Changelog

Release v0.13.0 (2024/09/05)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.13.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Thirteenth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Add new documentation section “Technical Reference” and document the supported encodings and fonts

  • Tutorial for “Draping a dataset on top of a topographic surface” (#3316)

  • Tutorial for “Typesetting non-ASCII characters” (#3389)

New Features

  • Wrap the GMT API function GMT_Read_Data to read data into GMT data containers (#3324)

  • Wrap GMT’s standard data type GMT_IMAGE for images (#3338)

Enhancements

  • Breaking: pygmt.x2sys_cross: Refactor to use virtualfiles for output tables (#3182)

  • pygmt.show_versions: Warn about incompatible Ghostscript versions (#3244)

  • pygmt.show_versions: Show GDAL version (#3364, #3376)

  • pygmt.datasets.load_*: Add autocompletion support for the ‘resolution’ parameter (#3260)

  • clib.Session: Refactor the __getitem__ special method to avoid calling API function GMT_Get_Enum repeatedly (#3261)

  • clib: Refactor to avoid checking GMT version repeatedly and only check once when loading the GMT library (#3254)

  • Support non-ASCII characters in ISO-8859-x charsets (#3310)

  • Refactor to improve the user experience with non-ASCII characters (#3206)

Deprecations

  • SPEC 0: Bump minimum supported version to xarray 2022.09 (#3372)

  • SPEC 0: Bump minimum supported version to NumPy 1.24 (#3286)

  • clib: Deprecate API function ‘Session.virtualfile_from_data’, use ‘Session.virtualfile_in’ instead (will be removed in v0.15.0) (#3225)

  • Remove the unused pygmt.print_clib_info function (#3257)

  • Figure.timestamp: Remove deprecated parameter ‘justification’, use ‘justify’ instead (deprecated since v0.11.0) (#3222)

Bug Fixes

  • pygmt.set_display: Fix the bug that method=None doesn’t reset to the default display method (#3396)

  • load_tile_map: Register the rio accessor by importing rioxarray, so the returned raster has CRS (#3323)

  • load_tile_map: Fix the raster band indexing, should start from 1 (#3322)

  • load_tile_map: Replace deprecated rio.set_crs with rio.write_crs (#3321)

  • PYGMT_USE_EXTERNAL_DISPLAY should NOT disable image display in Jupyter notebook environment (#3418)

Documentation

  • External Resources: Add tutorial in Portuguese and using PyGMT in Google Colab (#3360)

  • Remove the non-official GMT wrappers from README (#3413)

  • Give recommendations about GMT-Ghostscript incompatibility and the testing example (#3249)

  • Document the supported 35 standard Postscript fonts in the Technical Reference section (#3378)

  • Add an offboarding access checklist for maintainers (#3411)

  • Update the onboarding access checklist in Maintainers Guides (#3404)

  • Add sphinx extension myst-nb to enable writing executable Markdown notebooks (#3379)

Maintenance

  • pygmt.grd2cpt & pygmt.makecpt: Simplify the logic for dealing with CPT output (#3334)

  • geopandas: Use io.StringIO to read geojson data and handle compatibility with geopandas v0.x and v1.x (#3247)

  • Simplify the “Minimum Supported Versions” page using MyST customized URL schemes (#3383)

  • build_arg_list: Raise an exception if an invalid output file name is given (#3336)

  • sphinx-gallery: Temporarily pin to < 0.17.0 (#3350)

  • Run pytest with --color=yes to force GitHub Actions logs to have color (#3330)

  • Patch the callback print function to suppress the UnicodeDecodeError (#3367)

  • Move Will from Active Maintainers to Distinguished Contributors (#3388)

  • Enable ruff’s unspecified-encoding (PLW1514) rule and fix violations (#3319)

  • Enable ruff’s literal-membership (PLR6201) rule and fix violations (#3317)

  • Determine the minimum required versions of dependencies from package metadata for docs (#3380)

  • CI: Use OIDC token for codecov uploading (#3163)

  • CI: Test NumPy 2.1 in the GMT Tests workflow (#3401)

  • CI: Set GMT_ENABLE_OPENMP to TRUE to enable OpenMP support on macOS (#3266)

  • CI: Fix the name of the ‘build’ package to ‘python-build’ on conda-forge (#3408)

  • CI: Bump to ubuntu-24.04 and mambaforge-23.11 in ReadTheDocs (#3296)

  • CI: Build GMT dev source code with OpenMP enabled on Linux and GThreads enabled on Linux/macOS (#3011)

  • CI: Add pytest plugins pytest-xdist and pytest-rerunfailures (#3193, #3267)

  • Add pre-commit config with pre-commit-hooks and enable pre-commit.ci to update hooks quarterly (#3283, #3414)

  • Add a test to make sure PyGMT works with paths that contain non-ASCII characters (#3280)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/compare/v0.12.0…v0.13.0

Contributors


Release v0.12.0 (2024/05/01)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.12.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Twelfth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • 🚀 Almost all module wrappers (with a few exceptions) now use in-memory GMT virtual files instead of intermediate temporary files to improve performance (#2730)

  • Almost all module wrappers (with a few exceptions) now have consistent behavior for table-like output (#1318)

  • Adopt SPEC 0 policy for minimum supported versions of GMT, Python, and other core dependencies

Enhancements

  • pygmt.project: Add ‘output_type’ parameter for output in pandas/numpy/file formats (#3110)

  • pygmt.grdtrack: Add ‘output_type’ parameter for output in pandas/numpy/file formats (#3106)

  • pygmt.blockm*: Add ‘output_type’ parameter for output in pandas/numpy/file formats (#3103)

  • Figure.grdcontour: Adjust processing arguments passed to “annotation” and “interval” parameters (#3116)

  • Figure.contour: Adjust processing arguments passed to “annotation” and “levels” parameters (#2706)

  • clib: Wrap the GMT API function GMT_Read_VirtualFile (#2993)

  • clib: Add virtualfile_to_dataset method for converting virtualfile to a dataset (#3083, #3140, #3157, #3117)

  • clib: Add the virtualfile_out method for creating output virtualfile (#3057)

  • Wrap GMT_Inquire_VirtualFile to get the family of virtualfiles (#3152)

  • Wrap GMT’s standard data type GMT_GRID for grids (#2398)

  • Wrap GMT’s standard data type GMT_DATASET for table inputs (#2729, #3131, #3174)

  • Wrap GMT’s data structure GMT_GRID_HEADER for grid/image/cube headers (#3127, #3134)

  • Session.call_module: Support passing a list of argument strings (#3139)

  • Refactor the _load_remote_dataset function to load tiled and non-tiled grids in a consistent way (#3120)

  • Refactor all wrappers to pass an argument list to Session.call_module (#3132)

  • Add function build_arg_list for building arguments list from keyword dictionaries (#3149)

  • Support left/right single quotation marks in text and arguments (#3192)

  • non_ascii_to_octal: Return the input string if it only contains printable ASCII characters (#3199)

Deprecations

  • SPEC 0: Set minimum supported versions to Python>=3.10, pandas>=1.5 and xarray>=2022.06 (#3043, #3039, #3151)

  • Figure.plot/plot3d/rose: Remove deprecated parameter “color”, use “fill” instead (deprecated since v0.8.0) (#3032)

  • Figure.velo: Remove deprecated parameters “color”/”uncertaintycolor”, use “fill”/”uncertaintyfill” instead (deprecated since v0.8.0) (#3034)

  • Figure.wiggle: Remove deprecated parameter “color”, use “fillpositive”/”fillnegative” instead (deprecated since v0.8.0) (#3035)

  • Figure.grdimage: Remove deprecated parameter “bit_color”, use “bitcolor” instead (deprecated since v0.8.0) (#3036)

  • Figure: Remove deprecated “xshift” (“X”) and “yshift” (“Y”) parameters, use “Figure.shift_origin” instead (deprecated since v0.8.0) (#3044)

  • Figure: Remove deprecated “timestamp” (“U”) parameter, use “Figure.timestamp” instead (deprecated since v0.9.0) (#3045)

  • clib: Rename the “virtualfile_from_data” method to “virtualfile_in” (#3068)

