate modules. This should have
no direct impact at the user level. [#3120]
- Support for passing a frame as a positional argument in the ``SkyCoord``
class has now been deprecated, except in the case where a frame with data
is passed as the sole positional argument. [#3152]
- Improved ``__repr__`` of coordinate objects representing a single
coordinate point for the sake of easier copy/pasting. [#3350]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The functional interface to the cosmological routines as well as
``set_current`` and ``get_current`` (deprecated in v0.4) have now been
removed. [#2990]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new argument to ``htmldict`` in the HTML reader named
``parser``, which allows the user to specify which parser
BeautifulSoup should use as a backend. [#2815]
- Add ``FixedWidthTwoLine`` reader to guessing. This will allows to read
tables that a copied from screen output like ``print my_table`` to be read
automatically. Discussed in #3025 and #3099 [#3109]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A new optional argument ``cache`` has been added to
``astropy.io.fits.open()``. When opening a FITS file from a URL,
``cache`` is a boolean value specifying whether or not to save the
file locally in Astropy's download cache (``True`` by default). [#3041]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Model classes should now specify ``inputs`` and ``outputs`` class
attributes instead of the old ``n_inputs`` and ``n_outputs``. These
should be tuples providing human-readable *labels* for all inputs and
outputs of the model. The length of the tuple indicates the numbers
of inputs and outputs. See "What's New in Astropy 1.0" for more
details. [#2835]
- It is no longer necessary to include ``__init__`` or ``__call__``
definitions in ``Model`` subclasses if all they do is wrap the
super-method in order to provide a nice call signature to the docs.
The ``inputs`` class attribute is now used to generate a nice call
signature, so these methods should only be overridden by ``Model``
subclasses in order to provide new functionality. [#2835]
- Most models included in Astropy now have sensible default values for most
or all of their parameters. Call ``help(ModelClass)`` on any model to
check what those defaults are. Most of them time they should be
overridden, but some of them are useful (for example spatial offsets are
always set at the origin by default). Another rule of thumb is that, where
possible, default parameters are set so that the model is a no-op, or
close to it, by default. [#2932]
- The ``Model.inverse`` method has been changed to a *property*, so that
now accessing ``model.inverse`` on a model returns a new model that
implements that model's inverse, and *calling* ``model.inverse(...)``` on
some independent variable computes the value of the inverse (similar to what
the old ``Model.invert()`` method was meant to do). [#3024]
- The ``Model.invert()`` method has been removed entirely (it was never
implemented and there should not be any existing code that relies on it).
[#3024]
- ``custom_model_1d`` is deprecated in favor of the new ``custom_model``
(see "New Features" above). [#1763]
- The ``Model.param_dim`` property (deprecated in v0.4) has now been removed.
[#2990]
- The ``Beta1D`` and ``Beta2D`` models have been renamed to ``Moffat1D`` and
``Moffat2D``. [#3029]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``flags``, ``shape``, ``size``, ``dtype`` and ``ndim`` properties removed
from ``astropy.nddata.NDData``. [#2905]
- Arithmetic operations, uncertainty propagation, slicing and automatic
conversion to a numpy array removed from ``astropy.nddata.NDData``. The
class ``astropy.nddata.NDDataArray`` is functionally equivalent to the
old ``NDData``. [#2905]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``Column.units`` property (deprecated in v0.3) has now been removed.
[#2990]
- The ``Row.data`` and ``Table._data`` attributes have been deprecated
related to the change in Table implementation. They are replaced by
``Row.as_void()`` and ``Table.as_array()`` methods, respectively. [#2790]
- The ``Table.create_mask`` method has been removed. This undocumented
method was a development orphan and would cause corruption of the
table if called. [#2790]
- The return type for integer item access to a Column (e.g. col[12] or
t['a'][12]) is now always a numpy scalar, numpy ``ndarray``, or numpy
``MaskedArray``. Previously if the column was multidimensional then a
Column object would be returned. [#3095]
- The representation of Table and Column objects has been changed to
be formatted similar to the print output. [#3239]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``Time.val`` and ``Time.vals`` properties (deprecated in v0.3) and the
``Time.lon``, and ``Time.lat`` properties (deprecated in v0.4) have now
been removed. [#2990]
- Add ``decimalyear`` format that represents time as a decimal year. [#3265]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support for VOUnit has been updated to be compliant with version
1.0 of the standard. This means that some VOUnit strings that were
rejected before are now acceptable. [#2901] Notably:
- SI prefixes are supported on most units
- Binary prefixes are supported on "bits" and "bytes"
- Custom units can be defined "inline" by placing them between single
quotes.
- ``Unit.get_converter`` has been deprecated. It is not strictly
necessary for end users, and it was confusing due to lack of
support for ``Quantity`` objects. [#3456]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Some members of ``astropy.utils.misc`` were moved into new submodules.
Specifically:
- ``deprecated``, ``deprecated_attribute``, and ``lazyproperty`` ->
``astropy.utils.decorators``
- ``find_current_module``, ``find_mod_objs`` ->
``astropy.utils.introspection``
All of these functions can be imported directly from ``astropy.utils``
which should be preferred over referencing individual submodules of
``astropy.utils``. [#2857]
- The ProgressBar.iterate class method (deprecated in v0.3) has now been
removed. [#2990]
- Updated ``astropy/utils/console.py`` ProgressBar() module to
display output to IPython notebook with the addition of an
``interactive`` kwarg. [#2658, #2789]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``WCS.calcFootprint`` method (deprecated in v0.4) has now been removed.
[#2990]
- An invalid unit in a ``CUNITn`` keyword now displays a warning and
returns a ``UnrecognizedUnit`` instance rather than raising an
exception [#3190]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.convolution.discretize_model`` now handles arbitrary callables
correctly [#2274].
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Angle.to_string`` now outputs unicode arrays instead of object arrays.
[#2981]
- ``SkyCoord.to_string`` no longer gives an error when used with an array
coordinate with more than one dimension. [#3340]
- Fixed support for subclasses of ``UnitSphericalRepresentation`` and
``SphericalRepresentation`` [#3354, #3366]
- Fixed latex display of array angles in IPython notebook. [#3480]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In the ``CommentedHeader`` the ``data_start`` parameter now defaults to
``0``, which is the first uncommented line. Discussed in #2692. [#3054]
- Position lines in ``FixedWidthTwoLine`` reader could consist of many characters.
Now, only one character in addition to the delimiter is allowed. This bug was
discovered as part of [#3109]
- The IPAC table writer now consistently uses the ``fill_values`` keyword to
specify the output null values. Previously the behavior was inconsistent
or incorrect. [#3259]
- The IPAC table reader now correctly interprets abbreviated column types.
[#3279]
- Tables that look almost, but not quite like DAOPhot tables could cause
guessing to fail. [#3342]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the problem in ``fits.open`` of some filenames with colon (``:``) in
the name being recognized as URLs instead of file names. [#3122]
- Setting ``memmap=True`` in ``fits.open`` and related functions now raises
a ValueError if opening a file in memory-mapped mode is impossible. [#2298]
- CONTINUE cards no longer end the value of the final card in the series with
an ampersand, per the specification of the CONTINUE card convention. [#3282]
- Fixed a crash that occurred when reading an ASCII table containing
zero-precision floating point fields. [#3422]
- When a float field for an ASCII table has zero-precision a decimal point
(with no digits following it) is still written to the field as long as
there is space for it, as recommended by the FITS standard. This makes it
less ambiguous that these columns should be interpreted as floats. [#3422]
astropy.logger
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug that occurred when displaying warnings that produced an error
message ``dictionary changed size during iteration``. [#3353]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug in ``SLSQPLSQFitter`` where the ``maxiter`` argument was not
passed correctly to the optimizer. [#3339]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem where ``table.hstack`` fails to stack multiple references to
the same table, e.g. ``table.hstack([t, t])``. [#2995]
- Fixed a problem where ``table.vstack`` and ``table.hstack`` failed to stack
a single table, e.g. ``table.vstack([t])``. [#3313]
- Fix a problem when doing nested iterators on a single table. [#3358]
- Fix an error when an empty list, tuple, or ndarray is used for item access
within a table. This now returns the table with no rows. [#3442]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When creating a Time object from a datetime object the time zone
info is now correctly used. [#3160]
- For Time objects, it is now checked that numerical input is finite. [#3396]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a ``latex_inline`` unit format that returns the units in LaTeX math
notation with negative exponents instead of fractions [#2622].
- When using a unit that is deprecated in a given unit format,
non-deprecated alternatives will be suggested. [#2806] For
example::
>>> import astropy.units as u
>>> u.Unit('Angstrom', format='fits')
WARNING: UnitsWarning: The unit 'Angstrom' has been deprecated
in the FITS standard. Suggested: nm (with data multiplied by
0.1). [astropy.units.format.utils]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``treat_deprecations_as_exceptions`` has been fixed to recognize Astropy
deprecation warnings. [#3015]
- Converted representation of progress bar units without suffix
from float to int in console.human_file_size. [#2201, #2202, #2721, #3299]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.wcs.WCS.sub`` now accepts unicode strings as input on
Python 2.x [#3356]
Misc
^^^^
- Some modules and tests that would crash upon import when using a non-final
release of Numpy (e.g. 1.9.0rc1). [#3471]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- The bundled copy of astropy-helpers has been updated to v1.0. [#3515]
- Updated ``astropy.extern.configobj`` to Version 5. Version 5 uses ``six``
and the same code covers both Python 2 and Python 3. [#3149]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``repr`` of ``SkyCoord`` and coordinate frame classes now separate
frame attributes and coordinate information. [#2704, #2882]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Overwriting an existing file using the ``clobber=True`` option no longer
displays a warning message. [#1963]
- ``fits.open`` no longer catches ``OSError`` exceptions on missing or
unreadable files-- instead it raises the standard Python exceptions in such
cases. [#2756, #2785]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Sped up setting of ``Column`` slices by an order of magnitude. [#2994, #3020]
- Updated the bundled ``six`` module to version 1.7.3 and made 1.7.3 the
minimum acceptable version of ``six``. [#2814]
- The version of ERFA included with Astropy is now v1.1.1 [#2971]
- The code base is now fully Python 2 and 3 compatible and no longer requires
2to3. [#2033]
- `funcsigs <https://pypi.org/project/funcsigs>`_ is included in
utils.compat, but defaults to the inspect module components where available
(3.3+) [#3151].
- The list of modules displayed in the pytest header can now be customized.
[#3157]
- `jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/>`_>=2.7 is now required to build the
source code from the git repository, in order to allow the ERFA wrappers to
be generated. [#3166]
Version 0.4.5 (2015-02-16)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
- Fixed unnecessary attempt to run ``git`` when importing astropy. In
particular, fixed a crash in Python 3 that could result from this when
importing Astropy when the current working directory is an empty git
repository. [#3475]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Updated bundled copy of astropy-helpers to v0.4.6. [#3508]
Version 0.4.4 (2015-01-21)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.vo.samp
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.vo.samp`` is now usable on Python builds that do not
support the SSLv3 protocol (which depends both on the version of
Python and the version of OpenSSL or LibreSSL that it is built
against.) [#3308]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.vo.samp
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default SSL protocol used is now determined from the default
used in the Python ``ssl`` standard library. This default may be
different depending on the exact version of Python you are using.
[#3308]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- WCS allows slices of the form slice(None, x, y), which previously resulted
in an unsliced copy being returned (note: this was previously incorrectly
reported as fixed in v0.4.3) [#2909]
Version 0.4.3 (2015-01-15)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``Distance`` class has been fixed to no longer rely on the deprecated
cosmology functions. [#2991]
- Ensure ``float32`` values can be used in coordinate representations. [#2983]
- Fix frame attribute inheritance in ``SkyCoord.transform_to()`` method so
that the default attribute value (e.g. equinox) for the destination frame
gets used if no corresponding value was explicitly specified. [#3106]
- ``Angle`` accepts hours:mins or deg:mins initializers (without
seconds). In these cases float minutes are also accepted. [#2843]
- ``astropy.coordinates.SkyCoord`` objects are now copyable. [#2888]
- ``astropy.coordinates.SkyCoord`` object attributes are now
immutable. It is still technically possible to change the
internal data for an array-valued coordinate object but this leads
to inconsistencies [#2889] and should not be done. [#2888]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``ztol`` keyword argument to z_at_value now works correctly [#2993].
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug in Python 3 when guessing file format using a file object as
input. Also improve performance in same situation for Python 2. [#3132]
- Fix a problem where URL was being downloaded for each guess. [#2001]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``in`` operator now works correctly for checking if an extension
is in an ``HDUList`` (as given via EXTNAME, (EXTNAME, EXTVER) tuples,
etc.) [#3060]
- Added workaround for bug in MacOS X <= 10.8 that caused np.fromfile to
fail. [#3078]
- Added support for the ``RICE_ONE`` compression type synonym. [#3115]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a test failure on Debian/PowerPC and Debian/s390x. [#2708]
- Fixed crash in evaluating models that have more outputs than inputs--this
case may not be handled as desired for all conceivable models of this
format (some may have to implement custom ``prepare_inputs`` and
``prepare_outputs`` methods). But as long as all outputs can be assumed
to have a shape determined from the broadcast of all inputs with all
parameters then this can be used safely. [#3250]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a bug that caused join to fail for multi-dimensional columns. [#2984]
- Fix a bug where MaskedColumn attributes which had been changed since
the object was created were not being carried through when slicing. [#3023]
- Fix a bug that prevented initializing a table from a structured array
with multi-dimensional columns with copy=True. [#3034]
- Fixed unnecessarily large unicode columns when instantiating a table from
row data on Python 3. [#3052]
- Improved the warning message when unable to aggregate non-numeric
columns. [#2700]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Operations on quantities with incompatible types now raises a much
more informative ``TypeError``. [#2934]
- ``Quantity.tolist`` now overrides the ``ndarray`` method to give a
``NotImplementedError`` (by renaming the previous ``list`` method). [#3050]
- ``Quantity.round`` now always returns a ``Quantity`` (previously it
returned an ``ndarray`` for ``decimals>0``). [#3062]
- Ensured ``np.squeeze`` always returns a ``Quantity`` (it only worked if
no dimensions were removed). [#3045]
- Input to ``Quantity`` with a ``unit`` attribute no longer can get mangled
with ``copy=False``. [#3051]
- Remove trailing space in ``__format__`` calls for dimensionless quantities.
