.. _whatsnew_050:

What's new in 0.5.0 (8 December 2021)
-------------------------------------

These are the changes in icepyx 0.5.0 See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
including other versions of icepyx.


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

- Add ICESat-2 data read-in functionality (#222)
  * includes read module and is2cat (catalog) module, example notebook, and docs
  * basic tests file for read module validation functions
  * add basic build catalog function to read data object
  * add ability to get list of variables from a file
  * add variables example notebook; trim variables module details out of subsetting example
  * update examples from 2020 Hackweek tutorials
- preliminary AWS access (#213)
  * add basic cloud data access capabilities
  * add weak check for AWS instance

Bug fixes
~~~~~~~~~

- Fix failing test_visualization_date_range check for ATL07 (#241)
- remove extra cell causing errors in example notebook


Deprecations
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- None


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

- add github action to add binder badge to PRs (#229 and #233)
- update links for travis badge (#234)
- changed pytest to run in verbose mode so that it is more clear which parametrized test is failing.
- By default, no email status updates to users when ordering granules (#240)
- Set default page size for orders to 2000 per NSIDC recommendation (#239)
- update add and commit GitHub Action version (#244)
- update citation list and traffic/download data (#245)


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

- GitHub action UML generation auto-update (#244)


Other
^^^^^

- None


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

.. contributors:: v0.4.1..v0.5.0|HEAD