Merge pull request #2784 from QCoDeS/changelog_0.23.0

change log for 0.23.0 release

docs/changes/0.23.0.rst

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+Changelog for QCoDeS 0.23.0
+===========================
+
+The February 2021 release of QCoDeS.
+
+---------
+Improved:
+---------
+
+- Commit data directy to dataset cache (#2667) (#2761)
+- Removed duplicate get call in ``_ParamCaller`` used to acquire
+  parameters out of the main thread. This fix resulting in a 2x speed up for multi-threaded experiments (#2712)
+- Add ``pandas`` and ``xarray`` methods to ``DataSetCache``  matching the ``DataSet`` (#2763)
+- Fix to Avoid loading data twice in dataset's ``to_xarray_dataset`` method (#2762)
+- Add optional ``tqdm`` progress bar to ``doNd`` functions (#2734)
+- Improvment to ``Station`` by adding the ``load_all_instruments`` method to load everything specified
+  in configuration yaml (#2721) (#2754)
+- In ``guid_helpers`` the regular expression used to read guids from a string represantation of a
+  list/tuple of guids was flawed. Improvment to use ``ast.parse`` makes it a lot easier and error proof. (#2700)
+- Fix for station snapshot of parameters with ``snapshot_exclude`` (#2692)
+
+
+------------
+New drivers:
+------------
+
+- AWG Driver for the Keysight ``M9336A`` PXIe I/Q Arbitrary Waveform Generator. This driver provides
+  a simple wrapper around the IVI-C drivers from Keysight (#2613)
+- Driver wrapper for the Keysight ``M960X`` DAC. This driver provides an interface into the IVI-C driver
+  provided by Keysight (#2613)
+
+
+-----------------
+Improved drivers:
+-----------------
+
+- Feature to determine the frequency and power parameter validators on the Agilent ``E8527D`` microwave
+  source based on the installed options (#2690)
+
+
+---------------
+Under the hood:
+---------------
+
+- Remove dependency on gitpython (#2738)
+- Add two more SMUs to B1500 yaml sim file, useful for testing (#2722)
+- Modernize packaging by moving most static packaging data to ``setup.cfg`` (#2693)
+- Remove left over usage of deprecated ``get_data_as_pandas_dataframe`` (#2674)

docs/changes/index.rst

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 ==========
 
 .. toctree::
+   0.23.0 <0.23.0>
    0.22.0 <0.22.0>
    0.21.0 <0.21.0>
    0.20.1 <0.20.1>