Changelog for QCoDeS 0.17.0

The August 2020 release of QCoDeS.

Note: QCoDeS no longer officially supports Python 3.6.

Breaking Changes:

There are no breaking changes in this release of QCoDeS.

New:

Add in-memory cache representation for data of DataSet (2062)

Improved drivers:

Keithley 2600: Add linefreq to pyvisa-sim yml file (2100)
Keysight B1500: convert dummy values to NaN for spot measurement (2108)

Improved:

Station: Pass name as kwarg so that its order in instrument class is not relevant (2099)
Add support for matplotlib 3.3 (2101)
fix matplotlib deprecation warning (2120)
Docs: update qcodes usage link (2091)
Docs: Python version 3.6 is updated to 3.7 in Getting Started->Requirements (2107)
Docs: Updating the broken link for conda-environment-update in Qcodes documentation (2111)
Update error message for instruments pickling (2094)
Fix: convert spyder kernels site print statement to logging message (2097)

Under the hood:

Move write cache to from DataSaver to DataSet (2112, 2114)
remove conda ruamel package to fix pipelines build (2104)
Add Codacy and PyPi badges to readme (2110)
Add supported python versions badge (2113)
Bump sphinx from 3.1.2 to 3.2.1 (2117)