Changelog

Release v0.2.0 (2020/09/12)

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Highlights:

  • 🎉 Second minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Minimum required GMT version is now 6.1.1 or newer (#577)

  • Plotting xarray grids using grdimage and grdview should not crash anymore and works for most cases (#560)

  • Easier time-series plots with support for datetime-like inputs to plot (#464) and the region argument (#562)

New Features:

  • Wrap GMT_Put_Strings to pass str columns into GMT C API directly (#520)

  • Wrap meca (#516)

  • Wrap x2sys_init and x2sys_cross (#546)

  • Let grdcut() accept xarray.DataArray as input (#541)

  • Initialize a GMTDataArrayAccessor (#500)

Enhancements:

  • Allow passing in pandas dataframes to x2sys_cross (#591)

  • Sensible array outputs for pygmt info (#575)

  • Allow pandas.DataFrame table and 1D/2D numpy array inputs into pygmt.info (#574)

  • Add auto-legend feature to grdcontour and contour (#568)

  • Add common alias verbose (V) (#550)

  • Let load_earth_relief() support all resolutions and optional subregion (#542)

  • Allow load_earth_relief() to load pixel or gridline registered data (#509)

Documentation:

  • Link to try-gmt binder repository (#598)

  • Improve docstring of data_kind() to include xarray grid (#588)

  • Improve the documentation of Figure.shift_origin() (#536)

  • Add shading to grdview gallery example (#506)

Bug Fixes:

  • Ensure surface and grdcut loads GMTDataArray accessor info into xarray (#539)

  • Raise an error if short- and long-form arguments coexist (#537)

  • Fix the grdtrack example to avoid crashes on macOS (#531)

  • Properly allow for either pixel or gridline registered grids (#476)

Maintenance:

  • Add a test for xarray shading (#581)

  • Remove expected failures on grdview tests (#589)

  • Redesign check_figures_equal testing function to be more explicit (#590)

  • Cut Windows CI build time in half to 15 min (#586)

  • Add a test for Session.write_data() writing netCDF grids (#583)

  • Add a test to make sure shift_origin does not crash (#580)

  • Add testing.check_figures_equal to avoid storing baseline images (#555)

  • Eliminate unnecessary jobs from Travis CI (#567) and Azure Pipelines (#513)

  • Improve the workflow to test both GMT master (#485) and 6.1 branches (#554)

  • Automatically cancel in-progress CI runs of old commits (#544)

  • Remove the Stickler CI configuration file (#538), run style checks using GitHub Actions (#519)

  • Cache GMT remote data as artifacts on GitHub (#530)

  • Let pytest generate both HTML and XML coverage reports (#512)

  • Run Continuous Integration tests on GitHub Actions (#475)

Contributors:


Release v0.1.2 (2020/07/07)

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Highlights:

  • Patch release in preparation for the SciPy 2020 sprint session

  • Last version to support GMT 6.0, future PyGMT versions will require GMT 6.1 or newer

New Features:

  • Wrap grdcut (#492)

  • Add show_versions() function for printing debugging information used in issue reports (#466)

Enhancements:

  • Change load_earth_relief()’s default resolution to 01d (#488)

  • Enhance text with extra functionality and aliases (#481)

Documentation:

  • Add gallery example for grdview (#502)

  • Turn all short aliases into long form (#474)

  • Update the plotting example using the colormap generated by pygmt.makecpt (#472)

  • Add instructions to view the test coverage reports locally (#468)

  • Update the instructions for testing pygmt install (#459)

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix a bug when passing data to GMT in Session.open_virtual_file() (#490)

Maintenance:

  • Temporarily expect failures for some grdcontour and grdview tests (#503)

  • Fix several failures due to updates of earth relief data (#498)

  • Unpin pylint version and fix some lint warnings (#484)

  • Separate tests of gmtinfo and grdinfo (#461)

  • Fix the test for GMT_COMPATIBILITY=6 (#454)

  • Update baseline images for updates of earth relief data (#452)

  • Simplify PyGMT Release process (#446)

Contributors:


