.. _whatsnew_040:

What's new in 0.4.0 (13 May 2021)
---------------------------------

These are the changes in icepyx 0.4.0. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
including other versions of icepyx.


New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- use geoviews to visualize query spatial extent interactively when possible (#176)
- add ability to search by orbital parameters (RGT, cycle) (#148)
- pre-download elevation data visualization with OpenAltimetry API (#144)


Bug fixes
~~~~~~~~~

- Fix Sphinx warnings related to whitespace (#197)


Maintenance
^^^^^^^^^^^

- apply black formatting (#201)
- improvements to formatting and management of request parameters (use strings to prevent url formatting)


Documentation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Added Conda and pip badges  (#198)
- New example to showcase new visualization module


Other
^^^^^

- Add geoviews as extra optional dependency in setup.py (#193)
- Bulk rename master to main (#194)
- surface NSIDC order and http download errors more effectively to user (#195)
- switch to using a miniconda environment install for travis testing

Contributors
~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. contributors:: v0.3.4..v0.4.0|HEAD