astropy v1.0.9 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-03-10 // about 8 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ†• New Features

    astropy.nddata ^

    • NDArithmeticMixin check for matching WCS now works with astropy.wcs.WCS objects [#4499, #4503]

    ๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

    astropy.convolution

    • Correct a bug in which psf_pad and fft_pad would be ignored [#4366]

    astropy.io.ascii ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed addition of new line characters after last row of data in ascii.latex.AASTex. [#4561]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed reading of Latex tables where the \tabular tag is in the first line. [#4595]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix use of plain format strings with the fast writer. [#4517]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix bug writing space-delimited file when table has empty fields. [#4417]

    astropy.io.fits ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed possible segfault during error handling in FITS tile compression. [#4489]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed crash on pickling of binary table columns with the 'X', 'P', or 'Q' format. [#4514]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed memory / reference leak that could occur when copying a FITS_rec object (the .data for table HDUs). [#520]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a memory / reference leak in FITS_rec that occurred in a wide range of cases, especially after writing FITS tables to a file, but in other cases as well. [#4539]

    astropy.modeling ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed display of compound model expressions and components when printing compound model instances. [#4414, #4482]

    astropy.stats ^

    • the input for median_absolute_deviation will not be cast to plain numpy arrays when given subclasses of numpy arrays (like Quantity, numpy.ma.MaskedArray, etc.) [#4658]

    • Fixed incorrect results when using median_absolute_deviation with masked arrays. [#4658]

    astropy.utils ^

    • ๐Ÿš€ The zest.releaser hooks included in Astropy are now injected locally to Astropy, rather than being global. [#4650]

    astropy.visualization

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed fits2bitmap script to allow ext flag to contain extension names or numbers. [#4468]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed fits2bitmap default output filename generation for compressed FITS files. [#4468]