PlasmaPy v0.2.0 (2019-05-31)

Version 0.2.0 is the second development release of PlasmaPy. Alongside a few new features, it brings plentiful refactoring, documentation and back end improvements.

New Features

• Implemented machinery for a Plasma class factory based on PLEP 6.

• Created an openPMD Plasma subclass.

• Created classes to represent ionization state distributions for one or more elements or isotopes.

• Added basic particle drifts to plasmapy.physics.drifts.

• Turned most dependencies into optional, subpackage-specific ones.

Bug Fixes

• Improved handling of NumPy arrays for plasma parameter and transport functions.

• Vendored the roman package so as to allow installation via Conda.

• Decreased strictness of check_quantity to allow nan and inf by default.

Changes to API

• Moved plasmapy.transport from plasmapy.physics to its own subpackage.