Changes in Version 0.1.6 (2016-09-08)
=====================================
- Improvements to test suite (coverage and design)
coordinates
 - Bugfix to allow correct slicing behavior when Coords class has attached ticks
datamanager
 - New module to help in finding, slicing, and manipulating data
 - Function "apply_index": help sort one multi-dimensional data set by another
 - Function "array_interleave": combine data from two arrays to make a new
 - Function "axis_index": prepare indices along the axis of an array
 - Function "flatten_idx": convert an index to an index into flattened array
 - Function "insert_fill" to make explicit gaps in irregular data
 - Function "rev_index": convert an index into its complement
 - Function "values_to_steps": convert values to index of unique, sorted values
datamodel
 - Fix reading JSON-headed ASCII in numpy 1.4, 1.5
 - New function resample to change the time cadence of a SpaceData with
   windowMean
 - SpaceData gained methods for toCDF, toHDF, and toJSONheadedASCII
 - SpaceData keys can be multiple called, see __getitem__
 - New function toRecArray to create numpy record arrays from SpaceData objects
 - New function fromRecArray to create SpaceData objects from numpy record
   arrays
empiricals
 - Fix normalization of Vampola pitch angle model
 - New function omniFromDirectionalFlux, calculates omnidirection flux from
   directional fluxes
 - New function getSolarRotation, returns Carrington or Bartels number
 - New model in getPlasmaPause,  RT1970 -- Rycroft et al 1970
 - New function getSolarProtonSpectra, returns a fluence spectra for SEP events
irbempy
 - updated to latest revision of IRBEM library (rev541)
 - updated AlphaOfK to use vector inputs
 - minor bugfixes and speedups
plot
 - Packages in plot are imported on import of plot module
 - Addition of dual_half_circle() to overlay a light/dark "Earth"
 - Addition of simpleSpectrogram() in spacepy.plot.spectrogram
 - Addition of Carrington/Bartel plotting for 1D series
   (in spacepy.plot.carrington)
 - Updated smartTimeTicks, applySmartTimeTicks and added set_target
   (from PyBATS)
 - SpacePy style sheets added. Autoimported with plot, but with functionality
   to change style
 - Fix utils.collapse_vertical when called with sequences other than lists
 - Update to utils.timestamp adding more customization
pybats
 - Updated docstrings across all modules.
 - rim.py updated to be consistent with other pybats modules.
 - many bugfixes
 - Unified BATS-R-US calculation of number density and composition.
 - New class for magnetometer grid files: MagGridFile
 - New function for automatic latex label creation.
 - Updated Mag and MagFile objects for forward/backward compatibility.
 - IdlBin class renamed IdlFile; can read binary or ascii SWMF-IDL files.
 - Moved core plotting routines (set_target, smart_timeticks,
   apply_smart_timeticks) to plot.utils
pycdf
 - On OSX, search more paths for the CDF library
 - CDF.clone() now returns the new variable
 - Fix re-import after failure to find the CDF library, can now try the import
   again without restarting the Python interpreter
 - Fix some comparisons that might cause problems with future versions of numpy
 - Log the path to the CDF library for debugging purposes
 - Library.epoch_to_num: convert epoch to matplotlib date number (like date2num)
 - Improve handling of CDF_CHAR element count on py3k
 - Change tests to work with padding/stripping of CDF library 3.6.2 and later
	- It's not clear where the CDF library is stripping and/or padding
	  and pycdf has limited ability to work around this.
 - Improve type-guessing of attribute entries, particularly for zAttrs
 - Fix BAD_ENTRY_NUM when looking up zEntry type (or assigning to zEntry)
time
 - Speed improvement update to TickTock.getleapsecond
 - Overall speed improvements with for loop removal
 - ISO improvements via special cases for string input
 - Added classmethod today()
toolbox
 - Added function unique_columns
 - Added windowMean keyword op to allow arbitrary operations
 - Bugfixes in windowmean
        - double counting of points on window boundaries
        - one window's width of data could dropped from output series
python3 support
 -updates for python3 support, seems to be complete
AE9AP9
 - added ae9ap9 module to parse and work with output files from the
   AE9/AP9/SPM models (beta)

