PR Summary

[1] https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images/#next-gen-language-images

PR Checklist

• [n/a] Has pytest style unit tests (and pytest passes).
• Is Flake 8 compliant (run flake8 on changed files to check).
• [n/a] New features are documented, with examples if plot related.
• [n/a] Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant (the docs should build without error).
• [n/a] Conforms to Matplotlib style conventions (install flake8-docstrings and run flake8 --docstring-convention=all).
• [n/a] New features have an entry in doc/users/next_whats_new/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).
• [n/a] API changes documented in doc/api/next_api_changes/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).