What's Changed

• Update docstring descriptions for gravity gradient component guv by @williamjsdavis in #1665
• Clean up Numba functions for potential field simulations by @santisoler in #1663
• Make directives submodules private by @santisoler in #1667
• Ensure misfit is purely real valued by @prisae in #1524
• Add key navigation to docs by @prisae in #1668
• Add missing map classes to the API reference by @santisoler in #1672
• Replace sklearn deprecated method for validate_data function by @santisoler in #1673
• Remove BaseSurvey.counter property by @santisoler in #1640
• Fixes sign error in 1D field calculation. by @jcapriot in #1662
• Allow use of J as LinearOperator in mag equivalent layers by @santisoler in #1676
• Fix beta cooling in UpdateIRLS directive by @jcapriot in #1659
• Allow use of J as LinearOperator in gravity equivalent layers by @santisoler in #1674
• Improve admonitions in gravity simulation by @santisoler in #1677
• Have an option to take a step when the Linesearch breaks by @lheagy in #1581
• Fix bug in phase for recursive 1d NSEM simulation by @dccowan in #1679
• Use conda-forge as only channel in Azure pipelines by @santisoler in #1688
• Expose solver utility functions in simpeg.utils by @santisoler in #1678
• Use logging while setting default solver in PDE simulations by @santisoler in #1670
• Use Impedance and Tipper in examples and tests by @santisoler in #1690
• Fix bug on Impedance.eval when orientation is "xx" or "yy" by @dccowan in #1692
• Remove deprecated objects missed in v0.24.0 by @jcapriot in #1658
• Update magnetic simulation using differential formulation by @johnweis0480 in #1682
• Standardize output directives and make them more reliable by @jcapriot in #1657
• Make tests error on implicit complex to real by @jcapriot in #1696
• Avoids calculating unused values for boundary conditions on DC 2D simulations by @jcapriot in #1698
• Add How to Guide page on how to choose a solver by @santisoler in #1695
• Make Logger a bit quieter when running pytest by @jcapriot in #1697
• CG Minimizer Updates by @jcapriot in #1656
• Add top level descriptions to missing to functions by @jcapriot in #1702
• Update meeting times in README.rst by @santisoler in #1700
• Add _faceDiv attribute to FDEM H Fields by @lheagy in #1346
• Improve landing page of docs by @santisoler in #1701
• Add How to Guide page on moving mesh to survey area by @santisoler in #1699
• Remove gravity and magnetic tutorials by @santisoler in #1704
• Minor fixes to docs of UpdateSensitivityWeights by @santisoler in #1705
• Update iteration print out by @jcapriot in #1626
• Fix magnetic dipole source for for HJ formulation by @lheagy in #1575
• Drop support for Python 3.10 by @santisoler in #1708
• Add documentation page for version compatibility by @santisoler in #1707
• Remove DC resistivity tutorials by @santisoler in #1710
• Improve dipole source tests by @santisoler in #1711
• Update deprecated calls in examples, tutorials, and tests to inexact CG minimizers by @jcapriot in #1703
• Make ComplexMap.deriv to return a sparse diagonal matrix by @lheagy in #1686
• Standardize signature of mappings' deriv method by @YingHuuu in #1407
• Update how mappings are applied in regularizations by @santisoler in #1605
• Simple fix for pymatsolver 0.4.0 by @jcapriot in #1717
• Fix bug with duplicated current in LineCurrent.Mejs by @santisoler in #1718
• Minor fixes to LaTeX equations in regularizations by @santisoler in #1720
• Fix return of get_indices_block by @santisoler in #1713
• Remove deprecated bits marked for removal in v0.25.0 by @santisoler in #1719
• Add shift to discrete topography for NSEM by @dccowan in #1683
• Deprecate unused arguments in drape_electrodes_on_topography by @santisoler in #1723
• Fix LaTeX equations in Simulation3DDifferential by @santisoler in #1726
• Implement a closed loop as a TDEM source by @lheagy in #1651
• Allow for specifying ramp start and ramp end in RampOffWaveform by @jcapriot in #1714
• Add changelog for SimPEG v0.25.0 by @santisoler in #1725
• Add latest release notes to index by @santisoler in #1728