  • Deprecate the “build_arg_string” function, use build_arg_list instead (deprecated since v0.12.0, will be removed in v0.14.0) (#3184)

  • Deprecate the “sequence_plus” converter, only used for the “annotation” parameter of Figure.grdcontour (deprecated since v0.12.0, will be removed in v0.14.0) (#3207)

  • Figure.grdcontour: Deprecate parameter “interval” to “levels” (FutureWarning since v0.12.0, will be removed in v0.16.0) (#3209)

Documentation

  • External Resources: Add repository “gmt-pygmt-plotting” (#3213)

  • Gallery example “Custom symbols”: Mention own custom symbols (#3186)

  • Intro “04 Table inputs”: Document that a list of file names, pathlib.Path objects, URLs, or remote files is supported (3214)

  • Tutorial “Plotting text”: Rewrite to improve structure, explain more parameters, show list input (#2760)

Maintenance

  • pygmt.filter1d: Improve performance by storing output in virtual files (#3085)

  • pygmt.grdvolume: Refactor to store output in virtual files instead of temporary files (#3102)

  • pygmt.grdhisteq.compute_bins: Refactor to store output in virtual files instead of temporary files (#3109)

  • pygmt.grd2xyz: Improve performance by storing output in virtual files (#3097)

  • pygmt.select: Improve performance by storing output in virtual files (#3108)

  • pygmt.triangulate.delaunay_triples: Improve performance by storing output in virtual files (#3107)

  • pygmt.which: Refactor to get rid of temporary files (#3148)

  • Use consistent names (vintbl and vingrd) for input virtual files (#3082)

  • Add sequence_to_ctypes_array to convert a sequence to a ctypes array (#3136)

  • Add strings_to_ctypes_array to convert a sequence of strings into a ctypes array (#3137)

  • Figure.psconvert: Ignore the unrecognized “metadata” parameter added by pytest-mpl v0.17.0 (#3054)

  • Remote Datasets: Adjust attributes - remove “title”, use default of “name” and “long_name”, introduce “description” (#3048)

  • Adopt SPEC 0 policy and drop NEP 29 policy (#3037)

  • Document the support policy for minimum required GMT versions (#3070)

  • Bump to ghostscript 10.03.0 (#3112)

  • Bump to ruff 0.3.0 (#3081)

  • Enable ruff’s PTH (flake8-use-pathlib) rules and fix violations (#3129)

  • Change the dev dependency “matplotlib” to “matplotlib-base” to reduce environment size (#3158)

  • Migrate from os.path to pathlib (#3119)

  • CI: Use “gh release” to upload assets to release (#3187)

  • CI: Consistently use github.token instead of secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN (#3189)

  • CI: Configure workflows to run on “workflow_dispatch” event (#3133)

  • Switch to official GitHub action for managing app tokens (#3165)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/compare/v0.11.0…v0.12.0

Contributors

Release v0.11.0 (2024/02/01)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.11.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Eleventh minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Tutorial for table inputs (#2722) and gallery example for choropleth map (#2796)

  • Easy access to planetary relief datasets (Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Pluto) (#3028, #2906, #2674, #2847, #3027)

  • Faster PyGMT by ~0.1 seconds for each module call (#2930)

New Features

  • Support timedelta64 dtype as input (#2884)

  • Figure.text: Support passing in a list of angle/font/justify values (#2720)

  • Figure.savefig: Support saving figures in PPM (.ppm) format (#2771)

  • Figure.savefig: Support generating GeoTIFF file (with extension ‘.tiff’) (#2698)

  • Figure.savefig: Add the ‘worldfile’ parameter to write a companion world file for raster images (#2766)

Enhancements

  • geopandas: Correctly handle columns with integer values bigger than the largest 32-bit integer (#2841)

  • pyarrow: Support date32[day] and date64[ms] dtypes in pandas objects (#2845)

  • datasets.load_tile_map and Figure.tilemap: Add “zoom_adjust” parameter (#2934)

  • grdlandmask: Add common alias “cores” for “x” (#2944)

  • Figure.coast: Add alias “box” for “-F” (#2823)

  • Improve the error messages for unsupported numpy dtypes (#2856)

  • Set GMT_SESSION_NAME to a unique name on Windows for multiprocessing support (#2938)

  • Figure.savefig: Support .jpeg as JPEG image extension (#2691)

  • Figure.savefig: Support uppercase file extensions (e.g., PNG, PDF) (#2697)

Deprecations

  • Rename API function Session.open_virtual_file to Session.open_virtualfile (remove in v0.15.0) (#2996)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to NumPy 1.23+ (#2991)

  • Figure.timestamp: Deprecate parameter ‘justification’ to ‘justify’ (remove in v0.13.0) (#3002)

  • Figure.grdimage: Remove the unsupported ‘img_out’/’A’ parameter (#2907)

Bug Fixes

  • pygmt.which: Fix the bug when passing multiple files (#2726)

  • pygmt.filter1d: Fix the bug that the first line is read as headers (#2780)

  • clib: Fix the bug when passing multiple columns of strings with variable lengths to the GMT C API (#2719)

  • Let kwargs_to_strings work with default values and positional arguments (#2826)

  • Figure.meca: Fix typo pricipal_axis -> principal_axis (#2940)

Documentation

  • Add gallery example “Scale bar” (#2822)

  • Add gallery example for plotting connection lines (“connection” parameter of Figure.plot) (#2999)

  • Add gallery example showing how to adjust line segment ends (caps and joints) (#3015)

  • Gallery example “Legend”: Update regarding input data and multi-column legends (#2762)

  • Add the Japanese “PyGMT-HOWTO” tutorial to “External Resources” (#2743)

  • Figure.plot: Update docstring for “connection” parameter to GMT 6.5 (#2994)

  • Use consistent description for the “outgrid” parameter (#2874)

  • Improve the onboarding access checklist for contributors, maintainers and administrators (#2656)

  • Recommend Miniforge instead of Mambaforge (#2833)

Maintenance

  • pyarrow: Check compatibility of pyarrow-backed pandas objects with numeric dtypes (#2774)

  • Switch away from Stamen basemaps (#2717)

  • Add the “validate_output_table_type” function to check the “output_type” parameter (#2772)

  • Create “skip_if_no” helper function to skip tests when missing a package (#2883)

  • Fix “fixture_xr_image” to open “earth_day_01d_p” directly with rioxarray (#2963)

  • Improve the way to import optional modules (#2809)

  • Move variable __gmt_version__ to pygmt.clib to avoid cyclic-import errors (#2713)

  • Refactor the internal “_load_remote_dataset function” to simplify datasets’ definitions (#2917)

  • Benchmark grdsample, grdfilter and sph2grd with fixed cores (#2945)

  • Setup Continuous Benchmarking workflow with pytest-codspeed (#2908)

  • Update output shape and mean values from some x2sys_cross tests (#2986)

  • Bump the GMT version in CI to 6.5.0 (#2962)

  • Bump ghostscript to 10.02.1 (#2694)

  • Add support for Python 3.12 (#2711)

  • NEP29: Test PyGMT on NumPy 1.26 (#2692)

  • CI: Trigger the cache_data workflow in PRs if cache files are added/deleted/updated (#2939)

  • CI: Test GMT dev version on Windows by building from source (#2773)

  • CI: Set cache-downloads to false to speedup the “Setup Micromamba” step (#2946)

  • CI: Run certain GitHub Actions workflows on official repo only (#2951)

  • CI: Run benchmarks if PR is labeled with “run/benchmark” (#2958)

  • CI: Run “GMT Dev Tests” if PR is labeled with “run/test-gmt-dev” (#2960)

  • CI: Require at least one code block separator for example files in the Style Checks workflow (#2810)

  • Add Mypy for static type checking (#2808)

  • TYP: Improve the doc style for type hints (#2813)

  • TYP: Add type hints support for pygmt.datasets.load_sample_data (#2859)

  • TYP: Add type hints for the “registration” parameter in pygmt.datasets.load_* functions (#2867)

  • TYP: Add type hints for “data_source” in load_earth_relief and load_earth_magnetic_anomaly functions (#2849)

  • TYP: Add type hints for parameters of Figure.timestamp(#2890)

