- Updated changlog, readme and version variables for release 1.8rc1

Author: ThomasAkam

ChangeLog.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,40 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Version 1.8 release candidate 1 07/10/2022
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+GUI:
+
+- GUI is now compatible with PyQt 6 and Python 3.10.
+
+- New GUI settings dialog.
+
+- Required device driver files are now automatically transferred to the pyboard
+  when a task or hardware definition is uploaded.
+
+- Various small improvements and bug fixes.
+
+Framework:
+
+- Major refactoring of framework code to make it simpler and more readable.
+
+- Analog inputs now stream data to the computer continously while the GUI is 
+  running rather than having record() and stop() methods to start and stop
+  data streaming.  
+
+- Events triggered by timers are now output to the data log by default.
+
+- Removed decimate argument from digital input as it was not used in practice.
+
+- Added Frame_trigger device class for triggering camera frames as a specified
+  frequency and recording the frame times to an analog data file.
+
+- Added uRFID device class for controlling Priority 1 Designs RFID module.
+
+Data import:
+
+- Added session_dataframe function for generating a pandas dataframe from 
+  a pyControl data file.
+
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 Version 1.7.2 30/06/2022
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config/settings.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import json
 
-VERSION = "1.8"
+VERSION = "1.8rc1"
 
 top_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))  # Top level pyControl folder.
 dirs = {

pyControl/framework.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from . import state_machine as sm
 from . import hardware as hw
 
-VERSION = '1.8'
+VERSION = '1.8rc1'
 
 class pyControlError(BaseException): # Exception for pyControl errors.
     pass

readme.txt

@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ tasks            : Task definition files
 tools            : Tools for importing and visualising pycontrol data
 pyControl_GUI.py : Python script to launch the GUI.
 
-Version: v1.7.2
+Version: v1.8rc1
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