QCoDeS/Qcodes: QCoDeS 0.8.0 (December 2019)

The December 2019 release of QCoDeS

New:

• Call start_all_logging on qcodes import. See this example_ for more details on how this can be configured. (#1850)

Improved:

• Improvements to dataset notebooks (#1813)
• Fix warning in matplotlib plotting for legacy dataset (#1839)
• Add electrical delay parameter and function set_electrical_delay_auto for ZNB driver (#1849)
• Keysight 344xxA: Fix formatting issues (#1851)
• Fix docstrings in parameter.py (#1855)
• Update Infiniium.py: add option to save waveform to usb (#1716)

New Instrument drivers:

• Keysight 34980A driver (#1810, #1867)

Under the hood:

• Move QCoDeS import into function that needs it to break potential circular import (#1870)
• Fix return type of _BaseParameter.call (#1839)
• CI: Trigger azure pipeline on tags (#1837)
• CI: Travis don't apt-get install (#1842)
• CI: Travis Explicitly whitelist branches and tags to build (#1865)
• CI: Check for consistent line ending using Codacy (#1866)
• CI: Also trigger azure builds on release branches (#1868)
• CI: Azure twine -r name should match service endpoint (#1869)

Breaking Changes:

• StandardParameter after long deprecation period has been removed (#1859)
• Parameter.set_validator method after long deprecation period has been removed (#1856)

Deprecations:

• Setting Parameter.raw_value (for example p.raw_value = 2) is deprecated because it can lead to inconsistent state of the parameter. Use Parameter.set or Parameter.cache.set methods instead. (#1857)
• Private method Parameter._save_val that has been spotted in use in instrument drivers is deprecated now. Use Parameter.set and Parameter.cache.set methods instead. (#1858)

Recommended Dependencies:

• Type checking should be done with Mypy 0.750. (#1863)
• Docs are build using Sphinx 2.2.2 (#1864)