spacetelescope/drizzlepac: Drizzlepac v3.7.1

High-Level Summary

This release includes many improvements to the Point, and particularly, the Segmentation Hubble Advanced Products source catalogs. There were some improvements to the alignment algorithm, as well as general bug fixes. Note: this release must use a version of NumPy < 2.0 and 1.5.0 < Photutils < 1.13.0.

What's Changed

• HLA-1302: Avoid application of cosmic ray threshold for ACS/SBC and WFC3/IR by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1859
• Fixed the computations associated with rejection of catalogs due to cosmic rays by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1853
• Updated the call to SciPy hamming function in deconvolve_utils.py by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1848
• Updated configuration files to use minobj=10 for fitgeom='rscale' by s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1823
• Changes to address proper marking of cosmic rays in drizzled products by mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1820
• HLA-1266: Updated pyproject.toml to force the use of numpy<2.0, and modified by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1813
• HLA-1161: MagErrAp2 and other magnitude errors in HAP catalogs have incorrect negative values by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1700
• HLA-1164: Disable code that changes HAP catalog flag values by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1710
• HLA-1144: Runastrodriz: handle an empty list generated by do_verify_guiding by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1736
• HLA_1187: Modified the value of "check_big_island_only" to be True by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1730
• HLA-993: Adding skycell keyword to pipeline and SVM products by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1729
• HLA-1220 Added Documentation Regarding SKYCELL Value by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1760
• HLA-1195 Improved S_REGION Around Edges by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1762
• HLA:1061 Re-enable final_fillval set to fill in values when WHT=0 by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1767
• HLA-1222: Remove the restriction on the version of stsci.imagestats by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1784
• HLA-1209 Bug fix that allows for user inputs in astrodrizzle with mdriztab=True by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1774
• HLA-1243: final_bits value change in config json for single WFC3/IR SVM by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1783
• HLA-1216 Remove tophat drizzle kernel and add warning for gaussian and lanczos3 by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1786
• HLA-1191 GitHub Contributors Guide by @s-goldman in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1787
• HLA-1248: Bug fixes and enhancements for the segmentation catalog wrt the RickerWavelet kernel by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1791
• HLA-1248: Series of bug fixes for the segmentation catalog by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1793
• HLA-1138: Exclude single filter images in the generation of the total detection image by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1797
• HLA-1257: Remove the use of a custom smoothing kernel for catalog generation by @mdlpstsci in https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pull/1805