PyFstat/PyFstat: v1.17.0

This is the v1.17.0 release of PyFstat, a python package for gravitational-wave data analysis with the F-statistic, dated 26/08/2022.

This release supports python versions from 3.8 to 3.10. We no longer support python 3.7 as of this release, as there are no recent LALSuite releases for it any more.

From the changelog:

• dropped dependency on lalapps and now requiring lalpulsar>=5.0.0 instead, where LALSuite executables now live (corresponding to lalsuite>=7.7)
  • there is a get_lal_exec() helper function to still allow running on old installations where the executables live in lalapps
    • removed most of the old package-level hardcoded argparse options, this should reduce conflicts when users import it in their own caller scripts:
  • --clean to be given as an argument to supporting classes
  • -N to be given as class argument num_threads to the one class FrequencyModulatedArtifactWriter that supported it
  • --setup-only and --no-template-counting to be given as class arguments to the (now deprecated) MCMCFollowUpSearch
  • --no-interactive was not supported anywhere
    • LaTeX no longer enabled for plotting by default
    • removed bashplotlib dependency and SFT timestamps ASCII art
    • removed fallbacks in case tqdm is not available, which is a dependency anyway
    • snr class: fixed behaviour when instantiating with a dictionary of timestamps
    • removed old backwards compatibility code from FrequencyModulatedArtifactWriter
    • developers: updated pre-commit hooks

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