v0.2.1

Highlights

• 🎉 Patch release with more tutorials and gallery examples! 🎉
• 🐍 Support Python 3.9 (#689)
• 📹 Add Liam’s ROSES 2020 PyGMT talk (#643)

New Features

• Wrap plot3d (#471)
• Wrap grdfilter (#616)

Enhancements

• Allow np.object dtypes into virtualfile_from_vectors (#684)
• Let plot() accept record-by-record transparency (#626)
• Refactor info to allow datetime inputs from xarray.Dataset and pandas.DataFrame tables (#619)

Tutorials & Gallery

• Add tutorial for pygmt.config (#482)
• Add an example for different line styles (#604, #664)
• Add a gallery example for varying transparent points (#654)
• Add tutorial for pygmt.Figure.text (#480)
• Add an example for scatter plots with auto legends (#607)
• Improve colorbar gallery example (#596)

Documentation Improvements

• doc: Fix the description of grdcontour -G option (#681)
• Refresh Code of Conduct from v1.4 to v2.0 (#673)
• Add PyGMT Zenodo BibTeX entry to main README.md (#678)
• Complete most of documentation for makecpt (#676)
• Complete documentation for plot (#666)
• Add “no_clip” to plot, text, contour and meca (#661)
• Add common alias “verbose” (V) to all functions (#662)
• Improve documentation of Figure.logo() (#651)
• Add mini-galleries for methods and functions (#648)
• Complete documentation of grdimage (#620)
• Add common alias perspective (p) for plotting 3D illustrations (#627)
• Add common aliases xshift (X) and yshift (Y) (#624)
• Add common alias cores (x) for grdimage and other multi-threaded modules (#625)
• Enable switching different versions of documentation (#621)
• Add common alias transparency (-t) to all plotting functions (#614)

Bug Fixes

• Disallow passing arguments like -XNone to GMT (#639)

Maintenance

• Migrate PyPI release to GitHub Actions (#679)
• Upload artifacts showing diff images on test failure (#675)
• Add slash command “/format” to automatically format PRs (#646)
• Add instructions to run specific tests (#660)
• Add more tests for xarray grid shading (#650)
• Refactor xfail tests to avoid storing baseline images (#603)
• Add blackdoc to format Python codes in docstrings (#641)
• Check and lint sphinx configuration file doc/conf.py (#630)
• Improve Makefile to clean __pycache__ directory recursively (#611)
• Update release process and checklist template (#602)

Contributors

• Dongdong Tian
• Wei Ji Leong
• Conor Bacon
• carocamargo

v0.2.0

Highlights

• 🎉 Second minor release of PyGMT 🎉
• Minimum required GMT version is now 6.1.1 or newer (#577)
• Plotting xarray grids using grdimage and grdview should not crash anymore and works for most cases (#560)
• Easier time-series plots with support for datetime-like inputs to plot (#464) and the region argument (#562)

New Features

• Wrap GMT_Put_Strings to pass str columns into GMT C API directly (#520)
• Wrap meca (#516)
• Wrap x2sys_init and x2sys_cross (#546)
• Let grdcut() accept xarray.DataArray as input (#541)
• Initialize a GMTDataArrayAccessor (#500)

Enhancements

• Allow passing in pandas dataframes to x2sys_cross (#591)
• Sensible array outputs for pygmt info (#575)
• Allow pandas.DataFrame table and 1D/2D numpy array inputs into pygmt.info (#574)
• Add auto-legend feature to grdcontour and contour (#568)
• Add common alias verbose (V) (#550)
• Let load_earth_relief() support all resolutions and optional subregion (#542)
• Allow load_earth_relief() to load pixel or gridline registered data (#509)

Documentation

• Link to try-gmt binder repository (#598)
• Improve docstring of data_kind() to include xarray grid (#588)
• Improve the documentation of Figure.shift_origin() (#536)
• Add shading to grdview gallery example (#506)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure surface and grdcut loads GMTDataArray accessor info into xarray (#539)
• Raise an error if short- and long-form arguments coexist (#537)
• Fix the grdtrack example to avoid crashes on macOS (#531)
• Properly allow for either pixel or gridline registered grids (#476)

Maintenance

• Add a test for xarray shading (#581)
• Remove expected failures on grdview tests (#589)
• Redesign check_figures_equal testing function to be more explicit (#590)
• Cut Windows CI build time in half to 15 min (#586)
• Add a test for Session.write_data() writing netCDF grids (#583)
• Add a test to make sure shift_origin does not crash (#580)
• Add testing.check_figures_equal to avoid storing baseline images (#555)
• Eliminate unnecessary jobs from Travis CI (#567) and Azure Pipelines (#513)
• Improve the workflow to test both GMT master (#485) and 6.1 branches (#554)
• Automatically cancel in-progress CI runs of old commits (#544)
• Remove the Stickler CI configuration file (#538), run style checks using Github Actions (#519)
• Cache GMT remote data as artifacts on Github (#530)
• Let pytest generate both HTML and XML coverage reports (#512)
• Run Continuous Integration tests on Github Actions (#475)

Contributors

• Dongdong Tian
• Wei Ji Leong
• Tyler Newton
• Liam Toney

v0.1.2

Highlights

• Patch release in preparation for the SciPy 2020 sprint session
• Last version to support GMT 6.0, future PyGMT versions will require GMT 6.1 or newer

