v2026.7 — JWST Cycle 6 Call For Proposals

What's Changed

• 1.2.6 by @hover2pi in #625
• Fixing downloads and a few other bugs by @hover2pi in #645
• Contam Tool fixes by @hover2pi in #646
• Add NIRCam DHS mode support to Contam Tool by @hover2pi in #636
• Add Docker by @york-stsci in #651
• Enables order 0 library in contam tool by @hover2pi in #652
• Update bokeh requirement from <=3.2.1,>=3.0 to >=3.0,<=3.6.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #622
• Patch v1.2.6.3a by @york-stsci in #664
• Update bokeh requirement from <=3.6.0,>=3.0 to >=3.0,<=3.8.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #661
• Add docker regression test by @york-stsci in #667
• Gaia fix by @hover2pi in #670
• Expanded web tests by @york-stsci in #679
• Enable NIRSpec PRISM groups integrations by @taylorbell57 in #682
• Update PandExo Docker deployment by @taylorbell57 in #681
• Removed pyup configuration file by @york-stsci in #683
• [SCSB-205] project.license.file -> project.license-files by @zacharyburnett in #648
• delete requirements.txt, prune unneeded requirements, and consolidate env/*.yml into exoctk-env.yml by @zacharyburnett in #647
• upload frozen requirements to release assets + add build / PyPI publish workflow by @zacharyburnett in #592
• Bump actions/checkout from 4.2.2 to 6.0.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #686
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 7.0.0 to 8.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #685
• Bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 3.2.0 to 4.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #688
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #687
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.4.3 to 7.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #689
• Limb Darkening RtD by @catherine-martlin in #413
• Rebase contam_precompute from main by @york-stsci in #691
• Precomputed SOSS contam tool by @hover2pi in #678
• Updated Contam Tool results by @hover2pi in #690
• Bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #693
• Bump actions/checkout from 6.0.3 to 7.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #694
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.6.2 to 7.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #695
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5.6.0 to 6.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #696
• Support configurable NIRCam readouts in the Groups & Integrations calculator by @taylorbell57 in #697
• Guard unsupported contamination modes and expose NIRCam DHS calculations by @taylorbell57 in #698
• Adding exoctk contamination cache into the container setup by @york-stsci in #692
• Update Dockerfile to allow commits endpoint for PandExo branch reference by @taylorbell57 in #700
• Update group limits for instruments and update related documentation by @taylorbell57 in #699
• Update DHS aperture names and pysiaf version for contam tool by @taylorbell57 in #704
• Add support for optional local Pandeia engine release candidate in Docker setup by @taylorbell57 in #702
• Fix Gaia target matching for high-proper-motion sources by @taylorbell57 in #707
• Living cache by @york-stsci in #708
• Improve contamination plot readability and guidance by @taylorbell57 in #721
• Cache source templates during contamination calculations by @taylorbell57 in #722
• Fix SUBSTRIP96 contamination plots to omit uncalculated order 2 by @taylorbell57 in #723
• Batch pySIAF source projections to accelerate contamination calculations by @taylorbell57 in #724
• Harden source flux validation and empty-channel handling by @taylorbell57 in #719
• Use Gaia DR3 DSC probabilities for contaminant classification by @taylorbell57 in #725
• Use V3 position angles consistently in contamination calculations by @taylorbell57 in #720
• Add endpoint-aware Gaia TAP failover by @taylorbell57 in #726
• Clarify contamination calculator guidance by @taylorbell57 in #727
• Exclude off-mask pixels from contamination averages by @taylorbell57 in #730
• Add MIRI/LRS slitless contamination support by @taylorbell57 in #731
• Bound NIRCam DHS contamination memory by @taylorbell57 in #732
• Restore bounded-memory caching for NIRCam DHS by @taylorbell57 in #733
• Update ExoCTK data downloads and harden visibility tests by @taylorbell57 in #703
• Add AI policy for contributions using generative AI by @taylorbell57 in #737
• Align contamination masks with reduced target traces by @taylorbell57 in #736
• Fix reduced contamination target outputs by @taylorbell57 in #738
• Add NIRCam/DHS support to the contamination calculator by @hover2pi in #677
• Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.14.0 to 1.14.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #743
• Bump actions/checkout from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #742
• Bump actions/setup-python from 6.3.0 to 7.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #741
• Update astropy requirement from <8,>=5.3.1 to >=5.3.1,<9 by @dependabot[bot] in #740
• Update setuptools requirement from <83,>=68.0.0 to >=68.0.0,<84 by @dependabot[bot] in #739
• Fix contamination target matching across coordinate epochs by @taylorbell57 in #745
• Raise minimum Astroquery version to 0.4.10 by @taylorbell57 in #747
• Adding cache hit log that records searches and hits by @york-stsci in #748
• Changed jquery from http to https in base.html by @york-stsci in #750
• Firefox select fix by @york-stsci in #752
• Empirical order 0 scaling by @hover2pi in #749
• Final preparations for v2026.7 by @taylorbell57 in #753

New Contributors

• @taylorbell57 made their first contribution in #682

Full Changelog: v1.2.6.3...v2026.7