QCoDeS 0.22.0 - January 2021

Changelog for QCoDeS 0.22.0

The January 2021 release of QCoDeS.

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Breaking Changes:

• Removed deprecated SD_common modules from Keysight (#2544)
• Removed deprecated add_parameter method from DataSet (#2582)

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Deprecations:

• Unused semi private functions modify_values and modify_many_values
  are deprecated (#2582)

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New:

• Add native and convenient XArray data export methods to DataSet supporting
  concatenation, also improve the Pandas DataFrames export methods (#2507)
• Possibility to measure parameters in a separate thread per instrument
  inside doNd functions (#2616)
• guid_helpers: Extracting guids from database files and list of strings (#2541)

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Improved:

• Ravel data before inserting into DataSet cache (#2664)
• Removed duplicated attributes in channel.py (#2560)
• Fix header levels and section structure in Measurement example notebook (#2624)
• doNd notebook update: the notebook compares doNd with Measurement
  context manager (#2512)
• Allow passing ParamSpecBase objects to DataSet's get_parameter_data
  and related methods(#2655)

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New drivers:

• Keysight N9030B Spectrum Analyzer (#2553)

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Improved drivers:

• Keysight B1500: support measuring any number of channels during IV sweep (#2649)
• Add checks for signal current level and voltage level queries in Keysight E4980A (#2561)
• Set signal mode and snapshot_exclude in Keysight E4980A (#2612)
• Add test to ensure that AWG70000A driver throws a warning when waveform is clipped (#2585)
• Add input offset voltage parameter to Basel SP983C (#2648)

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Under the hood:

• Add support for type checking with Numpy 1.20 (#2499)
• Minor typing improvements (#2546)
• Improved minimum requirements in qcodes setup (#2569)
• Improved tests (#2581)
• Filter google rcp related warnings (#2598)
• Removed unneeded html theme path (#2608)