v1.4.0 'Sassy Sapphire'

[MuellerSeb]

Release Notes

This release drops Python 3.6 support, brings a new package structure, adds some usability improvements and provides some crucial bugfixes.

Installation

You can install GSTools with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge gstools

or with pip:

pip install gstools

Documentation

The documentation can be found at: https://gstools.readthedocs.io/

What's new?

Enhancements

• added Youtube tutorial to documentation #239
• better support for custom generators #250 #259
• add valid_value_types class variable to all field classes #250
• PyKrige: fix passed variogram in case of latlon models #254
• add bounds checks for optional arguments of CovModel when resetting by class attribute #255
• minor coverage improvements #255
• documentation: readability improvements #257

Changes

• drop Python 3.6 support (setuptools>60 needs py>3.7) #241
• move setup.cfg content to pyproject.toml (PEP 621) #241
• move to src/ based package structure (better testing, building and structure) #241
• use extension-helpers for openmp support in setup.py #241
• increase minimal version of meshio to v5.1 #241

Bugfixes

• Pyvista v0.32 deprecation warning: use point_data instead of point_arrays #237
• remove deprecated scipy (v1.9) method pinv2 #247
• change float comparison in tests #248
• Cython: solve -Wsometimes-uninitialized warning #255

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