QCoDeS/Qcodes: QCoDeS 0.16.0 - July 2020

Changelog for QCoDeS 0.16.0 The July 2020 release of QCoDeS. Note: this will be the last QCoDeS release to support python 3.6 Breaking Changes: math has been renamed to math_utils (#2040). The deprecated default_measurement of the Station is now removed (#2058) The deprecated methods get_data and get_values of the DataSet have now been removed (#2067) The get_setpoints method of the DataSet has been deprecated (#2068) New drivers: Improved drivers: The Keithley 2450 driver got a bunch of new parameters and methods (#1970, #2052) The Keysight B1500 driver now checks errors after setting each parameter (#2041) and outputs NaN instead of 199.999e99 when compliance is reached (#2074) The Keysight B1520A driver saw a bunch of improvements: sweep API was restructured more logically (#2044) the driver now supports all possible impedance models (#2047) the measurement status is retrieved after each sweep (#2050) added get_cmds for sweep_auto_abort and post_sweep_auto_abort (#2049) The Keysight B1517A driver had the following improvements: the measurement status is retrieved after each sweep (#2050). added get_cmds for sweep_auto_abort and post_sweep_auto_abort (#2049) added measurement status to current/voltage parameters (#2051) Improved: All master-slave references from drivers have been removed or deprecated (#2066) QCoDeS now comes with a code of conduct (#2078) Under the hood: Better execution of the test suite and hardening of tests (#2016, #2037, #2038, #2039, #2040, #2042, #2045, #2056, #2057, #2063, #2064, #2070, #2073, #2077, #2076). Special highlights from this massive work: The test suite now runs in parallel, a major win for all developers Much better handling of the QCoDeS config system as a result Update of dependencies to mypy 0.782 (#2034, #2075) and pyqtgraph 0.11.0 (#2036) The measurements.py module is now slightly better type-annotated (#2065) Documentation is built with Spinx 3.1.2 (#2069, #2072) Added support for (upcoming) pytest 6 and explicit dependency on packaging (#2076