New Features

• Wrap grdcut (#492)
• Add show_versions() function for printing debugging information used in issue reports (#466)

Enhancements

• Change load_earth_relief()'s default resolution to 01d (#488)
• Enhance text with extra functionality and aliases (#481)

Documentation

• Add gallery example for grdview (#502)
• Turn all short aliases into long form (#474)
• Update the plotting example using the colormap generated by pygmt.makecpt (#472)
• Add instructions to view the test coverage reports locally (#468)
• Update the instructions for testing pygmt install (#459)

Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug when passing data to GMT in Session.open_virtual_file() (#490)

Maintenance

• Temporarily expect failures for some grdcontour and grdview tests (#503)
• Fix several failures due to updates of earth relief data (#498)
• Unpin pylint version and fix some lint warnings (#484)
• Separate tests of gmtinfo and grdinfo (#461)
• Fix the test for GMT_COMPATIBILITY=6 (#454)
• Update baseline images for updates of earth relief data (#452)
• Simplify PyGMT Release process (#446)

Contributors

• Dongdong Tian
• Wei Ji Leong
• Liam Toney

v0.1.1

Highlights:

• 🏁 Windows users rejoice, this bugfix release is for you! 🏁
• Let PyGMT work with the conda GMT package on Windows (#434)

Enhancements:

• Handle setting special parameters without default settings for config (#411)

Documentation:

• Update install instructions (#430)
• Add PyGMT AGU 2019 poster to website (#425)
• Redirect www.pygmt.org to latest, instead of dev (#423)

Bug Fixes:

• Set GMT_COMPATIBILITY to 6 when pygmt session starts (#432)
• Improve how PyGMT finds the GMT library (#440)

Maintenance:

• Finalize fixes on WIndows test suite for v0.1.1 (#441)
• Cache test data on Azure Pipelines (#438)

This release contains contributions from:

• Dongdong Tian
• Wei Ji Leong
• Jason K. Moore

v0.1.0

Highlights:

• 🎉 First official release of PyGMT 🎉
• Python 3.8 is now supported (#398)
• PyGMT now uses the stable version of GMT 6.0.0 by default (#363)
• Use sphinx-gallery to manage examples and tutorials (#268)

New features:

• Wrap blockmedian (#349)
• Add pygmt.config() to change gmt defaults locally and globally (#293)
• Wrap grdview (#330)
• Wrap grdtrack (#308)
• Wrap colorbar (#332)
• Wrap text (#321)
• Wrap legend (#333)
• Wrap makecpt (#329)
• Add a new method to shift plot origins (#289)

Enhancements:

• Allow text accepting "frame" as an argument (#385)
• Allow for grids with negative lat/lon increments (#369)
• Allow passing in list to 'region' argument in surface (#378)
• Allow passing in scalar number to x and y in plot (#376)
• Implement default position/box for legend (#359)
• Add sequence_space converter in kwargs_to_string (#325)

Documentation:

• Update PyPI install instructions and API disclaimer message (#421)
• Fix the link to GMT documentation (#419)
• Use napoleon instead of numpydoc with sphinx (#383)
• Document using a list for repeated arguments (#361)
• Add legend gallery entry (#358)
• Update instructions to set GMT_LIBRARY_PATH (#324)
• Fix the link to the GMT homepage (#331)
• Split projections gallery by projection types (#318)
• Fix the link to GMT/Matlab API in the README (#297)
• Use shinx extlinks for linking GMT docs (#294)
• Comment about country code in projection examples (#290)
• Add an overview page listing presentations (#286)

Bug Fixes:

• Let surface return xr.DataArray instead of xr.Dataset (#408)
• Update GMT constant GMT_STR16 to GMT_VF_LEN for GMT API change in 6.1.0 (#397)
• Properly trigger pytest matplotlib image comparison (#352)
• Use uuid.uuid4 to generate unique names (#274)

Maintenance:

• Quickfix Zeit Now miniconda installer link to anaconda.com (#413)
• Fix Github Pages deployment from Travis (#410)
• Update and clean TravisCI configuration (#404)
• Quickfix min elevation for new SRTM15+V2.1 earth relief grids (#401)
• Wrap docstrings to 79 chars and check with flake8 (#384)
• Update continuous integration scripts to 1.2.0 (#355)
• Use Zeit Now to deploy doc builds from PRs (#344)
• Move gmt from requirements.txt to CI scripts instead (#343)
• Change py.test to pytest (#338)
• Add Google Analytics to measure site visitors (#314)
• Register mpl_image_compare marker to remove PytestUnknownMarkWarning (#323)
• Disable Windows CI builds before PR #313 is merged (#320)
• Enable Mac and Windows CI on Azure Pipelines (#312)
• Fixes for using GMT 6.0.0rc1 (#311)
• Assign authorship to "The PyGMT Developers" (#284)

Deprecations:

• Remove mention of gitter.im (#405)
• Remove portrait (-P) from common options (#339)
• Remove require.js since WorldWind was dropped (#278)
• Remove Web WorldWind support (#275)

This release contains contributions from:

• Dongdong Tian
• Wei Ji Leong
• Leonardo Uieda
• Liam Toney
• Brook Tozer
• Claudio Satriano
• Cody Woodson
• Mark Wieczorek
• Philipp Loose
• Kathryn Materna