  • TYP: Add type hints for “terminator” in Figure.solar and simplify codes (#2881)

  • TYP: Add type hints for parameters of Figure.shift_origin, improve docstrings, and add inline examples (#2879)

  • doc: Convert the installation guides source code from ReST to Markdown (#2992)

  • doc: Convert overview source code from ReST to Markdown (#2953)

  • doc: Move compatibility table from README to separate file (#2862)

  • Enable the PDF format documentation in the ReadTheDocs site (#2876)

  • Add the full changelog link to the release drafter template (#2838)

  • Release Drafter: Automatically replace GitHub handles with names and links (#2777)

  • Exclude CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, AUTHORSHIP.md and pygmt/tests directory from distributions (#2957)

  • Add Zenodo’s GMT community to the maintainer’s onboarding list (#2761)

  • Use ruff to lint and format codes, and remove flakeheaven/isort/black/blackdoc (#2741)

  • Use codespell to check common misspellings (#2673)

  • Use “# %%” as code block separators in examples (#2662)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/compare/v0.10.0…v0.11.0

Contributors


Release v0.10.0 (2023/09/02)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.10.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Tenth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Support non-ASCII characters in Figure.text (#2638) and other method arguments (#2584)

  • Three new tutorials and seven new gallery examples

Enhancements

  • Figure.colorbar: Add alias for “Q” (#2608)

  • Figure.grdimage: Allow passing RGB xarray.DataArray images (#2590)

  • Figure.image: Add alias for “G” (#2615)

  • Figure.meca: Add aliases for “L”, “T”, and “Fr” (#2546)

  • clib.Session: Wrap the GMT_Get_Common API function (#2500)

  • pygmt.grdfill: Add alias for “N” (#2618)

  • pygmt.select: Add aliases for “C”, “F”, and “L” (#2466)

  • pygmt.show_versions: Show versions of IPython and rioxarray (#2492)

  • Better handling of optional virtual files (e.g., shading in Figure.grdimage) (#2493)

Deprecations

  • Remove the unused pygmt.test() function (#2652)

  • Figure.grdimage: Deprecate parameter “bit_color” to “bitcolor” (remove in v0.12.0) (#2635)

  • Figure.text: Remove the deprecated “incols” parameter (deprecated since v0.8.0) (#2473)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to Python 3.9+ (#2487)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to NumPy 1.22+ (#2586)

Bug Fixes

  • load_earth_mask: Keep data’s encoding to correctly infer data’s registration and gtype information (#2632)

  • Geopandas integration: Mapping int/int64 to int32 for OGR_GMT format (#2592)

  • Figure.meca: Let the “scale” parameter accept int/float/str values (#2566)

  • Figure.meca: Fix beachball offsetting for ndarray input (requires GMT>6.4.0) (#2576)

Documentation

  • Document the default CPT for GMT remote datasets (#2573)

  • Add tutorial to explain naming of PyGMT figure elements (#2383)

  • Add tutorial to show interactive data visualization via panel (#2498)

  • Add tutorial for cartesian histograms (#2445)

  • Add gallery example to show usage of dcw parameter in Figure.coast (#2428)

  • Add gallery example to show usage of tile maps (#2585)

  • Add gallery example showing how to build an envelope around a curve (#2587)

  • Add gallery example for plotting an RGB image from an xarray.DataArray (#2641)

  • Add gallery example “Quoted lines” (style="q") (#2563)

  • Add gallery example “Decorated lines” (style="~") (#2564)

  • Add gallery example “Cross-section along a transect” (#2515)

Maintenance

  • Use substitutions to show the minimum required Python and GMT versions dynamically in installation guides (#2488)

  • Use np.asarray to convert a 1-D array to datetime type in array_to_datetime (#2481)

  • Use consistent docstrings for test files (#2578)

  • Use concurrency to cancel previous runs (#2589)

  • Set date_format to ISO8601 to silence pandas 2.0 UserWarning on read_csv (#2569)

  • Remove dummy_context and use contextlib.nullcontext instead (#2491)

  • NEP29: Test PyGMT on NumPy 1.25 (#2581)

  • Fix tests for Aug 2023 updated remote datasets (#2636)

  • Figure.meca: Refactor the two tests for offsetting beachballs (#2572)

  • Figure.meca: Refactor tests for plotting multiple focal mechanisms (#2565)

  • Figure.meca: Refactor tests for plotting a single focal mechanism (#2533)

  • Figure.meca: Add a test for passing event names via pandas.DataFrame (#2582)

  • Exclude bots from contributors in release drafter (#2484)

  • Exclude DVC files from source/binary distributions (#2634)

  • CI: Use mamba-org/provision-with-micromamba to setup micromamba (#2435)

  • CI: Migrate provision-with-micromamba to setup-micromamba (#2536)

  • CI: Run dev tests on Scientific Python nightly wheels (#2612)

  • CI: Remove the deprecated cml-publish command from the dvc-diff workflow (#2559)

  • CI: Fix and simplify the dvc-diff workflow (#2549)

  • CI: Add the “Doctests” workflow to run doctests weekly (#2456)

  • CI: Add detailed descriptions in the workflow files and update maintainer guides (#2496)

  • Add private function _validate_data_input to validate input data (#2595)

Contributors


Release v0.9.0 (2023/03/31)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.9.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Ninth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Add Figure.tilemap to plot XYZ tile maps (#2394)

  • Add function to load raster tile maps using contextily (#2125)

  • Eleven new/updated gallery and inline examples

New Features

  • Add load_earth_mask function for GSHHG Global Earth Mask dataset (#2310)

  • Add Figure.timestamp to plot the GMT timestamp logo (#2208, #2425)

Enhancements

  • pygmt.surface: Add aliases for “C”, “L”, “M”, and “T” (#2321)

  • Figure.meca: Add aliases for “C”, “E”, “G”, and “W” (#2345)

  • Figure.colorbar: Add aliases for “L” and “Z” (#2357)

Deprecations

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to NumPy 1.21+ (#2389)

  • Recommend Figure.timestamp and remove timestamp (U) alias from all plotting methods (#2135)

  • Remove the deprecated load_fractures_compilation function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2303)

  • Remove the deprecated load_hotspots function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2309)

  • Remove the deprecated load_japan_quakes function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2301)

  • Remove the deprecated load_mars_shape function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2304)

  • Remove the deprecated load_ocean_ridge_points function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2308)

  • Remove the deprecated load_sample_bathymetry function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2305)

  • Remove the deprecated load_usgs_quakes function (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2306)

  • pygmt.grdtrack: Remove the warning about the incorrect parameter order of ‘points, grid’ (warned since v0.7.0) (#2312)

Bug Fixes

  • GMTDataArrayAccessor: Fallback to default grid registration and gtype if the grid source file doesn’t exist (#2009)

  • Figure.subplot: Fix setting “sharex”, “sharey”, and “frame” in combination with Figure.basemap (#2417)

  • Figure.subplot: Fix strange positioning issues after exiting subplot (#2427)

  • pygmt.config: Correctly reset to default values that contain whitespaces (#2331)

  • pygmt.set_display: Do nothing when the display method is set to ‘none’ (#2450)

Documentation

  • GMTDataArrayAccessor: Add inline examples for setting GMT specific properties (#2370)

  • Document limitations of GMT xarray accessors (#2375)

  • Revise the notes about registration and gtype of remote datasets (#2384)

  • Add project keywords to the pyproject.toml file (#2315)

  • Add inline example for colorbar (#2373)

  • Add inline example for grdview (#2381)

  • Add inline example for load_earth_mask (#2355)

  • Add inline example for load_earth_vertical_gravity_gradient (#2356)

  • Add inline examples and improve documentation for pygmt.set_display (#2458)

  • Add gallery example showing how to use patterns via the “fill” parameter (or similar parameters) (#2329)

  • Add gallery example for scatter plot with histograms on sides (#2410)

  • Add gallery example showing how to use advanced grdgradient via the “azimuth” & “normalize” parameters (#2354)

  • Add gallery example for the Figure.timestamp method (#2391)

  • Expand gallery example “Colorbar” for categorical data (#2395)

