v0.5.4

Overview

This is a minor release that contains a few bug fixes and new functionalities.
The repo has migrated to use main instead of master after this release.

New features

• Adding external platform-related data (e.g., latitude, longitude) to the EchoData object via the update_platform method (#434)
• Allow converting and storing data with duplicated ping times (#433)
• Add simple functions to compute summary statistics under the metrics subpackage (#444)

Bug fixes

• Allow string info in AD2CP data packet header (#438)
• Re-attach sonar_model attribute to outputs of combine_echodata (#437)
• Handle exception in open_converted due to potentially empty beam_power group in Zarr files (#447)

Others

• Warn users of removal of old API in the next release (#443)