Drizzlepac v3.10.0

High-Level Summary

This release includes many improvements to the HAP Point and Segment catalogs, as well as updates to the parameters used for alignment. The TEAL GUI has been removed from the public interface, and support for Python 3.10 has been dropped.

What's Changed

• HLA-1405: Updated alignment parameters. by @s-goldman in #1932
• HLA-1237: Removing user facing aspects of TEAL GUI by @s-goldman in #1975
• Dropping support for python 3.10 by @s-goldman in #1987
• Pins drizzlepac to the most recent STWCS version that also requires numpy>2.0 by @s-goldman in #1931
• HLA-1410/HLA-1393: Drizzlepac/HAP: Round 2 update of improved Photutils deprecation updates by @mdlpstsci in #1934
• HLA-1407: Implemented fixes to address uneven detection thresholds in HAP catalogs by @mdlpstsci in #1939
• HLA-1413: Replaced deprecated class by @mdlpstsci in #1950
• HLA-1427: Improve algorithm for switching to crowded field kernel for HAP segment catalogs by @mdlpstsci in #1953
• Build and test with latest supported version of Python by @zacharyburnett in #1955
• HLA-1417: Validation check for WCS solutions from astrometry database by @s-goldman in #1958
• HLA-1419: Removal of warnings for photometry_utils.py log of zero of negative number by @s-goldman in #1959
• Update the Pyproject.toml file to force use of Photutils >= 2.0.0 by @mdlpstsci in #1966
• HLA_1433: Add clarification comments to IterativePSFPhotometry instantiation by @mdlpstsci in #1964
• HLA-1448: Fix the crfactor designation for the WFPC2 detector to avoid failure by @mdlpstsci in #1969
• HLA-1441: Tune Point Catalogs (too many false detections) by @mdlpstsci in #1978
• HLA-1425: Documenting the Alignment Logic by @s-goldman in #1967
• HLA-1354: Added the computation of ABmag to the catalog documentation by @mdlpstsci in #1990
• Fix for I/O astrometry database bug (#1992) by @s-goldman in #1994
• HLA-1483: Remove the extraneous column from Point source Total catalog by @mdlpstsci in #2006
• HLA-1484: Resolve issue of duplicate IDs in the Total Point Catalog product by @mdlpstsci in #2007
• HLA-1482/HLA-1487: Added parameter setting to the IterativePSFPhotometry invocation by @mdlpstsci in #2014
• HLA-1501: Clean-up values (move to proper section or delete) from catalog configuration files #2024
• HLA-1503/HLA-1504: Update the sigma values in the catalog configuration files #2026

Full Changelog: 3.9.1...3.10.0