The SunPy project is happy to announce the release of SunPy 0.7.0.
SunPy 0.7 is the next major release of SunPy and contains 665 commits from 27 people, 11 of which have never contributed before. The major features of this release are:
- Python 3.4 and 3.5 support. This is the first version of SunPy to support Python 3, we recommend that users start to consider moving to Python 3, please report any issues you may have.
- New coordinate framework. The new
sunpy.coordinates
module provides a high-level interface to converting between different physical coordinate systems such as Helioprojective and Heliographic. - New
draw_rectangle
anddraw_contours
helpers forMap
. - New functions
flareclass_to_flux
andflux_to_flareclass
which convert between GOES flux to GOES class numbers (e.g. X12, M3.4). - Support for masks in SunPy
Map
andMapCube
.
The people who have contributed to this release are:
Stuart Mumford
Pritish Chakraborty
Steven Christe
Jack Ireland
Brigitta Sipocz
David Perez-Suarez
Punyaslok Pattnaik *
Michael S Kirk *
Andrew Leonard
Alex Hamilton
Andrew Inglis
Daniel Ryan
Sally Dacie *
Sanskar Modi *
Albert Y. Shih
Erik M. Bray
Larry Manley
Priyank Lodha *
Nabil Freij
Ankit *
Igor Babuschkin *
Ole Streicher *
Simon Liedtke
Sudarshan Konge *
Tessa D. Wilkinson *
Thomas Robitaille
yasintoda *
Where an * indicates their first contribution.