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Published January 16, 2023 | Version v2023.1
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silx-kit/pyFAI: pyFAI 2023.1

Description

First stable version of pyFAI: v2023.1.

Sources and binary wheels can be found at: https://pypi.org/project/pyFAI/ and at: https://github.com/silx-kit/pyFAI/releases/tag/v2023.1

One of a few ways to install this release with pip: pip install pyFAI==2023.1.0

Release notes and important changes since 0.21:
  • Developer and packager tools:
    • Switch build system from numpy.distutils to meson-python
    • Keep the former setup.py for compatibility reasons: it will be removed in a future release
    • Drop Python 3.6 (default parameters in namedtuple feature used)
    • Require silx 1.1 (for OpenCL), scipy and matplotlib
  • GUI side:
    • several minor improvements in pyFAI-calib2
    • Fixed calibration in jupyter-lab
  • Core improvements:
    • Refactoring of the Geometry class
    • Geometry pseudo-inversion optimization
    • Improved support from Medipix-based Lambda-detectors
    • New detectors from Dectris (Pilatus 900k and Eiger 250k)
    • Support Nexus format in output: NXmonpd and NXcansas
    • Single-threaded CSC sparse matrix multiplication engine
  • Improved uncertainty propagation:
    • Refactor error model management (uses enum)
    • Hybrid error model (azimuthal for sigma-clipping but reports Poissonian noise)
    • Export peakfinder data to the CXI format (used by CrystFEL)
  • Improvement in the doc:
    • Update installation instructions
    • Multi-threaded integration tutorial
    • GPU implementation tutorial
  • Facts and figures:
    • 400+ commits, 100 PR +with the contribution of: Clemens Prescher, Elena Pascal, Jérôme Kieffer, Malte Storm, Marco Cammarata, Michael Hudson-Doyle, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel, Rodrigo Telles, Thomas A Caswell, Tommaso Vinci, Valentin Valls, Wout de Nolf.

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