  • Expand gallery example “Focal mechanisms” to use “*fill” and “pen” (#2433)

  • Add working example to quickstart section of README (#2369)

  • Recommend Mambaforge and mamba in the installation and contributing guides (#2385)

Maintenance

  • Add the GMTSampleData class to simplify the load_sample_data and list_sample_data functions (#2342)

  • Add a new target ‘doctest’ to run doctests only and simplify Makefile (#2443)

  • Add a package-level variable __gmt_version__ for development use (#2366)

  • Allow printing show_versions() to in-memory buffer to enable testing (#2399)

  • Accept a dict containing configurable GMT parameters in build_arg_string (#2324)

  • Publish to TestPyPI and PyPI via OpenID Connect token (#2453)

  • Remove –sdist –wheel flags from the build command (#2420)

  • Replace ModuleNotFoundError with the more general ImportError (#2441)

Contributors


Release v0.8.0 (2022/12/30)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.8.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Eighth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Added support for tab auto-completion for all GMT default parameters (#2213)

  • Created functions to download GMT remote datasets (#1786)

  • Wrapped the ternary module (#1431)

  • Added an intro tutorial for creating contour maps (#2126)

New Features

  • Add load_earth_free_air_anomaly function for Earth free-air anomaly dataset (#2238)

  • Add load_earth_geoid function for Earth Geoid dataset (#2236)

  • Add load_earth_magnetic_anomaly function for Earth magnetic anomaly dataset (#2196, #2239, #2241)

  • Add load_earth_vertical_gravity_gradient function for Earth vertical gravity gradient dataset (#2240)

  • load_earth_relief: Add the support of data sources “gebco” , “gebcosi”, and “synbath” (#1818, #2162, #2192, #2281)

  • Wrap ternary (#1431)

Enhancements

  • Set gridline (if available) as the default grid registration for remote datasets (#2266)

  • Add ternary sample dataset (#2211)

  • Figure.ternary: Add parameters “alabel”, “blabel”, and “clabel” (#2139)

  • Figure.psconvert: Add a new alias “gs_path” (-G) (#2076)

  • Figure.psconvert: Check if the given prefix is valid (#2170)

  • Figure.savefig: Raise a FileNotFoundError if the parent directory doesn’t exist (#2160)

  • Figure.show: Allow keyword arguments passed to Figure.psconvert (#2078)

  • pygmt.config: Support tab auto-completion for all GMT defaults (#2213)

  • Rewrite the meca function to support offsetting and labeling beachballs (#1784)

Deprecations

  • Deprecate xshift (X) and yshift (Y) aliases from all plotting modules (remove in v0.12.0) (#2071)

  • Figure.plot: Deprecate parameter “color” to “fill” (remove in v0.12.0) (#2177)

  • Figure.plot3d: Deprecate parameter “color” to “fill” (remove in v0.12.0) (#2178)

  • Figure.rose: Deprecate parameter color to fill (remove in v0.12.0) (#2181)

  • Figure.velo: Deprecate parameters “color” to “fill” and “uncertaintycolor” to “uncertaintyfill” (remove in v0.12.0) (#2206)

  • Figure.wiggle: Deprecate parameter “color” (remove in v0.12.0) and add “fillpositive”/”fillnegative” (#2205)

  • Figure.psconvert: Remove the deprecated parameter “icc_gray” (deprecated since v0.6.0) (#2267)

  • Figure.text: Deprecate parameter “incols” to “use_word” (remove in v0.10.0) (#1964)

Bug Fixes

  • Figure.meca: Fix line and circle of offset parameter for dict/pandas input (#2226)

  • Figure.meca: Fix beachball offsetting with dict/pandas inputs (#2202)

  • Figure.meca: Fix the bug when passing a dict of scalar values to the spec parameter (#2174)

  • Figure.ternary: Fix the crash for pd.DataFrame input with GMT 6.3.0-6.4.0 (#2274)

Documentation

  • Add intro tutorial section for creating contour map (#2126)

  • Add gallery example for Figure.ternary method (#2138)

  • Add gallery example showing the usage of vertical and horizontal bars (#1521)

  • Add inline example for coast (#2142)

  • Add inline example for grdcontour (#2148)

  • Add inline example for grdimage (#2146)

  • Add inline example for grd2cpt (#2145)

  • Add inline example for solar (#2147)

  • Add SciPy 2022 talk to presentations (#2053)

  • Add instructions to install pygmt kernel for Jupyter users (#2153)

  • Improve instructions about setting GMT_LIBRARY_PATH env variable (#2136)

  • Add badges for conda package version, license, and twitter (#2081)

  • Add PyOpenSci peer reviewed badge to main README (#2112)

Maintenance

  • Add an internal function to load GMT remote datasets (#2200)

  • Add support for Python 3.11 (#2172)

  • NEP29: Test PyGMT on NumPy 1.24 (#2256)

  • NEP29: Test PyGMT on NumPy 1.23 and 1.21 (#2057)

  • Bump the GMT version in CI to 6.4.0 (#1990)

  • Update baseline images for GMT 6.4.0 (#1883)

  • Migrate Continuous Documentation from Vercel to Readthedocs (#1859)

  • Set nested_sections to False for Sphinx-Gallery 0.11.0 regarding a correct navgation bar (#2046)

  • Convert bug report, feature, and module request issue templates into yaml configured forms (#2091, #2214, #2216)

  • doc: Set different html_baseurl for stable and dev versions (#2158)

  • Update the instructions for checking README syntax (#2265)

  • Use longname placeholders in the docstrings for common options (#1932)

  • Add optional dependencies to pyproject.toml (#2069)

  • Migrate project metadata from setup.py to pyproject.toml following PEP621 (#1848)

  • Move blackdoc options to pyproject.toml (#2093)

  • Move docformatter options from Makefile to pyproject.toml (#2072)

  • Replace flake8 with flakeheaven (#1847)

  • Add a workflow and Makefile target to test old GMT versions every Tuesday (#2079)

  • Check if a module outputs to a temporary file using “Path().stat().st_size > 0” (#2224)

  • pygmt.show_versions: Show GMT binary version and hide the Python interpreter path (#1838)

  • Refactor grdview and grdimage to use virtualfile_from_data (#1988)

  • Use the org-wide code of conduct (#2020)

Contributors


Release v0.7.0 (2022/07/01)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.7.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Seventh minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Wrapped 3 GMT modules

  • Added two new PyGMT tutorials and EGU 2022 short course to external resources page (#1971 and #1935)

New Features

Enhancements

  • Support passing data in NumPy int8, int16, uint8 and uint16 dtypes to GMT (#1963)

  • inset: Add region and projection aliases and fix two examples (#1931)

  • basemap: Plotting frames if required parameters are not given (#1909)

  • basemap: Added box alias for F (#1894)

  • Add a sample dataset maunaLoa_co2 (#1961)

  • Add a sample dataset notre_dame_topography (#1920)

  • Add a sample dataset earth_relief_holes (#1921)

Deprecations

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to NumPy 1.20+ (#1985)

  • Figure.wiggle: Remove parameter ‘columns’, use ‘incols’ instead. (#1977)

  • Figure.histogram and pygmt.info: Remove parameter ‘table’, use ‘data’ instead (#1975)

  • pygmt.surface: Remove parameter ‘outfile’, use ‘outgrid’ instead (#1976)

  • blockm/contour/plot/plot3d/rose/surface/wiggle: Change the parameter order of data array and input arrays (#1978)

Bug Fixes

  • grdtrack: Fix the bug when profile is given (#1867)

  • Fix the grid accessor (grid registration and type) for 3D grids (#1913)

Documentation

  • Add instructions to install PyGMT using mamba (#1967)

  • Improve two gallery examples regarding categorical colormaps (#1934)

  • Add inline example to dimfilter (#1956)

  • Add inline example to surface (#1953)

  • Add inline example to grdfill (#1954)

  • Add inline code examples to contributing guidelines (#1924)

  • Add thumbnail images to the external resources page (#1941)

  • Redesign the team gallery using sphinx-design’s card directive (#1937)

Maintenance

  • Fix broken ‘Improve this page’ links using sphinx variable page_source_suffix (#1969)

  • Split up functions for loading datasets (#1955)

