v2.4.1

2.4.1 (2016-04-16)

Contributor to this version: @ludwiglierhammer

New features and enhancements

• mdf_mapper / cdm_mapper: add new project CMEMS for drifting iridium buoy data (PR/405)
• mdf_mapper / cdm_mapper: new parameter "separator" to define filename separator while reading and writing files (PR/414)

Breaking changes

• cdm_mapper: update element names in MAROB CDM mapping tables (PR/393)
• cdm_mapper.util.mapping_functions: change default MAROB datetime string format to "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" (PR/393)
• cdm_mapper: keep pd.NA value and do not convert them to strings (PR/414)
• test_data: load parquet files instead of csv files (GH/410, PR/414)
• mdf_mapper / cdm_mapper: default file name extension is "pq" while reading and writing files (PR/414)

Bug fixes

• duplicates: do not change data types when updating quality flags and history description (PR/408)
• mdf_reader: decode data to "utf-8" to avoid misleading file encoding (PR/414)

Internal changes

• cdm_mapper.util.mapping_functions: delete function convert_to_decimal (PR/393)