astropy v2.0.12 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-02-23 // about 5 years ago
  • 🆕 New Features

    astropy.utils ^

    • 📇 The deprecated_renamed_argument decorator now capable deprecating an argument without renaming it. It also got a new alternative keyword argument to suggest alternative functionality instead of the removed one. [#8324]

    🐛 Bug Fixes

    astropy.io.fits ^

    • Fixed bug in ColDefs._init_from_array() that caused non-scalar unsigned entries to not have the correct bzero value set. [#8353]

    astropy.modeling ^

    • 🛠 Fixed compatibility of JointFitter with the latest version of Numpy. [#7984]

    astropy.table ^

    • 🛠 Fix .quantity property of Column class for function-units (e.g., dex). Previously setting this was possible, but getting raised an error. [#8425]

    • 🛠 Fixes a bug where initializing a new Table from the final row of an existing Table failed. This happened when that row was generated using the item index [-1]. [#8422]

    astropy.wcs ^

    • Fix bug that caused WCS.has_celestial, wcs_to_celestial_frame, and other functionality depending on it to fail in the presence of correlated celestial and other axes. [#8420]

    Other Changes and Additions

    • 🛠 Fixed make clean for the documentation on Windows to ensure it properly removes the api and generated directories. [#8346]

    • ⚡️ Updating bundled pytest-openfiles to v0.3.2. [#8434]

    • ⚠ Making ErfaWarning and ErfaError available via astropy.utils.exceptions. [#8441]