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Bugfixes etc, but bumping the number to 0.3.0 to start the numbering off right

ALMA updated its archive for Cycle 3; this is a bugfix release to account for those changes.

This is a bugfix release, with a few feature improvements in internals:

• AstroResponse has been removed, which means that all cached objects will have new hashes. You should clear your cache: for most users, that means rm -r ~/.astropy/cache/astroquery/ (#418)
• In ESO and ALMA, default to not storing your password. New keyword store_password=False. (#415)
• In ESO, fixed a form activation issue triggered in ESO retrieve_data(), updated file download link triggered by server side change. More interesting, made username optional in login(): instead, you can now configure your preferred username. Finally, automatic login is now used by retrieve_data(), if configured. (#420, #427)
• Bugfix for UKIDSS: Login now uses the correct session to retrieve the data (#425)
• ALMA - many new features, including selective file retrieval. Fixes many errors that were unnoticed in the previous version (#433)
• ALMA - add help method and pass payload keywords on correctly. Validate the payload before querying. (#438)

v0.2.2 is a feature release including a new ALMA Archive service

Astroquery v0.2 has been released. Astroquery is a suite of tools for querying various astronomical web forms, including observation archives, source catalogs, and spectral line lists.

You can access astroquery at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/astroquery/0.2 or directly from github: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/releases/tag/v0.2

The documents are hosted at: http://astroquery.readthedocs.org/en/v0.2/

v0.2 has a few new features and includes major internal improvements.

The new tools provide interfaces to the ESO Archive, the GAMA database, the CDS Xmatch service, NASA's SkyView service, and the Open Exoplanet Catalogue.

Thanks to the many contributors this cycle: Julien Woillez (@jwoillez) Simon Liedtke (@derdon) Loïc Séguin-Charbonneau (@loicseguin) Caden Armstrong (@CadenArmstrong) Joseph Booker (@sargas) Erik Tollerud (@eteq) Madhura Parikh (@jdnc) @fred3m Ricky Egeland (@rickyegeland) Michel Droettboom (@mdboom) James Allen(@james-allen) Brigita Sipocz (@bsipocz) Gustavo Braganca (@gabraganca) Adrian Price-Whelan (@adrn) David Shiga (@dshiga) Matt Craig (@mwcraig) Kyle Willett (@willettk) Erik Bray (@embray) William Schoenell (@wschoenell)

Astroquery has 30 contributors, about 1/3 that of astropy, making it the largest affiliated package by contributor count.