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What's new in 1.4.8
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tofu 1.4.8 is a minor upgrade from 1.4.7
It contains bug fixes, optimized volume sampling routines and new tokamak geometries


Main changes:
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- Optimized volume sampling #334
- More flexible bash commands #417
- New tokamak geometries #419
- Compatibility with tools_dc/5 on IRFM intra  #423
- Debugging for IMAS compatibility #424, #427
- Updated README for PlasmaPy and conda-forge #426
- Better PEP8 compliance


Detailed changes:
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Community:
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- README now includes PlasmaPy badges

scripts:
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- Cleaner and more flexible #417

Geometry:
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- New **TCV configuration** available thanks to Oulfa Chellai! #419

IMAS interfacing:
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- Debugging for compatibility with tools_dc/5 #396


Geometry:
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- Faster (optimized and parallelized) volume sampling from sub-domain and indices (in toroidql geometry only) #334


Documentation:
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Miscellaneous:
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- Better PEP8 compliance


Contributors:
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Many thanks to all developpers and contributors:
- Didier Vezinet (@Didou09)
- Laura Mendoza (@lasofivec)
- Florian Le Bourdais  (@flothesof)
- Oulfa Chellai for TCV geometry


What's next (indicative):
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- Migrating from nosetests (ongoing for @lasofivec : issues #95 and #232)
- Easier binary and source installs from pip and conda for all platforms, including unit tests on all platforms (ongoing for @lasofivec and @flothesof : issue #259)
- Solid angles for Volume-Of-Sight and radiative heat loads computation (ongoing for @lasofivec : Issues #71, #72, #73, #74, #75, #76, #77, #78)
- Tools and classes to handle 2D Bragg X-Ray crystal spectrometer (ongoing for @Didou09 : Issues #202 and #263)
- Generic data class to incorporate plateau-finding, data analysis and 1d Bayesian fitting routines and classes (ongoing for @Didou09 and @jmoralesFusion and @MohammadKozeiha: issues #208, #260 and #262)
- More general magnetic field line tracing workflow
- Better unit tests coverage
- More complete documentation


List of PR merged into this release:
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- PR: #334, #417, #418, #419, #423, #425, #426, #427