Full Changelog: v0.24.0...v0.25.0

What's Changed

• Bugfix for TDEM magnetic dipole sources by @lheagy in #1572
• Fix ubcstyle printout by @jcapriot in #1577
• Add docstring to n_processes in potential field simulations by @santisoler in #1578
• Move simulation solver from base simulation to PDE simulation by @jcapriot in #1582
• Update and fix instructions to build the docs by @santisoler in #1583
• Change location of mesh attribute by @jcapriot in #1585
• Speed up most commonly used deriv/deriv2 in PGI by @johnweis0480 in #1587
• Improve dot products in PGIsmallness.__call__ and update docstring by @johnweis0480 in #1588
• Rename delete on model update by @jcapriot in #1589
• update PGI Example plotting script for deprecated collections by @jcapriot in #1595
• Coverage upload on failed test by @jcapriot in #1596
• Use zizmor to lint GitHub Actions workflows by @santisoler in #1592
• Update installation instructions in docs by @santisoler in #1597
• Set permissions in Actions to avoid zizmor's excessive-permissions by @santisoler in #1602
• Fix for removed quadrature function on new scipy versions by @jcapriot in #1603
• Install zizmor through conda-forge in environment.yml by @santisoler in #1600
• Raise errors if dpred in BaseDataMisfit has nans by @santisoler in #1615
• Update Black's Python versions in pyproject.toml by @santisoler in #1620
• Use shell rendering in Bug report template by @santisoler in #1612
• Merge Getting Started and Examples into User Guide by @santisoler in #1619
• Fix usage of "bug" label in bug report template by @santisoler in #1624
• Fix redirects links in docs by @santisoler in #1623
• Fix bug on getJ of gravity simulation by @santisoler in #1621
• Fix redirect to user guide index page by @santisoler in #1627
• Move indexing of flat arrays to Survey classes by @santisoler in #1616
• Replace Data indexing for Survey slicing where needed by @santisoler in #1632
• Implement G matrix as LinearOperator in gravity simulation by @santisoler in #1622
• Set maximum number of iterations in eq sources tests by @santisoler in #1636
• Em1d multiple rx locs by @jcapriot in #1637
• Fix definition of model in gravity J-related tests by @santisoler in #1643
• Improve docstring of dip_azimuth2cartesian by @santisoler in #1642
• Improve variable names in gravity test by @santisoler in #1641
• Test transpose of gravity getJ as linear operator by @santisoler in #1644
• Configure zizmor to pin reviewdog actions with tags by @santisoler in #1650
• Deprecate components in potential field surveys by @santisoler in #1633
• Fix bug on magnetic simulation nD property by @santisoler in #1646
• Make pytest error on random seeded test by @jcapriot in #1598
• Add support for potential fields survey indexing by @jcapriot in #1635
• Implement magnetic G as linear operator by @santisoler in #1634
• Use Numpy's RNG in tests for depth weighting by @santisoler in #1570
• Raise NotImplementedError on getJ for NSEM 1D simulations by @santisoler in #1653
• Set the model when calling getJ in DC and SIP simulations by @lheagy in #1361
• Fix getJ method in TDEM and FDEM 1D simulations by @ghwilliams in #1638
• Add release notes for v0.24.0 by @santisoler in #1655

