Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
63 lines (50 loc) · 3.62 KB

NEWS.md

File metadata and controls

63 lines (50 loc) · 3.62 KB
Raw

[2.15.0] - 2019-12-04

This release includes one bugfix, one enhancement, one update for compatibility with a new Python version, and two changes that facilitate the move of labscript suite components to regular Python packages installable with conda or pip, discussed here

  • labscript_utils.versions Python 3.8 compatibility. Fixes an exception raised on Python 3.8 due the the importlib_metadata package becoming part of the standard library. Contributed by Chris Billington. (PR #94)

  • labscript_utils.filewatcher.FileWatcher can now detect whether files have changed on disk by checking a hash of their contents, and not just their modified times. This means that a file reverting to its previous state can be detected, such that the "connection table needs to be recompiled" message in the next release of BLACS will be hidden if the connection table is restored to its previous state. Contributed by Russell Anderson. (PR #61)

  • The labscript_utils.setup_logging module now creates log files for applications in <labscript_suite_profile>/logs instead of the installation directory of the application itself. Contributed by Chris Billington. (PR #95)

  • labscript_utils.labscript_suite_install_dir has been renamed to labscript_suite_profile, with the former name kept as an alias. This reflects the fact that in the future, labscript suite applications may be installed as regular Python packages, and not in the directory containing logs, configuration and user libraries, which will now be referred to at the "labscript suite profile" directory instead of the "installation" directory. Also to help with that change, the labscript_utils.winshell module now uses the import path of each application instead of assuming it is in the profile directory for the purposes of creating windows shortcuts. Applications shortcuts now start applications with the userlib directory as the working directory instead of the application's installation directory. Contributed by Chris Billington. (PR #96)

  • Bugfix for using automatic metric prefixes with nonlinear unit conversion functions, these previously did the unit conversion incorrectly. Contributed by Peter Elgee and Chris Billington. (PR #87)

[2.14.1] - 2019-10-22

This release includes one bugfix, two minor improvements and one update for compatibility with a newer version of a library.

  • Bugfix for check_version to produce a sensible error message when importlib_metadata is not new enough. Contributed by Chris Billington. (PR #88)

  • Improved error message (with traceback of both imports) if h5py imported prior to labscript_utils.h5_lock. Contributed by Chris Billington (PR #90)

  • Improve help text of labscript_utils.winlauncher to show how to run modules as well as scripts. Contributed by Chris Billington. (PR #91)

  • Compatibility with importlib_metadata >= 0.21. Contributed by Chris Billington (PR #92)