Changelog for QCoDeS 0.9.0

The December 2019 release of QCoDeS

New:

Call start_all_logging on qcodes import. See this example for more details on how this can be configured. (1850)

Improved:

Improvements to dataset notebooks (1813)
Fix warning in matplotlib plotting for legacy dataset (1839)
Add electrical delay parameter and function set_electrical_delay_auto for ZNB driver (1849)
Keysight 344xxA: Fix formatting issues (1851)
Fix docstrings in parameter.py (1855)
Update Infiniium.py: add option to save waveform to usb (1716)

New Instrument drivers:

Keysight 34980A driver (1810, 1867)

Under the hood:

Move QCoDeS import into function that needs it to break potential circular import (1870)
Fix return type of _BaseParameter.__call__ (1839)
CI: Trigger azure pipeline on tags (1837)
CI: Travis don't apt-get install (1842)
CI: Travis Explicitly whitelist branches and tags to build (1865)
CI: Check for consistent line ending using Codacy (1866)
CI: Also trigger azure builds on release branches (1868)
CI: Azure twine -r name should match service endpoint (1869)

Breaking Changes:

StandardParameter after long deprecation period has been removed (1859)
Parameter.set_validator method after long deprecation period has been removed (1856)

Deprecations:

Setting Parameter.raw_value (for example p.raw_value = 2) is deprecated because it can lead to inconsistent state of the parameter. Use Parameter.set or Parameter.cache.set methods instead. (1857)
Private method Parameter._save_val that has been spotted in use in instrument drivers is deprecated now. Use Parameter.set and Parameter.cache.set methods instead. (1858)

Recommended Dependencies:

Type checking should be done with Mypy 0.750. (1863)
Docs are build using Sphinx 2.2.2 (1864)