The SunPy project is happy to announce the release of SunPy 0.9.0.

SunPy v0.9.0 contains 807 commits in 147 merged pull requests closing 310 issues from 31 people, 19 of which are first time contributors to SunPy.

This release introduces a rewritten JSOC client and various other improvements to the library. This release will be the last in the 0.x series of releases, with the next release planned to be v1.0. This release will be the last major version to support Python 2, and will also be the last version to include sunpy.spectra, sunpy.lightcurve and sunpy.wcs, all of which were deprecated in 0.8.

We will be supporting bug fixes to the 0.9 release until the end of life of Python 2, which is 1st Jan 2020.

The people who have contributed to the code for this release are:

Nabil Freij
Stuart Mumford
Nitin Choudhary
David Stansby  *
Prateek Chanda
Jack Ireland
Daniel Ryan
Himanshu  *
Yash Jain  *
James Paul Mason  *
Michael Charlton
Vishnunarayan K I.  *
Swapnil Sharma  *
Albert Y. Shih
David Pérez-Suárez
Shresth Verma  *
Sanjeev Dubey  *
Brigitta Sipocz
Andrew Leonard
Nick Murphy  *
Shane Maloney
Carlos Molina  *
Yash Kothari  *
Dang Trung Kien  *
Gulshan Mittal  *
Rajasekhar Reddy Mekala  *
S Shashank  *
Tannmay Yadav  *
Will Barnes  *
Yudhik Agrawal  *
codetriage-readme-bot  *

Where a * indicates their first contribution to SunPy.

In addition to the contributions to the core SunPy library, we would like to thank Kolja Glogowski for his help with the JSOC project, and welcome his package 'drms' as a SunPy affiliated package, which is now powering our JSOC client. Finally, we would like to thank David Pérez-Suárez and Brigitta Sipocz, who are leading the GSOC process for OpenAstronomy, which is of massive benefit to the SunPy community.