PyFstat/PyFstat: v1.12.0

This is the v1.12.0 release of PyFstat, a python package for gravitational-wave data analysis with the F-statistic, dated 03/12/2021.

This release supports python versions from 3.7 to 3.9. I.e. this is the first release to drop python 3.6 support. If you cannot upgrade from python 3.6, the last PyFstat version supporting it is v1.11.6, working with LALSuite versions <=7.0.

From the changelog:

• drop python 3.6 support
• require LALSuite >= 7.1
• no longer pinning numpy
• resolved various deprecation warnings
• follow updated "narrowband" SFT file name convention from lalapps_splitSFTs
• new timestampsFiles option for Writer classes
• new allowedMismatchFromSFTLength option for core and MCMC classes
• new singleFstats option for ComputeFstat and derived classes
• new randSeed option for ComputeFstat and derived classes for reproducible on-the-fly Gaussian noise generation
• fix data-from-disk reuse in LineWriter and some internal cleanup to Writer and derived classes in general

For a list of known issues, or to report any problems, please see: https://github.com/PyFstat/PyFstat/issues