v0.25.1 – 2025-04-28

Summary

This is a small bug-fix release containing two minor fixes. See the changelog for more details and the list of merged pull requests and contributors below.

Contributors

@kosack and @maxnoe

Bug Fixes

• Catch any exception in _get_username (#2741) @maxnoe
• Do not require subarray pointing in HDF5EventSource (#2744) @maxnoe

v0.25.0 – 2025-04-16

Summary

This is mainly a Bugfix release but with one new feature adding two new fields to the hillas parameters.

See the changelog and the list of merged pull requests below.

Contributors

@kosack, @maxnoe, @mexanick and @ruoyushang

What has changed since v0.24.0

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Improve handling of missing true images (#2735) @maxnoe
• Hillas psi uncertainty ruo (#2629) @ruoyushang
• Fix wrong proba column being used for disp sign (#2738) @maxnoe
• Docs: Rename data model -> data format, update (#2734) @maxnoe

Bug Fixes

• Force absences of units for skewness and excess_kurtosis (#2732) @mexanick

Maintenance

• Prepare 0.25.0 (#2739) @maxnoe

v0.24.0 – 2024-04-01

Summary

This is a release adding major, long-awaited new features to ctapipe, including the optimization of event selection "cuts" and
the computation of basic IRFs.
This task is by no means finished, rather a first working version to build from. Please test and give feedback in issues and discussions.

See the full changelog in the documentation and the list of merged pull requests and contributors below.

Contributors

@Hckjs, @LukasBeiske, @TjarkMiener, @Tobychev, @ctoennis, @dependabot[bot], @jstvdk, @kosack, @maxnoe, @mdebony, @mexanick

What has changed since v0.23.2

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Add tutorial for mono dl1b to dl2 and update docs (#2691) @LukasBeiske
• Add CI run running on oldest supported versions of core dependencies (#2619) @maxnoe
• Muon parameters update (#2670) @jstvdk
• Update DVR status bits (#2725) @maxnoe
• Store event times using CTAO high resolution timestamps (#2707) @maxnoe
• Fix show config (#2703) @maxnoe
• Adding meta_convention option to SubarrayDescription.to_table() method (#2722) @Hckjs
• Add a method to read scheduling information with TableLoader (#2709) @mdebony
• Fix sonar for PRs from forks (#2710) @maxnoe
• Use sysmon coverage (#2697) @maxnoe
• Store subarray description in the output file of the stats tool (#2696) @TjarkMiener
• Bump SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action from 4 to 5 (#2701) @dependabot[bot]
• Fix name of cut-optimizer tool in example config (#2700) @Hckjs
• Fix telescope grouping for uint telescope id (#2692) @maxnoe
• Irf maker and cut optimiser (#2473) @Tobychev
• Make PSF work with nd-input (#2689) @maxnoe
• Fix SubarrayDescription.info for non-unique telescope description strings (#2673) @maxnoe
• Stats calc tool (#2628) @TjarkMiener

New features

• Chunk interpolation to select calibration data (#2634) @ctoennis
• PSF model (#2643) @ctoennis

Bug Fixes

• Make sure config is fully serialized to provenance json (#2688) @maxnoe
• Processing gain-selected dl1 data with the pixel stats tool (#2715) @TjarkMiener

Maintenance

• Fix checkout cleaning up coverage report in sonar ci (#2713) @maxnoe
• Add CI job testing on python 3.13 (#2687) @maxnoe
• Perform changelog check only for pull requsts targeting main (#2690) @maxnoe
• Make sonar coverage badge link point to coverage (#2686) @maxnoe

v0.23.2 – 2025-01-21

Summary

This is a quick bugfix / maintenance release to make ctapipe compatible with recent numba (0.61) and numpy releases (2.1 and 2.2).

See the changelog here: https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#ctapipe-v0-23-2-2025-01-21
and list of merged PRs below.

Contributors

@ChAr-De, @Hckjs, @kosack, @maxnoe and @morcuended

What has changed since v0.23.1

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Prepare 0.23.2 (#2684) @maxnoe
• Update the link to the CI status badge in README (#2679) @morcuended
• Fix broken Numpy style guide link. (#2677) @ChAr-De

Bug Fixes

• Fill containers.SimulatedCameraContainer.true_image_sum in HDF5eventsource (#2680) @Hckjs

Maintenance

• Add explicit cast necessary in numpy >=2.1 (#2682) @maxnoe
• Fix sonar for pull requests (#2671) @maxnoe

v0.23.1 – 2024-12-05

Summary

This is a bugfix release, mainly to address issues that arose from trying to process prod6 files on the grid.