[#3097]
- Comparisons between units and non-unit-like objects now works
correctly. [#3108]
- Units with fractional powers are now correctly multiplied together
by using rational arithmetic. [#3121]
- Removed a few entries from spectral density equivalencies which did not
make sense. [#3153]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue with the ``deprecated`` decorator on classes that invoke
``super()`` in their ``__init__`` method. [#3004]
- Fixed a bug which caused the ``metadata_conflicts`` parameter to be
ignored in the ``astropy.utils.metadata.merge`` function. [#3294]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue with reconnecting to a SAMP Hub. [#2674]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Invalid or out of range values passed to ``wcs_world2pix`` will
now be correctly identified and returned as ``nan``
values. [#2965]
- Fixed an issue which meant that Python thought ``WCS`` objects were
iterable. [#3066]
Misc
^^^^
- Astropy will now work if your Python interpreter does not have the
``bz2`` module installed. [#3104]
- Fixed ``ResourceWarning`` for ``astropy/extern/bundled/six.py`` that could
occur sometimes after using Astropy in Python 3.4. [#3156]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved the agreement of the FK5 <-> Galactic conversion with other
codes, and with the FK5 <-> FK4 <-> Galactic route. [#3107]
Version 0.4.2 (2014-09-23)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Angle`` accepts hours:mins or deg:mins initializers (without
seconds). In these cases float minutes are also accepted.
- The ``repr`` for coordinate frames now displays the frame attributes
(ex: ra, dec) in a consistent order. It should be noted that as part of
this fix, the ``BaseCoordinateFrame.get_frame_attr_names()`` method now
returns an ``OrderedDict`` instead of just a ``dict``. [#2845]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash when reading scaled float data out of a FITS file that was
loaded from a string (using ``HDUList.fromfile``) rather than from a file.
[#2710]
- Fixed a crash when reading data from an HDU whose header contained in
invalid value for the BLANK keyword (e.g., a string value instead of an
integer as required by the FITS Standard). Invalid BLANK keywords are now
warned about, but are otherwise ignored. [#2711]
- Fixed a crash when reading the header of a tile-compressed HDU if that
header contained invalid duplicate keywords resulting in a ``KeyError``
[#2750]
- Fixed crash when reading gzip-compressed FITS tables through the Astropy
``Table`` interface. [#2783]
- Fixed corruption when writing new FITS files through to gzipped files.
[#2794]
- Fixed crash when writing HDUs made with non-contiguous data arrays to
file-like objects. [#2794]
- It is now possible to create ``astropy.io.fits.BinTableHDU``
objects with a table with zero rows. [#2916]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that prevented h5py ``Dataset`` objects from being
automatically recognized by ``Table.read``. [#2831]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Make ``LevMarLSQFitter`` work with ``weights`` keyword. [#2900]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed reference cycle in tables that could prevent ``Table`` objects
from being freed from memory. [#2879]
- Fixed an issue where ``Table.pprint()`` did not print the header to
``stdout`` when ``stdout`` is redirected (say, to a file). [#2878]
- Fixed printing of masked values when a format is specified. [#1026]
- Ensured that numpy ufuncs that return booleans return plain ``ndarray``
instances, just like the comparison operators. [#2963]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure bigendian input to Time works on a little-endian machine
(and vice versa). [#2942]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure unit is kept when adding 0 to quantities. [#2968]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed color printing on Windows with IPython 2.0. [#2878]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved error message on Cone Search time out. [#2687]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Fixed a couple issues with files being inappropriately included and/or
excluded from the source archive distributions of Astropy. [#2843, #2854]
- As part of fixing the fact that masked elements of table columns could not be
printed when a format was specified, the column format string options were
expanded to allow simple specifiers such as ``'5.2f'``. [#2898]
- Ensure numpy 1.9 is supported. [#2917]
- Ensure numpy master is supported, by making ``np.cbrt`` work with quantities.
[#2937]
Version 0.4.1 (2014-08-08)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where an unedited configuration file from astropy
0.3.2 would not be correctly identified as unedited. [#2772] This
resulted in the warning::
WARNING: ConfigurationChangedWarning: The configuration options
in astropy 0.4 may have changed, your configuration file was not
updated in order to preserve local changes. A new configuration
template has been saved to
'~/.astropy/config/astropy.0.4.cfg'. [astropy.config.configuration]
- Fixed the error message that is displayed when an old
configuration item has moved. Before, the destination
section was wrong. [#2772]
- Added configuration settings for ``io.fits``, ``io.votable`` and
``table.jsviewer`` that were missing from the configuration file
template. [#2772]
- The configuration template is no longer rewritten on every import
of astropy, causing race conditions. [#2805]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the multiplication of ``Kernel`` with numpy floats. [#2174]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Distance`` can now take a list of quantities. [#2261]
- For in-place operations for ``Angle`` instances in which the result unit
is not an angle, an exception is raised before the instance is corrupted.
[#2718]
- ``CartesianPoints`` are now deprecated in favor of
``CartesianRepresentation``. [#2727]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- An existing table within an HDF5 file can be overwritten without affecting
other datasets in the same HDF5 file by simultaneously using
``overwrite=True`` and ``append=True`` arguments to the ``Table.write``
method. [#2624]
astropy.logger
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash that could occur in rare cases when (such as in bundled
apps) where submodules of the ``email`` package are not importable. [#2671]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.nddata.NDData()`` no longer raises a ``ValueError`` when passed
a numpy masked array which has no masked entries. [#2784]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When saving a table to a FITS file containing a unit that is not
supported by the FITS standard, a warning rather than an exception
is raised. [#2797]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- By default, ``Quantity`` and its subclasses will now convert to float also
numerical types such as ``decimal.Decimal``, which are stored as objects
by numpy. [#1419]
- The units ``count``, ``pixel``, ``voxel`` and ``dbyte`` now output
to FITS, OGIP and VOUnit formats correctly. [#2798]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Restored missing information from deprecation warning messages
from the ``deprecated`` decorator. [#2811]
- Fixed support for ``staticmethod`` deprecation in the ``deprecated``
decorator. [#2811]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a memory leak when ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` objects are copied
[#2754]
- Fixed a crash when passing ``ra_dec_order=True`` to any of the
``*2world`` methods. [#2791]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Bundled copy of astropy-helpers upgraded to v0.4.1. [#2825]
- General improvements to documentation and docstrings [#2722, #2728, #2742]
- Made it easier for third-party packagers to have Astropy use their own
version of the ``six`` module (so long as it meets the minimum version
requirement) and remove the copy bundled with Astropy. See the
astropy/extern/README file in the source tree. [#2623]
Version 0.4 (2014-07-16)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``b_wien`` to represent Wien wavelength displacement law constant.
[#2194]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Changed the input parameter in ``Gaussian1DKernel`` and
``Gaussian2DKernel`` from ``width`` to ``stddev`` [#2085].
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The coordinates package has undergone major changes to implement
`APE5 <https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/master/APE5.rst>`_ .
These include backwards-incompatible changes, as the underlying framework
has changed substantially. See the APE5 text and the package documentation
for more details. [#2422]
- A ``position_angle`` method has been added to the new ``SkyCoord``. [#2487]
- Updated ``Angle.dms`` and ``Angle.hms`` to return ``namedtuple`` -s instead
of regular tuples, and added ``Angle.signed_dms`` attribute that gives the
absolute value of the ``d``, ``m``, and ``s`` along with the sign. [#1988]
- By default, ``Distance`` objects are now required to be positive. To
allow negative values, set ``allow_negative=True`` in the ``Distance``
constructor when creating a ``Distance`` instance.
- ``Longitude`` (resp. ``Latitude``) objects cannot be used any more to
initialize or set ``Latitude`` (resp. ``Longitude``) objects. An explicit
conversion to ``Angle`` is now required. [#2461]
- The deprecated functions for pre-0.3 coordinate object names like
``ICRSCoordinates`` have been removed. [#2422]
- The ``rotation_matrix`` and ``angle_axis`` functions in
``astropy.coordinates.angles`` were made more numerically consistent and
are now tested explicitly [#2619]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added ``z_at_value`` function to find the redshift at which a cosmology
function matches a desired value. [#1909]
- Added ``FLRW.differential_comoving_volume`` method to give the differential
comoving volume at redshift z. [#2103]
- The functional interface is now deprecated in favor of the more-explicit
use of methods on cosmology objects. [#2343]
- Updated documentation to reflect the removal of the functional
interface. [#2507]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.io.ascii`` output formats ``latex`` and ``aastex`` accept a
dictionary called ``latex_dict`` to specify options for LaTeX output. It is
now possible to specify the table alignment within the text via the
``tablealign`` keyword. [#1838]
- If ``header_start`` is specified in a call to ``ascii.get_reader`` or any
method that calls ``get_reader`` (e.g. ``ascii.read``) but ``data_start``
is not specified at the same time, then ``data_start`` is calculated so
that the data starts after the header. Before this, the default was
that the header line was read again as the first data line
[#855 and #1844].
- A new ``csv`` format was added as a convenience for handling CSV (comma-
separated values) data. [#1935]
This format also recognises rows with an inconsistent number of elements.
[#1562]
- An option was added to guess the start of data for CDS format files when
they do not strictly conform to the format standard. [#2241]
- Added an HTML reader and writer to the ``astropy.io.ascii`` package.
Parsing requires the installation of BeautifulSoup and is therefore
an optional feature. [#2160]
- Added support for inputting column descriptions and column units
with the ``io.ascii.SExtractor`` reader. [#2372]
- Allow the use of non-local ReadMe files in the CDS reader. [#2329]
- Provide a mechanism to select how masked values are printed. [#2424]
- Added support for reading multi-aperture daophot file. [#2656]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Included a new command-line script called ``fitsheader`` to display the
header(s) of a FITS file from the command line. [#2092]
- Added new verification options ``fix+ignore``, ``fix+warn``,
``fix+exception``, ``silentfix+ignore``, ``silentfix+warn``, and
``silentfix+exception`` which give more control over how to report fixable
errors as opposed to unfixable errors.
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Prototype implementation of fitters that treat optimization algorithms
separately from fit statistics, allowing new fitters to be created by
mixing and matching optimizers and statistic functions. [#1914]
- Slight overhaul to how inputs to and outputs from models are handled with
respect to array-valued parameters and variables, as well as sets of
multiple models. See the associated PR and the modeling section of the
v0.4 documentation for more details. [#2634]
- Added a new ``SimplexLSQFitter`` which uses a downhill simplex optimizer
with a least squares statistic. [#1914]
- Changed ``Gaussian2D`` model such that ``theta`` now increases
counterclockwise. [#2199]
- Replaced the ``MatrixRotation2D`` model with a new model called simply
``Rotation2D`` which requires only an angle to specify the rotation.
The new ``Rotation2D`` rotates in a counter-clockwise sense whereas
the old ``MatrixRotation2D`` increased the angle clockwise.
[#2266, #2269]
- Added a new ``AffineTransformation2D`` model which serves as a
replacement for the capability of ``MatrixRotation2D`` to accept an
arbitrary matrix, while also adding a translation capability. [#2269]
- Added ``GaussianAbsorption1D`` model. [#2215]
- New ``Redshift`` model [#2176].
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow initialization ``NDData`` or ``StdDevUncertainty`` with a
``Quantity``. [#2380]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added flat prior to binom_conf_interval and binned_binom_proportion
- Change default in ``sigma_clip`` from ``np.median`` to ``np.ma.median``.
[#2582]
astropy.sphinx
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Note, the following new features are included in astropy-helpers as well:
- The ``automodapi`` and ``automodsumm`` extensions now include sphinx
configuration options to write out what ``automodapi`` and ``automodsumm``
generate, mainly for debugging purposes. [#1975, #2022]
- Reference documentation now shows functions/class docstrings at the
intended user-facing API location rather than the actual file where
the implementation is found. [#1826]
- The ``automodsumm`` extension configuration was changed to generate
documentation of class ``__call__`` member functions. [#1817, #2135]
- ``automodapi`` and ``automodsumm`` now have an ``:allowed-package-names:``
option that make it possible to document functions and classes that
are in a different namespace. [#2370]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved grouped table aggregation by using the numpy ``reduceat()`` method
when possible. This can speed up the operation by a factor of at least 10
to 100 for large unmasked tables and columns with relatively small
group sizes. [#2625]
- Allow row-oriented data input using a new ``rows`` keyword argument.
[#850]
- Allow subclassing of ``Table`` and the component classes ``Row``, ``Column``,
``MaskedColumn``, ``TableColumns``, and ``TableFormatter``. [#2287]
- Fix to allow numpy integer types as valid indices into tables in
Python 3.x [#2477]
- Remove transition code related to the order change in ``Column`` and
``MaskedColumn`` arguments ``name`` and ``data`` from Astropy 0.2
to 0.3. [#2511]
- Change HTML table representation in IPython notebook to show all
table columns instead of restricting to 80 column width. [#2651]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Mean and apparent sidereal time can now be calculated using the
``sidereal_time`` method [#1418].
- The time scale now defaults to UTC if no scale is provided. [#2091]
- ``TimeDelta`` objects can have all scales but UTC, as well as, for
consistency with time-like quantities, undefined scale (where the
scale is taken from the object one adds to or subtracts from).