Full Changelog: v0.23.0...v0.24.0

What's Changed

• Make pandas & scikit-learn optional dependencies by @prisae in #1514
• Dask races by @jcapriot in #1469
• Irls refactor by @domfournier in #1349
• Minimum python version update by @jcapriot in #1522
• Replace ind_active for active_cells in pf simulations by @santisoler in #1520
• Move push to codecov to its own stage by @santisoler in #1493
• Minor fix in deprecation notice in docstrings by @santisoler in #1535
• Replace indActive and actInd for active_cells in maps by @santisoler in #1534
• Update tests and examples to use the new UpdateIRLS by @domfournier in #1472
• Replace indActive in VRM simulations for active_cells by @santisoler in #1536
• Test assigned values when passing deprecated args by @santisoler in #1544
• Use random seed when using make_synthetic_data in tests by @santisoler in #1545
• Minor improvements to UpdateIRLS class by @santisoler in #1529
• Replace seed for random_seed in directives by @santisoler in #1538
• Minor fixes to magnetic examples by @santisoler in #1547
• Support magnetic gradiometry using Choclo as engine by @santisoler in #1543
• Update usage of random_seed in one example by @santisoler in #1549
• Replace seed for random_seed in model_builder by @santisoler in #1548
• Replace old args for active_cells in EM static functions by @santisoler in #1550
• Implement gravity equivalent sources with Choclo as engine by @santisoler in #1527
• Implement tmi derivatives with Choclo in magnetic simulation by @santisoler in #1553
• Implement magnetic eq sources with Choclo by @santisoler in #1552
• Update links in PR template by @santisoler in #1554
• Default solver by @jcapriot in #1511
• Fixes for most recent geoana 0.7 by @jcapriot in #1557
• Numpy2.0 and discretize 0.11.0 updates by @jcapriot in #1558
• Add missing seeds by @jcapriot in #1560
• Make use of meshes' cell_bounds property by @santisoler in #1559
• Fix docstring of SmoothnessFullGradient by @santisoler in #1562
• Fix math in docstring of eigenvalue_by_power_iteration by @santisoler in #1564
• Only warn about default solver when set in simulations by @santisoler in #1565
• Augmented receivers for airborne NSEM by @dccowan in #1454
• Try uploading all the coverage files at once. by @jcapriot in #1569
• Re-implement distance weighting and add a strategy comparison by @thibaut-kobold in #1310
• Remove empymod dependency by @jcapriot in #1571
• Changlog for v0.23.0 by @santisoler in #1567
• Add v0.23.0 to the version switcher by @santisoler in #1573
• Fix date in release notes by @santisoler in #1574

Full Changelog: v0.22.2...v0.23.0

What's Changed

• Minor fixes to disclaimer in pgi_utils.py by @prisae in #1512
• Fix misuse of the requires decorator in code_utils.py by @prisae in #1513
• Use lowercase simpeg in a few missing docstrings by @santisoler in #1519
• Pass rtol to SciPy solvers for SciPy>=1.12 by @prisae in #1517
• Fix validate_ndarray_with_shape by @prisae in #1523
• Fix bug in GMM's _check_weights by @santisoler in #1526
• Add release notes for v0.22.2 by @santisoler in #1532

Full Changelog: v0.22.1...v0.22.2

What's Changed

• Configure version warning banner in Sphinx by @santisoler in #1501
• Improve imports in natural source utils by @santisoler in #1503
• Add release notes for v0.22.1 by @santisoler in #1508
• Deploy to TestPyPI only on nightly builds by @santisoler in #1509
• Add latest merged PR to release notes for v0.22.1 by @santisoler in #1510

