v0.6.3

Overview

This is a minor release that includes an important performance enhancement for combining large volumes of data residing in individual files into a single entity, a number of bug fixes, and other smaller improvements.

New features

• Overhaul combine_echodata function
  • Allow combine a large number of EchoData objects exceeding memory limits (#808, #824, #830)
  • Remove reversed time check from combine_echodata (#835)
  • Add minimal ZarrCombine test (#826)
  • Order the channel coordinate in file conversion to ensure consistent combination across files (#818)
  • Revise outdated data combination behavior (#797, #799)
  • Clean up all coordinate and attribute details under combine_echodata function (#848, #849)
• Track provanance for filenames of raw data files and auxiliary files
  • Propagate xml_path as meta_source_filenames to combined echodata (#814, #852)
  • Standardize handling of source_filenames in individual and combined echodata as well as downstream datasets (#804, #806)

Under the hood enhancements

• Clean up functions for setting encoding in the converted files (#851)
• Add requests and aiohttp to dependency (#844)
• Pin netcdf4 to be <1.6 for pypi package due to ongoing netcdf-c problem (#843)
• Write Parsed2Zarr generated files to temp_echopype_output/parsed2zarr_temp_files (#832)
• Change isel to sel to fix compute_Sv to allow working with dask array (#828)
• Add open_raw(offload_to_zarr=True) integration tests (#794)

Bug fixes

• Fix regression bug with interpolating environmental variables to ping_time grid (#837, #856)
• Fix WindowsPath error with compute_Sv when run on Windows (#829)
• Fix logic problem in open_raw(offload_to_zarr=True) that sometimes cause problems (#794, #853)

Infrastructure

• Update CI to use micromamba (#805)
• Fix version string on CI (#804, #820)
• Rename ci.yaml to build.yaml for clarity (#807)