See changelog here: https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#change-log and list of merged pull requests below.

Contributors

@Hckjs, @LukasBeiske, @kosack and @maxnoe

What has changed since v0.23.0

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Prepare 0.23.1 (#2667) @maxnoe
• Fix dtype of tel_id in subarray hdf table (#2622) @maxnoe
• Fixed unknown configs being silently ignored (#2666) @kosack
• Switch to use Minio hosted by DESY for testdata (#2664) @maxnoe
• Fix tool exit order (#2662) @maxnoe
• Fix error in ctapipe-process in case telescope event is missing true image (#2659) @maxnoe
• Fix uncertainty calculation in StereoMeanCombiner (#2658) @LukasBeiske
• Use sphinx-changelog (#2657) @maxnoe
• Support astropy 7.0 (#2639) @maxnoe

Maintenance

• Update image.cleaning docs (#2669) @Hckjs

v0.23.0 – 2024-11-20

Summary

For the changelog, please see https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#ctapipe-v0-23-0-2024-11-18

For contributors and list of merged PRs, see below.

Contributors

@TjarkMiener, @ctoennis, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @kosack, @maxnoe, @mexanick and Christoph Toennis

What has changed since v0.22.0

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Prepare 0.23.0 (#2654) @maxnoe
• Improve reference metadata handling for EventSource (#2648) @maxnoe
• Fix CTAO link in docs (#2653) @maxnoe
• Variance calibration (#2636) @ctoennis
• Update / add reprs for reference metadata objects (#2650) @maxnoe
• Bump SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action from 3 to 4 (#2652) @dependabot
• Make some dependencies optional (#2641) @maxnoe
• Refactor how shower distributions are written, write them for all EventSources, implement for HDF5EventSource (#2633) @maxnoe
• Add calibration calculators (#2609) @TjarkMiener
• Set null island as fallback reference location in Subarray.from_hdf (#2627) @maxnoe
• Bump mamba-org/setup-micromamba from 1 to 2 (#2624) @dependabot
• Add 0.22 to version switcher (#2618) @maxnoe

New features

• Improve changelog checks (#2637) @mexanick
• Add Hipparcos as second star catalog, apply space motion (#2625) @ctoennis

Bug Fixes

• Restore reading of pointing for files written with ctapipe<0.21 (#2655) @maxnoe
• Fix changelog checks (#2642) @mexanick
• Improve changelog checks (#2637) @mexanick

v0.22.0 – 2024-09-13

Summary

See the full changelog in the docs for the release notes.

Below, you can find the contributors and merged PRs.

Contributors

@Hckjs, @TjarkMiener, @aaguasca, @ctoennis, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @kosack, @maxnoe, @mexanick

What has changed since v0.21.2

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Convert metadata Instrument.site to free string instead of enum (#2616) @maxnoe
• Fix error messages for non-existing path (#2591) @maxnoe
• Move interpolator from io to monitoring (#2615) @maxnoe
• Check uniqueness of input paths and obs_ids in merge tool (#2611) @maxnoe
• Fix typo CameraGeometry docs (#2613) @aaguasca
• Add support for numpy 2.0 (#2580) @maxnoe
• Fix warning in sonarqube (#2588) @maxnoe
• Fix typo waveform in docs (#2608) @aaguasca
• Bump SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action from 2 to 3 (#2605) @dependabot
• Input reference meta (#2598) @maxnoe
• OutlierDetector components (#2604) @TjarkMiener
• Update AUTHORS, add to release procedure (#2590) @maxnoe
• Variance extractor (#2543) @ctoennis
• Delete tel attribute from MonitoringCameraContainer in NSBImageCleaner (#2602) @Hckjs
• Fix deprecation warning in provenance, fixes #2592 (#2599) @maxnoe
• Fix provenance in case broken packages are in the environment (#2595) @maxnoe
• Fix traitlets test by ignoring test modules and _dev_version (#2593) @maxnoe
• Fix docs build (#2589) @maxnoe
• Treat deprecation warnings as errors (#2581) @maxnoe
• Fix sonar (#2586) @maxnoe
• Fix sonarqube for forks (#2585) @maxnoe
• Fix missing SONAR_HOST_URL (#2584) @maxnoe
• use correct sonar action (#2583) @maxnoe
• Fix filename in sonar action (#2582) @maxnoe
• Run sonar in separate step to enable PRs from forks again (#2578) @maxnoe
• Bugfix: don't intercept normal SystemExit(0) in Tool (#2575) @mexanick

New features

• Interpolator (#2600) @ctoennis
• Add StatisticsAggregator API (#2554) @TjarkMiener
• Update exception handling in tools (#2594) @mexanick
• Implement lstchains image cleaning (#2541) @Hckjs

Maintenance

• Update intersphinx mapping and sphinx-gallery-conf (#2572) @Hckjs

v0.21.2 – 2024-06-27

Summary

Small bugfix release to fix ctapipe with scipy 1.14.