Full Changelog: v0.22.0...v0.22.1

What's Changed

• Remove the parameters argument from docstring by @santisoler in #1417
• Use reviewdog to annotate PR's with black and flake8 errors. by @jcapriot in #1424
• Safely run reviewdog on pull_request_target events by @jcapriot in #1427
• Add new Issue template for making a release by @santisoler in #1410
• Replace use of refine_tree_xyz in DCIP tutorials by @santisoler in #1381
• Fix rst syntax in release notes for v0.21.0 by @santisoler in #1434
• Move to a PEP8 compliant package name. by @jcapriot in #1430
• Update copyright year in init.py by @lheagy in #1436
• Replace SimPEG for simpeg across docstrings by @santisoler in #1438
• Lowercase simpeg for generating coverage on Azure by @santisoler in #1443
• Rename spontaneous potential to self potential by @lheagy in #1422
• Fix distance calculation in convert_survey_3d_to_2d_lines by @kehrl-kobold in #1390
• Replace SimPEG for simpeg in API reference by @santisoler in #1446
• Replace SimPEG for simpeg in getting started pages by @santisoler in #1447
• Check inputs for converting 3d surveys to 2d lines by @santisoler in #1392
• Always use Pydata Sphinx theme for building docs by @santisoler in #1445
• Simplify interface of UniformBackgroundField by @santisoler in #1421
• Ensure the queue's are joined when the meta simulation is joined. by @jcapriot in #1464
• Add maintenance issue template by @santisoler in #1468
• Add instructions to update the environment by @santisoler in #1462
• Stop recommending mamba for installing simpeg by @santisoler in #1463
• Fix bug on arguments of beta estimator directives by @santisoler in #1460
• Improve interface for DC Dipole source by @santisoler in #1393
• Use Numpy random number generator in codebase by @santisoler in #1394
• Extend docstrings for FDEM and TDEM fields and 3D simulations by @dccowan in #1414
• Magnetic simulation with Choclo as engine by @santisoler in #1321
• Fix typos in EM docstrings by @santisoler in #1473
• Fix call to private method in GaussianMixtureWithPrior by @santisoler in #1476
• Add version switcher to Sphinx docs by @santisoler in #1428
• Use random seed on synthetic data in mag tests by @santisoler in #1457
• Fix links to source code in documentation pages by @santisoler in #1444
• Fix script for new deployment of docs by @santisoler in #1478
• Print SimPEG version in the inversion log by @santisoler in #1477
• Use Numpy rng in FDEM tests by @santisoler in #1449
• Add random_seed argument to objective fun's derivative tests by @santisoler in #1448
• Add random_seed to the test method of maps by @santisoler in #1465
• Use Numpy rng in TDEM tests by @santisoler in #1452
• Use random seed in missed objective function tests by @santisoler in #1483
• Fix contour colors in gravity plot in User Guide by @williamjsdavis in #1486
• Hide type hints from signatures in documentation pages by @santisoler in #1471
• Reorganize the maps submodule by @santisoler in #1480
• Pyproject.toml by @jcapriot in #1482
• Use Numpy rng in static EM tests by @santisoler in #1451
• Split Azure Pipelines configuration into multiple files by @santisoler in #1481
• Ignore survey_type argument in DC and SIP surveys by @santisoler in #1458
• Update deployment of docs to simpeg-docs by @santisoler in #1490
• Change cron time to test new deployment of docs by @santisoler in #1492
• Revert "Change cron time to test new deployment of docs (#1492)" by @santisoler in #1494
• Fix F821 flake error: undefined variable by @santisoler in #1487
• Use Numpy rng in viscous remanent mag tests by @santisoler in #1453
• Use Numpy rng in NSEM tests by @santisoler in #1450
• Unwrap lines in release checklist by @santisoler in #1498
• Improve instructions to update versions.json by @santisoler in #1500
• Add release notes for v0.22.0 by @santisoler in #1499

New Contributors

• @kehrl-kobold made their first contribution in #1390
• @williamjsdavis made their first contribution in #1486

Full Changelog: v0.21.1...v0.22.0

What's Changed

• Fix hard dask dependency by @jcapriot in #1415
• Add release notes for v0.21.1 by @santisoler in #1416