This allows, e.g., to work consistently in TDB. [#1932]
- ``Time`` now supports ISO format strings that end in "Z". [#2211, #2203]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Support for the unit format `Office of Guest Investigator Programs (OGIP)
FITS files
<https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/ofwg/docs/general/ogip_93_001/>`__
has been added. [#377]
- The ``spectral`` equivalency can now handle angular wave number. [#1306 and
#1899]
- Added ``one`` as a shorthand for ``dimensionless_unscaled``. [#1980]
- Added ``dex`` and ``dB`` units. [#1628]
- Added ``temperature()`` equivalencies to support conversion between
Kelvin, Celsius, and Fahrenheit. [#2209]
- Added ``temperature_energy()`` equivalencies to support conversion
between electron-volt and Kelvin. [#2637]
- The runtime of ``astropy.units.Unit.compose`` is greatly improved
(by a factor of 2 in most cases) [#2544]
- Added ``electron`` unit. [#2599]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``timer.RunTimePredictor`` now uses ``astropy.modeling`` in its
``do_fit()`` method. [#1896]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- A new sub-package, ``astropy.vo.samp``, is now available (this was
previously the SAMPy package, which has been refactored for use in
Astropy). [#1907]
- Enhanced functionalities for ``VOSCatalog`` and ``VOSDatabase``. [#1206]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- astropy now requires wcslib version 4.23. The version of wcslib
included with astropy has been updated to version 4.23.
- Bounds checking is now performed on native spherical
coordinates. Any out-of-bounds values will be returned as
``NaN``, and marked in the ``stat`` array, if using the
low-level ``wcslib`` interface such as
``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.p2s``. [#2107]
- A new method, ``astropy.wcs.WCS.compare()``, compares two wcsprm
structs for equality with varying degrees of strictness. [#2361]
- New ``astropy.wcs.utils`` module, with a handful of tools for manipulating
WCS objects, including dropping, swapping, and adding axes.
Misc
^^^^
- Includes the new astropy-helpers package which separates some of Astropy's
build, installation, and documentation infrastructure out into an
independent package, making it easier for Affiliated Packages to depend on
these features. astropy-helpers replaces/deprecates some of the submodules
in the ``astropy`` package (see API Changes below). See also
`APE 4 <https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/master/APE4.rst>`_
for more details on the motivation behind and implementation of
astropy-helpers. [#1563]
API Changes
-----------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The configuration system received a major overhaul, as part of APE3. It is
no longer possible to save configuration items from Python, but instead
users must edit the configuration file directly. The locations of
configuration items have moved, and some have been changed to science state
values. The old locations should continue to work until astropy 0.5, but
deprecation warnings will be displayed. See the `Configuration transition
<https://docs.astropy.org/en/v0.4/config/config_0_4_transition.html>`_
docs for a detailed description of the changes and how to update existing
code. [#2094]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.io.fits.new_table`` function is now fully deprecated (though
will not be removed for a long time, considering how widely it is used).
Instead please use the more explicit ``BinTableHDU.from_columns`` to create
a new binary table HDU, and the similar ``TableHDU.from_columns`` to create
a new ASCII table. These otherwise accept the same arguments as
``new_table`` which is now just a wrapper for these.
- The ``.fromstring`` classmethod of each HDU type has been simplified such
that, true to its namesake, it only initializes an HDU from a string
containing its header *and* data.
- Fixed an issue where header wildcard matching (for example
``header['DATE*']``) can be used to match *any* characters that might
appear in a keyword. Previously this only matched keywords containing
characters in the set ``[0-9A-Za-z_]``. Now this can also match a hyphen
``-`` and any other characters, as some conventions like ``HIERARCH`` and
record-valued keyword cards allow a wider range of valid characters than
standard FITS keywords.
- This will be the *last* release to support the following APIs that have
been marked deprecated since Astropy v0.1/PyFITS v3.1:
- The ``CardList`` class, which was part of the old header implementation.
- The ``Card.key`` attribute. Use ``Card.keyword`` instead.
- The ``Card.cardimage`` and ``Card.ascardimage`` attributes. Use simply
``Card.image`` or ``str(card)`` instead.
- The ``create_card`` factory function. Simply use the normal ``Card``
constructor instead.
- The ``create_card_from_string`` factory function. Use ``Card.fromstring``
instead.
- The ``upper_key`` function. Use ``Card.normalize_keyword`` method
instead (this is not unlikely to be used outside of PyFITS itself, but it
was technically public API).
- The usage of ``Header.update`` with ``Header.update(keyword, value,
comment)`` arguments. ``Header.update`` should only be used analogously
to ``dict.update``. Use ``Header.set`` instead.
- The ``Header.ascard`` attribute. Use ``Header.cards`` instead for a list
of all the ``Card`` objects in the header.
- The ``Header.rename_key`` method. Use ``Header.rename_keyword`` instead.
- The ``Header.get_history`` method. Use ``header['HISTORY']`` instead
(normal keyword lookup).
- The ``Header.get_comment`` method. Use ``header['COMMENT']`` instead.
- The ``Header.toTxtFile`` method. Use ``header.totextfile`` instead.
- The ``Header.fromTxtFile`` method. Use ``Header.fromtextfile`` instead.
- The ``tdump`` and ``tcreate`` functions. Use ``tabledump`` and
``tableload`` respectively.
- The ``BinTableHDU.tdump`` and ``tcreate`` methods. Use
``BinTableHDU.dump`` and ``BinTableHDU.load`` respectively.
- The ``txtfile`` argument to the ``Header`` constructor. Use
``Header.fromfile`` instead.
- The ``startColumn`` and ``endColumn`` arguments to the ``FITS_record``
constructor. These are unlikely to be used by any user code.
These deprecated interfaces will be removed from the development version of
Astropy following the v0.4 release (they will still be available in any
v0.4.x bugfix releases, however).
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The method computing the derivative of the model with respect
to parameters was renamed from ``deriv`` to ``fit_deriv``. [#1739]
- ``ParametricModel`` and the associated ``Parametric1DModel`` and
``Parametric2DModel`` classes have been renamed ``FittableModel``,
``Fittable1DModel``, and ``Fittable2DModel`` respectively. The base
``Model`` class has subsumed the functionality of the old
``ParametricModel`` class so that all models support parameter constraints.
The only distinction of ``FittableModel`` is that anything which subclasses
it is assumed "safe" to use with Astropy fitters. [#2276]
- ``NonLinearLSQFitter`` has been renamed ``LevMarLSQFitter`` to emphasise
that it uses the Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm with a
least squares statistic function. [#1914]
- The ``SLSQPFitter`` class has been renamed ``SLSQPLSQFitter`` to emphasize
that it uses the Sequential Least Squares Programming optimization
algorithm with a least squares statistic function. [#1914]
- The ``Fitter.errorfunc`` method has been renamed to the more general
``Fitter.objective_function``. [#1914]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Issue warning if unit is changed from a non-trivial value by directly
setting ``NDData.unit``. [#2411]
- The ``mask`` and ``flag`` attributes of ``astropy.nddata.NDData`` can now
be set with any array-like object instead of requiring that they be set
with a ``numpy.ndarray``. [#2419]
astropy.sphinx
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Use of the ``astropy.sphinx`` module is deprecated; all new development of
this module is in ``astropy_helpers.sphinx`` which should be used instead
(therefore documentation builds that made use of any of the utilities in
``astropy.sphinx`` now have ``astropy_helpers`` as a documentation
dependency).
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The default table printing function now shows a table header row for units
if any columns have the unit attribute set. [#1282]
- Before, an unmasked ``Table`` was automatically converted to a masked
table if generated from a masked Table or a ``MaskedColumn``.
Now, this conversion is only done if explicitly requested or if any
of the input values is actually masked. [#1185]
- The repr() function of ``astropy.table.Table`` now shows the units
if any columns have the unit attribute set. [#2180]
- The semantics of the config options ``table.max_lines`` and
``table.max_width`` has changed slightly. If these values are not
set in the config file, astropy will try to determine the size
automatically from the terminal. [#2683]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Correct use of UT in TDB calculation [#1938, #1939].
- ``TimeDelta`` objects can have scales other than TAI [#1932].
- Location information should now be passed on via an ``EarthLocation``
instance or anything that initialises it, e.g., a tuple containing
either geocentric or geodetic coordinates. [#1928]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity`` now converts input to float by default, as this is physically
most sensible for nearly all units [#1776].
- ``Quantity`` comparisons with ``==`` or ``!=`` now always return ``True``
or ``False``, even if units do not match (for which case a ``UnitsError``
used to be raised). [#2328]
- Applying ``float`` or ``int`` to a ``Quantity`` now works for all
dimensionless quantities; they are automatically converted to unscaled
dimensionless. [#2249]
- The exception ``astropy.units.UnitException``, which was
deprecated in astropy 0.2, has been removed. Use
``astropy.units.UnitError`` instead [#2386]
- Initializing a ``Quantity`` with a valid number/array with a ``unit``
attribute now interprets that attribute as the units of the input value.
This makes it possible to initialize a ``Quantity`` from an Astropy
``Table`` column and have it correctly pick up the units from the column.
[#2486]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``calcFootprint`` was deprecated. It is replaced by
``calc_footprint``. An optional boolean keyword ``center`` was
added to ``calc_footprint``. It controls whether the centers or
the corners of the pixels are used in the computation. [#2384]
- ``astropy.wcs.WCS.sip_pix2foc`` and
``astropy.wcs.WCS.sip_foc2pix`` formerly did not conform to the
``SIP`` standard: ``CRPIX`` was added to the ``foc`` result so
that it could be used as input to "core FITS WCS". As of astropy
0.4, ``CRPIX`` is no longer added to the result, so the ``foc``
space is correct as defined in the `SIP convention
<https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ASPC..347..491S>`__. [#2360]
- ``astropy.wcs.UnitConverter``, which was deprecated in astropy
0.2, has been removed. Use the ``astropy.units`` module
instead. [#2386]
- The following methods on ``astropy.wcs.WCS``, which were
deprecated in astropy 0.1, have been removed [#2386]:
- ``all_pix2sky`` -> ``all_pix2world``
- ``wcs_pix2sky`` -> ``wcs_pix2world``
- ``wcs_sky2pix`` -> ``wcs_world2pix``
- The ``naxis1`` and ``naxis2`` attributes and the ``get_naxis``
method of ``astropy.wcs.WCS``, which were deprecated in astropy
0.2, have been removed. Use the shape of the underlying FITS data
array instead. [#2386]
Misc
^^^^
- The ``astropy.setup_helpers`` and ``astropy.version_helpers`` modules are
deprecated; any non-critical fixes and development to those modules should
be in ``astropy_helpers`` instead. Packages that use these modules in
their ``setup.py`` should depend on ``astropy_helpers`` following the same
pattern as in the Astropy package template.
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.constants
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.constants.Constant`` objects can now be deep
copied. [#2601]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The distance modulus function in ``astropy.cosmology`` can now handle
negative distances, which can occur in certain closed cosmologies. [#2008]
- Removed accidental imports of some extraneous variables in
``astropy.cosmology`` [#2025]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.io.ascii.read`` would fail to read lists of strings where some of
the strings consisted of just a newline ("\n"). [#2648]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Use NaN for missing values in FITS when using Table.write for float
columns. Earlier the default fill value was close to 1e20.[#2186]
- Fixes for checksums on 32-bit platforms. Results may be different
if writing or checking checksums in "nonstandard" mode. [#2484]
- Additional minor bug fixes ported from PyFITS. [#2575]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- It is now possible to save an ``astropy.table.Table`` object as a
VOTable with any of the supported data formats, ``tabledata``,
``binary`` and ``binary2``, by using the ``tabledata_format``
kwarg. [#2138]
- Fixed a crash writing out variable length arrays. [#2577]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Indexing ``NDData`` in a way that results in a single element returns that
element. [#2170]
- Change construction of result of arithmetic and unit conversion to allow
subclasses to require the presence of attribute like unit. [#2300]
- Scale uncertainties to correct units in arithmetic operations and unit
conversion. [#2393]
- Ensure uncertainty and mask members are copied in arithmetic and
convert_unit_to. [#2394]
- Mask result of arithmetic if either of the operands is masked. [#2403]
- Copy all attributes of input object if ``astropy.nddata.NDData`` is
initialized with an ``NDData`` object. [#2406]
- Copy ``flags`` to new object in ``convert_unit_to``. [#2409]
- Result of ``NDData`` arithmetic makes a copy of any WCS instead of using
a reference. [#2410]
- Fix unit handling for multiplication/division and use
``astropy.units.Quantity`` for units arithmetic. [#2413]
- A masked ``NDData`` is now converted to a masked array when used in an
operation or ufunc with a numpy array. [#2414]
- An unmasked ``NDData`` now uses an internal representation of its mask
state that ``numpy.ma`` expects so that an ``NDData`` behaves as an
unmasked array. [#2417]
astropy.sphinx
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix crash in smart resolver when the resolution doesn't work. [#2591]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.table.Column`` object can now use both functions and callable
objects as formats. [#2313]
- Fixed a problem on 64 bit windows that caused errors
"expected 'DTYPE_t' but got 'long long'" [#2490]
- Fix initialisation of ``TableColumns`` with lists or tuples. [#2647]
- Fix removal of single column using ``remove_columns``. [#2699]
- Fix a problem that setting a row element within a masked table did not
update the corresponding table element. [#2734]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Correct UT1->UTC->UT1 round-trip being off by 1 second if UT1 is
on a leap second. [#2077]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity.copy`` now behaves identically to ``ndarray.copy``, and thus
supports the ``order`` argument (for numpy >=1.6). [#2284]
- Composing base units into identical composite units now works. [#2382]
- Creating and composing/decomposing units is now substantially faster [#2544]
- ``Quantity`` objects now are able to be assigned NaN [#2695]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Astropy now requires wcslib version 4.23. The version of wcslib
included with astropy has been updated to version 4.23.
