Changelog

v0.5.0 (unreleased)

Contributors to this version: Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG), Trevor James Smith (@Zeitsperre), Louise Arnal (@lou-a).

New features and enhancements

  • A periods parameter was added to frequency_analysis.local.fit to compute multiple separate periods with a single call. (PR/219).

Breaking changes

  • The xhydro testing utilities have been rewritten to use pooch for downloading and caching testing datasets from hydrologie/xhydro-testdata. (PR/212).

  • The xhydro testing utilities now require pytest-xdist as a development dependency. (PR/212).

  • Many core dependencies have been updated to more modern versions. (PR/218).

Internal changes

  • Updated the notebooks to reduce the load on ReadTheDocs. (PR/211).

  • Tests can now be run using the pytest-xdist plugin for distributed testing. See the pytest-xdist documentation for more information. (PR/212).

  • Several tests reliant on online servers and services have been marked as online to prevent them from running in contexts where internet access is limited. (PR/212).

  • Many function docstrings and type hints have been updated for accuracy and precision. (PR/212).

  • The xHydro project now has a set of logos for use in documentation, the readme, and other materials. (PR/217).

v0.4.0 (2024-10-04)

Contributors to this version: Trevor James Smith (@Zeitsperre), Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG), Thomas-Charles Fortier Filion (@TC-FF).

New features and enhancements

  • xhydro now supports RavenPy v0.15.0 (RavenHydroFramework v3.8.1). (PR/161).

  • Regional frequency analysis functions as well as Resampling function for uncertainties have been added to the xhydro.frequency_analysis module. (PR/186).

  • New function xhydro.modelling.format_input to format CF-compliant input data for hydrological models (currently only supports Hydrotel). (PR/185).

  • xhydro now has a pmp module to compute the Problable Maximum Precipitation from climate change scenarios. (PR/176).

Internal changes

  • numpy has been pinned below v2.0.0 until xclim and other dependencies are updated to support it. (PR/161).

  • A helper script has been added in the CI directory to facilitate the translation of the xhydro documentation. (GH/63, PR/163).

  • The conda environment now relies on the newly created xdatasets package. (PR/164).

  • The cookiecutter has been updated to the latest commit. Changes include workflow fixes, stricter coding standards, and many small adjustments to the documentation. (PR/164).

  • A previously uncaught YAML formatting issue has been addressed. Stricter style conventions are now enforced. (PR/174).

  • Chunking was adjusted in a few functions to work with the new requirements of apply_ufunc. (PR/180).

  • Updated the cookiecutter template to the latest commit. (PR/177):
    • Actions have been updated and synchronized.

    • Warnings in Pull Requests from forks are now less buggy.

    • A new pre-commit hook and linting step for validating numpy docstrings has been added (numpydoc).

    • All pip-based dependencies used to run in CI are now managed by a CI/requirements_ci.txt that uses hashes of packages for security.

  • Added two new Batch (.bat) files to help facilitate the translation of and the generation of the xhydro documentation in Windows environments. (PR/196).

  • The bumpversion workflow now uses the Hydrologie Helper Bot to make signed commits. (PR/199).

  • Updated the cookiecutter template to the latest commit. (PR/199):
    • Updated development dependencies to the latest versions.

    • Staged support for Python3.13.

    • Added environment caching to existing workflows.

Breaking changes

  • xhydro now requires python >= 3.10. (PR/195).

v0.3.6 (2024-06-10)

Contributors to this version: Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG), Richard Arsenault (@richardarsenault), Sébastien Langlois (@sebastienlanglois).

New features and enhancements

  • Added support for the Hydrotel hydrological model. (PR/18).

  • Added support for various hydrological models emulated through the Raven hydrological framework. (PR/128).

  • Added optimal interpolation functions for time-series and streamflow indicators. (PR/88, PR/129).

  • Added optimal interpolation notebooks. (PR/123).

  • Added surface properties (elevation, slope, aspect ratio) to the gis module. (PR/151).

Breaking changes

Internal changes

  • Tests using the gamma distribution were changed to the gumbel_r to avoid changes in xclim v0.49.0. (PR/145).