Changes in Version 0.1.5 (2014-12-23)
=====================================
- Python 3 support
- documentation updates across many packages
- installer should work better w/pip
- minor bugfixes throughout
datamodel
 - fromHDF5 now reads most netCDF4 and MatLab (v7.3+; r2011b onward) save files
 - add function dmfilled: create a filled dmarray with any given fill value
 - updates to toCDF to allow/use NRV variables
irbempy
 - add function find_footpoint: traces field line from given location to
   specified altitude
 - add functions find_LCDS and find_LCDS_K to find the last closed drift shell
   at given pitch angle or given second invariant K
 - add function AlphaOfK to find the equatorial pitch angle for a specified
   second invariant K
omni
 - get_omni updated to also read from daily JSON-headed ASCII files in
   custom databases
plot
 - new functions in utils:
   - add_logo: put an image in one corner of a figure
   - annotate_xaxis: add text in line with x tickmarks
   - collapse_vertical: remove space between two subplots
   - shared_ylabel: span a y-axis label across subplots
   - show_used: draw boxes to show the space taken by each plot element
pycdf
 - fix bug with interpreting indexes with ellipses (var[..., 0] gave the
   wrong result).
 - epoch16_to_epoch: round sub-milliseconds rather than truncate.
 - sped up indexing in variable copies
 - improved handling of numpy fancy indexing in variable copies
   (fancy indexing is still not supported for variables themselves.)
 - make assignment to attrs work
 - deprecate from_dict method of attribute lists; it is redundant with clone.
 - fix BAD_DATA_TYPE bug with datetime attributes in backward-compatible CDF
 - fix bug with finding CDF types for negative floats
 - fix matching attribute to variable type when assigning attributes to dict
 - fix handling of existence checks for variables with single quote in name
time
 - dtype in Ticktock can now be a callable (allowing custom time parsing)
toolbox
 - add function timeout_check_call to run another program with a timeout

Changes in Version 0.1.4
========================
- Removed deprecated functions/classes
  - time
    - Tickdelta class (use datetime.timedelta)
    - num2date, date2num functions (use matplotlib.dates)
  - toolbox
    - printfig, smartTimeTicks, applySmartTimeTicks, timestamp functions
      (moved to plot.utils)
    - leapyear, randomDate functions (moved to time)
- Minor bugfixes and speed-ups across package
- Expanded unit-testing
- Changed download prompt on install to information only
datamodel
 - output from datamodel to JSON-headed ASCII added
 - output from datamodel to NASA CDF added
 - new methods on dmarrays (append, concatenate, h/v/dstack)
empiricals
 - fixed bug in getPlasmaPause implementation of Moldwin et al., 2002 model
 - getPlasmaPause accepts optional dict-like of inputs instead of calling omni module
irbempy
 - updated to latest revision of IRBEM library (rev425)
 - consistent with IRBEMlib release version 4.4.0
 - add support for building with Intel Fortran compiler
LANL*
 - added new neural network trained on RAM-SCB model (valid inside 6.6Re)
pybats
 - Nearly all classes inherit from PbData, which is a subclass of SpaceData.
 - All add_* plotting methods have unified "target" and "loc" kwargs for selecting where to place plots.
 - New submodule: dgcpm, for handling the DGCPM model input/output.
 - New class: NgdcIndex, for handling NGDC input data for SWMF runs.
 - Bats2d class: stream tracing navigates native quadtree.
 - Bats2d class: arbitrary interpolation of data to any X,Y point(s).
 - Bats2d class: new variable calculations, including gradients.
 - Bats2d class: better handling of multi-species/fluid variables.
 - Bats2d class: unification of add_pcolor and add_contour syntax.
 - New class: ram.BoundaryGroup for handling groups of boundary files.
 - Expanded documentation for classes and methods.
pycdf
 - fixed bug in time types with pre-3.4.1 CDF library
 - provide new CDF.raw_var method to give access to variables without
   any translation.
 - added functions to translate between EPOCH, EPOCH16, TT2000 without going
   through datetime.
 - add options to CDF.new to allow specification of variable compression
   at creation time.
 - sort lists of variables, attributes by name instead of number.
time
 - fixed bug in addition/subtraction of Ticktocks

