What’s new in 1.4.8

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:

• 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:

Community:

• README now includes PlasmaPy badges

scripts:

• Cleaner and more flexible #417

Geometry:

• New TCV configuration available thanks to Oulfa Chellai! #419

IMAS interfacing:

• Debugging for compatibility with tools_dc/5 #396

Geometry:

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

Documentation:

Miscellaneous:

• Better PEP8 compliance

Contributors:

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):

• 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:

• PR: #334, #417, #418, #419, #423, #425, #426, #427