[yt-dev] Announcing: yt 2.6

[Anthony Scopatz]

Whoohoo! Super congrats everyone!


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of yt 2.6.  This is a major
> release that includes new features and major updates along with all the
> bugs identified and fixed since the release of 2.5.5 on August 28.  We
> currently plan for this to be the final major release of the yt 2.X
> release series, although bug fix releases will continue for the
> foreseeable future.
>
> Please forward this email to other interested parties.
>
> Most notable changes include:
>
>  * Relicensing whole project to BSD 3-clause
>  * Automated absorption line fitting module developed by Hilary Egan
>  * Significant improvement in documentation in a joint effort of the dev
> team led by Cameron Hummels
>  * Documentation now includes inlined IPython notebooks, thanks to
> Nathan Goldbaum
>  * RAMSES, ART, Tiger, Maestro and Castro frontends removal as their
> counterparts in 3.0 branch exceeded them both performance and capability
> wise.  All users of the aforementioned codes are strongly advised to
> migrate to yt-3.0
>  * Python stack update, which now features: ipython-1.1.0, hg-2.8,
> python-2.7.6 numpy-1.7.1
>  * New ProfilePlot and PhasePlot classes thanks to Britton Smith, Nathan
> Goldbaum and Matt Turk. Previous mechanisms (i.e. profiles using
> PlotCollection) are deprecated and will be removed in future versions.
>  * Projections of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using SZpack implemented
> by John ZuHone
>  * Generating Mock X-ray Photons now possible thanks to John ZuHone
>  * Introduction of Transfer Function Helper by Sam Skillman
>  * Initial support for installing yt with the package management system
> Conda.
>  * The addition of a frontend for the Pluto code by Andrew Myers
>  * The addition of an OBJ exporter to enable transparent and
> multi-surface exports of surfaces to Blender and Sketchfab by Jiill Naiman
>  * yt can now export to RADMC3D thanks to Andrew Myers
>  * Considerably (10x+) faster kD-tree building for volume rendering
> thanks to Sam Skillman
>  * Full integration and demonstration of all available colormaps
> included in documentation thanks to Cameron Hummels
>
> There have also been a number of minor bugs fixed in this release.  Some
> highlights:
>
>  * Center of the plot in off_axis_projection plots is now calculated
> correctly, thanks to William Gray
>  * Several enhancements to PlotWindow made by Nathan Goldbaum:
>    - Save accepts paths to directories
>    - Better handling of highly rectangular domains
>    - Axes and colorbars are now toggleable
>    - Nicer output in ipython notebook
>    - eps_writer is now compatible with PlotWindow, thanks to John Wise
>  * yt command line enhancements thanks to Devin Silvia and Matt Turk
>  * Several enhancements to Athena frontend by John ZuHone
>  * Improvements for OSX support (up to Mavericks)
>  * Updates to halo finding routines by Britton Smith
>
> We’d also like to recognize the new contributors to the yt 2.x source
> code and documentation during the yt 2.5 development cycle:
>
>  * Hilary Egan
>  * John Forbes
>  * William Gray
>  * Stuart Mumford
>  * Jill Naiman
>  * Doug Rudd
>  * Noel Scudder
>  * Elizabeth Tasker
>
> If you are using the stable branch of yt from an installation script,
> you can upgrade using "yt update" or "yt update --all" to upgrade your
> full dependency stack.  If you are using the development branch, you
> may already have these fixes.  A tarball of this release has been
> uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI).
>
> Documentation for this release is available at:
>
> http://yt-project.org/docs/2.6/
>
> Previous announcements from the 2.5 release cycle can be found at:
>
> 2.5.5:
>
> http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-August/003929.html
> 2.5.4:
>
> http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-July/003716.html
> 2.5.3:
>
> http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-June/003669.html
> 2.5.2:
>
> http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-May/003595.html
> 2.5.1:
>
> http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-dev-spacepope.org/2013-March/002988.html
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Kacper, on behalf of the yt development team
>
>
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