QCoDeS 0.37.0 (2023-01-26)

Breaking Changes:

InstrumentBase.ancestors now returns a tuple of ancestors
to the current Instrument, InstrumentChannel or InstrumentModule and not a list.
dond , do1d etc. now returns tuples of Matplotlib axes and colorbars
when plotting and not lists. #4894
Datasets are now exported to a folder next to the database by default rather then to the users home folder.
Note that if you had specifically configured this in a local config file this should be updated too for the
change to take effect. #4899
DriverTestCase has been moved from qcodes.instrument_drivers.test to qcodes.tests.driver_test_case. #4922
qcodes.instrument_drivers.VoltageDivider and qcodes.instrument_drivers.devices.VoltageDivider has
been deprecated. Its functionality is better implemented in qcodes.parameters.DelegateParameter which
is also significantly better tested and more general. #4923
The QDevil QDAC 1 driver has been migrated to qcodes_contrib_drivers and is included from version
0.18.0. The driver in QCoDeS is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. #4932
Remove deprecated Mercury iPS driver
qcodes.instrument_drivers.oxford.mercuryiPS.MercuryiPS,
use qcodes.instrument_drivers.oxford.OxfordMercuryiPS
instead. #4936

When a dataset is exported an optional user supplied entry point is called. See
here <../examples/DataSet/Exporting-data-to-other-file-formats.html#Automatically-post-process-exported-datasets.>__
for more details. #4857
PyVISA 1.13 is now supported. #4895
validate method of DelegateParameter now also validates the given value
against the validator of the source parameter (if source parameter is present). #4870
The dataset logic has been updated to ensure that if you set an already completed
dataset as completed the completion timestamp will not be updated. #4876
Update the pyqtgraph plot backend for upstream changes in pyqtgraph. #4886
QcoDeS is now typechecked with Pyright in addition to mypy. This should give a significantly
better user experience when working in VS Code. #4938

The Minicircuits USB SPDT driver now supports running with the more modern version of the driver DLL mcl_RF_Switch_Controller_NET45.dll #4623
Two parameters are added to the Keysight.N51x1 class, conditioned on it having the 'UNW' option:
1. Having the pulse modulation status on or off.
2. Setting it to 'internal' or 'external'.

From the Keysight manual:
1. This command enables or disables pulse modulation for the selected path.
2. This command sets the source of the pulse modulation. #4840