PyFstat/PyFstat: v1.12.1

This is the v1.12.1 release of PyFstat, a python package for gravitational-wave data analysis with the F-statistic, dated 04/12/2021.

Compared with v1.12.0, this only adds a backwards compatibility workaround for lalapps 7.3.0 in FrequencyModulatedArtifactWriter to fix running with conda dependencies. (v1.12.0 wasn't successfully shipped through conda-forge.)

This release supports python versions from 3.7 to 3.9: python 3.6 is no longer supported. 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 v1.12.0 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