[Pythoneers] Fwd: [AstroPy] ANN: Astropy v1.1 released

[Leonard Burtscher]

FYI

> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:
> 
> Von: Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com>
> Betreff: [AstroPy] ANN: Astropy v1.1 released
> Datum: 14. Dezember 2015 um 16:32:29 MEZ
> An: astropy-dev mailing list <astropy-dev at googlegroups.com>, astropy mailing list <astropy at scipy.org>, python-announce-list at python.org, SciPy Users List <scipy-user at scipy.org>
> Antwort an: Astronomical Python mailing list <astropy at scipy.org>
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> We are very happy to announce the v1.1 release of the Astropy package,
> a core Python package for Astronomy:
> 
> http://www.astropy.org
> 
> Astropy is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much
> of the core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and
> astrophysics.
> 
> New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
> 
> * New functions to automatically determine histogram bins, including
>  the Bayesian blocks algorithm
> * A new interface to transform between Table objects and pandas
>  DataFrame objects
> * Support for table indexing
> * Support for supergalactic and ecliptic coordinates
> * A new .info attribute to get summary information about tables and
>  columns
> * A new show_in_notebook() method to show a table in Jupyter/IPython
>  notebooks with additional interactivity features
> * Support for new units, including logarithmic units such as
>  magnitudes, dex, and decibels
> * Support for the Planck 2015 cosmology and significant performance
>  improvements in the cosmology sub-package
> 
> In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been made.
> An overview of the changes is provided at:
> 
>  http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/1.1.html
> 
> Instructions for installing Astropy are provided on our website, and
> extensive documentation can be found at:
> 
>  http://docs.astropy.org
> 
> If you make use of the Anaconda Python Distribution, you can update to
> Astropy v1.1 with:
> 
>  conda update astropy
> 
> If you normally use pip, you can upgrade with:
> 
>  pip install astropy --upgrade
> 
> Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub
> repository:
> 
>  https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues
> 
> Over 160 developers have contributed code to Astropy so far, and you
> can find out more about the team behind Astropy here:
> 
>  http://www.astropy.org/team.html
> 
> As a reminder, Astropy v1.0 (our long term support release) will
> continue to be supported with bug fixes until Feb 19th 2017, so if you
> need to use Astropy in a very stable environment, you may want to
> consider staying on the v1.0.x set of releases rather than upgrading to
> v1.1.
> 
> If you use Astropy directly for your work, or as a dependency to
> another package, please remember to include the following
> acknowledgment at the end of papers:
> 
> """
> This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python
> package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration, 2013).
> """
> 
> where (Astropy Collaboration, 2013) is a reference to the Astropy paper:
> 
>  http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322068
> 
> Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might
> be interested in this release!
> 
> Thomas Robitaille, Erik Tollerud, and Perry Greenfield
> on behalf of The Astropy Collaboration
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