Find the changelog in the docs: https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#ctapipe-v0-21-2-2024-06-27
and the list of merged pull requests below.

Contributors

@kosack, @maxnoe, @mexanick and @morcuended

What has changed since v0.21.1

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Support scipy 1.14, fixes #2568 (#2569) @maxnoe
• Use debug logging for plugin loading details (#2560) @kosack
• Add new version to docs switcher (#2558) @maxnoe

New features

• Feature/custom exit codes in tools (#2566) @mexanick

Maintenance

• Remove unsed config files for old test and quality control systems (#2562) @morcuended

v0.21.1 – 2024-05-15

Summary

This is a small bugfix and maintenance release for 0.21.0.

Find the changelog in the docs: https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#ctapipe-v0-21-1-2024-05-15
and the list of merged pull requests below.

Contributors

@gschwefer and @maxnoe

What has changed since v0.21.0

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Render changelog for 0.21.1 (#2557) @maxnoe
• Fix StereoTrigger non-deterministically discarding LST-1 in prod6 files (#2552) @maxnoe
• Impact code cleanup (#2551) @gschwefer

Maintenance

• Remove upload to pages ci, replaced by using readthedocs (#2553) @maxnoe

v0.21.0 – 2024-04-26

Summary

This is a pretty large release with lots of changes, new features and a couple of API breaking changes, see below.

The headline feature is that through a lot of work, the ImPACT reconstructor works again.

For the full changelog, see https://ctapipe.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html#ctapipe-v0-21-0-2024-04-26, for contributors and list of merged PRs, see below.

Contributors

@Hckjs, @LukasBeiske, @LukasNickel, @StFroese, @Tobychev, @aknierim, @ccossou, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @gschwefer, @kosack, @maxnoe, @morcuended and @nbiederbeck

What has changed since v0.20.0

Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated.

• Prepare changelog for 0.21.0 (#2550) @maxnoe
• Update to bokeh 3 (#2549) @maxnoe
• Compute deconvolution parameters in FlashCamExtractor only as needed (#2545) @maxnoe
• Fix possible out of bounds error in FlashCamExtractor (#2544) @maxnoe
• Fix CI (#2547) @maxnoe
• Add function to get point on shower axis in altaz (#2537) @maxnoe
• Update ImPACT code to work again (#2305) @Tobychev
• Bump JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action from 4.5.0 to 4.6.0 (#2538) @dependabot
• Interpolate pointing in TableLoader and HDF5EventSource (#2409) @maxnoe
• add SonarQube badges & remove codecov (#2531) @kosack
• Overburden-to-height conversion functions (#2422) @gschwefer
• Add a trait for astropy quantities (#2524) @LukasBeiske
• Add configuration for using CTAO sonarqube to check code (#2463) @maxnoe
• Add a note to CameraGeometry docs about from_name() (#2485) @kosack
• Fix entry point specification (#2516) @maxnoe
• Use signal_fraction for training particle classifier (#2465) @LukasBeiske
• fix some documentation bugs (#2514) @kosack
• Test on python 3.12 (#2486) @maxnoe
• Bump pre-commit/action from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 (#2510) @dependabot
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 (#2509) @dependabot
• Bump release-drafter/release-drafter from 5 to 6 (#2508) @dependabot
• Bump andstor/file-existence-action from 2 to 3 (#2506) @dependabot
• Improve logging colorization, fixes #2504 (#2505) @maxnoe
• Fix wrong branch name in README (#2502) @maxnoe
• Fix pydata sphinx theme is not safe for parallel writing warning (#2500) @maxnoe
• Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (#2498) @dependabot
• Load constant pointing in TableLoader (#2481) @maxnoe
• Accept CEP 002 (#2400) @kosack
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#2492) @dependabot
• Bump JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action from 3.7.1 to 4.5.0 (#2494) @dependabot
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 (#2493) @dependabot
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 (#2495) @dependabot
• Update citation year and add link (#2487) @maxnoe
• Write out cross-validation results immediately (#2483) @LukasBeiske
• Update and add missing docstrings related to ML functionalities (#2456) @LukasBeiske
• Let the DispReconstructor also compute a score for the sign prediction (#2479) @maxnoe
• Allow passing of ax to Subarray.peek, do not always call tight_layout (#2369) @maxnoe
• Change how DataWriter writes simulation pointing (#2438) @maxnoe
• Add missing cache=True to numba compilation (#2477) @maxnoe
• Docs: Fix Headings in Docs [Closes #2472] (#2474) @aknierim
• Allow setting n_jobs on tool invocation (#2430) @LukasNickel
• Update citation (#2470) @maxnoe
• Make ML config files more readable and add comments. (#2455) @LukasBeiske
• Remove python warnings (#2421) @LukasNickel
• Enable str/Path as input to get_hdf5_datalevels (#2451) @maxnoe
• Add true_impact_distance to cross validation output (#2468) @LukasBeiske
• Chunked loading of training data (#2423) @LukasBeiske
• Rename single changelog file (#2435) @StFroese
• Removed stray : from ctapipe.io page (#2448) @Tobychev
• Bump setuptools and setuptools scm versions (#2447) @morcuended
• Propose CEP 3: remove image parameters in camera frame (#2405) @maxnoe
• run test only if labels don't contain 'documentation' (#2227) @nbiederbeck
• Fix unwanted default columns in disp output (#2440) @maxnoe
• Add docstring for ctapipe-train-disp-reconstructor (#2420) @LukasBeiske
• Check pointing coordinate frame in DispReconstructor (#2431) @LukasBeiske
• Check if tel_id exists when looking up TelescopeParameters (#2429) @maxnoe
• Fix broken urls in README (#2408) @aknierim
• Fix h_max definition (#2403) @kosack
• Do not use hidden attribute reconstructor._models in ctapipe-apply-models (#2418) @LukasBeiske
• Changed some numpy calls following the numpy 2.0 migration guide (#2406) @Tobychev
• Include example config for ctapipe-train-disp-reconstructor in quickstart tool (#2414) @LukasBeiske
• Fix empty reference location (#2402) @kosack

