We’re pleased to announce the release of SunPy 8.0! 🚀
This major release includes several exciting new features, including:
🔹 Support for the PHI and Metis instruments aboard Solar Orbiter
🔹 Integration of the Solar Orbiter Archive Fido client directly into SunPy
🔹 Support for saving SunPy coordinates with Astropy Tables
Alongside these additions, sunpy 8.0 also includes numerous bug fixes, documentation improvements, and many smaller enhancements.
📖 Read what’s new:
https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/8.0.html
📝 View the full changelog:
https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/changelog.html
A major highlight of this release is the expanded support for ESA’s #SolarOrbiter mission, making it easier than ever to discover, access, and work with Solar Orbiter data in SunPy!
To upgrade:
`pip install –upgrade sunpy` (pip users)
or
`conda update sunpy` (conda users)
👏 A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this release, and a special welcome to our first-time contributors:
Aleksandr Burtovoi, Daragh M. Hollman, Giovanna Jerse, Herman le Roux, Jonas Sinjan, Kumar Amityush, and Yaocheng Chen.
SunPy is a community powered project, and would not exist without continual input from you, so thank you!