v3.6

3.6 – 2025-10-28

General

• Minimum python 3.10; type hints updated accordingly (#419)
• Added standardized formatting with ruff (removing flake8) (#419, #442)
• Added pre-commit hooks for automated code quality checks (trailing whitespace, end-of-file-fixer, pyupgrade, ruff) (#419)
• Documentation can now be built as markdown for LLM context. Flat context file provided.
• Periodic sampled parameters implemented (for now fully supported by MCMC only), as well as tagging of derived parameters as periodic for analysis with GetDist (#440, #443; fixes #438)
• Added simple gaussian likelihood with optional normalization constant (#433)
• In Prior.reference(), now fixed values can be turned into a norm with given std (#429, #460; fixes #394)
• In SampleCollection, inconsistent sums of individual chi2's and prior's are allowed, for e.g. emulators (#456)
• sampler_type now an explicit parameter, instead of guessed from sampler name (#455)
• Fixed out-of-bounds bug in Pool2D (#457; fixes #454)
• use_renames option of theories deprecated (was not used)
• Empty dicts in component definitions now preserved (fixes #450; thanks yzhengsong)
• Improved truncnorm prior support (#431; thanks @xgarrido)

Cosmology

• Planck clik-based likelihoods now use the new clipy Python implementation (#444, #427)
• Planck 2015 likelihoods deprecated (#444)
• CLASS updated to 3.3 (#449; fixes #404, #405, #434, #448)
• Updated candl mentions in docs (#453, #447; thanks @Lbalkenhol)
• Updated DESI BAO DR2 references in docs (#422; thanks @armengau)