Full Changelog: v0.21.0...v0.21.1

What's Changed

• Add 0.20.0 release notes to toc by @jcapriot in #1277
• add plausible analytics to simpeg docs by @lheagy in #1279
• Refresh links in documentation by @mplough-kobold in #1282
• Run pytest on Azure with increased verbosity by @santisoler in #1287
• Allow to use random seed in make_synthetic_data by @santisoler in #1286
• pgi doc by @thibaut-kobold in #1291
• Fix deprecation warning for gradientType in SparseSmoothness by @santisoler in #1284
• Gravity simulation with Choclo as engine by @santisoler in #1285
• Fix minor flake8 warning by @santisoler in #1307
• ISSUE-1298: Use normal distributed noise in example. by @domfournier in #1312
• Ditch deprecated functions in utils.model_builder by @domfournier in #1311
• Triaxial magnetic gradient forward modelling by @thibaut-kobold in #1288
• Documentation improvements for classes in Objective Function Pieces by @ghwilliams in #1292
• Fix description of source_field in gravity survey by @santisoler in #1322
• Add weights_keys method to BaseRegularization by @santisoler in #1320
• Bump versions of flake8 and black and pin flake plugins by @santisoler in #1330
• Move __init__ in BaseSimulation to the top of the class by @santisoler in #1323
• Simpeg vector update by @johnweis0480 in #1329
• Fix typo in error messages by @santisoler in #1324
• Fix issue with lengthscales in coterminal angle calculations by @domfournier in #1299
• Simplify check for invalid multipliers by @santisoler in #1336
• Ravel instead of flatten by @thibaut-kobold in #1343
• Fix implementation of coterminal function by @domfournier in #1334
• Update cross gradient hessian approximation by @jcapriot in #1355
• ISSUE-1341: Set parent of objective functions by @domfournier in #1342
• Fix partial derivatives in regularization docs by @santisoler in #1362
• Remove factor of half in data misfits and regularizations by @lheagy in #1326
• Improvements to template for a bug report issue by @lheagy in #1359
• Simplify a few gravity simulation tests by @santisoler in #1363
• Exponential Sinusoids Simulation by @lheagy in #1337
• Replace magnetic SourceField for UniformBackgroundField by @santisoler in #1364
• Remove deprecated regularization classes by @santisoler in #1365
• Removed deprecated properties of UpdateSensitivityWeights by @santisoler in #1368
• Replace indActive for active_cells in regularizations by @santisoler in #1366
• Remove the debug argument from InversionDirective by @santisoler in #1370
• Remove cellDiff properties of RegularizationMesh by @santisoler in #1371
• Remove deprecated bits of code by @santisoler in #1372
• Use choclo in gravity tutorials by @santisoler in #1378
• Remove surface2ind_topo by @santisoler in #1374
• Speed up sphinx documentation building by @jcapriot in #1382
• Add docs/sg_execution_times.rst to .gitignore by @santisoler in #1380
• Describe merge process of Pull Requests in docs by @santisoler in #1375
• Simplify private methods in gravity simulation by @santisoler in #1384
• Update Slack links: point to Mattermost by @santisoler in #1385
• added getJ for fdem and nsem simulations by @JKutt in #1276
• Add LogisticSigmoidMap by @ckohnke in #1352
• Remove the cell_weights attribute in regularizations by @santisoler in #1376
• Remove regmesh, mref and gradientType from regularizations by @santisoler in #1377
• Test if gravity sensitivities are stored on disk by @santisoler in #1388
• Check if mesh is 3D when using Choclo in gravity simulation by @santisoler in #1386
• Rotated Gradients by @jcapriot in #1167
• Add directives to the API Reference by @santisoler in #1397
• Remove deprecated modelType in mag simulation by @santisoler in #1399
• Remove mref property of PGI regularization by @santisoler in #1400
• Add link to User Tutorials to navbar in docs by @santisoler in #1401
• Improve documentation for base simulation classes by @ghwilliams in #1295
• Enforce regularization weights as dictionaries by @YingHuuu in #1344
• Minor adjustments to Sphinx configuration by @santisoler in #1398
• Update AUTHORS.rst by @lheagy in #1259
• Update year in LICENSE by @lheagy in #1404
• Dask MetaSim by @jcapriot in #1199
• Add Ying and Williams to AUTHORS.rst by @santisoler in #1405
• Remove link to "twitter" by @jcapriot in #1406
• Bump Black version to 24.3.0 by @santisoler in #1403
• Add release notes for SimPEG v0.21 by @santisoler in #1409
• Publish documentation on azure by @jcapriot in #1412

