ANN: xarray v0.8 released

[Stephan Hoyer]

I am pleased to announce the latest major release of xarray, version 0.8.

xarray (formerly xray) is an open source project and Python package that aims to bring the labeled data power of pandas to the physical sciences, by providing N-dimensional variants of the core pandas data structures.

Version 0.8.1, which includes a fix for a bug introduced by v0.8.0, is now available via pip and conda (via the conda-forge channel).

Highlights of this release:

- Dropped support for Python 2.6

- Improved support for indexing with MultiIndex

- Grouping by multi-dimensional variables

- where() with drop=True for dropping fully masked elements

- Top level merge() function

- Numerous bug fixes, especially for MultiIndex and plotting.

For more details, read the full release notes:

http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/whats-new.html

Contributors since v0.7.0:

Benoit Bovy

Christoph Deil

Dean Pospisil

Edward Richards

Fabien Maussion

Filipe Fernandes

Igor Babuschkin

Jeremy McGibbon

Joe Hamman

Maciek Swat

Maximilian Roos

Mike Graham

Phillip J. Wolfram

Rafael Guedes

Ryan Abernathey

Spencer Hill

Stephan Hoyer

If you're working on open source project that uses xarray and might be interesting to other xarray users, we'd love to hear about it! Our list currently 15 projects:

https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/946

Best,

Stephan