  • Set setuptools_scm fallback_version to follow PEP440 (#1945)

  • Refactor text to use virtualfile_from_data (#1121)

  • Run full tests only on Wednesday scheduled jobs (#1833)

  • Run GMT Dev Tests on Monday, Wednesday and Friday only (#1922)

  • Update GMT Dev Tests workflow to test on macOS-12 and ubuntu-22.04 (#1918)

Contributors


Release v0.6.1 (2022/04/11)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.6.1

Highlights

  • Patch release which allows passing None explicitly to pygmt functions (#1872, #1862, #1857, #1815)

  • A new tutorial for grdhisteq (#1821)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix pathlib support for plot and plot3d (#1831)

Documentation

  • Add inline example for grdvolume (#1726)

  • Format author affiliations in CITATION.cff and AUTHORS.md (#1844)

Maintenance

  • NEP29: Run PyGMT tests and docs build on Python 3.10 (#1868)

  • Let pygmt.show_versions() report geopandas version (#1846)

  • Refactor build_arg_string to also deal with infile and outfile (#1837)

  • Migrate build system settings to pyproject.toml following pep517 and pep518 (#1845)

  • Use the build package to build sdist and wheel distributions (#1823)

  • Let slash command /test-gmt-dev report job URL (#1866)

Contributors


Release v0.6.0 (2022/03/14)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.6.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Sixth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • New inline examples for 14 functions!

  • Single pygmt.datasets.load_sample_data function for loading any sample dataset (#1685)

  • Minimum required GMT version is now 6.3.0 (#1649)

New Features

  • Wrap triangulate (#731)

  • Wrap grdhisteq (#1433)

Enhancements

  • Add alias for blockmean’s -S parameter (#1601)

  • Allow users to set the waiting time when displaying a preview image using an external viewer (#1618)

  • Raise an exception if the given parameter is not recognized and is longer than 2 characters (#1792)

Deprecations

  • Figure.plot/plot3d: Remove parameter “sizes”, use “size” instead (#1809)

  • Figure.contour/plot/plot3d/rose: Remove parameter “columns”, use “incols” instead (#1806)

  • Figure.psconvert: Add new aliases and deprecate parameter “icc_gray” (remove in v0.8.0) (#1673)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to Python 3.8+ (#1676)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to NumPy 1.19+ (#1675)

Bug Fixes

  • Allow passing arguments containing spaces into pygmt functions (#1487)

  • Fix the spacing parameter processing for many modules (#1805)

  • Fix missing gcmt convention keys in pygmt.meca (#1611)

  • Fix the spacing parameter and check required parameters in xyz2grd (#1804)

  • Fix UnicodeDecodeError with shapefiles for plot and plot3d (#1695)

Documentation

  • Add a shorter video introduction to the home page (#1769)

  • Add Liam’s 2021 ROSES video to learning resources (#1760)

  • Add quick conda install instructions in main README (#1717)

  • Add instructions for reporting upstream bugs to contributing.md (#1610)

  • List key development dependencies to install for new contributors (#1783)

  • Update Code of Conduct to v2.1 (#1754)

  • Update the contributing guide about pushing changes to dvc and git (#1776)

  • Update dataset links to the new remote-datasets site (#1785)

  • Add more sections to the API docs (#1643)

  • Add an “add a title” to starter tutorial (#1688)

  • Reorganize tutorial section in the documentation sidebar (#1603)

  • Update the starter tutorial introduction (#1607)

  • Add gallery example to showcase blockmean (#1598)

  • Add gallery example to showcase project (#1696)

  • Update text symbol gallery example (#1648)

  • Add inline example for blockmean (#1729)

  • Add inline example for blockmedian (#1730)

  • Add inline example for blockmode (#1731)

  • Add inline example for grd2xyz (#1713)

  • Add inline example for grdclip (#1711)

  • Add inline example for grdcut (#1689)

  • Add inline example for grdgradient (#1720)

  • Add inline example for grdlandmask (#1721)

  • Add inline example for grdproject (#1722)

  • Add inline example for grdsample (#1724)

  • Add inline example for grdtrack (#1725)

  • Add inline example for select (#1756)

  • Add inline example for sph2grd (#1718)

  • Add inline example for xyz2grd (#1719)

Maintenance

  • Add a test to make sure the incols parameter works for pandas.DataFrame (#1771)

  • Add load_static_earth_relief function for internal testing (#1727)

  • Migrate pylint settings from .pylintrc to pyproject.toml (#1755)

  • NEP29: Test PyGMT on NumPy 1.22 (#1701)

  • Replace pkg_resources with importlib.metadata (#1674)

  • Update deprecated -g common option syntax (#1670)

  • Update deprecated -JG syntax (#1659)

  • Use pytest-doctestplus to skip some inline doctests (#1790)

  • Use Python 3.10 in Continuous Integration tests (#1577)

Contributors


Release v0.5.0 (2021/10/29)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.5.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Fifth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Wrapped 12 GMT modules

  • Standardized and reorder table inputs to be ‘data, x, y, z’ across functions (#1479)

  • Added a gallery example showing usage of line objects from a geopandas.GeoDataFrame (#1474)

New Features

  • Wrap blockmode (#1456)

  • Wrap gmtselect (#1429)

  • Wrap grd2xyz (#1284)

  • Wrap grdproject (#1377)

  • Wrap grdsample (#1380)

  • Wrap grdvolume (#1299)

  • Wrap nearneighbor (#1379)

  • Wrap project (#1122)

  • Wrap sph2grd (#1434)

  • Wrap sphdistance (#1383)

  • Wrap sphinterpolate (#1418)

  • Wrap xyz2grd (#636)

  • Add function to import seafloor crustal age dataset (#1471)

  • Add pygmt.load_dataarray function (#1439)

Enhancements

  • Expand table-like input options for Figure.contour (#1531)

  • Expand table-like input options for pygmt.surface (#1455)

  • Raise GMTInvalidInput exception when required z is missing (#1478)

  • Add support for passing pathlib.Path objects as filenames (#1382)

  • Allow passing a list to the ‘incols’ parameter for blockm, grdtrack and text (#1475)

  • Plot square or cube by default for OGR/GMT files with Point/MultiPoint types (#1438)

  • Plot square or cube by default for geopandas Point/MultiPoint types (#1405)

  • Add area_thresh to COMMON_OPTIONS (#1426)

  • Add function to import Mars dataset (#1420)

  • Add function to import hotspot dataset (#1386)

Deprecations

  • pygmt.blockm*: Reorder input parameters to ‘data, x, y, z’ (#1565)

  • pygmt.surface: Reorder input parameters to ‘data, x, y, z’ (#1562)

  • Figure.contour: Reorder input parameters to ‘data, x, y, z’ (#1561)

  • Figure.plot3d: Reorder input parameters to ‘data, x, y, z’ (#1560)

  • Figure.plot: Reorder input parameters to “data, x, y” (#1547)

  • Figure.rose: Reorder input parameters to ‘data, length, azimuth’ (#1546)

  • Figure.wiggle: Reorder input parameter to ‘data, x, y, z’ (#1548)

  • Figure.histogram: Deprecate parameter “table” to “data” (remove in v0.7.0) (#1540)

  • pygmt.info: Deprecate parameter “table” to “data” (remove in v0.7.0) (#1538)

  • Figure.wiggle: Deprecate parameter “columns” to “incols” (remove in v0.7.0) (#1504)

  • pygmt.surface: Deprecate parameter “outfile” to “outgrid” (remove in v0.7.0) (#1458)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required version to NumPy 1.18+ (#1430)

Bug Fixes

  • Allow GMTDataArrayAccessor to work on sliced datacubes (#1581)

  • Allow non-string color when input data is a matrix or a file for plot and plot3d (#1526)

  • Raise RuntimeWarning instead of an exception for irregular grid spacing (#1530)

  • Raise an error for zero increment grid (#1484)

Documentation

  • Add CITATION.cff file for PyGMT (#1592)

  • Update region and projection standard docstrings (#1510)

  • Document gmtwhich -Ga option to download to appropriate cache folder (#1554)

  • Add gallery example showing the usage of text symbols (#1522)

