QCoDeS/Qcodes: QCoDeS 0.22.0 - January 2021

Changelog for QCoDeS 0.22.0 The January 2021 release of QCoDeS. Breaking Changes: Removed deprecated SD_common modules from Keysight (#2544) Removed deprecated add_parameter method from DataSet (#2582) Deprecations: Unused semi private functions modify_values and modify_many_values are deprecated (#2582) New: Add native and convenient XArray data export methods to DataSet supporting concatenation, also improve the Pandas DataFrames export methods (#2507) Possibility to measure parameters in a separate thread per instrument inside doNd functions (#2616) guid_helpers: Extracting guids from database files and list of strings (#2541) Improved: Ravel data before inserting into DataSet cache (#2664) Removed duplicated attributes in channel.py (#2560) Fix header levels and section structure in Measurement example notebook (#2624) doNd notebook update: the notebook compares doNd with Measurement context manager (#2512) Allow passing ParamSpecBase objects to DataSet's get_parameter_data and related methods(#2655) New drivers: Keysight N9030B Spectrum Analyzer (#2553) Improved drivers: Add checks for signal current level and voltage level queries in Keysight E4980A (#2561) Set signal mode and snapshot_exclude in Keysight E4980A (#2612) Add test to ensure that AWG70000A driver throws a warning when waveform is clipped (#2585) Under the hood: Add support for type checking with Numpy 1.20 (#2499) Minor typing improvements (#2546) Improved minimum requirements in qcodes setup (#2569) Improved tests (#2581) Filter google rcp related warnings (#2598) Removed unneeded html theme path (#2608