The SunPy development team is pleased to announce the release of SunPy 0.4.0. This release contains many new features, some of which are contributed by people who participated in GSOC 2013. It includes the addition of a new local database for storing and searching data, it features a HEK to VSO translator and a new HELIO module in net. As well as this major work has been undertaken on the documentation and a new website developed.
This release contains 1025 commits from 19 people.
New Features:
* **Major** documentation refactor. A far reaching re-write and restructure.
* Add a SunPy Database to store and search local data.
* Add beta support for querying the HELIO HEC
* Add beta HEK to VSO query translation.
* Add the ability to download the GOES event list.
* Add support for downloading and querying the LYTAF database.
* Add support for ANA data.
* Updated sun.constants to use astropy.constants objects which include units, source,
and error instide. For more info check out http://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/constants/index.html
* Add some beta support for IRIS data products
* Add a new MapCubeAnimator class with interactive widgets which is returned by mapcube.peek().
* The Glymur library is now used to read JPEG2000 files.
* GOESLightCurve now supports all GOES satellites.
The people who have contributed to this release are:
Stuart Mumford
Simon Liedtke
Steven Christe
Jack Ireland
Andrew Inglis
Nabil Freij
Samuel Bennett
David Perez-Suarez
Pritish Chakraborty
Albert Y. Shih
John Evans
Michael Malocha
Florian Mayer
Russell Hewett
Jose Iván Campos
Keith Hughitt
Tiago Pereira