  • Add gallery example for grdgradient (#1428)

  • Add gallery example for grdlandmask (#1469)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.grdgradient (#1515)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.sphdistance (#1516)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.blockmean and pygmt.blockmedian (#1500)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.wiggle (#1498)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.velo (#1497)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.surface (#1501)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.plot3d (#1503)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.grdlandmask (#1423)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.grdtrack (#1499)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.plot (#1502)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.text (#1448)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.histogram (#1451)

  • Add missing alias to pygmt.Figure.legend (#1453)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.rose (#1452)

  • Add missing alias to pygmt.Figure.grdview (#1450)

  • Add missing aliases to pygmt.Figure.image.py (#1449)

  • Add missing common options to contour (#1446)

  • Add missing ‘incols’ alias to info (#1476)

Maintenance

  • Add support for Python 3.10 (#1591)

  • Make IPython partially optional on CI to increase test coverage of figure.py (#1496)

  • Use mamba to install Continuous Integration dependencies (#841)

  • Remove deprecated codecov dependency from CI (#1494)

  • Add the use of Flake8 to check examples and fix warnings (#1477)

Contributors


Release v0.4.1 (2021/08/07)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.4.1

Highlights

  • 🎉 Patch release with multiple gallery examples 🎉

  • Change default GitHub branch name from “master” to “main” to increase inclusivity (#1360)

  • Add a “PyGMT Team” page (#1308)

Enhancements

  • Add common alias “verbose” (V) to grdlandmask and savefig (#1343)

Bug Fixes

  • Change invalid input conditions in grdtrack (#1376)

  • Fix bug so that x2sys_cross accepts dataframes with NaN values (#1369)

Documentation

  • Combine documentation and compatibility sections in README (#1415)

  • Add a gallery example for grdclip (#1396)

  • Add a gallery example for different colormaps in subplots (#1394)

  • Add a gallery example for the contour method (#1387)

  • Add a gallery example showing individual custom symbols (#1348)

  • Add common option aliases to COMMON_OPTIONS in decorators.py (#1407)

  • Add return statement to grdclip and grdgradient docstring (#1390)

  • Restructure contributing.md to separate docs/general info from contributing code section (#1339)

Maintenance

  • Add tomli as a dependency in GMT Dev Tests (#1401)

  • NEP29: Test PyGMT on NumPy 1.21 (#1355)

Contributors


Release v0.4.0 (2021/06/20)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.4.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Fourth minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Add tutorials for datetime data (#1193) and plotting vectors (#1070)

  • Support tab auto-completion in Jupyter (#1282)

  • Minimum required GMT version is now 6.2.0 or newer (#1321)

New Features

  • Wrap blockmean (#1092)

  • Wrap grdclip (#1261)

  • Wrap grdfill (#1276)

  • Wrap grdgradient (#1269)

  • Wrap grdlandmask (#1273)

  • Wrap histogram (#1072)

  • Wrap rose (#794)

  • Wrap solar (#804)

  • Wrap velo (#525)

  • Wrap wiggle (#1145)

  • Add new function to load fractures sample data (#1101)

  • Allow load_earth_relief() to load the original land-only 01s or 03s SRTM tiles (#976)

  • Handle geopandas and shapely geometries via geo_interface link (#1000)

  • Support passing string type numbers, geographic coordinates and datetimes (#975)

Enhancements

  • Allow passing an array as intensity for plot3d (#1109)

  • Allow passing an array as intensity for plot (#1065)

  • Allow passing xr.DataArray as shading to grdimage (#750)

  • Allow x/y/z input for blockmedian and blockmean (#1319)

  • Allow pygmt.which to accept a list of filenames as input (#1312)

  • Refactor blockm* to use virtualfile_from_data and improve i/o (#1280)

  • Refactor grdtrack to use virtualfile_from_data and improve i/o to pandas.DataFrame (#1189)

  • Add parameters to histogram (#1249)

  • Add alias ‘aspatial’ to methods blockmedian, info, plot, plot3d, surface (#1090)

  • Add alias ‘registration’ to methods blockmean, info, grdfilter, surface (#1089)

  • Add incols to COMMON_OPTIONS, blockmean, and blockmedian (#1300)

  • Improve Figure.show for displaying previews in Jupyter notebooks and external viewers (#529)

  • Let Figure.savefig recommend .eps or .pdf when .ps extension is used (#1307)

Deprecations

  • Figure.contour: Deprecate parameter “columns” to “incols” (remove in v0.6.0) (#1303)

  • Figure.plot: Deprecate parameter “sizes” to “size” (remove in v0.6.0) (#1254)

  • Figure.plot: Deprecate parameter “columns” to “incols” (remove in v0.6.0) (#1298)

  • Figure.plot3d: Deprecate parameter “sizes” to “size” (remove in v0.6.0) (#1258)

  • Figure.plot3d: Deprecate parameter “columns” to “incols” (remove in v0.6.0) (#1040)

  • Figure.rose: Deprecate parameter “columns” to “incols” (remove in v0.6.0) (#1306)

  • NEP29: Set minimum required versions to NumPy 1.17+ and Python 3.7+ (#1074)

  • Raise a warning for the use of short-form parameters when long-forms are available (#1316)

Bug Fixes

  • Allow pandas.Series inputs to fig.histogram and pygmt.info (#1329)

  • Explicitly use netcdf4 engine in xarray.open_dataarray to read grd files (#1264)

  • Let Figure.savefig support filenames with spaces (#1116)

  • Let Figure.show(method=’external’) work well in Python scripts (#1062)

Documentation

  • Add histogram gallery example (#1272)

  • Add a gallery example showing individual basic geometric symbols (#1211)

  • Specify rectangle’s width and height via style parameter in multi-parameter symbols example (#1325)

  • Update the inset gallery example (#1287)

  • Add categorical colorbars for plot, plot3d and line colors gallery examples (#1267)

  • Apply NIST SI unit convention to some gallery examples (#1194)

  • Use colorblind-friendly colors in the scatter plots gallery example (#1013)

  • Added documentation for three oblique mercator projections (#1251)

  • Add a list of external PyGMT resources (#1210)

  • Complete documentation for grdtrack (#1190)

  • Add projection and region to grdview docstring (#1295)

  • Add common alias spacing (-I) for specifying grid increments (#1288)

  • Standardize docstrings for table-like inputs (#1186)

  • Clarify that the “transparency” parameter in plot/plot3d/text can be 1d array (#1265)

  • Clarify that the “color” parameter in plot/plot3d can be 1d array (#1260)

  • Clarify interplay of spacing and per_column in info (#1127)

  • Remove the “full test” section from installation guide (#1206)

  • Clarify position of deprecate_parameter decorator to be above use_alias (#1302)

  • Add guidelines for managing issues to maintenance.md (#1301)

  • Add alias name convention to CONTRIBUTING.md (#1256)

  • Move contributing guide details to website and rename two sections (#1335)

  • Update the check_figures_equal testing section in CONTRIBUTING.md (#1108)

  • Revise Pull Request review process in CONTRIBUTING.md (#1119)

Maintenance

  • Add a workflow to upload baseline images as a release asset (#1317)

  • Add regression test for grdimage plotting an xarray.DataArray grid subset (#1314)

  • Add download_test_data to download data files used in tests (#1310)

  • Remove xfails and workarounds for datetime inputs into pygmt.info (#1236)

  • Improve the DVC image diff workflow to support side-by-side comparison of modified images (#1219)

  • Document the deprecation policy and add the deprecate_parameter decorator to deprecate parameters (#1160)

  • Convert booleans arguments in build_arg_string, not in kwargs_to_strings (#1125)

  • Create GitHub Action workflow for reporting DVC image diffs (#1104)

  • Update “GMT Dev Tests” workflow to test macOS-11.0 and pre-release Python packages (#1105)

  • Initialize data version control for managing test images (#1036)

  • Separate workflows for running tests and building documentation (#1033)

Contributors


Release v0.3.1 (2021/03/14)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.3.1

Highlights

  • 🎉 Multiple bug fixes and an improved gallery 🎉

  • Reorganized gallery examples into new categories (#995)

  • Added gallery examples for plotting vectors (#950, #890)