- Bug fixes in the projection routines: in ``hpxx2s`` [the
cartesian-to-spherical operation of the ``HPX`` projection]
relating to bounds checking, bug introduced at wcslib 4.20; in
``parx2s`` and molx2s`` [the cartesion-to-spherical operation of
the ``PAR`` and ``MOL`` projections respectively] relating to
setting the stat vector; in ``hpxx2s`` relating to implementation
of the vector API; and in ``xphx2s`` relating to setting an
out-of-bounds value of *phi*.
- In the ``PCO`` projection, use alternative projection equations
for greater numerical precision near theta == 0. In the ``COP``
projection, return an exact result for theta at the poles.
Relaxed the tolerance for bounds checking a little in ``SFL``
projection.
- Fix a bug allocating insufficient memory in
``astropy.wcs.WCS.sub`` [#2468]
- A new method, ``Wcsprm.bounds_check`` (corresponding to wcslib's
``wcsbchk``) has been added to control what bounds checking is performed by
wcslib.
- ``WCS.to_header`` will now raise a more meaningful exception when the WCS
information is invalid or inconsistent in some way. [#1854]
- In ``WCS.to_header``, ``RESTFRQ`` and ``RESTWAV`` are no longer
rewritten if zero. [#2468]
- In ``WCS.to_header``, floating point values will now always be written
with an exponent or fractional part, i.e. ``.0`` being appended if necessary
to achieve this. [#2468]
- If the C extension for ``astropy.wcs`` was not built or fails to import for
any reason, ``import astropy.wcs`` will result in an ``ImportError``,
rather than getting obscure errors once the ``astropy.wcs`` is used.
[#2061]
- When the C extension for ``astropy.wcs`` is built using a version of
``wscslib`` already present in the system, the package does not try
to install ``wcslib`` headers under ``astropy/wcs/include``. [#2536]
- Fixes an unresolved external symbol error in the
``astropy.wcs._wcs`` C extension on Microsoft Windows when built
with a Microsoft compiler. [#2478]
Misc
^^^^
- Running the test suite with ``python setup.py test`` now works if
the path to the source contains spaces. [#2488]
- The version of ERFA included with Astropy is now v1.1.0 [#2497]
- Removed deprecated option from travis configuration and force use of
wheels rather than allowing build from source. [#2576]
- The short option ``-n`` to run tests in parallel was broken
(conflicts with the distutils built-in option of "dry-run").
Changed to ``-j``. [#2566]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- python setup.py test --coverage will now give more accurate
results, because the coverage analysis will include early imports of
astropy. There doesn't seem to be a way to get this to work when
doing ``import astropy; astropy.test()``, so the ``coverage``
keyword to ``astropy.test`` has been removed. Coverage testing now
depends only on `coverage.py
<http://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__, not
``pytest-cov``. [#2112]
- The included version of py.test has been upgraded to 2.5.1. [#1970]
- The included version of six.py has been upgraded to 1.5.2. [#2006]
- Where appropriate, tests are now run both with and without the
``unicode_literals`` option to ensure that we support both cases. [#1962]
- Running the Astropy test suite from within the IPython REPL is disabled for
now due to bad interaction between the test runner and IPython's logging
and I/O handler. For now, run the Astropy tests should be run in the basic
Python interpreter. [#2684]
- Added support for numerical comparison of floating point values appearing in
the output of doctests using a ``+FLOAT_CMP`` doctest flag. [#2087]
- A monkey patch is performed to fix a bug in Numpy version 1.7 and
earlier where unicode fill values on masked arrays are not
supported. This may cause unintended side effects if your
application also monkey patches ``numpy.ma`` or relies on the broken
behavior. If unicode support of masked arrays is important to your
application, upgrade to Numpy 1.8 or later for best results. [#2059]
- The developer documentation has been extensively rearranged and
rewritten. [#1712]
- The ``human_time`` function in ``astropy.utils`` now returns strings
without zero padding. [#2420]
- The ``bdist_dmg`` command for ``setup.py`` has now been removed. [#2553]
- Many broken API links have been fixed in the documentation, and the
``nitpick`` Sphinx option is now used to avoid broken links in future.
[#1221, #2019, #2109, #2161, #2162, #2192, #2200, #2296, #2448, #2456,
#2460, #2467, #2476, #2508, #2509]
Version 0.3.2 (2014-05-13)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- if ``sep`` argument is specified to be a single character in
``sexagisimal_to_string``, it now includes separators only between
items [#2183]
- Ensure comparisons involving ``Distance`` objects do not raise exceptions;
also ensure operations that lead to units other than length return
``Quantity``. [#2206, #2250]
- Multiplication and division of ``Angle`` objects is now
supported. [#2273]
- Fixed ``Angle.to_string`` functionality so that negative angles have the
correct amount of padding when ``pad=True``. [#2337]
- Mixing strings and quantities in the ``Angle`` constructor now
works. For example: ``Angle(['1d', 1. * u.d])``. [#2398]
- If ``Longitude`` is given a ``Longitude`` as input, use its ``wrap_angle``
by default [#2705]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``format()`` compatibility with Python 2.6. [#2129]
- Be more careful about converting to floating point internally [#1815, #1818]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The CDS reader in ``astropy.io.ascii`` can now handle multiple
description lines in ReadMe files. [#2225]
- When reading a table with values that generate an overflow error during
type conversion (e.g. overflowing the native C long type), fall through to
using string. Previously this generated an exception [#2234].
- Recognize any string with one to four dashes as null value. [#1335]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow pickling of ``FITS_rec`` objects. [#1597]
- Improved behavior when writing large compressed images on OSX by removing
an unnecessary check for platform architecture. [#2345]
- Fixed an issue where Astropy ``Table`` objects containing boolean columns
were not correctly written out to FITS files. [#1953]
- Several other bug fixes ported from PyFITS v3.2.3 [#2368]
- Fixed a crash on Python 2.x when writing a FITS file directly to a
``StringIO.StringIO`` object. [#2463]
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow readers/writers with the same name to be attached to different
classes. [#2312]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- By default, floating point values are now written out using
``repr`` rather than ``str`` to preserve precision [#2137]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the ``SIP`` and ``InverseSIP`` models both so that they work in the
first place, and so that they return results consistent with the SIP
functions in ``astropy.wcs``. [#2177]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure the ``axis`` keyword in ``astropy.stats.funcs`` can now be used for
all axes. [#2173]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ensure nameless columns can be printed, using 'None' for the header. [#2213]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed pickling of ``Time`` objects. [#2123]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity._repr_latex_()`` returns ``NotImplementedError`` for quantity
arrays instead of an uninformative formatting exception. [#2258]
- Ensure ``Quantity.flat`` always returns ``Quantity``. [#2251]
- Angstrom unit renders better in MathJax [#2286]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Progress bars will now be displayed inside the IPython
qtconsole. [#2230]
- ``data.download_file()`` now evaluates ``REMOTE_TIMEOUT()`` at runtime
rather than import time. Previously, setting ``REMOTE_TIMEOUT`` after
import had no effect on the function's behavior. [#2302]
- Progressbar will be limited to 100% so that the bar does not exceed the
terminal width. The numerical display can still exceed 100%, however.
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``format()`` compatibility with Python 2.6. [#2129]
- Cone Search validation no longer raises ``ConeSearchError`` for positive RA.
[#2240, #2242]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where calling ``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.sub`` with
``WCSSUB_CELESTIAL`` may cause memory corruption due to
underallocation of a temporary buffer. [#2350]
- Fixed a memory allocation bug in ``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.sub`` and
``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.copy``. [#2439]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixes for compatibility with Python 3.4. [#1945]
- ``import astropy; astropy.test()`` now correctly uses the same test
configuration as ``python setup.py test`` [#1811]
Version 0.3.1 (2014-03-04)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.config
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``ConfigurationItem.set_temp()`` does not reset to
default value when exception is raised within ``with`` block. [#2117]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``_truncation`` was left undefined for ``CustomKernel``.
[#2016]
- Fixed a bug with ``_normalization`` when ``CustomKernel`` input array
sums to zero. [#2016]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where using ``==`` on two array coordinates wouldn't
work. [#1832]
- Fixed bug which caused ``len()`` not to work for coordinate objects and
added a ``.shape`` property to get appropriately array-like behavior.
[#1761, #2014]
- Fixed a bug where sexagesimal notation would sometimes include
exponential notation in the last field. [#1908, #1913]
- ``CompositeStaticMatrixTransform`` no longer attempts to reference the
undefined variable ``self.matrix`` during instantiation. [#1944]
- Fixed pickling of ``Longitude``, ensuring ``wrap_angle`` is preserved
[#1961]
- Allow ``sep`` argument in ``Angle.to_string`` to be empty (resulting in no
separators) [#1989]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Allow passing unicode delimiters when reading or writing tables. The
delimiter must be convertible to pure ASCII. [#1949]
- Fix a problem when reading a table and renaming the columns to names that
already exist. [#1991]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Ported all bug fixes from PyFITS 3.2.1. See the PyFITS changelog at
https://pyfits.readthedocs.io/en/v3.2.1/ [#2056]
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed issues in the HDF5 Table reader/writer functions that occurred on
Windows. [#2099]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``write_null_values`` kwarg to ``VOTable.to_xml``, when set to `False`
(the default) would produce non-standard VOTable files. Therefore, this
functionality has been replaced by a better understanding that knows which
fields in a VOTable may be left empty (only ``char``, ``float`` and
``double`` in VOTable 1.1 and 1.2, and all fields in VOTable 1.3). The
kwarg is still accepted but it will be ignored, and a warning is emitted.
[#1809]
- Printing out a ``astropy.io.votable.tree.Table`` object using `repr` or
`str` now uses the pretty formatting in ``astropy.table``, so it's possible
to easily preview the contents of a ``VOTable``. [#1766]
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed bug in computation of model derivatives in ``LinearLSQFitter``.
[#1903]
- Raise a ``NotImplementedError`` when fitting composite models. [#1915]
- Fixed bug in the computation of the ``Gaussian2D`` model. [#2038]
- Fixed bug in the computation of the ``AiryDisk2D`` model. [#2093]
astropy.sphinx
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added slightly more useful debug info for AstropyAutosummary. [#2024]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The column string representation for n-dimensional cells with only
one element has been fixed. [#1522]
- Fix a problem that caused ``MaskedColumn.__getitem__`` to not preserve
column metadata. [#1471, #1872]
- With Numpy prior to version 1.6.2, tables with Unicode columns now
sort correctly. [#1867]
- ``astropy.table`` can now print out tables with Unicode columns containing
non-ascii characters. [#1864]
- Columns can now be named with Unicode strings, as long as they contain only
ascii characters. This makes using ``astropy.table`` easier on Python 2
when ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` is used. [#1864]
- Allow pickling of ``Table``, ``Column``, and ``MaskedColumn`` objects. [#792]
- Fix a problem where it was not possible to rename columns after sorting or
adding a row. [#2039]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fix a problem where scale conversion problem in TimeFromEpoch
was not showing a useful error [#2046]
- Fix a problem when converting to one of the formats ``unix``, ``cxcsec``,
``gps`` or ``plot_date`` when the time scale is ``UT1``, ``TDB`` or ``TCB``
[#1732]
- Ensure that ``delta_ut1_utc`` gets calculated when accessed directly,
instead of failing and giving a rather obscure error message [#1925]
- Fix a bug when computing the TDB to TT offset. The transform routine was
using meters instead of kilometers for the Earth vector. [#1929]
- Increase ``__array_priority__`` so that ``TimeDelta`` can convert itself
to a ``Quantity`` also in reverse operations [#1940]
- Correct hop list from TCG to TDB to ensure that conversion is
possible [#2074]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Quantity`` initialisation rewritten for speed [#1775]
- Fixed minor string formatting issue for dimensionless quantities. [#1772]
- Fix error for inplace operations on non-contiguous quantities [#1834].
- The definition of the unit ``bar`` has been corrected to "1e5
Pascal" from "100 Pascal" [#1910]
- For units that are close to known units, but not quite, for
example due to differences in case, the exception will now include
recommendations. [#1870]
- The generic and FITS unit parsers now accept multiple slashes in
the unit string. There are multiple ways to interpret them, but
the approach taken here is to convert "m/s/kg" to "m s-1 kg-1".
Multiple slashes are accepted, but discouraged, by the FITS
standard, due to the ambiguity of parsing, so a warning is raised
when it is encountered. [#1911]
- The use of "angstrom" (with a lower case "a") is now accepted in FITS unit
strings, since it is in common usage. However, since it is not officially
part of the FITS standard, a warning will be issued when it is encountered.
[#1911]
- Pickling unrecognized units will not raise a ``AttributeError``. [#2047]
- ``astropy.units`` now correctly preserves the precision of
fractional powers. [#2070]
- If a ``Unit`` or ``Quantity`` is raised to a floating point power
that is very close to a rational number with a denominator less
than or equal to 10, it is converted to a ``Fraction`` object to
preserve its precision through complex unit conversion operations.
[#2070]
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed crash in ``timer.RunTimePredictor.do_fit``. [#1905]
- Fixed ``astropy.utils.compat.argparse`` for Python 3.1. [#2017]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``astropy.wcs.WCS``, ``astropy.wcs.WCS.fix`` and
``astropy.wcs.find_all_wcs`` now have a ``translate_units`` keyword
argument that is passed down to ``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.fix``. This can be
used to specify any unsafe translations of units from rarely used ones to
more commonly used ones.
Although ``"S"`` is commonly used to represent seconds, its translation to
``"s"`` is potentially unsafe since the standard recognizes ``"S"``
formally as Siemens, however rarely that may be used. The same applies to
``"H"`` for hours (Henry), and ``"D"`` for days (Debye).
When these sorts of changes are performed, a warning is emitted.
