SasView 6.2.0 RC1

New in Version 6.2.0

This is a feature release, which comes with a number of new features, improvements, and bug fixes as listed below.

This version of SasView is built with Python 3.13, Sasmodels v1.1.0, Sasdata v0.12.1, and Bumps v1.0.5.

New Features

• Multiple slicers are now supported, including plot stacking and symmetric slicers by @jellybean2004 in #3758, #3806, #3832 and #3837
• The Invariant perspective has been given a major facelift, with a more user-friendly navigation. It now supports the calculation of SLD contrast from volume fraction (reverse calculation) and uncertainties on input parameters by @jellybean2004 in #3789 and #3835
• A new button is now available for any 1D plot to be sent to the Data Explorer for further analysis by @ChristianWoegerbauer in #3763
• Support for SAXS fitting v2 has been added by @klytje in #3786

Improvements

• Improvements in Corfunc slider, UI and documentation by @jellybean2004 and @DrPaulSharp in #3587, #3850, #3851, #3908
• Add Shape2SAS plugin models (not available to users) by @klytje in #3544
• Set wedge slicer fold default to True by @jellybean2004 in #3601
• Show correlation stats as a table by @rozyczko in #3754
• Make data operation window resizable and update docs by @Cristian2299 in #3755
• Implement Close Project functionality by @rozyczko in #3757
• Make Return act as Tab in parameter tables by @rozyczko in #3760
• Refactor and improve the fitting widget by @rozyczko in #3776
• Change Guinier extrapolation to radius squared by @DrPaulSharp in #3841
• Implement horizontal resize by @rozyczko in #3848
• Add Help context menu item by @rozyczko in #3849
• Remove hardcoded background colours and standardise UI by @jellybean2004 in #3862
• Restore fold for sector slicers by @jellybean2004 in #3878
• Add corrected intensities to Corfunc output by @jellybean2004 in #3907
• Improve fitting reports by @krzywon in #3870
• Normalise wedge slicer phi to (-180,180] by @jellybean2004 in #3928
• Close slicer parameter window with 2D plot by @jellybean2004 in #3930
• Redraw Box Sum after parameters are updated by @jellybean2004 in #3946
• Add tooltips to perspective UIs by @jellybean2004 in #3950
• Add documentation for CustomToolbar by @ChristianWoegerbauer in #3999

Infrastructure

• Dependabot: include all action updates in one PR by @krzywon in #3602
• Reduce duplicate CI builds and improve workflows by @llimeht in #3642
• Upgrade Python to 3.12 by @DrPaulSharp in #3649
• Set Python 3.13 for the next release by @llimeht in #3652
• Rework CI variables by @llimeht in #3653
• Update installation documentation by @DrPaulSharp in #3657
• Add Credits/Licences dialog with relevant licence and copyright data by @llimeht in #3680
• Improve PR job handling by @llimeht in #3734
• Remove requirement pins from release branches by @llimeht in #3743
• Update install instructions, README, and add resources by @TLO218 in #3753
• Add UI file for What's New window by @rozyczko in #3759
• Enable building custom branches by @wpotrzebowski in #3769
• Centralise release Python version definition by @llimeht in #3782
• Add CLI argument for data path by @krzywon in #3814
• Add Python 3.14 as a supported interpreter by @llimeht in #3822
• Improve release tooling by @llimeht in #3823
• Fix installer test job name display by @llimeht in #3840
• Fix duplicated CI job runs on pull requests by @backmari in #3866
• Release automation script rework and remove authors by @krzywon in #3872 and #3918
• Remove DISPLAY: 99 value from CI by @krzywon in #3893
• Add builds to CI for pushes to main by @DrPaulSharp in #3917
• Use the new official DigiCert action by @rozyczko in #3937
• Fix invocation of compile_licenses.py by @llimeht in #3938
• Remove .coverage file by @krzywon in #3942
• Add MPL hooks by @krzywon in #3944
• Temporarily pin and then unpin the pyausaxs version by @DrPaulSharp and @klytje in #3951 and #3953
• MacOS drag and drop installer by @wpotrzebowski in #4030