New features

• Change R1- and DL0-waveforms shape to (n_channels, n_pixels, n_samples) (#2529) @Hckjs
• Change ImageCleaner API (#2511) @Hckjs
• Use intmin for invalid pixel positions, allow empty arguments (#2397) @maxnoe
• Add option to override obs_id in SimTelEventSource (#2411) @maxnoe

API Changes

• Change ImageCleaner API (#2511) @Hckjs
• Refactor/rename datawriter options (redux) (#2520) @kosack
• Move TableLoader traits to read_...-methods (#2482) @Hckjs

Data Model Changes

• Change R1- and DL0-waveforms shape to (n_channels, n_pixels, n_samples) (#2529) @Hckjs
• Change definition of leakage_pixel_{1,2} (#2432) @maxnoe
• Improve column names for disp (#2443) @LukasBeiske
• Add option to override obs_id in SimTelEventSource (#2411) @maxnoe

Bug Fixes

• Properly transform between camera and telescope frame in muon fitter (#2464) @maxnoe

Refactoring and Optimization

• Prevent import of ctapipe.image at import time of ctapipe.io (#2488) @maxnoe

Maintenance

• Use macos 14 (apple arm) in CI (#2534) @maxnoe
• Fix docs build, use sphinxcontrib-bibtex for bibliography (#2536) @maxnoe
• Drop python 3.9 (#2526) @maxnoe
• Fix sonar complaining about statements in notebooks (#2527) @maxnoe
• Update sonar key (#2525) @maxnoe
• Update python version in deploy config (#2523) @maxnoe
• Use ruff for linting (#2416) @maxnoe
• Move options from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml (#2512) @maxnoe
• Switch to src based repository structure (#2459) @maxnoe
• pin scikit-learn to < 1.4, breaks with astropy tables (#2496) @maxnoe
• Add config to let dependabot update github actions (#2490) @maxnoe
• Fix some minor issues found by sonarqube (#2466) @maxnoe
• Move TableLoader traits to read_...-methods (#2482) @Hckjs
• Fix docstring of EventSource (#2419) @maxnoe
• Support for astropy 6 (#2475) @maxnoe
• Fix indentation in docs resulting in wrong rendering (#2462) @maxnoe
• Fix CI after pytest-xdist update (#2469) @maxnoe
• Use editable install to fix coverage (#2460) @maxnoe
• Fix coverage report not being found by codecov (#2458) @maxnoe
• Add more nitpick ignores to fix docs build after traitlets update (#2412) @maxnoe
• Fix docs by adding more traitlets nitpick ignores (#2399) @maxnoe