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• Bugfix for ITM issue as reported in #44

• Bugfix for Bruker AFM issue as reported in #41

• Drop support for Python 3.9, which is currently in legacy status (if you need Python 3.9 support use pySPM version 0.5.2 (pip install pySPM==0.5.2)
• Significant code cleanup with extensive refactoring of library methods
• Lots of small improvements

This is a major release with a lot of changes, so please report any bugs you find!

Bugfix for non-square Bruker AFM files as reported in #38

• Bugfix for Bruker AFM files as reported in #37

• Added support for Python 3.12 (currently supports Python 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12)
• Some minor improvements to LaTeX string handling
• Fixed issue with __version__ not available during local testing

This release deprecates Python 3.8 support, which currently has less than 17% usage. This allows us to update to the latest versions of a bunch of important dependencies.

If your code requires 3.8, do not update from pySPM 0.3.4.

Deprecated

Python 3.8

Updated

The updated versions are the lower limits:

python 3.8 -> 3.9 numpy 1.24 -> 1.26 scikit-image 1.20 -> 1.21 seaborn 0.12 -> 0.13 ipython 8.12 -> 8.16

What's Changed

• Bug fix for low pass filters
• Bug fix for unicode characters in Nanonis SXM
• Bug fix for image correction functions
• Added Gaussian and Percentile image filters
• Replace LaTeX with Unicode
• Switch to scipy filter filter functions
• Remove deprecated numpy functions
• Full project refactoring
• Switch to poetry build system with pyproject.toml

Fix issue for Bruker fileformat