v0.14.0

New Features

• clisops now makes use of pytest-xdist for parallel testing. This can be enabled using --numprocesses={int}. See the pytest-xdist documentation <https://pytest-xdist.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_ for more information (#345).
• Testing data caching is now handled by pooch and testing data registries ('stratus' for roocs/mini-esgf-data and 'nimbus' for Ouranosinc/xclim-testdata) (#345).
• clisops coding conventions now use Python 3.9+ conventions (#345).

Breaking Changes

• clisops has dropped support for Python 3.8 (#345).
• Several dependencies have been updated to include lower bounds for clearer compatibility and easier maintenance (#345, #XYZ).
  • The affected core dependencies are: dask >=2023.6.0, filelock >=3.15.4, geopandas >=0.14.0, jinja2 >=2.11, numpy >=1.23.0, packaging >=23.2, pandas >=1.5.0, pooch >=1.8.0, scipy >=1.9.0, and xarray >=2022.6.0.
  • Extra dependencies are ipython >=8.5.0, matplotlib >=3.6.0, nbconvert >=7.14.0, nbsphinx >=0.9.5, pre-commit >=3.5.0, and sphinx >=7.0.0.
• clisops no longer requires gitpython >=3.1.30 and requests >=2.0 (#345).
• The development dependencies have been updated to include deptry >=0.20.0 and pytest-xdist[psutil] >=3.2 (#345).
• netCDF4 has been moved from core dependency to development dependency (#345).

Other Changes

• clisops.utils.testing has replaced clisops.utils.tutorial. This submodule contains several functions and variables for allowing user control over testing data fetching (#345).
• The _common testing tools have been migrated to clisops.utils.testing or rewritten as pytest fixtures (#345).
• Testing data fetching now uses worker threads to copy cached data to threadsafe data caches that are separated by worker (#345).