Changelog for QCoDeS 0.17.0
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The August 2020 release of QCoDeS.

Note: QCoDeS no longer officially supports Python ``3.6``.


Breaking Changes:
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There are no breaking changes in this release of QCoDeS.


New:
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- Add in-memory cache representation for data of ``DataSet`` (:pr:`2062`)


Improved drivers:
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- Keithley 2600: Add linefreq to pyvisa-sim yml file (:pr:`2100`)
- Keysight B1500: convert dummy values to NaN for spot measurement (:pr:`2108`)


Improved:
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- Station: Pass name as kwarg so that its order in instrument class is not relevant (:pr:`2099`)
- Add support for matplotlib 3.3 (:pr:`2101`)
- fix matplotlib deprecation warning (:pr:`2120`)
- Docs: update qcodes usage link (:pr:`2091`)
- Docs: Python version 3.6 is updated to 3.7 in ``Getting Started->Requirements`` (:pr:`2107`)
- Docs: Updating the broken link for conda-environment-update in Qcodes documentation (:pr:`2111`)
- Update error message for instruments pickling (:pr:`2094`)
- Fix: convert spyder kernels site print statement to logging message (:pr:`2097`)


Under the hood:
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- Move write cache to from ``DataSaver`` to ``DataSet`` (:pr:`2112`, :pr:`2114`)
- remove conda ruamel package to fix pipelines build (:pr:`2104`)
- Add Codacy and PyPi badges to readme (:pr:`2110`)
- Add supported python versions badge (:pr:`2113`)
- Bump sphinx from 3.1.2 to 3.2.1 (:pr:`2117`)