  • Last version to support GMT 6.1.1, future PyGMT versions will require GMT 6.2.0 or newer

Enhancements

  • Support passing a sequence to the spacing parameter of pygmt.info() (#1031)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix issues in loading GMT’s shared library (#977)

  • Let pygmt.info load datetime columns into a str dtype array (#960)

  • Check invalid combinations of resolution and registration in load_earth_relief() (#965)

  • Open figures using the associated application on Windows (#952)

  • Fix bug that stops Figure.coast from plotting with only dcw parameter (#910)

Documentation

  • Add a gallery example showing different line front styles (#1022)

  • Add a gallery example for a double y-axes graph (#1019)

  • Add a gallery example of inset map showing a rectangle region (#1020)

  • Add a gallery example to show coloring of points by categories (#1006)

  • Add gallery example showing different polar projection use cases (#955)

  • Add underscore guideline to CONTRIBUTING.md (#1034)

  • Add instructions to upgrade installed PyGMT version (#1029)

  • Improve the docstring of the pygmt package (#1016)

  • Add common alias coltypes (-f) for specifying i/o data types (#994)

  • Expand documentation linking in CONTRIBUTING.md (#802)

  • Write changelog in markdown using MyST (#941)

  • Update web font to Atkinson Hyperlegible (#938)

  • Improve the gallery example for datetime inputs (#919)

Maintenance

  • Refactor plot and plot3d to use virtualfile_from_data (#990)

  • Explicitly exclude unnecessary files in source distributions (#999)

  • Refactor grd modules to use virtualfile_from_data (#992)

  • Refactor info and grdinfo to use virtualfile_from_data (#961)

  • Onboarding maintainer checklist (#773)

  • Add comprehensive tests for pygmt.clib.loading.clib_full_names (#872)

  • Add a workflow checking links in plaintext and HTML files (#634)

  • Remove nbsphinx extension (#931)

  • Improve the error message for loading an old version of the GMT library (#925)

  • Move requirements-dev.txt dependencies to environment.yml (#812)

  • Ensure proper non-dev version string when publishing to PyPI (#900)

  • Run tests in a single CI job (Ubuntu + Python 3.9) for draft PRs (#906)

Contributors


Release v0.3.0 (2021/02/15)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.3.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Third minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Wrap inset (#788) for making overview maps and subplot (#822) for multi-panel figures

  • Apply standardized formatting conventions (#775) across most documentation pages

  • Drop Python 3.6 support (#699) so PyGMT now requires Python 3.7 or newer

New Features

  • Wrap grd2cpt (#803)

  • Let Figure.text support record-by-record transparency (#716)

  • Provide basic support for FreeBSD (#700, #878)

Enhancements

  • Let load_earth_relief support the ‘region’ parameter for all resolutions (#873)

  • Improve how PyGMT finds the GMT library (#702)

  • Add common alias panel (-c) to all plotting functions (#853)

  • Add aliases dcw (#765) and lakes (#781) to Figure.coast

  • Add alias shading to Figure.colorbar (#752)

  • Add alias annotation (A) to Figure.contour (#883)

  • Wrap Figure.grdinfo aliases (#799)

  • Add aliases frame and cmap to Figure.colorbar (#709)

  • Add alias frame to Figure.grdview (#707)

  • Improve the error message when PyGMT fails to load the GMT library (#814)

  • Add GMTInvalidInput error to Figure.coast (#787)

Documentation

  • Add authorship policy (#726)

  • Update PyGMT development installation instructions (#865)

  • Add a tutorial for adding a map title (#720)

  • Add a tutorial for plotting Earth relief (#712)

  • Add a tutorial for 3D perspective image (#743)

  • Add a tutorial for contour maps (#705)

  • Add a tutorial for plotting lines (#741)

  • Add a tutorial for the region argument (#800)

  • Add a gallery example for datetime inputs (#779)

  • Add a gallery example for Figure.logo (#823)

  • Add a gallery example for plotting multi-parameter symbols (#772)

  • Add a gallery example for Figure.image (#777)

  • Add a gallery example for setting line colors with a custom CPT (#774)

  • Add more gallery examples for projections (#761, #721, #757, #723, #762, #742, #728, #727)

  • Update the docstrings in the plotting modules (#881)

  • Update the docstrings in the non-plotting modules (#882)

  • Update Figure.coast docstrings (#798)

  • Update the docstrings of common aliases (#862)

  • Add sphinx-copybutton extension to easily copy codes (#838)

  • Choose the best figures in tutorials for thumbnails (#826)

  • Update axis label explanation in frames tutorial (#820)

  • Add guidelines for types of tests to write (#796)

  • Recommend using SI units in documentation (#795)

  • Add a table for compatibility of PyGMT with Python and GMT (#763)

  • Add description for the “columns” arguments (#766)

  • Add a table of the available projections (#753)

  • Add projection description for Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (#760)

  • Change text when GMTInvalidInput error is raised for basemap (#729)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a bug of Figure.text when “text” is a non-string array (#724)

  • Fix the error message when IPython is not available (#701)

Maintenance

  • Add dependabot to keep GitHub Actions up to date (#861)

  • Skip workflows in PRs if only non-source-code files are changed (#839)

  • Add slash command ‘/test-gmt-dev’ to test GMT dev version (#831)

  • Check files for UNIX-style line breaks and 644 permission (#736)

  • Rename vercel configuration file from now.json to vercel.json (#738)

  • Add a CI job testing GMT master branch on Windows (#756)

  • Migrate documentation deployment from Travis CI to GitHub Actions (#713)

  • Move Figure.meca into a standalone module (#686)

  • Move plotting functions to separate modules (#808)

  • Move non-plotting modules to separate modules (#832)

  • Add isort to sort imports alphabetically (#745)

  • Convert relative imports to absolute imports (#754)

  • Switch from versioneer to setuptools-scm (#695)

  • Add docformatter to format plain text in docstrings (#642)

  • Migrate pytest configurations to pyproject.toml (#725)

  • Migrate coverage configurations to pyproject.toml (#667)

  • Show test execution times in pytest (#835)

  • Add tests for grdfilter (#809)

  • Add tests for GMTInvalidInput of Figure.savefig and Figure.show (#810)

  • Add args_in_kwargs function (#791)

  • Add a Makefile target ‘distclean’ for deleting project metadata files (#744)

  • Add a test for Figure.basemap map_scale (#739)

  • Use args_in_kwargs for Figure.basemap error raising (#797)

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Release v0.2.1 (2020/11/14)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.2.1

Highlights

New Features

  • Wrap plot3d (#471)

  • Wrap grdfilter (#616)

Enhancements

  • Allow np.object dtypes into virtualfile_from_vectors (#684)

  • Let plot() accept record-by-record transparency (#626)

  • Refactor info to allow datetime inputs from xarray.Dataset and pandas.DataFrame tables (#619)

Documentation Improvements

  • doc: Fix the description of grdcontour -G option (#681)

  • Refresh Code of Conduct from v1.4 to v2.0 (#673)

  • Add PyGMT Zenodo BibTeX entry to main README (#678)

  • Complete most of documentation for makecpt (#676)

  • Complete documentation for plot (#666)

  • Add “no_clip” to plot, text, contour and meca (#661)

  • Add common alias “verbose” (V) to all functions (#662)

  • Improve documentation of Figure.logo() (#651)

  • Add mini-galleries for methods and functions (#648)

  • Complete documentation of grdimage (#620)

  • Add common alias perspective (p) for plotting 3D illustrations (#627)

  • Add common aliases xshift (X) and yshift (Y) (#624)

  • Add common alias cores (x) for grdimage and other multi-threaded modules (#625)

  • Enable switching different versions of documentation (#621)

  • Add common alias transparency (-t) to all plotting functions (#614)

Bug Fixes

  • Disallow passing arguments like -XNone to GMT (#639)

Maintenance

  • Migrate PyPI release to GitHub Actions (#679)

  • Upload artifacts showing diff images on test failure (#675)

  • Add slash command “/format” to automatically format PRs (#646)

  • Add instructions to run specific tests (#660)

  • Add more tests for xarray grid shading (#650)