New Contributors

• @mplough-kobold made their first contribution in #1282
• @ghwilliams made their first contribution in #1292
• @johnweis0480 made their first contribution in #1329
• @ckohnke made their first contribution in #1352
• @YingHuuu made their first contribution in #1344

Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v0.21.0

What's Changed

• Add a linearity property to mappings by @jcapriot in #1212
• Pydata sphinx theme updates by @jcapriot in #1213
• Meta/meta patches by @jcapriot in #1215
• Tiny typo triggers error when displaying error output string by @nwilliams-kobold in #1216
• Sp reimplement by @jcapriot in #1211
• Refactor PGI_BetaAlphaSchedule directive by @santisoler in #1195
• Update index.rst by @lheagy in #1217
• Replace deprecated numpy type aliases with builtin types by @yanang007 in #1224
• Cross reference vector by @jcapriot in #1214
• Discretize 0.9.0updates by @jcapriot in #1230
• Generalize add for any ComboObjectiveFunction by @santisoler in #1229
• Fix IP simulation / inversion with SimPEG.dask by @thibaut-kobold in #1231
• Amplitude regularization by @domfournier in #1103
• General Doc cleanup by @jcapriot in #1234
• conditionally allow invertible property to also be optional by @jcapriot in #1235
• Multiprocessing MetaSimulation by @jcapriot in #1201
• Merge docs for developers into a Contributing section by @santisoler in #1240
• Move flake8 ignored rules to .flake8 and rename Makefile targets by @santisoler in #1238
• Fix flake E711 error: wrong comparison with None by @santisoler in #1242
• Fix flake E731 error: assign lambda functions by @santisoler in #1243
• Fix F522, F523, F524 flake errors: format calls by @santisoler in #1245
• Simplify CONTRIBUTING.md by @santisoler in #1247
• Test patches by @jcapriot in #1251
• Fix F541 flake error: f-string without placeholder by @santisoler in #1246
• Add more hints about pre-commit in documentation by @santisoler in #1249
• Fix F811 flake error: remove redefinitions by @santisoler in #1248
• Add flake8 to pre-commit configuration by @santisoler in #1239
• Rename "basic" directory in docs to "getting_started" by @santisoler in #1250
• Always calculate gzz if needed by @jcapriot in #1253
• Fix flake F403 and F405 errors: don't use star imports by @santisoler in #1244
• Fix W291 and W293 flake errors: white spaces by @santisoler in #1252
• Fix B028 flake error: non-explicit stacklevel by @santisoler in #1254
• Refactor BaseObjectiveFunction and ComboObjectiveFunction by @santisoler in #1241
• Make units of gravity simulations more explicit by @santisoler in #1256
• Update pull_request_template.md by @lheagy in #1258
• Anisotropy derivative support by @jcapriot in #1237
• Optionally import utm by @jcapriot in #1260
• FDEM permittivity by @lheagy in #1236
• Set storage type of pf sensitivity matrix by @jcapriot in #1261
• Regularization docstrings by @dccowan in #1225
• final unresolved comments for PR #1225 by @dccowan in #1262
• Fix sparse inversion example: remove beta schedule by @santisoler in #1264
• unpack the data misfits for plotting tikhonov curves by @lheagy in #1257
• use setuptools_scm to track version by @jcapriot in #1274
• Add building docs and serving them to documentation by @andieie in #1267
• 0.20.0 staging by @jcapriot in #1275

