.. _whatsnew_070:

What's new in 0.7.0 (20 March 2023)
-----------------------------------

These are the changes in icepyx 0.7.0 See :ref:`release` for a full changelog
including other versions of icepyx.


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

-  transition icepyx to using earthaccess library for authentication (#410)

    - add earthaccess (formerly earthdata) as dependency
    - remove Earthdata module
    - update earthdata_login function to use earthaccess
    - update data access and other example notebooks
    - update earthdata  and NSIDC login tests
    - simplify cloud access example auth handling using earthaccess

Bug fixes
~~~~~~~~~

- update read-in module for ATL11 (#398)

    - remove sc_orient from atl11 required vars list
    - introduce new function to determine if data product uses ground tracks, paths, or profiles and generalize code accordingly
    - add some custom treatments for 2d delta_times and cases when there is a gt and spot
    - add atl11 path parsing and docs
    - handle merging given non-unique ref_pt coordinates

- change simplify to preserve topology (#404)

- update oa viz for polygons after spatial module change (#390)

    - reactivate atl10 and atl12 viz tests and update sizes
    - disable ATL13 viz tests

- manual solution for getting ATL15 s3 urls via icepyx (#413)

- fix NSIDC login tests (#418)

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

- icepyx.core.earthdata module


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

- update license and copyright info (#408)
- update uml action to not install requirements (#406)
- update traffic data and action (#401)

    - add updating pip and upgrading pypistats to gh action

- update tracking data and actions (#393)

    - update action versions in github workflows
    - only pip install needed packages instead of all requirements


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

- add ravindraK08 as a contributor for review (#405)
- add icesat2py clarification note (#395)
- update contact page - discontinue regular meetings (#396)
- add JOSS and update conda badges (#388)


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

.. contributors:: v0.6.4..v0.7.0|HEAD