Version 1.6.0

Notable changes, fixes, and additions since the previous release (1.5.1) are listed below. You can also see a full list of changes since the previous release.

Changes

• param.__version__ is now a string
• param.version.Version now supports a tag-based versioning workflow; if using the Version class, you will need to update your workflow (see autover for more details).
• Dropped support for python 2.6 (#175).
• No longer attempt to cythonize param during installation via pip (#166, #194).

Fixes

• Allow get_param_values() to work on class (#162).
• Fixed incorrect default value for param.Integer (#151).
• Allow a String to be None if its default is None (#104).
• Fixed ListSelector.compute_default() (#212).
• Fixed checks for None in various Parameter subclasses (#208); fixes problems for subclasses of Parameterized that define a custom __nonzero__ or __len__.

Additions

• Added DateRange parameter.

Miscellaneous

• No longer tested on python 3.2 (unsupported by our test environment; #218).