glue v0.12 released!

[Thomas Robitaille]

Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce the release of glue v0.12! For anyone not familiar with this package, glue is a Python library and application for multidimensional linked data exploration, which you can read up more about at http://glueviz.org

Changes in this release

An overview of the main changes in this release is available here:

  http://glueviz.org/en/stable/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

The most significant changes are as follows:

• An improved scatter viewer, which now includes support for showing arrows/vectors, and makes it easier to combine different kinds of visualization (e.g. lines, points, errorbars, and so on)
• We now provide a clearer explanation when a layer in a visualization cannot be enabled, for example because it is a subset based on components that are not present in the selected dataset.
• It is now possible to define arbitrary actions that are available when control-clicking on datasets, subsets, or subset groups in the data collection (in the top left)
• The performance of the 3D volume rendering viewer has been significantly improved
• We now have experimental support for creating fixed layouts/dashboards

You can read about these changes in more detail at the link above. In addition, this release includes many bug fixes and improvements in usability, as well as improvements to the code under-the-hood to make the code more accessible and easier to modify in future.

In parallel with this release of glue we have also released an experimental version of a SAMP plugin that may be of interest to astronomers - this allows glue to exchange datasets and subsets with other SAMP-enabled applications such as TOPCAT, DS9, Aladin, and more. See the above link for more details.

Installing/updating glue

As usual, we recommend installing glue using the Anaconda Python Distribution. To get the latest version of glue (v0.12), you will need to make sure you use the glueviz conda channel. If you are using the conda command, this means that you need to do:

  conda install -c glueviz glueviz

Note that this has changed from previous versions, for which glue was installed from the conda-forge channel.

If you use the Anaconda launcher or navigator to install glue graphically, take a look at the instructions on our website to find out how to get the latest version. We also provide instructions for other installation methods, including pip.

Please let us know if you run into any issues installing or using glue - you can either let us know by email, by opening GitHub issues, or you can join the glue slack channel and chat with us there.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Tom