Chandra Announcement: Release of the Sherpa 4.13.1 package for Python.

[Tara Gokas]

Release of the Sherpa 4.13.1 package for Python.

 

The Sherpa 4.13.1 package for Python was released on May 18, 2021. 

This release of Sherpa includes various documentation updates, bug fixes, and infrastructure changes. The default branch in github (https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa) has been migrated from master to main. 

• documentation changes:

• updates to documentation for TableModel, Notice2D, cache support for evaluating models, and low level optimization code

• jupyter notebook updates

• Infrastructure changes:

• the master branch has been migrated from master to main

• updates to support numpy 1.20

• updates to support astropy 4.2.1

• updates to support matplotlib 3.4

• test infrastructure clean up and updates

• bug fixes:

• fix an issue with cache evaluation on 1D models using integrated bins

• fix for aarch64 build issue

• fix to sherpa citation command

• fix to honor clearwindow setting for plot_source

• fix errors from save_data when the output file exists

• fix build issues using gcc 7.3 with -Werror=format-security compilation flag

• fix for reg_proj and reg_unc erroring out when the min or max arguments are tuples rather than lists

For details and installation instructions go to https://sherpa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/