The SunPy project is happy to announce the release of SunPy 0.6.0. This is a major SunPy release with lots of changes that will make SunPy even better than it was before. This release consists of 1,341 commits from 29 different people and 13 new contributors!
The major changes in this release are:
* Most functions throughout the SunPy code base expect Astropy
Quantity objects, and return Astropy Quantity objects.
* Python 2.6 support has ended, we do not expect this release to
work under Python 2.6.
* Sample data has been removed from SunPy but helpers for
downloading sample data have been added to sunpy.data.
* TimeRange has a new property based API, e.g. start and end are
now properties.
* Map.rotate() now pads arrays to prevent loss of data under
rotation.
* Map.rotate() now defaults to the slower but more accurate
bi-quartic interpolation method (order=4).
* SunPy colormaps are now registered with matplotlib, allowing
their use from imshow and similar functions after the import
of sunpy.cm.
* JSOC client export calls now checks for an email address.
* Solar rotation calculation functionality has been added, along
with functionality to de-rotate MapCubes.
* Files downloaded through the VSO now keep their file
extension.
The people who have contributed to this release are:
Stuart Mumford
Daniel Ryan
Steven Christe
Jack Ireland
Brigitta Sipocz *
Asish Panda
Andrew Inglis
Albert Y. Shih
Rishabh Sharma
David Perez-Suarez
Rajul Srivastava
Andrew Leonard
Ruben De Visscher *
Dumindu Buddhika *
Goran Cetusic *
Jongyeob Park *
Chloé Guennou *
Ishtyaq Habib *
Nabil Freij
Simon Liedtke
Abigail Stevens *
Alex Hamilton *
Ambar Mehrotra *
Erik M. Bray *
Jaylen Wimbish *
Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas *
Larry Manley
Norbert Gyenge
Rishabh Mishra *
Where an * indicates their first contribution.