Release notes

Version 3.0.0 – 2019-03-14

Differences from version 1.3.

Added

• Support for Python 3.7, 3.6, 3.5 in addition to 2.7.

Changed

• Always use lower-case imports from diffpy.structure.
• Use numeric-value sort to order variables in PrintFitHook.

Deprecated

• Variable __gitsha__ in the version module renamed to __git_commit__.

Removed

• Optional upper and lower-bound arguments in Parameter.setValue. The bounds can be set with Parameter.boundRange instead.
• Unused classes ListOperator, SetOperator.

Fixed

• Metadata retrieval from PDFContribution hierarchy.
• Refresh PDFGenerator when its rgrid is changed in-place.
• Zero division in the nppdfsas.py example.
• Crash in ellipsoidsas.py example because of bug in Parameter.setValue.
• Pickling of ProfileGenerator objects and of bound class methods.
• Invalid escape sequences in string values.