  • The cookiecutter template has been updated to the latest commit. Changes include the addition of a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.rst file, the renaming of CHANGES.rst to CHANGELOG.rst, and many small adjustments to the documentation. (PR/147).

  • Added a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.rst file with Contributor Covenant guidelines. (PR/147).

v0.3.5 (2024-03-20)

Contributors to this version: Trevor James Smith (@Zeitsperre), Thomas-Charles Fortier Filion (@TC-FF), Sébastien Langlois (@sebastienlanglois), Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG).

New features and enhancements

  • xhydro has implemented a gis module that facilitates geospatial tasks needed for gathering hydrological inputs. (GH/60, PR/61).

Internal changes

  • Added a workflow based on actions/labeler to automatically label Pull Requests based on files changed. (PR/68).

  • Added a conditional trigger to the test-notebooks job to run in advance of pull request approval in the event that the notebooks found within docs/notebooks have been modified (labeled « notebooks »). (PR/68).

  • Significant changes to the Continuous Integration (CI) setup. (PR/65):
    • Added a workflow configuration using label_on_approval.yml and modifications of main.yml so that fewer tests are run on Pull Requests before they are fully approved.

    • Added some pre-commit configurations to both clean up the code within notebooks (NbQA) and strip their outputs (nbstripout).

    • tox is now fully v4.0-compliant.

    • Added a Makefile recipe to facilitate installation of esmpy when esmf is installed and visible on the $PATH.

    • Added a Makefile recipe for running tests over Jupyter notebooks.

    • Synchronized dependencies between pyproject.toml and conda configuration files.

  • Moved the notebooks under a Usage section in the documentation. (GH/114, PR/118).

v0.3.4 (2024-02-29)

Contributors to this version: Trevor James Smith (@Zeitsperre), Thomas-Charles Fortier Filion (@TC-FF), Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG).

New features and enhancements

  • Added French language support to the documentation. (GH/53, PR/55).

  • Added a new set of functions to support creating and updating pooch registries, caching testing datasets from hydrologie/xhydro-testdata, and ensuring that testing datasets can be loaded into temporary directories. (PR/62).

  • xhydro is now configured to use pooch to download and cache testing datasets from hydrologie/xhydro-testdata. (PR/62).

  • xhydro is now Semantic Versioning v2.0.0 compliant. (PR/70).

  • Added new functions to xhydro.frequency_analysis.local to calculate plotting positions and to prepare plots. (PR/87).

  • xscen now supports Python3.12. (PR/99).

  • xscen now supports pandas >= 2.2.0, xarray >= 2023.11.0, and xclim >= 0.47.0. (PR/99).

  • Added xh.cc.sampled_indicators to compute future indicators using a perturbation approach and random sampling. (PR/54).

Breaking changes

  • Added pooch as an installation dependency. (PR/62).

  • xhydro now requires xarray>=2023.11.0, xclim>=0.48.2, xscen>=0.8.3, and, indirectly, pandas>=2.2.0. The main breaking change is in how yearly frequencies are called (“YS-” instead of “AS-“). (PR/54).

  • Functions that output a dict with keys as xrfreq (namely, xh.indicators.compute_indicators) will now return the new nomenclature (e.g. « YS-JAN » instead of « AS-JAN »). (PR/54).

Internal changes

  • Added a new module for testing purposes: xhydro.testing.helpers with some new functions. (PR/62):
    • generate_registry: Parses data found in package (xhydro.testing.data), and adds it to the registry.txt

    • load_registry: Loads installed (or custom) registry and returns dictionary

    • populate_testing_data: Fetches the registry and optionally caches files at a different location (helpful for pytest-xdist).

  • Added a pre-commit hook (numpydoc) to ensure that numpy docstrings are formatted correctly. (PR/62).

  • The cookiecutter has been updated to the latest commit (PR/70, PR/106):
    • Added some workflows (Change file labelling, Cache cleaning, Dependency scans, OpenSSF Scorecard).

    • The README has been updated to organize badges in a table, including a badge for the OpenSSF Scorecard.

