https://sunpy.org/ 2026-04-16T16:25:23.414577+00:00 ABlog https://sunpy.org/posts/2016/2016-05-26-SunPy-07/ 2016-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 Stuart Mumford <section id="sunpy-0-7"> <p>SunPy 0.7 has arrived! This release is a culmination of about 10 months of work from 27 different people. This release brings many changes, the highlights are:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Python 3.4 and 3.5 support. This is the first version of SunPy to support Python 3, we recommend that users start to consider moving to Python 3, please report any issues you may have.</p></li> <li><p>New coordinate framework. The new <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sunpy.coordinates</span></code> module provides a high-level interface to converting between different physical coordinate systems such as Helioprojective and Heliographic.</p></li> <li><p>New <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">draw_rectangle</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">draw_contours</span></code> helpers for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Map</span></code>.</p></li> <li><p>Support for masks in SunPy <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Map</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MapCube</span></code>.</p></li> </ul> <p>For this version of SunPy we have started building our <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/">conda</a> packages on the excellent <a class="reference external" href="https://conda-forge.org/">conda forge</a> service. This means you need to add the conda-forge channel to your conda installation. If you have never installed SunPy before we recommend you follow our <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/tutorial/installation.html">installation instruction</a>. If you are upgrading from a previous release run the following two commands if you installed via <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">conda</span></code>:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">conda</span> <span class="n">config</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">add</span> <span class="n">channels</span> <span class="n">conda</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">forge</span> <span class="n">conda</span> <span class="n">upgrade</span> <span class="n">sunpy</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>If you installed via <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pip</span></code> then you can upgrade with:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">pip</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">U</span> <span class="n">sunpy</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>The following excellent people contributed to SunPy 0.7 (a * indicates their first contribution):</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">Stuart</span> <span class="n">Mumford</span> <span class="n">Pritish</span> <span class="n">Chakraborty</span> <span class="n">Steven</span> <span class="n">Christe</span> <span class="n">Jack</span> <span class="n">Ireland</span> <span class="n">Brigitta</span> <span class="n">Sipocz</span> <span class="n">David</span> <span class="n">Perez</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">Suarez</span> <span class="n">Punyaslok</span> <span class="n">Pattnaik</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Michael</span> <span class="n">S</span> <span class="n">Kirk</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Andrew</span> <span class="n">Leonard</span> <span class="n">Alex</span> <span class="n">Hamilton</span> <span class="n">Andrew</span> <span class="n">Inglis</span> <span class="n">Daniel</span> <span class="n">Ryan</span> <span class="n">Sally</span> <span class="n">Dacie</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Sanskar</span> <span class="n">Modi</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Albert</span> <span class="n">Y</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">Shih</span> <span class="n">Erik</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">Bray</span> <span class="n">Larry</span> <span class="n">Manley</span> <span class="n">Priyank</span> <span class="n">Lodha</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Nabil</span> <span class="n">Freij</span> <span class="n">Ankit</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Igor</span> <span class="n">Babuschkin</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Ole</span> <span class="n">Streicher</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Simon</span> <span class="n">Liedtke</span> <span class="n">Sudarshan</span> <span class="n">Konge</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Tessa</span> <span class="n">D</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">Wilkinson</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Thomas</span> <span class="n">Robitaille</span> <span class="n">yasintoda</span> <span class="o">*</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Happy Pythoning!</p> </section>

SunPy 0.7 has arrived! This release is a culmination of about 10 months of work from 27 different people. This release brings many changes, the highlights are:

2016-05-26T00:00:00+00:00