QCoDeS 0.36.0 (2022-11-29)
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Breaking Changes:
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- The `test_intrument` and `test_intruments` functions are no longer available
  from the toplevel qcodes namespace.
  If you require these functions they must be imported from
  `qcodes.instrument_drivers.test`. (:pr:`4616`)
- The deprecated imports of `Loop`, `Measure` and members of `qcodes.data` in the toplevel QCoDeS namespace has been
  removed. (:pr:`4674`)
- Explicitly setting a sample id in the `qcodesrc.json` config file has been deprecated. This feature is
  expected to be very lightly used. Please do get in touch if you rely on it. This will eventually
  be replaced by a random string. For the same reason `load_by_run_spec` will no longer print
  `sample_id` as part of the output when more than one potential match is found.
  Note that this is different from the sample_name set as part of an experiment which is still supported. (:pr:`4763`)


Improved:
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- The sweeps used by doNd has gained the ability to perform a get call after setting the parameter and storing
  that value in the dataset rather than the value set. (:pr:`4759`)
- `plot_dataset` will now correctly wrap long titles into multiple lines. (:pr:`4770`)
- Keithley calibration: adjust calibration date before saving new calibration (:pr:`4779`)
- Visa insturments have gained the ``pyvisa_sim_file`` argument. This allows easier instantiation of
  simulated visainstrments in tests (both in QCoDeS and external) as well as use of simulated instruments in
  station yaml files. (:pr:`4790`)
- dond functions now return the dataset after `KeyboardInterrupt` or `BreakConditionInterrupt`.
  Instead of raising the interrupts, they are now logged as warning. (:pr:`4801`)
- The function ``qcodes.dataset.load_from_netcdf`` now always perservers order of the dependent coordinates
  when loading a netcdf file into memory. (:pr:`4802`)
- Add ``rundescriber_from_json`` to dataset public API
  for materializing ``RunDescriber`` objects from json strings (:pr:`4811`)
- Add ``RunDescriber``, ``InterDependencies_``, ``ParamSpecTree`` to dataset public API (:pr:`4816`)
- All public methods avilable in ``qcodes.dataset`` that takes a
  path to a db or data file now accepts a ``pathlib.Path`` object in addition to a ``str``. (:pr:`4818`)


New:
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- Add a callback to ``dataset.get_parameter_data``.
  This is usefull to track the progress of the data download.
  Since sqlite3 does not allow to keep track of the data loading progress,
  we compute how many sqlite requests correspond to a certain percentage of
  progress which is dictated by a config parameter "callback_percent".
  Then we perform x sql request instead of one, running the callback everytime. (:pr:`4688`)