astropy v1.0.7 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-12-04 // over 8 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

    astropy.coordinates

    • Pickling of EarthLocation instances now also works on Python 2. [#4304]

    astropy.io.ascii ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix fast writer so bytestring column output is not prefixed by 'b' in Python 3. [#4350]

    astropy.io.fits ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a regression that could cause writes of large FITS files to be truncated. [#4307]

    • Astropy v1.0.6 included a fix (#4228) for an obscure case where the TDIM of a table column is smaller than the repeat count of its data format. This updates that fix in such a way that it works with Numpy 1.10 as well. [#4266]

    astropy.table ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix a bug when pickling a Table with mixin columns (e.g. Time). [#4098]

    astropy.time ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix incorrect value attribute for epoch formats like "unix" when scale is different from the class epoch_scale. [#4312]

    astropy.utils ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed an issue where if ipython is installed but ipykernel is not installed then importing astropy from the ipython console gave an IPython.kernel deprecation warning. [#4279]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed crash that could occur in ProgressBar when astropy is imported in an IPython startup script. [#4274]

    Other Changes and Additions

    • โšก๏ธ Updated bundled astropy-helpers to v1.0.6. [#4372]