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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kacper Kowalik</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xarthisius.kk@gmail.com">xarthisius.kk@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:19 AM<br>Subject: [yt-dev] Announcing: yt 2.6<br>
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<br><br>Hi all,<br>
<br>
We are pleased to announce the release of yt 2.6. This is a major<br>
release that includes new features and major updates along with all the<br>
bugs identified and fixed since the release of 2.5.5 on August 28. We<br>
currently plan for this to be the final major release of the yt 2.X<br>
release series, although bug fix releases will continue for the<br>
foreseeable future.<br>
<br>
Please forward this email to other interested parties.<br>
<br>
Most notable changes include:<br>
<br>
* Relicensing whole project to BSD 3-clause<br>
* Automated absorption line fitting module developed by Hilary Egan<br>
* Significant improvement in documentation in a joint effort of the dev<br>
team led by Cameron Hummels<br>
* Documentation now includes inlined IPython notebooks, thanks to<br>
Nathan Goldbaum<br>
* RAMSES, ART, Tiger, Maestro and Castro frontends removal as their<br>
counterparts in 3.0 branch exceeded them both performance and capability<br>
wise. All users of the aforementioned codes are strongly advised to<br>
migrate to yt-3.0<br>
* Python stack update, which now features: ipython-1.1.0, hg-2.8,<br>
python-2.7.6 numpy-1.7.1<br>
* New ProfilePlot and PhasePlot classes thanks to Britton Smith, Nathan<br>
Goldbaum and Matt Turk. Previous mechanisms (i.e. profiles using<br>
PlotCollection) are deprecated and will be removed in future versions.<br>
* Projections of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using SZpack implemented<br>
by John ZuHone<br>
* Generating Mock X-ray Photons now possible thanks to John ZuHone<br>
* Introduction of Transfer Function Helper by Sam Skillman<br>
* Initial support for installing yt with the package management system<br>
Conda.<br>
* The addition of a frontend for the Pluto code by Andrew Myers<br>
* The addition of an OBJ exporter to enable transparent and<br>
multi-surface exports of surfaces to Blender and Sketchfab by Jiill Naiman<br>
* yt can now export to RADMC3D thanks to Andrew Myers<br>
* Considerably (10x+) faster kD-tree building for volume rendering<br>
thanks to Sam Skillman<br>
* Full integration and demonstration of all available colormaps<br>
included in documentation thanks to Cameron Hummels<br>
<br>
There have also been a number of minor bugs fixed in this release. Some<br>
highlights:<br>
<br>
* Center of the plot in off_axis_projection plots is now calculated<br>
correctly, thanks to William Gray<br>
* Several enhancements to PlotWindow made by Nathan Goldbaum:<br>
- Save accepts paths to directories<br>
- Better handling of highly rectangular domains<br>
- Axes and colorbars are now toggleable<br>
- Nicer output in ipython notebook<br>
- eps_writer is now compatible with PlotWindow, thanks to John Wise<br>
* yt command line enhancements thanks to Devin Silvia and Matt Turk<br>
* Several enhancements to Athena frontend by John ZuHone<br>
* Improvements for OSX support (up to Mavericks)<br>
* Updates to halo finding routines by Britton Smith<br>
<br>
We’d also like to recognize the new contributors to the yt 2.x source<br>
code and documentation during the yt 2.5 development cycle:<br>
<br>
* Hilary Egan<br>
* John Forbes<br>
* William Gray<br>
* Stuart Mumford<br>
* Jill Naiman<br>
* Doug Rudd<br>
* Noel Scudder<br>
* Elizabeth Tasker<br>
<br>
If you are using the stable branch of yt from an installation script,<br>
you can upgrade using "yt update" or "yt update --all" to upgrade your<br>
full dependency stack. If you are using the development branch, you<br>
may already have these fixes. A tarball of this release has been<br>
uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI).<br>
<br>
Documentation for this release is available at:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://yt-project.org/docs/2.6/" target="_blank">http://yt-project.org/docs/2.6/</a><br>
<br>
Previous announcements from the 2.5 release cycle can be found at:<br>
<br>
2.5.5:<br>
<a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-August/003929.html" target="_blank">http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-August/003929.html</a><br>
2.5.4:<br>
<a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-July/003716.html" target="_blank">http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-July/003716.html</a><br>
2.5.3:<br>
<a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-June/003669.html" target="_blank">http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-June/003669.html</a><br>
2.5.2:<br>
<a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-May/003595.html" target="_blank">http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2013-May/003595.html</a><br>
2.5.1:<br>
<a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-dev-spacepope.org/2013-March/002988.html" target="_blank">http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-dev-spacepope.org/2013-March/002988.html</a><br>
<br>
Thank you very much,<br>
<br>
Kacper, on behalf of the yt development team<br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>