[#1854]
- When a unit is "fixed" by ``astropy.wcs.WCS.fix`` or
``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.unitfix``, it now correctly reports the ``CUNIT``
field that was changed. [#1854]
- ``astropy.wcs.Wcs.printwcs`` will no longer warn that ``cdelt`` is being
ignored when none was present in the FITS file. [#1845]
- ``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm.set`` is called from within the ``astropy.wcs.WCS``
constructor, therefore any invalid information in the keywords will be
raised from the constructor, rather than on a subsequent call to a
transformation method. [#1918]
- Fix a memory corruption bug when using ``astropy.wcs.Wcs.sub`` with
``astropy.wcs.WCSSUB_CELESTIAL``. [#1960]
- Fixed the ``AttributeError`` exception that was raised when using
``astropy.wcs.WCS.footprint_to_file``. [#1912]
- Fixed a ``NameError`` exception that was raised when using
``astropy.wcs.validate`` or the ``wcslint`` script. [#2053]
- Fixed a bug where named WCSes may be erroneously reported as ``' '`` when
using ``astropy.wcs.validate`` or the ``wcslint`` script. [#2053]
- Fixed a bug where error messages about incorrect header keywords
may not be propagated correctly, resulting in a "NULL error object
in wcslib" message. [#2106]
Misc
^^^^
- There are a number of improvements to make Astropy work better on big
endian platforms, such as MIPS, PPC, s390x and SPARC. [#1849]
- The test suite will now raise exceptions when a deprecated feature of
Python or Numpy is used. [#1948]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- A new function, ``astropy.wcs.get_include``, has been added to get the
location of the ``astropy.wcs`` C header files. [#1755]
- The doctests in the ``.rst`` files in the ``docs`` folder are now
tested along with the other unit tests. This is in addition to the
testing of doctests in docstrings that was already being performed.
See ``docs/development/testguide.rst`` for more information. [#1771]
- Fix a problem where import fails on Python 3 if setup.py exists
in current directory. [#1877]
Version 0.3 (2013-11-20)
========================
New Features
------------
- General
- A top-level configuration item, ``unicode_output`` has been added to
control whether the Unicode string representation of certain
objects will contain Unicode characters. For example, when
``use_unicode`` is `False` (default)::
>>> from astropy import units as u
>>> print(unicode(u.degree))
deg
When ``use_unicode`` is `True`::
>>> from astropy import units as u
>>> print(unicode(u.degree))
°
See `handling-unicode
<https://docs.astropy.org/en/v0.3/development/codeguide.html#unicode-guidelines>`_
for more information. [#1441]
- ``astropy.utils.misc.find_api_page`` is now imported into the top-level.
This allows usage like ``astropy.find_api_page(astropy.units.Quantity)``.
[#1779]
astropy.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New class-based system for generating kernels, replacing ``make_kernel``.
[#1255] The ``astropy.nddata.convolution`` sub-package has now been moved
to ``astropy.convolution``. [#1451]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Two classes ``astropy.coordinates.Longitude`` and
``astropy.coordinates.Latitude`` have been added. These are derived from
the new ``Angle`` class and used for all longitude-like (RA, azimuth,
galactic L) and latitude-like coordinates (Dec, elevation, galactic B)
respectively. The ``Longitude`` class provides auto-wrapping capability
and ``Latitude`` performs bounds checking.
- ``astropy.coordinates.Distance`` supports conversion to and from distance
modulii. [#1472]
- ``astropy.coordinates.SphericalCoordinateBase`` and derived classes now
support arrays of coordinates, enabling large speed-ups for some operations
on multiple coordinates at the same time. These coordinates can also be
indexed using standard slicing or any Numpy-compatible indexing. [#1535,
#1615]
- Array coordinates can be matched to other array coordinates, finding the
closest matches between the two sets of coordinates (see the
``astropy.coordinates.matching.match_coordinates_3d`` and
``astropy.coordinates.matching.match_coordinates_sky`` functions). [#1535]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for including massive Neutrinos in the cosmology classes. The
Planck (2013) cosmology has been updated to use this. [#1364]
- Calculations now use and return ``Quantity`` objects where appropriate.
[#1237]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added support for writing IPAC format tables [#1152].
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added initial support for table columns containing pseudo-unsigned
integers. This is currently enabled by using the ``uint=True`` option when
opening files; any table columns with the correct BZERO value will be
interpreted and returned as arrays of unsigned integers. [#906]
- Upgraded vendored copy of CFITSIO to v3.35, though backwards compatibility
back to version v3.28 is maintained.
- Added support for reading and writing tables using the Q format for columns.
The Q format is identical to the P format (variable-length arrays) except
that it uses 64-bit integers for the data descriptors, allowing more than
4 GB of variable-length array data in a single table.
- Some refactoring of the table and ``FITS_rec`` modules in order to better
separate the details of the FITS binary and ASCII table data structures from
the HDU data structures that encapsulate them. Most of these changes should
not be apparent to users (but see API Changes below).
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Updated to support the VOTable 1.3 draft. [#433]
- Added the ability to look up and group elements by their utype attribute.
[#622]
- The format of the units of a VOTable file can be specified using the
``unit_format`` parameter. Note that units are still always written out
using the CDS format, to ensure compatibility with the standard.
astropy.modeling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new framework for representing and evaluating mathematical models
and for fitting data to models. See "What's New in Astropy 0.3" in the
documentation for further details. [#493]
astropy.stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added robust statistics functions
``astropy.stats.funcs.median_absolute_deviation``,
``astropy.stats.funcs.biweight_location``, and
``astropy.stats.funcs.biweight_midvariance``. [#621]
- Added ``astropy.stats.funcs.signal_to_noise_oir_ccd`` for computing the
signal to noise ratio for source being observed in the optical/IR using a
CCD. [#870]
- Add ``axis=int`` option to ``stropy.stats.funcs.sigma_clip`` to allow
clipping along a given axis for multidimensional data. [#1083]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New columns can be added to a table via assignment to a non-existing
column by name. [#726]
- Added ``join`` function to perform a database-like join on two tables. This
includes support for inner, left, right, and outer joins as well as
metadata merging. [#903]
- Added ``hstack`` and ``vstack`` functions to stack two or more tables.
[#937]
- Tables now have a ``.copy`` method and include support for ``copy`` and
``deepcopy``. [#1208]
- Added support for selecting and manipulating groups within a table with
a database style ``group_by`` method. [#1424]
- Table ``read`` and ``write`` functions now include rudimentary support
reading and writing of FITS tables via the unified reading/writing
interface. [#591]
- The ``units`` and ``dtypes`` attributes and keyword arguments in Column,
MaskedColumn, Row, and Table are now deprecated in favor of the
single-tense ``unit`` and ``dtype``. [#1174]
- Setting a column from a Quantity now correctly sets the unit on the Column
object. [#732]
- Add ``remove_row`` and ``remove_rows`` to remove table rows. [#1230]
- Added a new ``Table.show_in_browser`` method that opens a web browser
and displays the table rendered as HTML. [#1342]
- New tables can now be instantiated using a single row from an existing
table. [#1417]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- New ``Time`` objects can be instantiated from existing ``Time`` objects
(but with different format, scale, etc.) [#889]
- Added a ``Time.now`` classmethod that returns the current UTC time,
similarly to Python's ``datetime.now``. [#1061]
- Update internal time manipulations so that arithmetic with Time and
TimeDelta objects maintains sub-nanosecond precision over a time span
longer than the age of the universe. [#1189]
- Use ``astropy.utils.iers`` to provide ``delta_ut1_utc``, so that
automatic calculation of UT1 becomes possible. [#1145]
- Add ``datetime`` format which allows converting to and from standard
library ``datetime.datetime`` objects. [#860]
- Add ``plot_date`` format which allows converting to and from the date
representation used when plotting dates with matplotlib via the
``matplotlib.pyplot.plot_date`` function. [#860]
- Add ``gps`` format (seconds since 1980-01-01 00:00:00 UTC,
including leap seconds) [#1164]
- Add array indexing to Time objects [#1132]
- Allow for arithmetic of multi-element and single-element Time and TimeDelta
objects. [#1081]
- Allow multiplication and division of TimeDelta objects by
constants and arrays, as well as changing sign (negation) and
taking the absolute value of TimeDelta objects. [#1082]
- Allow comparisons of Time and TimeDelta objects. [#1171]
- Support interaction of Time and Quantity objects that represent a time
interval. [#1431]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added parallax equivalency for length-angle. [#985]
- Added mass-energy equivalency. [#1333]
- Added a new-style format method which will use format specifiers
(like ``0.03f``) in new-style format strings for the Quantity's value.
Specifiers which can't be applied to the value will fall back to the
entire string representation of the quantity. [#1383]
- Added support for complex number values in quantities. [#1384]
- Added new spectroscopic equivalencies for velocity conversions
(relativistic, optical, and radio conventions are supported) [#1200]
- The ``spectral`` equivalency now also handles wave number.
- The ``spectral_density`` equivalency now also accepts a Quantity for the
frequency or wavelength. It also handles additional flux units.
- Added Brightness Temperature (antenna gain) equivalency for conversion
between :math:`T_B` and flux density. [#1327]
- Added percent unit, and allowed any string containing just a number to be
interpreted as a scaled dimensionless unit. [#1409]
- New-style format strings can be used to set the unit output format. For
example, ``"{0:latex}".format(u.km)`` will print with the latex formatter.
[#1462]
- The ``Unit.is_equivalent`` method can now take a tuple. In this case, the
method returns ``True`` if the unit is equivalent to any of the units
listed in the tuple. [#1521]
- ``def_unit`` can now take a 2-tuple of names of the form (short, long),
where each entry is a list. This allows for handling strange units that
might have multiple short names. [#1543]
- Added ``dimensionless_angles`` equivalency, which allows conversion of any
power of radian to dimensionless. [#1161]
- Added the ability to enable set of units, or equivalencies that are used by
default. Also provided context managers for these cases. [#1268]
- Imperial units are disabled by default. [#1593, #1662]
- Added an ``astropy.units.add_enabled_units`` context manager, which allows
creating a temporary context with additional units temporarily enabled in
the global units namespace. [#1662]
- ``Unit`` instances now have ``.si`` and ``.cgs`` properties a la
``Quantity``. These serve as shortcuts for ``Unit.to_system(cgs)[0]``
etc. [#1610]
astropy.vo
^^^^^^^^^^
- New package added to support Virtual Observatory Simple Cone Search query
and service validation. [#552]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed attribute error in ``astropy.wcs.Wcsprm`` (lattype->lattyp) [#1463]
- Included a new command-line script called ``wcslint`` and accompanying API
for validating the WCS in a given FITS file or header. [#580]
- Upgraded included version of WCSLIB to 4.19.
astropy.utils
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new set of utilities in ``astropy.utils.timer`` for analyzing the
runtime of functions and making runtime predections for larger inputs.
[#743]
- ``ProgressBar`` and ``Spinner`` classes can now be used directly to return
generator expressions. [#771]
- Added ``astropy.utils.iers`` which allows reading in of IERS A or IERS B
bulletins and interpolation in UT1-UTC.
- Added a function ``astropy.utils.find_api_page``--given a class or object
from the ``astropy`` package, this will open that class's API documentation
in a web browser. [#663]
- Data download functions such as ``download_file`` now accept a
``show_progress`` argument to suppress console output, and a ``timeout``
argument. [#865, #1258]
astropy.extern.six
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added `six <https://pypi.org/project/six/>`_ for python2/python3
compatibility
- Astropy now uses the ERFA library instead of the IAU SOFA library for
fundamental time transformation routines. The ERFA library is derived, with
permission, from the IAU SOFA library but is distributed under a BSD license.
See ``license/ERFA.rst`` for details. [#1293]
astropy.logger
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The Astropy logger now no longer catches exceptions by default, and also
only captures warnings emitted by Astropy itself (prior to this change,
following an import of Astropy, any warning got re-directed through the
Astropy logger). Logging to the Astropy log file has also been disabled by
default. However, users of Astropy 0.2 will likely still see the previous
behavior with Astropy 0.3 for exceptions and logging to file since the
default configuration file installed by 0.2 set the exception logging to be
on by default. To get the new behavior, set the ``log_exceptions`` and
``log_to_file`` configuration items to ``False`` in the ``astropy.cfg``
file. [#1331]
API Changes
-----------
- General
- The configuration option ``utils.console.use_unicode`` has been
moved to the top level and renamed to ``unicode_output``. It now
not only affects console widgets, such as progress bars, but also
controls whether calling `unicode` on certain classes will return a
string containing unicode characters.
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.coordinates.Angle`` class is now a subclass of
``astropy.units.Quantity``. This means it has all of the methods of a
`numpy.ndarray`. [#1006]
- The ``astropy.coordinates.Distance`` class is now a subclass of
``astropy.units.Quantity``. This means it has all of the methods of a
`numpy.ndarray`. [#1472]
- All angular units are now supported, not just ``radian``, ``degree`` and
``hour``, but now ``arcsecond`` and ``arcminute`` as well. The object
will retain its native unit, so when printing out a value initially
provided in hours, its ``to_string()`` will, by default, also be
expressed in hours.
- The ``Angle`` class now supports arrays of angles.
- To be consistent with ``units.Unit``, ``Angle.format`` has been
deprecated and renamed to ``Angle.to_string``.
- To be consistent with ``astropy.units``, all plural forms of unit names
have been removed. Therefore, the following properties of
``astropy.coordinates.Angle`` should be renamed:
- ``radians`` -> ``radian``
- ``degrees`` -> ``degree``
- ``hours`` -> ``hour``
- Multiplication and division of two ``Angle`` objects used to raise
``NotImplementedError``. Now they raise ``TypeError``.
- The ``astropy.coordinates.Angle`` class no longer has a ``bounds``
attribute so there is no bounds-checking or auto-wrapping at this level.
This allows ``Angle`` objects to be used in arbitrary arithmetic
expressions (e.g. coordinate distance computation).