Code quality

• Make ruff more verbose about what it does not like by @llimeht in #3666
• Generalize Corfunc slider by @jellybean2004 in #3833
• Implement SliderPerspective properly by @jellybean2004 in #3859
• Clean up and reformat Invariant perspective by @jellybean2004 in #3861
• Use GuiUtil.communicator wherever possible by @krzywon in #3863 and #3936
• Reactivate GUI tests from the CI by @krzywon in #3867
• Clean up inversion code by @jellybean2004 in #3881
• Improve and add tests for Invariant Perspective UI and calculator by @jellybean2004 in #3888 and #3897
• Fix GSC GUI unit test by @krzywon in #3906
• Add offscreen mode to top-level conftest.py by @jellybean2004 in #3911
• Remove print statements from sascalc tests by @krzywon in #3922
• Clean up Size Distribution perspective UI files by @jellybean2004 in #3948
• Adds code to replace plot data for modified slicers by @DrPaulSharp in #4014
• Refactors slicers to remove unnecessary "updatePlot" calls by @DrPaulSharp in #4006
• Makes colormaptest robust against matplotlib changes by @llimeht in #4008

Bug Fixes

• Fix nightly build issues by @DrPaulSharp in #3650 and #3651
• Remove relative import in main.py by @DrPaulSharp in #3656
• Fix startup bug by @DrPaulSharp in #3732
• Fix stray references to run.py by @DrPaulSharp in #3733
• Fix C++ conversion error in plotting by @jellybean2004 in #3745
• Fix typo in the documentation for adding files via upload by @conanr-create in #3751
• Exclude C&S fitting tabs from tab_id calculation by @rozyczko in #3756
• Fix dispersity parameter naming for the multishell model by @dehoni in #3779
• Fix name selection issue in the Data Operations Panel by @krzywon in #3810
• Fix replace fit button handling after project load by @krzywon in #3816
• Fix keypair alias after certificate update by @rozyczko in #3817
• Restrict custom plot button to the Data Explorer by @DrPaulSharp in #3828
• Remove uv lock file by @jellybean2004 in #3852
• Fix handling of None in kernel_module by @rozyczko in #3845
• Fix truthiness logic check by @rozyczko in #3846
• Fix 2D polydispersity bug by @DrPaulSharp in #3855
• Fix model reordering in constrained fitting by @rozyczko in #3857
• Fix invariant graphs by @jellybean2004 in #3869
• Fix optimizer loading after project load by @krzywon in #3871
• Fix unique ID generation for multiple slicers by @jellybean2004 in #3879
• Fix scaling bug in 1D plots by @DrPaulSharp in #3889
• Fix Dmax explorer plot turning into a scatter plot when resetting view by @jellybean2004 in #3894
• Fix error propagation in power law by @jellybean2004 in #3898
• Fix structure factor copy/paste handling by @krzywon in #3940
• Don't include magnetism parameters in pure Python models by @pkienzle in #3961
• Release 6.2.0 polyhedron html by @sara-mokhtari in #3972
• Change docpath handling to accept absolute-looking paths within the d… by @llimeht in #3992
• Fix private names config for sphinx (for 6.2.0) by @llimeht in #3994
• Resized images and changed to a light background for What's new by @jellybean2004
• What's New polyhedron image switched to light background by @sara-mokhtari in #4002
• 3968: PD function shadowing [Release 6.2.0] by @krzywon in #4004
• Handles encoding issues in loading credits.html by @llimeht in #4015
• Adds example data from SasData repository by @dehoni in #4033
• Fixes mask editor bug by @DrPaulSharp in #4024
• Fixes symmetric wedge phi plots by @jellybean2004 in #4029
• Checks slicer children for removal by @jellybean2004 in #4025
• Fixes bugs for cloned slicer plots by @DrPaulSharp in #4021
• Update Licence with number of inst by @jellybean2004 in #4056
• SAXS fitting What's New by @krzywon in #4058
• Amend docs for invariant slider and image by @jellybean2004 in #4063

New Contributors

• @TLO218 made their first contribution in #3753
• @ChristianWoegerbauer made their first contribution in #3763
• @Cristian2299 made their first contribution in #3755
• @sara-mokhtari made their first contribution in #3972

Full Changelog: v6.1.3...v6.2.0rc1