- 🎉 Multiple bug fixes and a reorganized gallery 🎉
- A reorganization of the gallery examples (#995)
- New gallery examples plotting vectors (#950 and #890)
- This is the last PyGMT version to support GMT 6.1.1; the next release will require GMT 6.2
- Support passing a sequence to the spacing parameter of pygmt.info() (#1031)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Dongdong Tian
- Wei Ji Leong
- Jiayuan Yao
- Will Schlitzer
- Meghan Jones
- Michael Grund
- Liam Toney
- Kathryn Materna
- Alicia Ngoc Diep Ha
- Tawanda Moyo
- 🎉 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
- Wrap grd2cpt (#803)
- Let Figure.text support record-by-record transparency (#716)
- Provide basic support for FreeBSD (#700, #878)
- 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)
- 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)
- Fix a bug of Figure.text when "text" is a non-string array (#724)
- Fix the error message when IPython is not available (#701)
- 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)
- 🎉 Patch release with more tutorials and gallery examples! 🎉
- 🐍 Support Python 3.9 (#689)
- 📹 Add Liam's ROSES 2020 PyGMT talk (#643)
- 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)
- Add tutorial for pygmt.config (#482)
- Add an example for different line styles (#604, #664)
- Add a gallery example for varying transparent points (#654)
- Add tutorial for pygmt.Figure.text (#480)
- Add an example for scatter plots with auto legends (#607)
- Improve colorbar gallery example (#596)
- 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.md (#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)
- Disallow passing arguments like -XNone to GMT (#639)
- 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)
- 🎉 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Wrap grdcut (#492)
- Add show_versions() function for printing debugging information used in issue reports (#466)
- Change load_earth_relief()'s default resolution to 01d (#488)
- Enhance text with extra functionality and aliases (#481)
- 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)
- Fix a bug when passing data to GMT in Session.open_virtual_file() (#490)
- 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)
- 🏁Windows users rejoice, this bugfix release is for you!🏁
- Let PyGMT work with the conda GMT package on Windows (#434)
- Handle setting special parameters without default settings for config (#411)
- Update install instructions (#430)
- Add PyGMT AGU 2019 poster to website (#425)
- Redirect www.pygmt.org to latest, instead of dev (#423)
- Set GMT_COMPATIBILITY to 6 when pygmt session starts (#432)
- Improve how PyGMT finds the GMT library (#440)
- 🎉 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)