    • Updated pre-commit hook versions to the latest available.

    • Formatting tools are now pinned to their pre-commit equivalents.

    • actions-version-updater.yml has been replaced by dependabot.

    • Addressed a handful of misconfigurations in the workflows.

    • Updated ruff to v0.2.0 and black to v24.2.0.

  • Added a few functions missing from the API to their respective modules via __all__. (PR/99).

v0.3.0 (2023-12-01)

Contributors to this version: Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG), Trevor James Smith (@Zeitsperre).

New features and enhancements

  • The xhydro planification was added to the documentation. (GH/39, PR/49).

Breaking changes

  • xhydro now adheres to PEPs 517/518/621 using the flit backend for building and packaging. (PR/50).

Bug fixes

  • The return_level dimension in xh.frequency_analysis.local.parametric_quantiles() is now the actual return level, not the quantile. (GH/41, PR/43).

Internal changes

  • Added xhydro.testing.utils.publish_release_notes() to help with the release process. (PR/37).

  • xh.frequency_analysis.local.parametric_quantiles() and xh.frequency_analysis.local.criteria() are now lazier. (GH/41, PR/43).

  • The cookiecutter template has been updated to the latest commit via cruft. (PR/50):
    • Manifest.in and setup.py have been removed.

    • pyproject.toml has been added, with most package configurations migrated into it.

    • HISTORY.rst has been renamed to CHANGES.rst.

    • actions-version-updater.yml has been added to automate the versioning of the package.

    • bump-version.yml has been added to automate patch versioning of the package.

    • pre-commit hooks have been updated to the latest versions; check-toml and toml-sort have been added to cleanup the pyproject.toml file.

    • ruff has been added to the linting tools to replace most flake8 and pydocstyle verifications.

v0.2.0 (2023-10-10)

Contributors to this version: Trevor James Smith (@Zeitsperre), Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse (@RondeauG), Thomas-Charles Fortier Filion (@TC-FF), Sébastien Langlois (@sebastienlanglois)

Announcements

  • Support for Python3.8 and lower has been dropped. (PR/11).

  • xHydro now hosts its documentation on Read the Docs. (GH/22, PR/26).

  • Local frequency analysis functions have been added under a new module xhydro.frequency_analysis. (PR/20, PR/27).

New features and enhancements

  • GitHub Workflows for automated testing using tox have been added. (PR/11).

  • Support for various xscen functions has been added to compute indicators and various climate change metrics. (PR/21).

  • New function xh.indicators.compute_volume to convert streamflow data to volumes. (PR/20, PR/27).

  • New function xh.indicators.get_yearly_op to compute block operation (e.g. block maxima, minima, etc.). (PR/20, PR/27).

Breaking changes

  • xHydro repository has renamed its primary development branch from master to main. (PR/13).

  • xHydro now requires a conda environment to be installed. (PR/21).

Bug fixes

  • N/A

Internal changes

  • Added a Pull Request template. (PR/14).

  • Various updates to the autogenerated boilerplate (Ouranosinc/cookiecutter-pypackage) via cruft. (PR/11, PR/12, PR/13):
    • General updates to pre-commit hooks, development dependencies, documentation.

    • Added configurations for Pull Request and Issues templates, Zenodo.

    • Documentation now makes use of sphinx directives for usernames, issues, and pull request hyperlinks (via sphinx.ext.extlinks). (GH/15).

    • GitHub Workflows have been added for automated testing, and publishing.

    • Some sphinx extensions have been added/enabled (sphinx-codeautolink, sphinx-copybutton).

    • Automated testing with tox now updated to use v4.0+ conventions.

    • Removed all references to travis.ci.

  • Deployments to TestPyPI and PyPI are now run using GitHub Workflow Environments as a safeguarding mechanism. (PR/28).

  • Various cleanups of the environment files. (GH/23, PR/30).

  • xhydro now uses the trusted publishing mechanism for PyPI and TestPyPI deployment. (PR/32).

  • Added tests. (PR/27).

0.1.2 (2023-05-10)

  • First release on PyPI.