Changelog for QCoDeS 0.21.0

The December 2020 release of QCoDeS.

Breaking Changes:

  • The default behavior of do_plot in doNd functions changed to False. The default value can be configured in the qcodesrc.json config file (#2478)

  • plotting: Don’t scale empty units (#2488)

New:

  • Example notebook for using Plottr with Qcodes measurements for live plotting (#2494)

  • Add kwarg for passing experiment to doNd functions (With tests) (#2526)

Improved:

  • The old loop and plotting methods are removed from driver notebooks: Alazar9360 (#2477)

  • Add PycQED to related projects (#2446)

  • Updated HP8753D notebook with doNd and its driver timeout (#2520)

  • Add config options for dataset write_in_background and write_periode (#2511)

  • filter urllib3.connection related warnings from console logger (#2540)

Improved drivers:

  • Keysight 34465A: Add missing parameters to pyvisa sim yaml file (#2452, #2493)

  • Driver SR86x: Add complex voltage (#2458)

  • Fix parameter name in Alazar ATS9870: EXTERNAL_CLOCK_10MHz_REF (#2492)

  • Add DC bias and measurement time params to Keysight E4980A driver (#2502)

  • Add impedance autorange parameter to Keysight E4980A driver (#2531)

  • Keysight B1500: ensure making snapshot of the pyvisa-sim instrument does not raise warnings (#2532)

Under the hood:

  • Verify that requirements are compatible with Spyder (#2443)

  • Require use of Any in all generic types (#2450, #2453, #2454, #2457, #2463, #2468, #2469)

  • Minor typing improvements (#2456, #2475)

  • refactor logic to find scale and prefix for units into a public function (#2480)

  • Use the latest json schema draft supported by python jsonschema validator (#2510)

  • GitHub actions cleanup (#2535)

  • Update readme badge to point to github actions (#2538)