Changes in Version 0.1.3
========================
- Substantial updates to documentation
  - including publication list, case studies
- Minor bugfixes throughout
- Expanded unit testing
- Several functions deprecated:
  - toolbox.leap_year (use time.leapyear)
- Several previously deprecated functions removed:
  - toolbox.makePoly (use matplotlib.pyplot.fill_between)
- Several functions moved:
  - leapyear: from toolbox to time
  - randomDate: from toolbox to time
  - applySmartTimeTicks, smartTimeTicks, printfig, timestamp:
    from toolbox to plot.utils
- Number of base level imports limited
- MAJOR BUG in IRBEM library (T01S and TS04 models) fixed.
datamodel
 - new count method on dmarray
 - HDF5 output now supports many more types
 - output from datamodel to HTML table added
irbempy
 - Updated IRBEM library (including major bugfix to T01S and TS04)
 - 'custom' internal B-field model set to Dungey model (dipole + uniform)
 - revised multiprocessing of get_Lstar to use standard library
 - new get_Lm function
LANLstar
 - LANLstar v3 (with improved UI) now packaged with SpacePy
 - Fortran backend replaced (now requires ffnet Python package)
omni
 - additional OMNI parameters added to hourly database
pycdf
 - Convert to numpy-based backend, substantially faster/more flexible
 - Speed up extending variables with additional data (roughly 4x as fast)
 - Better integration with datamodel
 - Deletion bug still present in CDF 3.4; extend workaround to later version
 - Support for new CDF_TIME_TT2000 variable type
time
 - Ticktock is now iterable and adds/subtracts datetime.timedeltas
 - Ticktock time storage is array-based and now has insert and remove methods
 - Timedelta has been deprecated (use datetime.timedelta)
toolbox
 - hypot function speed-up
 - update function:can specify HTTP User Agent in config file

Changes in Version 0.1.2
========================
- Overhaul of all documentation for better organization and clarify
- New C backends speed up several functions in toolbox and time
- Minor bugfixes throughout
- Support for newer compilers on Windows
- Include Fortran runtime with Windows binary installers
Datamodel
 - Support for JSON-headed ASCII data read/write
Empiricals
 - New pitch angle model
pybats
 - PWOM added
plot
 - New EventClicker to manually identify event times on a plot

Changes in Version 0.1.1
========================
- new config file structure
- overhaul of source distribution build
- __contact__ attribute added to each SpacePy module (FR: 3424949)
Datamodel
 - HDF5 file object closure on dump to HDF5
 - file overwriting is now possible in toHDF using overwrite keyword
 - warnings added for incompatible data types on dump to HDF5
Toolbox
 - reformatted example in dist_to_list
 - hypot now takes multiple args or an iterable
 - pmm now handles NaN
 - tOverlap/tOverlapHalf now return iterators for presorted input
 - forcedate keyword added to linspace
 - EventTimer added
 - bin_edges_to_center added to perform inverse of extant bin_center_to_edges
 - listUniq deprecated in favor of numpy.unique
 - feq deprecated in favor of numpy.allclose
SeaPy
 - fixed Sea2d failure caused by incomplete migration to base class for all Sea types
Plot
 - New subpackage plot added to SpacePy (still in heavy development)
 - spectrogram function added
PyBATS
 - pybats is now an extension module
 - major upgrades to internals (qdtree implementation, use of datamodel)
 - new Kyoto index handler

Additional typo fixes in documentation, Py3k compatibility updates and unit test updates

Version 0.1
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Original release of SpacePy
