What’s new in 0.5.0 (8 December 2021)

These are the changes in icepyx 0.5.0 See icepyx ChangeLog 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

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)

A total of 3 people contributed to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed for the first time.