  • Refactor xfail tests to avoid storing baseline images (#603)

  • Add blackdoc to format Python codes in docstrings (#641)

  • Check and lint sphinx configuration file doc/conf.py (#630)

  • Improve Makefile to clean __pycache__ directory recursively (#611)

  • Update release process and checklist template (#602)

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Release v0.2.0 (2020/09/12)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.2.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 Second minor release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Minimum required GMT version is now 6.1.1 or newer (#577)

  • Plotting xarray grids using grdimage and grdview should not crash anymore and works for most cases (#560)

  • Easier time-series plots with support for datetime-like inputs to plot (#464) and the region argument (#562)

New Features

  • Wrap GMT_Put_Strings to pass str columns into GMT C API directly (#520)

  • Wrap meca (#516)

  • Wrap x2sys_init and x2sys_cross (#546)

  • Let grdcut() accept xarray.DataArray as input (#541)

  • Initialize a GMTDataArrayAccessor (#500)

Enhancements

  • Allow passing in pandas dataframes to x2sys_cross (#591)

  • Sensible array outputs for pygmt info (#575)

  • Allow pandas.DataFrame table and 1D/2D numpy array inputs into pygmt.info (#574)

  • Add auto-legend feature to grdcontour and contour (#568)

  • Add common alias verbose (V) (#550)

  • Let load_earth_relief() support all resolutions and optional subregion (#542)

  • Allow load_earth_relief() to load pixel or gridline registered data (#509)

Documentation

  • Link to try-gmt binder repository (#598)

  • Improve docstring of data_kind() to include xarray grid (#588)

  • Improve the documentation of Figure.shift_origin() (#536)

  • Add shading to grdview gallery example (#506)

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure surface and grdcut loads GMTDataArray accessor info into xarray (#539)

  • Raise an error if short- and long-form arguments coexist (#537)

  • Fix the grdtrack example to avoid crashes on macOS (#531)

  • Properly allow for either pixel or gridline registered grids (#476)

Maintenance

  • Add a test for xarray shading (#581)

  • Remove expected failures on grdview tests (#589)

  • Redesign check_figures_equal testing function to be more explicit (#590)

  • Cut Windows CI build time in half to 15 min (#586)

  • Add a test for Session.write_data() writing netCDF grids (#583)

  • Add a test to make sure shift_origin does not crash (#580)

  • Add testing.check_figures_equal to avoid storing baseline images (#555)

  • Eliminate unnecessary jobs from Travis CI (#567) and Azure Pipelines (#513)

  • Improve the workflow to test both GMT master (#485) and 6.1 branches (#554)

  • Automatically cancel in-progress CI runs of old commits (#544)

  • Remove the Stickler CI configuration file (#538), run style checks using GitHub Actions (#519)

  • Cache GMT remote data as artifacts on GitHub (#530)

  • Let pytest generate both HTML and XML coverage reports (#512)

  • Run Continuous Integration tests on GitHub Actions (#475)

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Release v0.1.2 (2020/07/07)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.1.2

Highlights

  • Patch release in preparation for the SciPy 2020 sprint session

  • Last version to support GMT 6.0, future PyGMT versions will require GMT 6.1 or newer

New Features

  • Wrap grdcut (#492)

  • Add show_versions() function for printing debugging information used in issue reports (#466)

Enhancements

  • Change load_earth_relief()’s default resolution to 01d (#488)

  • Enhance text with extra functionality and aliases (#481)

Documentation

  • Add gallery example for grdview (#502)

  • Turn all short aliases into long form (#474)

  • Update the plotting example using the colormap generated by pygmt.makecpt (#472)

  • Add instructions to view the test coverage reports locally (#468)

  • Update the instructions for testing pygmt install (#459)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a bug when passing data to GMT in Session.open_virtual_file() (#490)

Maintenance

  • Temporarily expect failures for some grdcontour and grdview tests (#503)

  • Fix several failures due to updates of earth relief data (#498)

  • Unpin pylint version and fix some lint warnings (#484)

  • Separate tests of gmtinfo and grdinfo (#461)

  • Fix the test for GMT_COMPATIBILITY=6 (#454)

  • Update baseline images for updates of earth relief data (#452)

  • Simplify PyGMT Release process (#446)

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Release v0.1.1 (2020/05/22)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.1.1

Highlights

  • 🏁Windows users rejoice, this bugfix release is for you!🏁

  • Let PyGMT work with the conda GMT package on Windows (#434)

Enhancements

  • Handle setting special parameters without default settings for config (#411)

Documentation

  • Update install instructions (#430)

  • Add PyGMT AGU 2019 poster to website (#425)

  • Redirect www.pygmt.org to latest, instead of dev (#423)

Bug Fixes

  • Set GMT_COMPATIBILITY to 6 when pygmt session starts (#432)

  • Improve how PyGMT finds the GMT library (#440)

Maintenance

  • Finalize fixes on Windows test suite for v0.1.1 (#441)

  • Cache test data on Azure Pipelines (#438)

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Release v0.1.0 (2020/05/03)

Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.1.0

Highlights

  • 🎉 First official release of PyGMT 🎉

  • Python 3.8 is now supported (#398)

  • PyGMT now uses the stable version of GMT 6.0.0 by default (#363)

  • Use sphinx-gallery to manage examples and tutorials (#268)

New Features

  • Wrap blockmedian (#349)

  • Add pygmt.config() to change gmt defaults locally and globally (#293)

  • Wrap grdview (#330)

  • Wrap grdtrack (#308)

  • Wrap colorbar (#332)

  • Wrap text (#321)

  • Wrap legend (#333)

  • Wrap makecpt (#329)

  • Add a new method to shift plot origins (#289)

Enhancements

  • Allow text accepting “frame” as an argument (#385)

  • Allow for grids with negative lat/lon increments (#369)

  • Allow passing in list to ‘region’ argument in surface (#378)

  • Allow passing in scalar number to x and y in plot (#376)

  • Implement default position/box for legend (#359)

  • Add sequence_space converter in kwargs_to_string (#325)

Documentation

  • Update PyPI install instructions and API disclaimer message (#421)

  • Fix the link to GMT documentation (#419)

  • Use napoleon instead of numpydoc with sphinx (#383)

  • Document using a list for repeated arguments (#361)

  • Add legend gallery entry (#358)

  • Update instructions to set GMT_LIBRARY_PATH (#324)

  • Fix the link to the GMT homepage (#331)

  • Split projections gallery by projection types (#318)

  • Fix the link to GMT/Matlab API in the README (#297)

  • Use shinx extlinks for linking GMT docs (#294)

  • Comment about country code in projection examples (#290)

  • Add an overview page listing presentations (#286)

Bug Fixes

  • Let surface return xr.DataArray instead of xr.Dataset (#408)

  • Update GMT constant GMT_STR16 to GMT_VF_LEN for GMT API change in 6.1.0 (#397)

  • Properly trigger pytest matplotlib image comparison (#352)

  • Use uuid.uuid4 to generate unique names (#274)

Maintenance

  • Quickfix Zeit Now miniconda installer link to anaconda.com (#413)

  • Fix GitHub Pages deployment from Travis (#410)

  • Update and clean TravisCI configuration (#404)

  • Quickfix min elevation for new SRTM15+V2.1 earth relief grids (#401)

  • Wrap docstrings to 79 chars and check with flake8 (#384)

  • Update continuous integration scripts to 1.2.0 (#355)

  • Use Zeit Now to deploy doc builds from PRs (#344)

  • Move gmt from requirements.txt to CI scripts instead (#343)

  • Change py.test to pytest (#338)

  • Add Google Analytics to measure site visitors (#314)

  • Register mpl_image_compare marker to remove PytestUnknownMarkWarning (#323)

  • Disable Windows CI builds before PR #313 is merged (#320)

  • Enable Mac and Windows CI on Azure Pipelines (#312)

  • Fixes for using GMT 6.0.0rc1 (#311)

  • Assign authorship to “The PyGMT Developers” (#284)

Deprecations

  • Remove mention of gitter.im (#405)

  • Remove portrait (-P) from common options (#339)

  • Remove require.js since WorldWind was dropped (#278)

  • Remove Web WorldWind support (#275)

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