Version 0.8.0

Many small fixes, some new effects, some important fixes related to coordinates, and lots of cleanup.

What's Changed

API Changes

• Add more useful error message to download functions by @teutoburg in #309
• Migrate from requests ➡️ httpx by @teutoburg in #312
• Improve logging by @teutoburg in #339
• Use ChainMap for UserCommands by @teutoburg in #375

Changes to or addition of Effects

• Add Shutter effect by @teutoburg in #304
• Add Quantization effect by @teutoburg in #308
• Implement apply decision for quantization by @teutoburg in #396

New Features or Improvements

• Add basic sky coordinates (WCS) to ScopeSim output by @teutoburg in #307
• Include more progress bars by @teutoburg in #311
• Further improvements to logging by @teutoburg in #349
• Add IFU cube rectification and more by @oczoske in #258
• Resolve recursive bang-strings by @astronomyk in #351
• Also show scopsim version in bug_report by @hugobuddel in #394

Dependency Changes

• Improve CI run for notebooks by @teutoburg in #300
• Migrate to Poetry by @teutoburg in #314
• Bump nbconvert from 6.4.5 to 6.5.1 by @dependabot in #315
• Bump jupyter-server from 1.13.5 to 2.11.2 by @dependabot in #316
• Bump requests from 2.28.2 to 2.31.0 by @dependabot in #317
• Upgrade numpy to 1.26.3 and some other dependencies by @hugobuddel in #336
• Drop support for Python 3.8 by @teutoburg in #327
• Bump jinja2 from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 by @dependabot in #338
• Bump jupyter-lsp from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 by @dependabot in #344
• Bump notebook from 7.0.6 to 7.0.7 by @dependabot in #347
• Bump jupyterlab from 4.0.10 to 4.0.11 by @dependabot in #346
• Bump pillow from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0 by @dependabot in #350
• Some small dependency- and version-related changes by @teutoburg in #363
• Bump pillow from 10.2.0 to 10.3.0 by @dependabot in #393
• Bump idna from 3.6 to 3.7 by @dependabot in #398

Documentation Improvements

• Add config file for auto-generated release notes by @teutoburg in #301
• Move changelog to dedicated file, add more readme badges by @teutoburg in #302
• Use PyPI badge for Python versions by @teutoburg in #326
• Replace "Telescopy" with "ScopeSim" in README by @teutoburg in #348
• Also make pdf and epub by @hugobuddel in #370
• Fix RTD Poetry configuration by @teutoburg in #379

Other Changes

• Some refactoring of z_order fuctionality by @teutoburg in #303
• Fix notebook tests by @teutoburg in #320
• Include ScopeSim_Data in notebook tests by @hugobuddel in #324
• Allow runnotebooks.sh to run without arguments by @hugobuddel in #330
• Revert "Also use poetry for calling jupytext" by @hugobuddel in #334
• Use new linkchecker action by @hugobuddel in #335
• Properly stack stars by @hugobuddel in #337
• Remove obsolete files by @teutoburg in #340
• Rearrange CI tests by @teutoburg in #341
• Add test to see whether all Python files can be imported. by @hugobuddel in #343
• Ensure logging messages don't reach the root logger by @hugobuddel in #345
• Sort corner pixels to deal with negative CDELTs by @teutoburg in #321
• Use logger instead of print by @hugobuddel in #353
• Minor logging fixes in download module by @teutoburg in #354
• Add DeprecationWarnings for fov_grid methods by @teutoburg in #313
• Delete redundant vesion.py by @teutoburg in #355
• Minor formatting changes by @teutoburg in #358
• Add more debug logging by @teutoburg in #356
• Further harmonize filename kwarg by @teutoburg in #361
• Minor cleanup in user_commands.py by @teutoburg in #362
• Replace printing with logging by @teutoburg in #360
• Removing currsys as global parameter by @astronomyk in #364
• Additional hotfix for the removed currsys by @astronomyk in #368
• More cmds and kwargs stuff by @hugobuddel in #369
• Remove unused and broken make_imagehdu_from_table() by @hugobuddel in #371
• Fixes needed for IFU/LMS mode by @hugobuddel in #376
• Do not set user commands as rc.currsys by @hugobuddel in #377
• Weed out unused utils functions by @teutoburg in #381
• Refactor some rarely-used utils functions by @teutoburg in #382
• Make required_keys always a set by @teutoburg in #383
• Some minor improvements and refactoring in the FOVManager by @teutoburg in #384
• Slightly more sophisticated use of numpy by @teutoburg in #385
• Remove unsatisfied assert by @hugobuddel in #386

Full Changelog: v0.7.1...v0.8.0