- The ``astropy.coordinates.RA`` and ``astropy.coordinates.Dec`` classes have
been removed and replaced with ``astropy.coordinates.Longitude`` and
``astropy.coordinates.Latitude`` respectively. These are now used for the
components of Galactic and Horizontal (Alt-Az) coordinates as well instead
of plain ``Angle`` objects.
- ``astropy.coordinates.angles.rotation_matrix`` and
``astropy.coordinates.angles.angle_axis`` now take a ``unit`` kwarg instead
of ``degrees`` kwarg to specify the units of the angles.
``rotation_matrix`` will also take the unit from the given ``Angle`` object
if no unit is provided.
- The ``AngularSeparation`` class has been removed. The output of the
coordinates ``separation()`` method is now an
``astropy.coordinates.Angle``. [#1007]
- The coordinate classes have been renamed in a way that remove the
``Coordinates`` at the end of the class names. E.g., ``ICRSCoordinates``
from previous versions is now called ``ICRS``. [#1614]
- ``HorizontalCoordinates`` are now named ``AltAz``, to reflect more common
terminology.
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The Planck (2013) cosmology will likely give slightly different (and more
accurate) results due to the inclusion of Neutrino masses. [#1364]
- Cosmology class properties now return ``Quantity`` objects instead of
simple floating-point values. [#1237]
- The names of cosmology instances are now truly optional, and are set to
``None`` rather than the name of the class if the user does not provide
them. [#1705]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- In the ``read`` method of ``astropy.io.ascii``, empty column values in an
ASCII table are now treated as missing values instead of the previous
treatment as a zero-length string "". This now corresponds to the behavior
of other table readers like ``numpy.genfromtxt``. To restore the previous
behavior set ``fill_values=None`` in the call to ``ascii.read()``. [#919]
- The ``read`` and ``write`` methods of ``astropy.io.ascii`` now have a
``format`` argument for specifying the file format. This is the preferred
way to choose the format instead of the ``Reader`` and ``Writer``
arguments. [#961]
- The ``include_names`` and ``exclude_names`` arguments were removed from
the ``BaseHeader`` initializer, and now instead handled by the reader and
writer classes directly. [#1350]
- Allow numeric and otherwise unusual column names when reading a table
where the ``format`` argument is specified, but other format details such
as the delimiter or quote character are being guessed. [#1692]
- When reading an ASCII table using the ``Table.read()`` method, the default
has changed from ``guess=False`` to ``guess=True`` to allow auto-detection
of file format. This matches the default behavior of ``ascii.read()``.
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.io.fits.new_table`` function is marked "pending deprecation".
This does not mean it will be removed outright or that its functionality
has changed. It will likely be replaced in the future for a function with
similar, if not subtly different functionality. A better, if not slightly
more verbose approach is to use ``pyfits.FITS_rec.from_columns`` to create
a new ``FITS_rec`` table--this has the same interface as
``pyfits.new_table``. The difference is that it returns a plan
``FITS_rec`` array, and not an HDU instance. This ``FITS_rec`` object can
then be used as the data argument in the constructors for ``BinTableHDU``
(for binary tables) or ``TableHDU`` (for ASCII tables). This is analogous
to creating an ``ImageHDU`` by passing in an image array.
``pyfits.FITS_rec.from_columns`` is just a simpler way of creating a
FITS-compatible recarray from a FITS column specification.
- The ``updateHeader``, ``updateHeaderData``, and ``updateCompressedData``
methods of the ``CompDataHDU`` class are pending deprecation and moved to
internal methods. The operation of these methods depended too much on
internal state to be used safely by users; instead they are invoked
automatically in the appropriate places when reading/writing compressed
image HDUs.
- The ``CompDataHDU.compData`` attribute is pending deprecation in favor of
the clearer and more PEP-8 compatible ``CompDataHDU.compressed_data``.
- The constructor for ``CompDataHDU`` has been changed to accept new keyword
arguments. The new keyword arguments are essentially the same, but are in
underscore_separated format rather than camelCase format. The old
arguments are still pending deprecation.
- The internal attributes of HDU classes ``_hdrLoc``, ``_datLoc``, and
``_datSpan`` have been replaced with ``_header_offset``, ``_data_offset``,
and ``_data_size`` respectively. The old attribute names are still pending
deprecation. This should only be of interest to advanced users who have
created their own HDU subclasses.
- The following previously deprecated functions and methods have been removed
entirely: ``createCard``, ``createCardFromString``, ``upperKey``,
``ColDefs.data``, ``setExtensionNameCaseSensitive``, ``_File.getfile``,
``_TableBaseHDU.get_coldefs``, ``Header.has_key``, ``Header.ascardlist``.
- Interfaces that were pending deprecation are now fully deprecated. These
include: ``create_card``, ``create_card_from_string``, ``upper_key``,
``Header.get_history``, and ``Header.get_comment``.
- The ``.name`` attribute on HDUs is now directly tied to the HDU's header, so
that if ``.header['EXTNAME']`` changes so does ``.name`` and vice-versa.
astropy.io.registry
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Identifier functions for reading/writing Table and NDData objects should
now accept ``(origin, *args, **kwargs)`` instead of ``(origin, args,
kwargs)``. [#591]
- Added a new ``astropy.io.registry.get_formats`` function for listing
registered I/O formats and details about the their readers/writers. [#1669]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new option ``use_names_over_ids`` option to use when converting
from VOTable objects to Astropy Tables. This can prevent a situation where
column names are not preserved when converting from a VOTable. [#609]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``astropy.nddata.convolution`` sub-package has now been moved to
``astropy.convolution``, and the ``make_kernel`` function has been removed.
(the kernel classes should be used instead) [#1451]
astropy.stats.funcs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For ``sigma_clip``, the ``maout`` optional parameter has been removed, and
the function now always returns a masked array. A new boolean parameter
``copy`` can be used to indicated whether the input data should be copied
(``copy=True``, default) or used by reference (``copy=False``) in the
output masked array. [#1083]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The first argument to the ``Column`` and ``MaskedColumn`` classes is now
the data array--the ``name`` argument has been changed to an optional
keyword argument. [#840]
- Added support for instantiating a ``Table`` from a list of dict, each one
representing a single row with the keys mapping to column names. [#901]
- The plural 'units' and 'dtypes' have been switched to 'unit' and 'dtype'
where appropriate. The original attributes are still present in this
version as deprecated attributes, but will be removed in the next version.
[#1174]
- The ``copy`` methods of ``Column`` and ``MaskedColumn`` were changed so
that the first argument is now ``order='C'``. This is required for
compatibility with Numpy 1.8 which is currently in development. [#1250]
- Comparing a column (with == or !=) to a scalar, an array, or another column
now always returns a boolean Numpy array (which is a masked array if either
of the arguments in the comparison was masked). This is in contrast to the
previous behavior, which in some cases returned a boolean Numpy array, and
in some cases returned a boolean Column object. [#1446]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- For consistency with ``Quantity``, the attributes ``val`` and
``is_scalar`` have been renamed to ``value`` and ``isscalar``,
respectively, and the attribute ``vals`` has been dropped. [#767]
- The double-float64 internal representation of time is used more
efficiently to enable better accuracy. [#366]
- Format and scale arguments are now allowed to be case-insensitive. [#1128]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``Quantity`` class now inherits from the Numpy array class, and
includes the following API changes [#929]:
- Using ``float(...)``, ``int(...)``, and ``long(...)`` on a quantity will
now only work if the quantity is dimensionless and unscaled.
- All Numpy ufuncs should now treat units correctly (or raise an exception
if not supported), rather than extract the value of quantities and
operate on this, emitting a warning about the implicit loss of units.
- When using relevant Numpy ufuncs on dimensionless quantities (e.g.
``np.exp(h * nu / (k_B * T))``), or combining dimensionless quantities
with Python scalars or plain Numpy arrays ``1 + v / c``, the
dimensionless Quantity will automatically be converted to an unscaled
dimensionless Quantity.
- When initializing a quantity from a value with no unit, it is now set to
be dimensionless and unscaled by default. When initializing a Quantity
from another Quantity and with no unit specified in the initializer, the
unit is now taken from the unit of the Quantity being initialized from.
- Strings are no longer allowed as the values for Quantities. [#1005]
- Quantities are always comparable with zero regardless of their units.
[#1254]
- The exception ``astropy.units.UnitsException`` has been renamed to
``astropy.units.UnitsError`` to be more consistent with the naming
of built-in Python exceptions. [#1406]
- Multiplication with and division by a string now always returns a Unit
(rather than a Quantity when the string was first) [#1408]
- Imperial units are disabled by default.
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- For those including the ``astropy.wcs`` C headers in their project, they
should now include it as:
#include "astropy_wcs/astropy_wcs_api.h"
instead of:
#include "astropy_wcs_api.h"
[#1631]
- The ``--enable-legacy`` option for ``setup.py`` has been removed. [#1493]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``write()`` function was ignoring the ``fill_values`` argument. [#910]
- Fixed an issue in ``DefaultSplitter.join`` where the delimiter attribute
was ignored when writing the CSV. [#1020]
- Fixed writing of IPAC tables containing null values. [#1366]
- When a table with no header row was read without specifying the format and
using the ``names`` argument, then the first row could be dropped. [#1692]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Binary tables containing compressed images may, optionally, contain other
columns unrelated to the tile compression convention. Although this is an
uncommon use case, it is permitted by the standard.
- Reworked some of the file I/O routines to allow simpler, more consistent
mapping between OS-level file modes ('rb', 'wb', 'ab', etc.) and the more
"PyFITS-specific" modes used by PyFITS like "readonly" and "update". That
is, if reading a FITS file from an open file object, it doesn't matter as
much what "mode" it was opened in so long as it has the right capabilities
(read/write/etc.) Also works around bugs in the Python io module in 2.6+
with regard to file modes.
- Fixed a long-standing issue where writing binary tables did not correctly
write the TFORMn keywords for variable-length array columns (they omitted
the max array length parameter of the format). This was thought fixed in
an earlier version, but it was only fixed for compressed image HDUs and
not for binary tables in general.
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed crash when trying to multiple or divide ``NDData`` objects with
uncertainties. [#1547]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Using a list of strings to index a table now correctly returns a new table
with the columns named in the list. [#1454]
- Inequality operators now work properly with ``Column`` objects. [#1685]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``Time`` scale and format attributes are now shown when calling ``dir()``
on a ``Time`` object. [#1130]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed assignment to string-like WCS attributes on Python 3. [#956]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that caused the order of multiplication/division of plain
Numpy arrays with Quantities to matter (i.e. if the plain array comes
first the units were not preserved in the output). [#899]
- Directly instantiated ``CompositeUnits`` were made printable without
crashing. [#1576]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixed various modules that hard-coded ``sys.stdout`` as default arguments
to functions at import time, rather than using the runtime value of
``sys.stdout``. [#1648]
- Minor documentation fixes and enhancements [#922, #1034, #1210, #1217,
#1491, #1492, #1498, #1582, #1608, #1621, #1646, #1670, #1756]
- Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when running the test suite on
systems with platform names containing non-ASCII characters. [#1698]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- General
- Astropy now follows the PSF Code of Conduct. [#1216]
- Astropy's test suite now tests all doctests in inline docstrings. Support
for running doctests in the reST documentation is planned to follow in
v0.3.1.
- Astropy's test suite can be run on multiple CPUs in parallel, often
greatly improving runtime, using the ``--parallel`` option. [#1040]
- A warning is now issued when using Astropy with Numpy < 1.5--much of
Astropy may still work in this case but it shouldn't be expected to
either. [#1479]
- Added automatic download/build/installation of Numpy during Astropy
installation if not already found. [#1483]
- Handling of metadata for the ``NDData`` and ``Table`` classes has been
unified by way of a common ``MetaData`` descriptor--it allows instantiating
an object with metadata of any mapping type, and subsequently prevents
replacing the mapping stored in the ``.meta`` attribute (only direct
updates to that object are allowed). [#1686]
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Angles containing out of bounds minutes or seconds (e.g. 60) can be
parsed--the value modulo 60 is used with carry to the hours/minutes, and a
warning is issued rather than raising an exception. [#990]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The new compression code also adds support for the ZQUANTIZ and ZDITHER0
keywords added in more recent versions of this FITS Tile Compression spec.
This includes support for lossless compression with GZIP. (#198) By default
no dithering is used, but the ``SUBTRACTIVE_DITHER_1`` and
``SUBTRACTIVE_DITHER_2`` methods can be enabled by passing the correct
constants to the ``quantize_method`` argument to the ``CompImageHDU``
constructor. A seed can be manually specified, or automatically generated
using either the system clock or checksum-based methods via the
``dither_seed`` argument. See the documentation for ``CompImageHDU`` for
more details.
- Images compressed with the Tile Compression standard can now be larger than
4 GB through support of the Q format.
- All HDUs now have a ``.ver`` ``.level`` attribute that returns the value of
the EXTVAL and EXTLEVEL keywords from that HDU's header, if the exist.
This was added for consistency with the ``.name`` attribute which returns
the EXTNAME value from the header.
- Then ``Column`` and ``ColDefs`` classes have new ``.dtype`` attributes
which give the Numpy dtype for the column data in the first case, and the
full Numpy compound dtype for each table row in the latter case.
- There was an issue where new tables created defaulted the values in all
string columns to '0.0'. Now string columns are filled with empty strings
by default--this seems a less surprising default, but it may cause
differences with tables created with older versions of PyFITS or Astropy.
astropy.io.misc
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The HDF5 reader can now refer to groups in the path as well as datasets;
if given a group, the first dataset in that group is read. [#1159]
astropy.nddata
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ``NDData`` objects have more helpful, though still rudimentary ``__str__`
and ``__repr__`` displays. [#1313]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added 'cycle' unit. [#1160]
- Extended units supported by the CDS formatter/parser. [#1468]
- Added unicode an LaTeX symbols for liter. [#1618]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Redundant SCAMP distortion parameters are removed with SIP distortions are
also present. [#1278]
- Added iterative implementation of ``all_world2pix`` that can be reliably
inverted. [#1281]
Version 0.2.5 (2013-10-25)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed incorrect string formatting of Angles using ``precision=0``. [#1319]
- Fixed string formatting of Angles using ``decimal=True`` which ignored the
``precision`` argument. [#1323]
- Fixed parsing of format strings using appropriate unicode characters
instead of the ASCII ``-`` for minus signs. [#1429]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash in the IPAC table reader when the ``include/exclude_names``
option is set. [#1348]
- Fixed writing AASTex tables to honor the ``tabletype`` option. [#1372]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved round-tripping and preservation of manually assigned column
attributes (``TNULLn``, ``TSCALn``, etc.) in table HDU headers. (Note: This
issue was previously reported as fixed in Astropy v0.2.2 by mistake; it is
not fixed until v0.3.) [#996]
- Fixed a bug that could cause a segfault when trying to decompress an
compressed HDU whose contents are truncated (due to a corrupt file, for
example). This still causes a Python traceback but better that than a
segfault. [#1332]
- Newly created ``CompImageHDU`` HDUs use the correct value of the
``DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_TYPE`` module-level constant instead of hard-coding
"RICE_1" in the header.
- Fixed a corner case where when extra memory is allocated to compress an
image, it could lead to unnecessary in-memory copying of the compressed
image data and a possible memory leak through Numpy.
- Fixed a bug where assigning from an mmap'd array in one FITS file over
the old (also mmap'd) array in another FITS file failed to update the
destination file. Corresponds to PyFITS issue 25.
- Some miscellaneous documentation fixes.
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a warning for when a VOTable 1.2 file contains no ``RESOURCES``
elements (at least one should be present). [#1337]
- Fixed a test failure specific to MIPS architecture caused by an errant
floating point warning. [#1179]
astropy.nddata.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Prevented in-place modification of the input arrays to ``convolve()``.
[#1153]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added HTML escaping for string values in tables when outputting the table
as HTML. [#1347]
- Added a workaround in a bug in Numpy that could cause a crash when
accessing a table row in a masked table containing ``dtype=object``
columns. [#1229]
- Fixed an issue similar to the one in #1229, but specific to unmasked
tables. [#1403]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved error handling for unparsable units and fixed parsing CDS units
without mantissas in the exponent. [#1288]
- Added a physical type for spectral flux density. [#1410]
- Normalized conversions that should result in a scale of exactly 1.0 to
round off slight floating point imprecisions. [#1407]
- Added support in the CDS unit parser/formatter for unusual unit prefixes
that are nonetheless required to be supported by that convention. [#1426]
- Fixed the parsing of ``sqrt()`` in unit format strings which was returning
``unit ** 2`` instead of ``unit ** 0.5``. [#1458]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- When passing a single array to the wcs transformation functions,
(``astropy.wcs.Wcs.all_pix2world``, etc.), its second dimension must now
exactly match the number of dimensions in the transformation. [#1395]
- Improved error message when incorrect arguments are passed to
``WCS.wcs_world2pix``. [#1394]
- Fixed a crash when trying to read WCS from FITS headers on Python 3.3
in Windows. [#1363]
- Only headers that are required as part of the WCSLIB C API are installed
by the package, per request of system packagers. [#1666]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixed crash when the ``COLUMNS`` environment variable is set to a
non-integer value. [#1291]
- Fixed a bug in ``ProgressBar.map`` where ``multiprocess=True`` could cause
it to hang on waiting for the process pool to be destroyed. [#1381]
- Fixed a crash on Python 3.2 when affiliated packages try to use the
``astropy.utils.data.get_pkg_data_*`` functions. [#1256]
- Fixed a minor path normalization issue that could occur on Windows in
``astropy.utils.data.get_pkg_data_filename``. [#1444]
- Fixed an annoyance where configuration items intended only for testing
showed up in users' astropy.cfg files. [#1477]
- Prevented crashes in exception logging in unusual cases where no traceback
is associated with the exception. [#1518]
- Fixed a crash when running the tests in unusual environments where
``sys.stdout.encoding`` is ``None``. [#1530]
- Miscellaneous documentation fixes and improvements [#1308, #1317, #1377,
#1393, #1362, #1516]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Astropy installation now requests setuptools >= 0.7 during build/installation
if neither distribute or setuptools >= 0.7 is already installed. In other
words, if ``import setuptools`` fails, ``ez_setup.py`` is used to bootstrap
the latest setuptools (rather than using ``distribute_setup.py`` to bootstrap
the now obsolete distribute package). [#1197]
- When importing Astropy from a source checkout without having built the
extension modules first an ``ImportError`` is raised rather than a
``SystemExit`` exception. [#1269]
Version 0.2.4 (2013-07-24)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed the angle parser to support parsing the string "1 degree". [#1168]
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash in the ``comoving_volume`` method on non-flat cosmologies
when passing it an array of redshifts.
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug that prevented saving changes to the comment symbol when
writing changes to a table. [#1167]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a workaround for a bug in 64-bit OSX that could cause truncation when
writing files greater than 2^32 bytes in size. [#839]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed incorrect reading of tables containing multiple ``<RESOURCE>``
elements. [#1223]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where ``Table.remove_column`` and ``Table.rename_column``
could cause a masked table to lose its masking. [#1120]
- Fixed bugs where subclasses of ``Table`` did not preserver their class in
certain operations. [#1142]
- Fixed a bug where slicing a masked table did not preserve the mask. [#1187]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a bug where the ``.si`` and ``.cgs`` properties of dimensionless
``Quantity`` objects raised a ``ZeroDivisionError``. [#1150]
- Fixed a bug where multiple subsequent calls to the ``.decompose()`` method
on array quantities applied a scale factor each time. [#1163]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixed an installation crash that could occur sometimes on Debian/Ubuntu
and other \*NIX systems where ``pkg_resources`` can be installed without
installing ``setuptools``. [#1150]
- Updated the ``distribute_setup.py`` bootstrapper to use setuptools >= 0.7
when installing on systems that don't already have an up to date version
of distribute/setuptools. [#1180]
- Changed the ``version.py`` template so that Astropy affiliated packages can
(and they should) use their own ``cython_version.py`` and
``utils._compiler`` modules where appropriate. This issue only pertains to
affiliated package maintainers. [#1198]
- Fixed a corner case where the default config file generation could crash
if building with matplotlib but *not* Sphinx installed in a virtualenv.
[#1225]
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the logging module on systems that
don't have a default preferred encoding (in particular this happened
in some versions of PyCharm). [#1244]
- The Astropy log now supports passing non-string objects (and calling
``str()`` on them by default) to the logging methods, in line with Python's
standard logging API. [#1267]
- Minor documentation fixes [#582, #696, #1154, #1194, #1212, #1213, #1246,
#1252]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a new ``Plank13`` object representing the Plank 2013 results. [#895]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Performance improvements in initialization of ``Quantity`` objects with
a large number of elements. [#1231]
Version 0.2.3 (2013-05-30)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed inaccurate handling of leap seconds when converting from UTC to UNIX
timestamps. [#1118]
- Tightened required accuracy in many of the time conversion tests. [#1121]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixed a regression that was introduced in v0.2.2 by the fix to issue #992
that was preventing installation of Astropy affiliated packages that use
Astropy's setup framework. [#1124]
Version 0.2.2 (2013-05-21)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io
^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed issues in both the ``fits`` and ``votable`` sub-packages where array
byte order was not being handled consistently, leading to possible crashes
especially on big-endian systems. [#1003]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- When an error occurs opening a file in fitsdiff the exception message will
now at least mention which file had the error.
- Fixed a couple cases where creating a new table using TDIMn in some of the
columns could cause a crash.
- Slightly refactored how tables containing variable-length array columns are
handled to add two improvements: Fixes an issue where accessing the data
after a call to the ``astropy.io.fits.getdata`` convenience function caused
an exception, and allows the VLA data to be read from an existing mmap of
the FITS file.
- Fixed a bug on Python 3 where attempting to open a non-existent file on
Python 3 caused a seemingly unrelated traceback.
- Fixed an issue in the tests that caused some tests to fail if Astropy is
installed with read-only permissions.
- Fixed a bug where instantiating a ``BinTableHDU`` from a numpy array
containing boolean fields converted all the values to ``False``.
- Fixed an issue where passing an array of integers into the constructor of
``Column()`` when the column type is floats of the same byte width caused
the column array to become garbled.
- Fixed inconsistent behavior in creating CONTINUE cards from byte strings
versus unicode strings in Python 2--CONTINUE cards can now be created
properly from unicode strings (so long as they are convertible to ASCII).
- Fixed a bug in parsing HIERARCH keywords that do not have a space after the
first equals sign (before the value).
- Prevented extra leading whitespace on HIERARCH keywords from being treated
as part of the keyword.
- Fixed a bug where HIERARCH keywords containing lower-case letters was
mistakenly marked as invalid during header validation along with an
ancillary issue where the ``Header.index()`` method id not work correctly
with HIERARCH keywords containing lower-case letters.
- Disallowed assigning NaN and Inf floating point values as header values,
since the FITS standard does not define a way to represent them in. Because
this is undefined, the previous behavior did not make sense and produced
invalid FITS files. [#954]
- Fixed an obscure issue that can occur on systems that don't have flush to
memory-mapped files implemented (namely GNU Hurd). [#968]
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Stopped deprecation warnings from the ``astropy.io.votable`` package that
could occur during setup. [#970]
- Fixed an issue where INFO elements were being incorrectly dropped when
occurring inside a TABLE element. [#1000]
- Fixed obscure test failures on MIPS platforms. [#1010]
astropy.nddata.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue in ``make_kernel()`` when using an Airy function kernel.
Also removed the superfluous 'brickwall' option. [#939]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding a row to an empty (rowless)
table with masked columns. [#973]
- Made it possible to assign to one table row from the value of another row,
effectively making it easier to copy rows, for example. [#1019]
astropy.time
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added appropriate ``__copy__`` and ``__deepcopy__`` behavior; this
omission caused a seemingly unrelated error in FK5 coordinate separation.
[#891]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed an issue where the ``isiterable()`` utility returned ``True`` for
quantities with scalar values. Added an ``__iter__`` method for the
``Quantity`` class and fixed ``isiterable()`` to catch false positives.
[#878]
- Fixed previously undefined behavior when multiplying a unit by a string.
[#949]
- Added 'time' as a physical type--this was a simple omission. [#959]
- Fixed issues with pickling unit objects so as to play nicer with the
multiprocessing module. [#974]
- Made it more difficult to accidentally override existing units with a new
unit of the same name. [#1070]
- Added several more physical types and units that were previously omitted,
including 'mass density', 'specific volume', 'molar volume', 'momentum',
'angular momentum', 'angular speed', 'angular acceleration', 'electric
current', 'electric current density', 'electric field strength', 'electric
flux density', 'electric charge density', 'permittivity', 'electromagnetic
field strength', 'radiant intensity', 'data quantity', 'bandwidth'; and
'knots', 'nautical miles', 'becquerels', and 'curies' respectively. [#1072]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixed a permission error that could occur when running ``astropy.test()``
on Python 3 when Astropy is installed as root. [#811]
- Made it easier to filter warnings from the ``convolve()`` function and
from ``Quantity`` objects. [#853]
- Fixed a crash that could occur in Python 3 when generation of the default
config file fails during setup. [#952]
- Fixed an unrelated error message that could occur when trying to import
astropy from a source checkout without having build the extension modules
first. This issue was claimed to be fixed in v0.2.1, but the fix itself had
a bug. [#971]
- Fixed a crash that could occur when running the ``build_sphinx`` setup
command in Python 3. [#977]
- Added a more helpful error message when trying to run the
``setup.py build_sphinx`` command when Sphinx is not installed. [#1027]
- Minor documentation fixes and restructuring.
[#935, #967, #978, #1004, #1028, #1047]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Some performance improvements to the ``astropy.units`` package, in particular
improving the time it takes to import the sub-package. [#1015]
Version 0.2.1 (2013-04-03)
==========================
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed encoding errors that could occur when formatting coordinate objects
in code using ``from __future__ import unicode_literals``. [#817]
- Fixed a bug where the minus sign was dropped when string formatting dms
coordinates with -0 degrees. [#875]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Properly supports the ZQUANTIZ keyword used to support quantization
level--this includes working support for lossless GZIP compression of
images.
- Fixed support for opening gzipped FITS files in a writeable mode. [#256]
- Added a more helpful exception message when trying to read invalid values
from a table when the required ``TNULLn`` keyword is missing. [#309]
- More refactoring of the tile compression handling to work around a
potential memory access violation that was particularly prevalent on
Windows. [#507]
- Fixed an integer size mismatch in the compression module that could affect
32-bit systems. [#786]
- Fixed malformatting of the ``TFORMn`` keywords when writing compressed
image tables (they omitted the max array length parameter from the
variable-length array format).
- Fixed a crash that could occur when writing a table containing multi-
dimensional array columns from an existing file into a new file.
- Fixed a bug in fitsdiff that reported two header keywords containing NaN
as having different values.