Release v0.1.1 (2020/05/22)

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Highlights:

  • 🏁Windows users rejoice, this bugfix release is for you!🏁

  • Let PyGMT work with the conda GMT package on Windows (#434)

Enhancements:

  • Handle setting special parameters without default settings for config (#411)

Documentation:

  • Update install instructions (#430)

  • Add PyGMT AGU 2019 poster to website (#425)

  • Redirect www.pygmt.org to latest, instead of dev (#423)

Bug Fixes:

  • Set GMT_COMPATIBILITY to 6 when pygmt session starts (#432)

  • Improve how PyGMT finds the GMT library (#440)

Maintenance:

  • Finalize fixes on Windows test suite for v0.1.1 (#441)

  • Cache test data on Azure Pipelines (#438)

This release contains contributions from:


Release v0.1.0 (2020/05/03)

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Highlights:

  • 🎉 First official release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Python 3.8 is now supported (#398)

  • PyGMT now uses the stable version of GMT 6.0.0 by default (#363)

  • Use sphinx-gallery to manage examples and tutorials (#268)

New features:

  • Wrap blockmedian (#349)

  • Add pygmt.config() to change gmt defaults locally and globally (#293)

  • Wrap grdview (#330)

  • Wrap grdtrack (#308)

  • Wrap colorbar (#332)

  • Wrap text (#321)

  • Wrap legend (#333)

  • Wrap makecpt (#329)

  • Add a new method to shift plot origins (#289)

Enhancements:

  • Allow text accepting “frame” as an argument (#385)

  • Allow for grids with negative lat/lon increments (#369)

  • Allow passing in list to ‘region’ argument in surface (#378)

  • Allow passing in scalar number to x and y in plot (#376)

  • Implement default position/box for legend (#359)

  • Add sequence_space converter in kwargs_to_string (#325)

Documentation:

  • Update PyPI install instructions and API disclaimer message (#421)

  • Fix the link to GMT documentation (#419)

  • Use napoleon instead of numpydoc with sphinx (#383)

  • Document using a list for repeated arguments (#361)

  • Add legend gallery entry (#358)

  • Update instructions to set GMT_LIBRARY_PATH (#324)

  • Fix the link to the GMT homepage (#331)

  • Split projections gallery by projection types (#318)

  • Fix the link to GMT/Matlab API in the README (#297)

  • Use shinx extlinks for linking GMT docs (#294)

  • Comment about country code in projection examples (#290)

  • Add an overview page listing presentations (#286)

Bug Fixes:

  • Let surface return xr.DataArray instead of xr.Dataset (#408)

  • Update GMT constant GMT_STR16 to GMT_VF_LEN for GMT API change in 6.1.0 (#397)

  • Properly trigger pytest matplotlib image comparison (#352)

  • Use uuid.uuid4 to generate unique names (#274)

Maintenance:

  • Quickfix Zeit Now miniconda installer link to anaconda.com (#413)

  • Fix GitHub Pages deployment from Travis (#410)

  • Update and clean TravisCI configuration (#404)

  • Quickfix min elevation for new SRTM15+V2.1 earth relief grids (#401)

  • Wrap docstrings to 79 chars and check with flake8 (#384)

  • Update continuous integration scripts to 1.2.0 (#355)

  • Use Zeit Now to deploy doc builds from PRs (#344)

  • Move gmt from requirements.txt to CI scripts instead (#343)

  • Change py.test to pytest (#338)

  • Add Google Analytics to measure site visitors (#314)

  • Register mpl_image_compare marker to remove PytestUnknownMarkWarning (#323)

  • Disable Windows CI builds before PR #313 is merged (#320)

  • Enable Mac and Windows CI on Azure Pipelines (#312)

  • Fixes for using GMT 6.0.0rc1 (#311)

  • Assign authorship to “The PyGMT Developers” (#284)

Deprecations:

  • Remove mention of gitter.im (#405)

  • Remove portrait (-P) from common options (#339)

  • Remove require.js since WorldWind was dropped (#278)

  • Remove Web WorldWind support (#275)

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