Release Notes

0.8.0 (2025-07-16)

Migrate to a pure pyproject.toml package infrastructure; no API changes (PR #16).

0.7.0 (2023-07-17)

missing_from_hpss will proceed through all stages, even if serious errors are detected, to facilitate batch processing. The older behavior can be enabled with --exit-on-error (PR #15).
Fix error handling for a variety of corner cases (PR #15).
Increase test coverage to 100% (PR #15).

0.6.1 (2022-05-20)

Bumped version due to malformed PyPI upload.

0.6.0 (2022-05-20)

Reorganization of package structure and metadata; no changes to user-facing API.
Support full-precision timestamps on HPSS files (PR #14).

0.5.1 (2019-08-20)

Unused patterns and over-large backup files no longer trigger a critical error (PR #12).

0.5.0 (2019-05-18)

This release drops support for Python 2.

Remove all Python 2 code (PR #8).
Support fine-grained exclusion in configuration files (PR #10).
Avoid commonly-used names for metadata in configuration files (PR #10).
Detect newer files on disk that map to older HPSS files (PR #10).
Allow top-level directories to contain only files (PR #10).

0.4.2 (2019-01-29)

Further fixes for mapping HTAR file names back to directories (PR #6).

0.4.1 (2019-01-16)

Handle directory names that contain underscore characters; improve test coverage (PR #4).

0.4.0 (2017-08-10)

Add --version option.
Add Python 3.6, remove 3.3.
Add many quality-assurance checks and additional documentation (PR #2).

0.3.0 (2017-01-18)

General refresh of Python code, documentation, test suite. However, no major changes to the API.
Command-line inputs are no longer rigidly restricted to SDSS or DESI.

0.2.1 (2015-04-22)

Fixed some setup.py errors, no code changes.

0.2.0 (2015-04-22)

Moved configuration items to JSON files.
Started adding support for DESI.
Add tests to util subpackage.
Add __future__ statements.
Clean up API documentation.
Minor bug fixes.

0.1.0 (2015-03-25)

Initial release. Used to scan all SDSS data.