Release 6.0.0-alpha

New features

• Orientation viewer
• Corfunc refactored
• Simultaneous fitting allows for weighting scheme
• Preferences panel with display and plotting options (polydispersity and residuals plots can be hidden).
• Improved label handling on plots
• Residuals plots refactored
• PDB reader refactored
• Wedge slicer added
• Sasdata package separated
• Move to PySide6
• Python 3.11 support
• Required documentation (#2641)
• Improved documentation
• New Tutorials

Major bug fixes:

• Handling of constraints for polydisperse parameters
• Binning and FitPage plotting of SESANS data
• Fixed 1D slit-smearing function
• Start-up speed improved
• Magnetic SLD?
• Multiplicity model?

New models

• New broad peak model

Anticipated for beta version

• PDB-based model saved to custom model (for S(q) calculations)?
• Batch Processing and 2D data slicing and processing for P(r)
• Local documentation generator
• Log explorer
• Send To button with replacement options

What's Changed (This section has to be improved)

• Fix wrong number of parameters on restore in slicer module by @butlerpd in #2462
• Update README.md by @lucas-wilkins in #2466
• More changes to corfunc by @lucas-wilkins in #2463
• Modify the way perspectives are closed by @rozyczko in #2469
• Testing nightly build by @wpotrzebowski in #2465
• Add argument to convertUI that forces full UI rebuild by @krzywon in #2483
• Pyside6 merge by @rozyczko in #2478
• Remove UI conversion from run.py by @krzywon in #2511
• Reinstate math import to Plotter.py by @krzywon in #2517
• 2111 name changes in corfunc by @lucas-wilkins in #2485
• Import pytest in density calculator GUI tests by @krzywon in #2523
• 2389: Validate text/int/float inputs within the preferences panel by @krzywon in #2476
• C&S fitting widget fixes for PySide6 by @rozyczko in #2528
• Reparent QAction from QtWidget to QtGui (PySide6) by @rozyczko in #2532
• Fix for save dataset error #2533 by @rozyczko in #2534
• Rog and beta q by @smalex-z in #2535
• Lowercase PySide6 executables for Linux compatability #2542 by @ehewins in #2543
• 2541 nightly build artifact doesnt start on mac by @wpotrzebowski in #2544
• Polydisperse parameter check on model load by @rozyczko in #2553
• Log explorer fix by @smalex-z in #2545
• Syntax highlighting in Pyside6 by @rozyczko in #2562
• Avoid parenting mess by calling the widget directly by @rozyczko in #2559
• Added model reload signal on data swap by @rozyczko in #2567
• Two options to disable residuals and polydispersity distribution plots by @lozanodorian in #2558
• 2550 wedge slicer by @ehewins in #2566
• Post-v5.0.6 Release Update by @krzywon in #2536
• Use a regex for version validity check rather than integer coercion by @krzywon in #2572
• Wedge slicer minor upgrages by @ehewins in #2570
• Strip debug messages from production version of Qt console by @pkienzle in #2557
• unit conversion for gui is missing by @rozyczko in #2568
• Adjusts scale and angular range in 1D plots from WedgeSlicer by @butlerpd in #2580
• Bump scipy from 1.7.3 to 1.10.0 in /build_tools by @dependabot in #2547
• Plot2D instances are now of Plotter2DWidget type. Fixes #2586 by @rozyczko in #2587
• fix dialog sizes for some calculators. #2437 by @rozyczko in #2581
• Fix for getting directory name by @rozyczko in #2596
• Remove Unused Dependency: h5py by @gdrosos in #2585
• 2577 orientation viewer doesnt work from nigthly build on mac by @lucas-wilkins in #2600
• Fixed unmatched method signatures in Box&Wedge Interactor child classes by @ehewins in #2589
• Particle editor by @lucas-wilkins in #2520
• Pass the Data1D/2D object, not its data attribute by @rozyczko in #2592
• Bump reportlab from 3.6.6 to 3.6.13 in /build_tools by @dependabot in #2597
• Added 3.11, removed 3.8 by @rozyczko in #2582
• Fix doc build errors by @smk78 in #2607
• Doc toctree fixes by @smk78 in #2609
• 2603: Numeric coercion in preferences by @krzywon in #2605
• What's new dialog by @lucas-wilkins in #2608
• created submenu for slicers being part of #2604 by @astellhorn in #2610
• Squish squashed by @lucas-wilkins in #2616
• Update sas_gen.py by @timsnow in #2617
• Killed Zombie Python Test by @lucas-wilkins in #2627
• Remove model.png by @lucas-wilkins in #2629
• Populate whats new with last version by @smk78 in #2625
• Fix errors while running convertUI by @krzywon in #2623
• 2618: Fix GPU and Optimizer Preferences by @krzywon in #2622
• Moving OSX signing to nightly by @wpotrzebowski in #2631
• Empty lines in data explorer by @rozyczko in #2643

New Contributors

• @smalex-z made their first contribution in #2535
• @ehewins made their first contribution in #2543
• @lozanodorian made their first contribution in #2558
• @gdrosos made their first contribution in #2585
• @astellhorn made their first contribution in #2610

Full Changelog: nightly-build...v6.0.0-alpha