Release 0.25.1
It's been three months since the last release and there are quite a few bug fixes and features!
Major API Changes
- Moved
BackgroundPlotterandQtInteractortopyvistaqt. See #719 for the reasoning, but as a summary, this boils down to licensing, unit testing, and improved development. See pyvistaqt to test out the new module. Wheels will be released for that as soon as we've released wheels forpyvista==0.25.0as it's a dependency. - Added better support for VTKv9. There were several changes under the hood to VTK's
UnstructuredGridsthat need to be implemented here, as well as many changes to our unit testing and CI to support Python 3.8 and VTKv9. See #732, #772, and #693. - When using PyVista with Sphinx-Gallery, we require you to set
pyvista.BUILDING_GALLERY = Truein yourconf.py
Features
- Removing cells or faces (#653)
- Progress bar using
tqdm(#608) - Plotting floors (#424)
- Additional geometry features (#449)
- Subplot groups (#696)
- Custom orientation widget (#702)
Bug Fixes
- Checking vectors when setting vectors #763
- Check overwriting dataset to avoid segfault #738
- Fix faulthandler (#694 and #645)
- Implicit point setters (#769)
- Ellipsoid wrapping (#705)
CI Improvements
- Unit testing is between 25-40% faster. MacOS testing no supports multiple testing processes using
pytest-xdist. See #739 and #744 - Improved code coverage #745 and #709
- Removed all example downloading from unit testing. Greatly improves test stability (#731)
- Various speedups (#661)
Refactoring
- Removed untested
pyansysquality method. - Using underscore numpy types (#762)
- Optimized imports (#743)
- Line break consistent (#737)
- Use new style super() calls (#741)
- Generic load/save (#736)
- Refactored active scalars/vectors (#746)
- Better error types (#759)
- And many many more...
Contributors
Thanks to all those who contributed to this release! In no particular order: