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  Re: [AstroPy] ANN: Astropy v0.4 released Angelo Varlotta <avarlotta@cfa.harvard.edu> - 2014-07-18 12:02 -0400

#1334 — Re: [AstroPy] ANN: Astropy v0.4 released

Hello,
>From the User Documentation page I've noticed that the pdf version of
the docs just produces this 1-page output:

https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/astropy/stable/astropy.pdf

The other docs (html and epub) seem to be fine.

Cheers,
Angelo

Erik Tollerud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are very happy to announce the third major public release (v0.4) of
> the astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy:
>
>    http://www.astropy.org
>
> Astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the
> core functionality and common tools needed for performing astronomy
> and astrophysics with Python.
>
> New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
>
> * A new astropy.vo.samp sub-package adapted from the previously
> standalone SAMPy package
> * A re-designed astropy.coordinates sub-package for celestial coordinates
> * A new ‘fitsheader’ command-line tool that can be used to quickly
> inspect FITS headers
> * A new HTML table reader/writer
> * Improved performance for Quantity objects
> * A re-designed configuration framework
>
> In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been
> made. An overview of the changes is provided at:
>
>    http://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/whatsnew/0.4.html
>
>
> Instructions for installing Astropy are provided at the
> http://www.astropy.org website, and extensive documentation can be
> found at:
>
>    http://docs.astropy.org
>
> In particular, if you use Anaconda, you can update to v0.4 with:
>
>    conda update astropy
>
>
> Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository:
>
>    https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues
>
>
> Over 80 developers have contributed code to Astropy so far, and you
> can find out more about the team behind Astropy here:
>
>    http://www.astropy.org/team.html
>
>
> If you use Astropy directly - or as a dependency to another package -
> for your work, please remember to include the following acknowledgment
> at the end of papers:
>
> "This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python
> package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration, 2013)."
>
> where “(Astropy Collaboration, 2013)” is the Astropy paper which was
> published last year:
>
>  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...558A..33A
>
>
> Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think
> might be interested in this release.
>
>
> We hope that you enjoy using Astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it!
>
>
> Thomas Robitaille, Erik Tollerud, and Perry Greenfield
> on behalf of The Astropy Collaboration
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