New Contributors

• @yanang007 made their first contribution in #1224
• @andieie made their first contribution in #1267

Full Changelog: v0.19.0...v0.20.0

What's Changed

• Fix (and test) the pgi tutorials. by @jcapriot in #1133
• Run style checks in Azure Pipelines by @santisoler in #1134
• Add property to control number of processes created. by @jcapriot in #1135
• Use r-strings on strings and docstrings that contain backslashes by @santisoler in #1136
• Run flake8 in CI against a selection of rules by @santisoler in #1141
• Rename variables to avoid shadowing builtins by @santisoler in #1137
• Ignore flake warning over empty docstrings by @santisoler in #1149
• Avoid using getattr with fixed constant strings by @santisoler in #1139
• Separate flake 8 ignores by line breaks by @jcapriot in #1150
• Avoid using mutables as default parameters by @santisoler in #1142
• Ignore b028 by @jcapriot in #1155
• Remove unused imports across SimPEG by @santisoler in #1132
• Avoid calling functions in default arguments by @santisoler in #1143
• Fix plot_inv_mag_MVI_Sparse_TreeMesh.py by @thibaut-kobold in #1159
• fix mref depreciation in regularization/pgi.py by @thibaut-kobold in #1157
• Avoid using variables not binded in function definition by @santisoler in #1145
• Remove unused loop variables by @santisoler in #1138
• Enable use of inactive cells in equivalent source models by @nwilliams-kobold in #1147
• Flexible dc boundary by @jcapriot in #1168
• Do not use multiprocessing on single thread. by @jcapriot in #1170
• fix gmm.plot_pdf new error from sklearn >=1.2 by @thibaut-kobold in #1156
• Black 23.1 by @jcapriot in #1174
• Fix for _has_fields by @jcapriot in #1175
• Do not import deprecated discretize utilities by @jcapriot in #1176
• update codecov script by @jcapriot in #1178
• Linear mapping by @jcapriot in #1177
• Use discretize.utils.active_from_xyz to get active topography cells by @dccowan in #1171
• Update minimum versions by @jcapriot in #1179
• Add B028 to flake8 ignore by @jcapriot in #1181
• Add possibility to pass fields to getJtJdiag by @jcapriot in #1182
• Mira review beta estimator by @dccowan in #1173
• Add option for amplitude threshold on UpdateSens directive by @domfournier in #1163
• Change default n_processes for potential fields by @jcapriot in #1186
• Update current_utils.py by @domfournier in #1166
• Avoid comparing bool variables to True or False by @santisoler in #1160
• Avoid using bare excepts that catch every possible exception by @santisoler in #1140
• Update SimPEG.Report() by @prisae in #1104
• Addition regarding inversion to big_picture by @prisae in #729
• Do not store real lambdas as complex by @jcapriot in #1190
• Improve docstring of depth_weighting by @santisoler in #1192
• Add issue forms for github by @jcapriot in #1189
• Update deprecation usage in optimization module by @jcapriot in #1194
• Update getting started guides by @jcapriot in #1188
• Update DC1D for flexibility and speed by @jcapriot in #1191
• Start removing unused variables by @santisoler in #1161
• Fix check for reference_model in PGI regularization by @santisoler in #1196
• update JTV to work for an arbitrary number of models by @jcapriot in #1197
• Simulation of Simulations by @jcapriot in #1183
• Remove flake errors that were already solved by @santisoler in #1203
• Fix flake8 B015 errors: solve unused comparisons by @santisoler in #1200
• Fix flake E401 error: multiple imports in one line by @santisoler in #1202
• Patch/identity map init by @jcapriot in #1205
• Fix length scale getters by @jcapriot in #1207
• Patch/fix save sparse dict by @jcapriot in #1206
• Add PR template file by @jcapriot in #1208
• 0.19.0 Staging by @jcapriot in #1209

Full Changelog: v0.18.1...v0.19.0