astropy v2.0.5 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-03-12 // about 6 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

    astropy.coordinates

    • โž• Add a workaround for a bug in the einsum function in Numpy 1.14.0. [#7187]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix problems with printing Angle instances under numpy 1.14.1. [#7234]

    astropy.io.fits ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed the fitsdiff script for matching fits file with one in a directory path. [#7085]

    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ Make sure that lazily-loaded HDUList is automatically loaded when calling hdulist.pop. [#7186]

    astropy.modeling ^

    • Propagate weights to underlying fitter in FittingWithOutlierRemoval [#7249]

    โœ… astropy.tests ^

    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support dotted package names as namespace packages when gathering test coverage. [#7170]

    astropy.visualization

    • Matplotlib axes have the axisbelow property to control the z-order of ticks, tick labels, and grid lines. WCSAxes will now respect this property. This is useful for drawing scale bars or inset boxes, which should have a z-order that places them above all ticks and gridlines. [#7098]

    Other Changes and Additions

    • ๐Ÿš‘ Updated the bundled CFITSIO library to 3.430. This is to remedy a critical security vulnerability that was identified by NASA. See cextern/cfitsio/docs/changes.txt for additional information. [#7274, #7275]