v0.8.4

Overview

This release includes a few performance enhancements, bug fixes, and improving warnings/error messages. We are also preparing to switch to using the trunk-based development workflow in the next release to streamline new contributions.

Enhancements

• Upgrade compress_pulse to use parallelized convolution by @anantmittal in #1208
• Optimize harmonize_env_param_time by @anantmittal in #1235
• Optimize frequency differencing with dask by @anantmittal in #1198
• Optimize get_vend_cal params_power by @anujsinha3 in #1285
• apply_mask changes: Allow multi-channel masks, allow the depth dimension, and simplify fill value by @ctuguinay in #1230
• Update _calc_Sv_offset for AZFP parsing by @leewujung in #1304
• Move compute_Sv_offset to inside of AZFP parser by @ctuguinay in #1307
• Support calibration of EK80 broadband complex data from sequential pinging by @ctuguinay in #1302
• Add skipna argument to compute_MVBS/NASC to control mean behavior over NaN elements by @ctuguinay in #1269

Bug fixes and warnings

• Fix error parsing integer in frequency-differencing equation by @leewujung in #1278
• Fix time encoding to use int64 and "nanoseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z" by @ctuguinay in #1299
• Add warnings and raised errors for add_location by @ctuguinay in #1296

Others

• One time dev merge to main to facilitate switching to trunk-based workflow by @leewujung in #1297
• Engaging in Google Summer of Code 2024 program by @leewujung #1266, #1267, #1274
• Update Development roadmap by @leewujung in #1262
• Deprecating echopype.visualize by @leewujung in #1310

New Contributors

• @anantmittal made their first contribution in #1208
• @anujsinha3 made their first contribution in #1285
• @ctuguinay made their first contribution in #1230

Full Changelog: v0.8.3...v0.8.4