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+What's New in SunPy 4.0?
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+The SunPy project is pleased to announce the 4.0 release of the sunpy core package.
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+On this page, you can read about some of the big changes in this release.
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+SunPy 4.0 also includes a large number of smaller improvements and bug fixes, which are described in the :ref:`changelog`.
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+By the numbers:
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+TODO: fill this in at release time.
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+Increase in required package versions
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+We have bumped the minimum version of several packages we depend on; these are the new minimum versions:
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+- python >= 3.8
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+Contributors to this Release
+============================
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+The people who have contributed to the code for this release are:
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+TODO: fill this in at release time.
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+Where a * indicates that this release contains their first contribution to SunPy.