QCoDeS/Qcodes: QCoDeS 0.20.0 - November 2020

The November 2020 release of QCoDeS.

• When performing a measurement with MultiParameter the parameters are now registered under their full_name including any instrument and channels that the parameter is bound to. This makes the MultiParameter consistent with all other parameters (#2317)
• The Keysight SD_common module is now deprecated in favour of the one in qcodes_contrib_drivers (#2395)
• The deprecated HP33210A driver has been removed (#2334)
• The deprecated Tektronix AWG5200 driver has been removed (#2335)
• Deprecated methods removed from DataSet (#2422)

• The DataSet shape is used when loading data; this impacts the DataSet.get_parameter_data and DataSet.cache.data methods. See also the measurement docs for more info on how data are loaded (#2264)
• The Measurement now captures exception info in the DataSet s metadata if an exception occured during measurement (#2327)
• There is now an explicit API for marking the cache of a Parameter as invalid (#2012)
• New support email introduced (#2366)

• The documentation for ParameterWithSetpoints now shows how to make sweeps (#2351)
• Bugfix: calling mark_complete() on a completed DataSet no longer throws an exception (#2376)
• The documentation no longer references the legacy module (#2408)

• Keysight E4980A Precision LCR Meter (#2253)

• The Alazar drivers received various minor fixes (#2301)
• The Rohde & Schwarz ZNB vector network analyzer now supports CW readout mode (#2007)
• The Keithley 7510 now has a settable buffer name (#2370)
• Bugfix: Ithaco CurrentParameter (#2416)
• Keysight B1500 no longer has master/slave terminology in its API (#2423)
• Agilent E8527D now has a default terminator (#2434)

• Legacy datasets can have a name (#2328)
• Typing was added to the drivers of the following vendors:
  • Lakeshore (#2340)
  • Keysight (#2342)
  • DynaCool (#2338)
  • AimTTi (#2338)
  • Hewlett-Packard (#2337)
  • Yokogawa (#2339)
  • Basel (#2339)
  • Minicircuits (#2355)
  • Signal Hound (#2359)
  • Agilent (#2359)
  • American Magnetics (#2362)
  • Stanford Research Systems (#2365)
  • Stahl (#2368)
  • Oxford (#2375)
  • Rigol (#2380)
  • Rohde & Schwarz (#2384)
  • Ithaco (#2384)
  • Tektronix (#2386, #2393)
  • QDev & QDevil (#2341)
  • AlazarTech (#2396)
• For developers: we now disallow implicit optional with mypy (#2361) and all new code must be typed (#2397)
• Typing added to various modules (#2404, #2406, #2417)
• Prepare for numpy 1.19 way of handling ragged arrays (#2369)