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed links to the ``astropy.io.votable`` documentation in the VOTable
validator output. [#806]
- When reading VOTables containing integers that are out of range for their
column type, display a warning rather than raising an exception. [#825]
- Changed the default string format for floating point values for better
round-tripping. [#856]
- Fixed opening VOTables through the ``Table.read()`` interface for tables
that have no names. [#927]
- Fixed creation of VOTables from an Astropy table that does not have a data
mask. [#928]
- Minor documentation fixes. [#932]
astropy.nddata.convolution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added better handling of ``inf`` values to the ``convolve_fft`` family of
functions. [#893]
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed silent failure to assign values to a row on multiple columns. [#764]
- Fixed various buggy behavior when viewing a table after sorting by one of
its columns. [#829]
- Fixed using ``numpy.where()`` with table indexing. [#838]
- Fixed a bug where opening a remote table with ``Table.read()`` could cause
the entire table to be downloaded twice. [#845]
- Fixed a bug where ``MaskedColumn`` no longer worked if the column being
masked is renamed. [#916]
astropy.units
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added missing capability for array ``Quantity``\s to be initializable by
a list of ``Quantity``\s. [#835]
- Fixed the definition of year and lightyear to be in terms of Julian year
per the IAU definition. [#861]
- "degree" was removed from the list of SI base units. [#863]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed ``TypeError`` when calling ``WCS.to_header_string()``. [#822]
- Added new method ``WCS.all_world2pix`` for converting from world
coordinates to pixel space, including inversion of the astrometric
distortion correction. [#1066, #1281]
Misc
^^^^
- Fixed a minor issue when installing with ``./setup.py develop`` on a fresh
git clone. This is likely only of interest to developers on Astropy.
[#725]
- Fixes a crash with ``ImportError: No module named 'astropy.version'`` when
running setup.py from a source checkout for the first time on OSX with
Python 3.3. [#820]
- Fixed an installation issue where running ``./setup.py install`` or when
installing with pip the ``.astropy`` directory gets created in the home
directory of the user running the command. The user's ``.astropy``
directory should only be created when they use Astropy, not when they
install it. [#867]
- Fixed an exception when creating a ``ProgressBar`` with a "total" of 0.
[#752]
- Added better documentation of behavior that can occur when trying to import
the astropy package from within a source checkout without first building
the extension modules. [#795, #864]
- Added link to the installation instructions in the README. [#797]
- Catches segfaults in xmllint which can occur sometimes and is otherwise out
of our control. [#803]
- Minor changes to the documentation template. [#805]
- Fixed a minor exception handling bug in ``download_file()``. [#808]
- Added cleanup of any temporary files if an error occurs in
``download_file()``. [#857]
- Filesystem free space is checked for before attempting to download a file
with ``download_file()``. [#858]
- Fixed package data locating to work across symlinks--required to work with
some OS packaging layouts. [#827]
- Fixed a bug when building Cython extensions where hidden files containing
``.pyx`` extensions could cause the build to crash. This can be an issue
with software and filesystems that autogenerate hidden files. [#834]
- Fixed bug that could cause a "script" called README.rst to be installed
in a bin directory. [#852]
- Fixed some miscellaneous and mostly rare reference leaks caught by
cpychecker. [#914]
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- Added logo and branding for Windows binary installers. [#741]
- Upgraded included version libexpat to 2.1.0. [#781]
- ~25% performance improvement in unit composition/decomposition. [#836]
- Added previously missing LaTeX formatting for ``L_sun`` and ``R_sun``. [#841]
- ConfigurationItem\s now have a more useful and informative __repr__
and improved documentation for how to use them. [#855]
- Added a friendlier error message when trying to import astropy from a source
checkout without first building the extension modules inplace. [#864]
- py.test now outputs more system information for help in debugging issues
from users. [#869]
- Added unit definitions "mas" and "uas" for "milliarcsecond" and
"microarcsecond" respectively. [#892]
Version 0.2 (2013-02-19)
========================
New Features
------------
astropy.coordinates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This new subpackage contains a representation of celestial coordinates,
and provides a wide range of related functionality. While
fully-functional, it is a work in progress and parts of the API may
change in subsequent releases.
astropy.cosmology
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Update to include cosmologies with variable dark energy equations of state.
(This introduces some API incompatibilities with the older Cosmology
objects).
- Added parameters for relativistic species (photons, neutrinos) to the
astropy.cosmology classes. The current treatment assumes that neutrinos are
massless. [#365]
- Add a WMAP9 object using the final (9-year) WMAP parameters from
Hinshaw et al. 2013. It has also been made the default cosmology.
[#629, #724]
- astropy.table I/O infrastructure for custom readers/writers
implemented. [#305]
- Added support for reading/writing HDF5 files [#461]
- Added support for masked tables with missing or invalid data [#451]
- New ``astropy.time`` sub-package. [#332]
- New ``astropy.units`` sub-package that includes a class for units
(``astropy.units.Unit``) and scalar quantities that have units
(``astropy.units.Quantity``). [#370, #445]
This has the following effects on other sub-packages:
- In ``astropy.wcs``, the ``wcs.cunit`` list now takes and returns
``astropy.units.Unit`` objects. [#379]
- In ``astropy.nddata``, units are now stored as ``astropy.units.Unit``
objects. [#382]
- In ``astropy.table``, units on columns are now stored as
``astropy.units.Unit`` objects. [#380]
- In ``astropy.constants``, constants are now stored as
``astropy.units.Quantity`` objects. [#529]
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved integration with the ``astropy.table`` Table class so that
table and column metadata (e.g. keywords, units, description,
formatting) are directly available in the output table object. The
CDS, DAOphot, and IPAC format readers now provide this type of
integrated metadata.
- Changed to using ``astropy.table`` masked tables instead of NumPy
masked arrays for tables with missing values.
- Added SExtractor table reader to ``astropy.io.ascii`` [#420]
- Removed the Memory reader class which was used to convert data input
passed to the ``write`` function into an internal table. Instead
``write`` instantiates an astropy Table object using the data
input to ``write``.
- Removed the NumpyOutputter as the output of reading a table is now
always a ``Table`` object.
- Removed the option of supplying a function as a column output
formatter.
- Added a new ``strip_whitespace`` keyword argument to the ``write``
function. This controls whether whitespace is stripped from
the left and right sides of table elements before writing.
Default is True.
- Fixed a bug in reading IPAC tables with null values.
- Generalized I/O infrastructure so that ``astropy.nddata`` can also have
custom readers/writers [#659]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- From updating the underlying wcslib 4.16:
- When ``astropy.wcs.WCS`` constructs a default coordinate representation
it will give it the special name "DEFAULTS", and will not report "Found
one coordinate representation".
Other Changes and Additions
---------------------------
- A configuration file with all options set to their defaults is now generated
when astropy is installed. This file will be pulled in as the users'
astropy configuration file the first time they ``import astropy``. [#498]
- Astropy doc themes moved into ``astropy.sphinx`` to allow affiliated packages
to access them.
- Added expanded documentation for the ``astropy.cosmology`` sub-package.
[#272]
- Added option to disable building of "legacy" packages (pyfits, vo, etc.).
- The value of the astronomical unit (au) has been updated to that adopted by
IAU 2012 Resolution B2, and the values of the pc and kpc constants have been
updated to reflect this. [#368]
- Added links to the documentation pages to directly edit the documentation on
GitHub. [#347]
- Several updates merged from ``pywcs`` into ``astropy.wcs`` [#384]:
- Improved the reading of distortion images.
- Added a new option to choose whether or not to write SIP coefficients.
- Uses the ``relax`` option by default so that non-standard keywords are
allowed. [#585]
- Added HTML representation of tables in IPython notebook [#409]
- Rewrote CFITSIO-based backend for handling tile compression of FITS files.
It now uses a standard CFITSIO instead of heavily modified pieces of CFITSIO
as before. Astropy ships with its own copy of CFITSIO v3.30, but system
packagers may choose instead to strip this out in favor of a
system-installed version of CFITSIO. This corresponds to PyFITS ticket 169.
[#318]
- Moved ``astropy.config.data`` to ``astropy.utils.data`` and re-factored the
I/O routines to separate out the generic I/O code that can be used to open
any file or resource from the code used to access Astropy-related data. The
'core' I/O routine is now ``get_readable_fileobj``, which can be used to
access any local as well as remote data, supports caching, and can decompress
gzip and bzip2 files on-the-fly. [#425]
- Added a classmethod to
``astropy.coordinates.coordsystems.SphericalCoordinatesBase`` that performs a
name resolve query using Sesame to retrieve coordinates for the requested
object. This works for any subclass of ``SphericalCoordinatesBase``, but
requires an internet connection. [#556]
- astropy.nddata.convolution removed requirement of PyFFTW3; uses Numpy's
FFT by default instead with the added ability to specify an FFT
implementation to use. [#660]
Bug Fixes
---------
astropy.io.ascii
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Fixed crash when pprinting a row with INDEF values. [#511]
- Fixed failure when reading DAOphot files with empty keyword values. [#666]
astropy.io.fits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Improved handling of scaled images and pseudo-unsigned integer images in
compressed image HDUs. They now work more transparently like normal image
HDUs with support for the ``do_not_scale_image_data`` and ``uint`` options,
as well as ``scale_back`` and ``save_backup``. The ``.scale()`` method
works better too. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 88.
- Permits non-string values for the EXTNAME keyword when reading in a file,
rather than throwing an exception due to the malformatting. Added
verification for the format of the EXTNAME keyword when writing.
Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 96.
- Added support for EXTNAME and EXTVER in PRIMARY HDUs. That is, if EXTNAME
is specified in the header, it will also be reflected in the ``.name``
attribute and in ``fits.info()``. These keywords used to be verboten in
PRIMARY HDUs, but the latest version of the FITS standard allows them.
Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 151.
- HCOMPRESS can again be used to compress data cubes (and higher-dimensional
arrays) so long as the tile size is effectively 2-dimensional. In fact,
compatible tile sizes will automatically be used even if they're not
explicitly specified. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 171.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock in the filesystem on OSX when
reading the data from certain types of FITS files. This only occurred
when used in conjunction with Numpy 1.7. [#369]
- Added support for the optional ``endcard`` parameter in the
``Header.fromtextfile()`` and ``Header.totextfile()`` methods. Although
``endcard=False`` was a reasonable default assumption, there are still text
dumps of FITS headers that include the END card, so this should have been
more flexible. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 176.
- Fixed a crash when running fitsdiff on two empty (that is, zero row) tables.
Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 178.
- Fixed an issue where opening a FITS file containing a random group HDU in
update mode could result in an unnecessary rewriting of the file even if
no changes were made. This corresponds to PyFITS ticket 179.
- Fixed a crash when generating diff reports from diffs using the
``ignore_comments`` options. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 181.
- Fixed some bugs with WCS distortion paper record-valued keyword cards:
- Cards that looked kind of like RVKCs but were not intended to be were
over-permissively treated as such--commentary keywords like COMMENT and
HISTORY were particularly affected. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 183.
- Looking up a card in a header by its standard FITS keyword only should
always return the raw value of that card. That way cards containing
values that happen to valid RVKCs but were not intended to be will still
be treated like normal cards. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 184.
- Looking up a RVKC in a header with only part of the field-specifier (for
example "DP1.AXIS" instead of "DP1.AXIS.1") was implicitly treated as a
wildcard lookup. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 184.
- Fixed a crash when diffing two FITS files where at least one contains a
compressed image HDU which was not recognized as an image instead of a
table. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 187.
- Fixed a bug where opening a file containing compressed image HDUs in
'update' mode and then immediately closing it without making any changes
caused the file to be rewritten unnecessarily.
- Fixed two memory leaks that could occur when writing compressed image data,
or in some cases when opening files containing compressed image HDUs in
'update' mode.
- Fixed a bug where ``ImageHDU.scale(option='old')`` wasn't working at
all--it was not restoring the image to its original BSCALE and BZERO
values.
- Fixed a bug when writing out files containing zero-width table columns,
where the TFIELDS keyword would be updated incorrectly, leaving the table
largely unreadable.
- Fixed a minor string formatting issue.
- Fixed bugs in the backwards compatibility layer for the ``CardList.index``
and ``CardList.count`` methods. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 190.
- Improved ``__repr__`` and text file representation of cards with long
values that are split into CONTINUE cards. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket
193.
- Fixed a crash when trying to assign a long (> 72 character) value to blank
('') keywords. This also changed how blank keywords are represented--there
are still exactly 8 spaces before any commentary content can begin; this
*may* affect the exact display of header cards that assumed there could be
fewer spaces in a blank keyword card before the content begins. However,
the current approach is more in line with the requirements of the FITS
standard. Corresponds to PyFITS ticket 194.
astropy.io.votable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The ``Table`` class now maintains a single array object which is a
Numpy masked array. For variable-length columns, the object that
is stored there is also a Numpy masked array.
- Changed the ``pedantic`` configuration option to be ``False`` by default
due to the vast proliferation of non-compliant VO Tables. [#296]
- Renamed ``astropy.io.vo`` to ``astropy.io.votable``.
astropy.table
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added a workaround for an upstream bug in Numpy 1.6.2 that could cause
a maximum recursion depth RuntimeError when printing table rows. [#341]
astropy.wcs
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Updated to wcslib 4.15 [#418]
- Fixed a problem with handling FITS headers on locales that do not use
dot as a decimal separator. This required an upstream fix to wcslib which
is included in wcslib 4.14. [#313]
- Fixed some tests that could fail due to missing/incorrect logging
configuration--ensures that tests don't have any impact on the default log
location or contents. [#291]
- Various minor documentation fixes [#293 and others]
- Fixed a bug where running the tests with the ``py.test`` command still tried
to replace the system-installed pytest with the one bundled with Astropy.
[#454]
- Improved multiprocessing compatibility for file downloads. [#615]
- Fixed handling of Cython modules when building from a source checkout of a
tagged release version. [#594]
- Added a workaround for a bug in Sphinx that could occur when using the
``:tocdepth:`` directive. [#595]
- Minor VOTable fixes [#596]
- Fixed how ``setup.py`` uses ``distribute_setup.py`` to prevent possible
``VersionConflict`` errors when an older version of distribute is already
installed on the user's system. [#616, #640]
- Changed use of ``log.warn`` in the logging module to ``log.warning`` since
the former is deprecated. [#624]
Version 0.1 (2012-06-19)
========================
- Initial release.
