v0.5.0 - New Search pipeline!

Added new Search pipeline! See the README or docs for more info, but now we can do

velocities = packingcubes.Cubes(
    orig_dataset_file,
    particle_type="PartType0",
    extras={"v":"Velocity"}
).Sphere(center, radius, fields="all").v

[0.5.0] - 2026-05-06

🚀 Features

• Add search objects (684481a)
• Add get_array_in_shape (7ada2b3)
• Attach datasets to Cubes objects on creation (add464a)
• Include extras when saving datasets (f5ef90f)
• Increase flexibility when saving extras (2873e47)
• Add support for extra array tuples (ecc041f)
• Allow dataset to be optional (eaf5d19)
• Explicitly allow attaching a Dataset to a ParticleCubes/MultiCubes (375766d)
• Change dataset to positional parameter (58bbfca)
• Allow setting bounding box on InMemory creation (e16d450)
• Convert bounding_box to method on BoundingVolume (ecf9c74)
• Expose extras processing to Cubes (7b8bba1)
• Add ability to attach extra fields to dataset (52b9101)
• Allow MultiCubes to initialize from dict of str->ParticleCubes (a47bb80)
• Use filepath as default InMemory save location (3e7b48d)
• Ignore extra kwargs in initialization (276497a)
• Allow passing NDArrays to load_dataset (f9add9e)
• Add _handle_dataset_types (8f4a826)
• Update make_cubes following (#30) (b77ce4c)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix negative chunk sizes (d0289bb)
• Fix not passing strict parameter (e8089e6)
• Fix data loading when slices not provided (bb51f34)
• Handle None filepaths for InMemory (4eaac93)
• Fix strict containment test handling (867d111)
• Fix loading entire index (b8a3193)
• Add missing typing (222f8a8)
• Fix improper indentation (b65d176)

💼 Other

• Ignore datafiles for doc testing (05d8f97)

🚜 Refactor

• Genericize array expansion (e9d0791)
• Drop initial from initial_particle_type for parity to InMemory (ffcf78b)
• Move extras to property (6207c19)
• Remove unused boundingbox (f4d6415)
• Remove extra shape parameter (085d8df)
• Overload _handle_dataset_types (4c588ed)
• Update exported functionality (0ec510d)
• Update OpTree to use Cubes (cd651e6)
• Remove extraneous None check, add Any typing (14d7e2d)
• Update make_MultiCubes (3da120b)
• (Breaking) make Cubes only return ParticleCubes objects (8cb1a97)
• Switch _add_trees to only one particle_type at a time (942b595)
• Remove make_ParticleCubes (dce9045)
• Stop passing around cube_dicts (0cd57ba)

📚 Documentation

• Rework key-features section (1fc7c9e)
• Add TvsR recipes (be5522b)
• Add figures to PWS (b02f896)
• Add new search pipeline and index list searching (ec78d2d)
• Update Working_With_Datasets (0dd1be5)
• Make ParticleCubes a link (59da1ca)
• Update the readme for new search pipeline (042e2a1)
• Add 'why use packingcubes', clean up (6ca6a02)
• Set explicit ordering for Cubes members (4052871)
• Tweak cubes creation docs to match updates (ca8c9dd)
• Fix formatting (a4c3ecf)
• Fix up Cubes docstring (2589a86)
• Update tutorials, Getting Started page (f45d3a6)
• Update README (db2f3db)
• Update module/package docstrings (d9fda93)

🧪 Testing

• Removing deadlines that are failing on CI (033ab1c)
• Fix bounding_box now method, add box version (7efc00b)
• Fix minor issues with testing (a0b242f)
• Fix numba coverage report (e3d9ecb)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Remove github pages workflow (95242f0)

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0