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Changelog for QCoDeS 0.19.0

The October 2020 release of QCoDeS.

Breaking Changes:

  • A number of long deprecated drivers have been removed:

    • Keysight_344xxA drivers: Use Keysight_344xxA_submodules drivers (#2325)
    • QDac driver: Use QDac_channels driver as an alternative (#2314)
    • keithley_2600: Use keithley_2600_channels as an alternative (#2315)

  • In the QDac_channels driver a deprecated parameter (fast_voltage_set)
    and a deprecated method (read_state) has been removed (#2314)

New:

  • Add optional shape metadata to dataset (#2145)
  • Allow string and time/datetime data to be storred in array measurements (#2313)
  • KeysightB1511B SMU driver has been added for support with the B1500 (#2278)
  • Notebook: Example of how buffered sweep could be done on param with setpoints (#2263)
  • Add allow_changes option to set_to method of Parameter, and
    add another context manager for restoring current value (#2220)

Improved:

  • Station: Take verbose error message when validating station yaml against
    schema (#2282)
  • Fix Sequence validator sorted check to work correctly with sequence
    types other than list (#2271)
  • Experiemnt widget: sort None timestamps as oldest (#2275)
  • Use predefined mock instruments in docs (#2190)
  • Support pyvisa 1.11 (#2304)

New drivers:

  • Alazar ATS9440 card (#2258)

Improved drivers:

  • AMI430: has_current_rating has been removed in the driver to work with the new
    firmware version (#2291, #2312)
  • Small typo fix in alazer drivers (#2296)
  • Yokogawa GS200: source_mode bug fix (#2143) and update its example notebook (#2197)
  • Keysight B1517A: Improvments for valid voltage and current output ranges (#2278)
  • Keithley 3706A: improvements / warnings cleanup (#2318)
  • Yokogawa GS200: Add trigger, and program features (#2138)
  • Keithley 7510: Add digitizer feature (#2138)

Under the hood:

  • Filter out telemetry messages in console handler (#2322)
  • Docs: add title to home page, and make version bar appear (#2323)
  • Small improvements in legacy data notebook (#2295)
  • Station example doc: update update_config_schema example to refer to
    qcodes_contrib_drivers (#2272)
  • Fix header levels in example notebooks (#2265)
  • Fix legacy imports in driver examples (#2249)
  • rework 2d tests to sweep over two separate parameters (#2187)
  • Update test for get_data method (#2196)
  • Fix some of the warnings triggered by numpy 1.19 (#2239)
  • Pylint and it's dependencies removed from test_requirements (#2297)
  • Expand documentation requirments.txt (#2289)
  • Move tests related to qcodes.data loop etc to a legacy folder (#2238)
  • Legacy: ensure that datasets have unique names to avoid potential race
    condition (#2276)
  • Don't exclude instrument drivers from codecov (#2326)

Dependencies:

Please note that these dependencies are only related to requirements.txt

  • Update lxml requirement from ~=4.5.1 to ~=6.0.0 (#2300)
  • Update traitlets requirement from ~=5.0.4 to ~=5.0.5 (#2298)
  • Update nbclient requirement from ~=0.5.0 to ~=0.5.1 (#2299)
  • Update zipp requirement from ~=3.3.0 to ~=3.3.1 (#2294)
  • Update hypothesis requirement from ~=5.37.1 to ~= 5.37.3 (#2287)
  • Update pillow requirement from ~=7.2.0 to ~=8.0.0 (#2286)
  • Update nbformat requirement from ~=5.0.7 to ~=5.0.8 (#2288)
  • Update iniconfig requirement from ~=1.0.1 to ~=1.1.1 (#2283)
  • Update opencensus-ext-azure requirement from ~=1.0.4 to ~=1.0.5 (#2279)
  • Update opencensus-context requirement from ~=0.1.1 to ~=0.1.2 (#2167)
  • Update opencensus requirement from ~=0.7.10 to ~=0.7.11 (#2280)
  • Update prompt-toolkit requirement from ~=3.0.7 to ~=3.0.8 (#2273)
  • Update colorama requirement from ~=0.4.3 to ~=0.4.4 (#2274)
  • Update codecov requirement from ~=2.1.9 to ~=2.1.10 (#2267)
  • Update sphinx-jsonschema requirement from ~=1.16.4 to ~=1.16.5 (#2266)
  • Update tqdm requirement from ~=4.50.1 to ~=4.50.2 (#2260)
  • Update google-api-core requirement from ~=1.22.3 to ~=1.22.4 (#2246)
  • Update pandas requirement from ~=1.1.2 to ~=1.1.3 (#2248)
  • Update google-auth requirement from ~=1.22.0 to ~=1.22.1 (#2245)
  • Update sphinx-jsonschema requirement from ~=1.16.3 to ~=1.16.4 (#2247)
  • Update pytest requirement from ~=6.1.0 to ~=6.1.1 (#2241)
  • Update gitpython requirement from ~=3.1.8 to ~=3.1.9 (#2229)
  • Update jupyterlab-pygments requirement from ~=0.1.1 to ~=0.1.2 (#2226)
  • Update nest-asyncio requirement from ~=1.4.0 to ~=1.4.1 (#2224)
  • Update tqdm requirement from ~=4.49.0 to ~=4.50.0 (#2219)
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