astropy v7.2.0rc1 ready for testing

[Thomas Robitaille]

Hi everyone,

The first release candidate (RC) of the core astropy package for the v7.2.0 release is now available and ready for testing!

If you are interested in trying it out, you can install this release candidate by doing:

pip install astropy --pre

or

pip install astropy==7.2.0rc1

You can find the documentation corresponding to this release at:

https://docs.astropy.org/en/v7.2.x

including the full list of changes for this release:

https://docs.astropy.org/en/v7.2.x/changelog.html

as well as a 'What's new in v7.2?' page:

https://docs.astropy.org/en/v7.2.x/whatsnew/7.2.html

We would appreciate if you could try out this RC and report back any success or failure via the following wiki page:

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/wiki/v7.2.0-RC-testing

For example, you can try running the test suite as mentioned on the wiki page. In addition, if you maintain any packages that use astropy, please check that your package(s) works well with this RC and let us know if there are any issues or whether everything works fine. There is a section to list packages that work/don't work at the bottom of the wiki page. Please also open an issue in the astropy core package issue tracker for any issues you encounter (and open separate issues for each problem you run into).

If you use conda, be sure to either remove the existing conda astropy package or make a new environment before installing the RC. Note that there are no conda packages for the RC.

Thanks!
Tom (release manager for v7.2.0)

[Pey Lian Lim]

We might already have a blocker. Please see https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/18866 (I added this to the wiki). Thanks to Maximilian Linhoff for reporting it in a timely manner.

[Pey Lian Lim]

Eero fixed it in PR 18868 (thanks!) and it is awaiting Tom's approval for backport at https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/18870 . Tom, should we just do RC2 very soon after the patch is backported?