QCoDeS/Qcodes: QCoDeS 0.18.0 - September 2020

Changelog for QCoDeS 0.18.0

The September 2020 release of QCoDeS.

There are no breaking changes in this release of QCoDeS.

• Support nested Measurement context managers; in particular, only create one background writer thread for multiple datasets (#2124)
• Interactive widget to explore datasets in Jupyter Notebooks (#1967, #2163)

• Jump to value when trying to set a parameter that cannot be set in steps (can't be swept) (#2128)
• Raise exception if get_cmd is not defined in a Group of GroupParameter s (#2133)
• Add new set_parameters method to Group and remove the old deprecated set method (#2137)
• Update ArrayParameter Docs (#2126)
• Add a docs page listing projects to QCoDeS project (#2142)

• Keysight B1500: fix measure range bug, measure_config method is deprecated (#2150)
• Remove warning about complex numbers in R&S ZNB driver (#2140)

• Simplify instrument destructor (#2132)
• Add types to RunDescriber dict representations (#2134)
• Rework RunDescriber and update to version 2 (#2135)
• Allow from_dict_to_current to deserialize RunDescriber from new versions (#2144)
• Add python_requires as key to setup.py (#2123)

• Constrain all requirements and their dependencies in requirements.txt (#2164)
• Use pip s new resolver when installing dependencies (#2168)
• Fix docs and test requirements to minor version (#2148)
• Restrict pyvisa to less than 1.11 (#2162)
• Install pyqt for python 3.8 (#2157)
• Require latest opencensus packages (#2141)
• Remove no longer needed apt dependecies from travis (#1843)
• Update nbconvert requirement from 5.6.1 to ~=6.0.3 (#2146, #2152, #2160)
• Update pytest requirement from ~=6.0.1 to ~=6.0.2 (#2151)
• Update coverage requirement from ~=5.2.1 to ~=5.3 (#2154)
• Update sphinx-jsonschema requirement from ~=1.16.1 to ~=1.16.2 (#2155)
• Update hypothesis requirement from ~=5.5.5 to ~=5.35.3 (#2158)