0.2 Release Notes (Draft)

The SunPy development team is pleased to announce the release of SunPy 0.2 "Thanksgiving Tortoise". This release is a large milestone for SunPy. Including the additon of many new features, and forms the foundations for future releases.

This release is over 13 months worth of work and contains over 1200 commits from 14 contributors.

The major new features added in this release are:

Completely re-written plotting routines for most of the core datatypes. JPEG 2000 support as an input file type. Improved documentation for much of the code base, including re-written installation instructions.

New lightcurve object

• LYRA support
• GOES/XRS support
• SDO/EVE support

New Spectrum and Spectrogram object (in development)

• Spectrogram plotting routines
• Callisto spectrum type and support
• STEREO/SWAVES support

Map Object

• Added support for LASCO, Yohkoh/XRT maps
• A new CompositeMap object for overlaying maps
• Resample method
• Superpixel method
• The addition of the rotate() method for 2D maps.

The people who have contributed to this release are:

• Florian Mayer
• Keith Hughitt
• Jack Ireland
• Steven Christe
• Stuart Mumford
• Albert Shih
• Matt Earnshaw
• Nicky Chorley
• David Perez-Suarez
• Andrew Inglis
• Russell Hewett
• Thomas Robitaille
• Jordan Ballew
• Arseniy Kustov