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<title>Astropy | v7.0 Released!</title>
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<h1>Astropy v7.0 Released!</h1>
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Dear colleagues,
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We are very happy to announce the v7.0 release of astropy, a core Python
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package for Astronomy:
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<img src="astropy_logo_notext.png" style="width:80px;height:80px;"><br>
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<a href="http://www.astropy.org">http://www.astropy.org</a>
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The astropy core package is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much of the
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core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and astrophysics.
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It is part of the Astropy Project, which aims to foster an ecosystem of
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interoperable astronomy packages for Python.
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Notable changes in this release include:
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<li>Full MaskedQuantity Support in QTable</li>
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<li>Coordinate frames can now be stored in tables</li>
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<li>Table show_in_notebook is back with ipydatagrid</li>
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<li>Ordering of table columns constructed from rows</li>
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<li>Table.pformat is now independent of terminal dimensions</li>
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<li>Quantity.to_string supports formatter for formatting</li>
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<li>NumPy constructor functions with a like argument are now supported with Quantity</li>
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<li>Change default type for meta attribute to dict and update ECSV writer</li>
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<li>Improve the Contributor Documentation</li>
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<li>Typing in astropy.stats</li>
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<li>Converting units on dask and other array-like objects</li>
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<li>Performance improvements in astropy.modeling</li>
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<li>Fitting models in parallel with N-dimensional data</li>
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<li>RGB image visualization enhancements</li>
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<li>New Lorentz2D model</li>
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<li>Faster guessing of formats in astropy.io.ascii</li>
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<li>New `parquet.votable` format is available to read/write a Table from Parquet files with VOTable metadata included</li>
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<li>New SimpleNorm class</li>
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<li>Support for masks in coordinates</li>
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<li>Minimum supported version of Python updated to 3.11</li>
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<li>The astropy conda-forge package now has all the optional dependencies, a new astropy-base package is provided with only required dependencies.</li>
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In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been made.
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An overview of the changes is provided at:
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
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href="https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/7.0.html">https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/7.0.html</a>
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Instructions for installing astropy are provided on our <a
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href="http://www.astropy.org">website</a>, and extensive documentation
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.astropy.org">https://docs.astropy.org</a>
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If you usually use pip to install packages, you can do:
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pip install astropy --upgrade
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If you make use of conda (such as through the <a href="https://www.continuum.io/downloads">Anaconda
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conda update astropy
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Or if you cannot wait for Anaconda to update their default version, you can use the conda-forge channel:
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conda update -c conda-forge astropy
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Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository:
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues">https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues</a>
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Over 540 people have contributed code to the core astropy package so far, and you can find out more about the team here:
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If you use astropy directly for your work, or as a dependency to another
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Astropy paper. For the most up-to-date suggestions, see
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<a href="../acknowledging.html">the acknowledgement page</a>.
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We hope that you enjoy using astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it!
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Simon Conseil<br>
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v7.0 Release Coordinator<br>
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on behalf of The Astropy Project
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What's new in <a href="https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/6.1.html">Astropy 6.1</a>
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