Submitted by Jack Ireland on behalf of the SunPy community.
We are pleased to announce the release of SunPy 0.8. This new version brings many major features to SunPy including:
– a coordinates package that facilitates the easy representation of locations on the Sun, and their transformation between different solar and astrophysical coordinate systems.
– unified data search and retrieval capabilities.
– a timeseries data type for the representation and manipulation of time series data.
– powerful tools for manipulating map data, coordinates and plots.
– a gallery of examples demonstrating SunPy functionality.
To install SunPy 0.8, please go to http://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/guide/installation/index.html.
This release features 1442 commits solving 163 issues in 200 pull requests from 35 contributors, including 17 new contributors. For more details see http://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.8.html.
SunPy is a community-developed free and open-source software package for solar physics, written in Python. To ask a question, report a bug or contribute code, please go to http://sunpy.org/contribute.html.