v1.3.0

🎄🎄 Festive Edition 🎄🎄

A number of bugs have been fixed since v1.2.0, in particular:

• Drop use of USB serial numbers by @alexdewar in #462
• Fix: Sort COM ports by @alexdewar in #468
• Fix: Move device error message code to HardwareSetsControl by @alexdewar in #470

Besides that, the main change is that OPUS devices (i.e. the EM27 spectrometer) are now managed as plugins, like other devices (#362, #485).

While this exact version of the code has not been tested on the real hardware, most of the changes introduced in this release have been.

What's Changed

• Make all imports absolute by @alexdewar in #404
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #406
• Bump black from 23.10.1 to 23.11.0 by @dependabot in #409
• Bump pyinstaller from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0 by @dependabot in #411
• Bump matplotlib from 3.8.0 to 3.8.1 by @dependabot in #410
• Fix type errors in manage_devices.py by @alexdewar in #418
• Bump types-beautifulsoup4 from 4.12.0.6 to 4.12.0.7 by @dependabot in #408
• Bump mkdocstrings-python from 1.7.3 to 1.7.4 by @dependabot in #407
• TemperatureSequence alias for temperature monitors by @CWestICL in #416
• Added help button which opens new window showing html docs by @dc2917 in #412
• Bump mkdocs-material from 9.4.8 to 9.4.10 by @dependabot in #422
• Bump numpy from 1.26.1 to 1.26.2 by @dependabot in #423
• Bump mkdocstrings from 0.23.0 to 0.24.0 by @dependabot in #425
• Bump matplotlib from 3.8.1 to 3.8.2 by @dependabot in #424
• Manual device management dialog by @alexdewar in #413
• Add support for typed device parameters by @alexdewar in #428
• Add developer documentation for hardware framework by @alexdewar in #379
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #438
• Bump mkdocs-material from 9.4.10 to 9.4.14 by @dependabot in #439
• Bump mkdocstrings-python from 1.7.4 to 1.7.5 by @dependabot in #441
• Bump frozendict from 2.3.8 to 2.3.9 by @dependabot in #442
• Bump platformdirs from 3.11.0 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot in #440
• Seneca Unit Tests by @CWestICL in #445
• Add support for importing hardware sets by @alexdewar in #431
• Add pull request template by @alexdewar in #449
• Add button to remove hardware sets by @alexdewar in #448
• Split combo box code out from HardwareSetsControl by @alexdewar in #447
• Bump frozendict from 2.3.9 to 2.3.10 by @dependabot in #455
• Bump platformdirs from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 by @dependabot in #456
• Fix _send_temperatures() for Seneca device by @alexdewar in #454
• Fix stepper motor port for FINESSE by @alexdewar in #453
• Unify opus message types by @alexdewar in #450
• Clean up Device inheritance logic by @alexdewar in #452
• Add some more pre-commit hooks by @alexdewar in #466
• Automatically generate state machine diagrams for documentation by @alexdewar in #464
• ScriptRunner: Add proper transitions for cancelling from "waiting" states by @alexdewar in #465
• Fix: Install graphviz for docs deployment by @alexdewar in #467
• Drop use of USB serial numbers by @alexdewar in #462
• Fix: Sort COM ports by @alexdewar in #468
• Fix: Move device error message code to HardwareSetsControl by @alexdewar in #470
• Fix: Use closeEvent() cf. hideEvent() to identify when window closed by @alexdewar in #469
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #473
• Bump pre-commit from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 by @dependabot in #474
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot in #476
• Bump pyinstaller from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 by @dependabot in #477
• Bump isort from 5.12.0 to 5.13.1 by @dependabot in #480
• Bump mkdocs-material from 9.4.14 to 9.5.2 by @dependabot in #475
• Bump pyside6 from 6.6.0 to 6.6.1 by @dependabot in #479
• Show fallback html page if user guide has not been generated by @dc2917 in #446
• Convert OPUS devices to plugins by @alexdewar in #451
• Rename spectrometer code by @alexdewar in #481
• Replace plethora of tools with ruff by @alexdewar in #483
• OPUS: Poll status on backend by @alexdewar in #482
• Simplify frontend spectrometer widgets by @alexdewar in #484
• Tidy GUI labels and code by @alexdewar in #486
• Add a generic SpectrometerBase class by @alexdewar in #485
• Release v1.3 by @alexdewar in #489

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0