Changelog entry for v0.17.0

AUTHORS.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The following people have contributed code and/or documentation to the project
 | [Jiayuan Yao](https://github.com/core-man) | [0000-0001-7036-4238](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-4238) | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
 | [Jing-Hui Tong](https://github.com/jhtong33) | [0009-0002-7195-3071](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7195-3071) | National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan |
 | [Kathryn Materna](https://github.com/kmaterna) | [0000-0002-6687-980X](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6687-980X) | US Geological Survey, USA |
-| [Leonardo Uieda](https://www.leouieda.com/) | [0000-0001-6123-9515](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515) | University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
+| [Leonardo Uieda](https://www.leouieda.com/) | [0000-0001-6123-9515](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515) | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
 | [Liam Toney](https://liam.earth/) | [0000-0003-0167-9433](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0167-9433) | University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA |
 | [Malte Ziebarth](https://github.com/mjziebarth) | [0000-0002-5190-4478](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5190-4478) | GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany |
 | [Max Jones](https://github.com/maxrjones) | [0000-0003-0180-8928](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-8928) | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA |

CITATION.cff

@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ authors:
   family-names: Tian
   affiliation: China University of Geosciences, China
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-1197
-- given-names: Leonardo
-  family-names: Uieda
-  affiliation: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
-  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515
 - given-names: Wei Ji
   family-names: Leong
   affiliation: Development Seed, USA
@@ -72,13 +68,17 @@ authors:
   family-names: Quinn
   affiliation: University College London, United Kingdom
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032
+- given-names: Leonardo
+  family-names: Uieda
+  affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
+  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515
 - given-names: Paul
   family-names: Wessel
   affiliation: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-7336
-date-released: 2025-06-18
-doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15628725
+date-released: 2025-10-03
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17156962
 license: BSD-3-Clause
 repository-code: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt
 type: software
-version: 0.16.0
+version: 0.17.0

README.md

@@ -137,9 +137,8 @@ Feel free to cite our work in your research using the following BibTeX:
 
 ```
 @software{
-  pygmt_2025_15628725,
+  pygmt_2025_17156962,
   author       = {Tian, Dongdong and
-                  Uieda, Leonardo and
                   Leong, Wei Ji and
                   Fröhlich, Yvonne and
                   Grund, Michael and
@@ -155,14 +154,15 @@ Feel free to cite our work in your research using the following BibTeX:
                   Anant, Abhishek and
                   Ziebarth, Malte and
                   Quinn, Jamie and
+                  Uieda, Leonardo and
                   Wessel, Paul},
   title        = {{PyGMT: A Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools}},
-  month        = jun,
+  month        = oct,
   year         = 2025,
   publisher    = {Zenodo},
-  version      = {0.16.0},
-  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.15628725},
-  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15628725}
+  version      = {0.17.0},
+  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17156962},
+  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17156962}
 }
 ```
 

doc/_static/version_switch.js

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   var all_versions = {
     'latest': 'latest',
     'dev': 'dev',
+    'v0.17.0': 'v0.17.0',
     'v0.16.0': 'v0.16.0',
     'v0.15.0': 'v0.15.0',
     'v0.14.2': 'v0.14.2',

doc/changes.md

@@ -1,5 +1,75 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Release v0.17.0 (2025/10/03)
+
+[![Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.17.0](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.17156962.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17156962)
+
+### Highlights
+
+* 🎉 **Seventeenth minor release of PyGMT** 🎉
+* Add support for GMT 6.6.0, while dropping support for GMT 6.4.0 ([#4017](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/issues/4017))
+* Implement the new alias system towards a Pythonic interface ([#3986](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3986), [#4000](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4000), [#3993](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3993))
+* GMTDataArrayAccessor: Support applying grid operations on the current xarray.DataArray object ([#3854](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3854))
+
+### New Features
+
+* Add the Box class for specifying the box of GMT embellishments ([#3995](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3995))
+* Add the Pattern class for specifying bit and hachure patterns to fill symbols and polygons ([#4020](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4020))
+
+### Enhancements
+
+* Figure.solar: Support terminator datetime with timezone ([#4112](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4112))
+* pygmt.show_versions: Report GDAL version by calling the GDAL C function ([#4104](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4104))
+* pygmt.binstats: Let the parameter 'statistic' support descriptive arguments ([#3012](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3012))
+* Figure.logo: Let the 'style' parameter support descriptive arguments ([#4074](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4074))
+* Let the 'verbose' parameter support descriptive arguments ([#4039](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4039))
+* sequence_join: Correctly join datetime-like values in pandas.DataFrame/xarray.DataArray objects ([#4097](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4097))
+
+### Deprecations
+
+* Drop support for GMT 6.4.0 ([#4127](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4127))
+* **BREAKING** Raise GMTValueError exception for invalid values. Previously raise GMTInvalidInput ([#3985](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3985), [#3998](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3998))
+* **BREAKING** Raise GMTTypeError exception for invalid types. Previously raise GMTInvalidInput ([#3999](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3999))
+* **BREAKING** Figure.grdimage: Raise NotImplementedError instead of GMTInvalidInput for -A option ([#4062](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4062))
+* sequence_join: Deprecate parameter 'separator', use 'sep' instead. [Will be removed in v0.19.0] ([#4033](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4033))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* pygmt.x2sys_cross: Fix IndexError to allow empty DataFrame outputs ([#4060](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4060))
+* is_nonstr_iter: 0-D array is now recognized as non-iterable ([#4004](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4004))
+* Fix the bug when passing a sequence that contains True to a parameter ([#3982](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3982))
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Figure.colorbar: Add note regarding automatic fontsize scaling  ([#4126](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4126))
+* Add gallery example to show text formatting ([#3987](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3987))
+* Add gallery example for using EPSG codes ([#3973](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3973))
+* Add Technical Reference page for justification codes ([#4028](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4028))
+* Add Technical Reference page for text formatting ([#3976](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3976))
+
+### Maintenance
+
+* **BREAKING** Figure.text: Raise GMTTypeError if text is a sequence when position is given ([#4065](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4065))
+* Switch from pre-commit to prek ([#4082](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4082))
+* SPEC 0: Bump minimum supported version to pandas 2.2 and Xarray 2023.10 ([#4092](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4092), [#4091](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4091))
+* Remove the support of non-aliased aliases in use_alias/fmt_docstrings ([#4042](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4042))
+* CI: Bump to macOS 26 in the GMT Dev Tests workflow ([#4084](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4084))
+* CI: Bump to macOS 14 in the GMT Legacy Tests workflow ([#3996](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/3996))
+* CI: Access DagsHub repository via an access token ([#4078](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4078))
+* CI: Bump to Ghostscript 10.06.0 ([#4125](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4125))
+* CI: Bump to GMT 6.6.0 in CI ([#4018](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/4018))
+
+**Full Changelog**: <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/compare/v0.16.0...v0.17.0>
+
+### Contributors
+
+* [Dongdong Tian](https://github.com/seisman)
+* [Yvonne Fröhlich](https://github.com/yvonnefroehlich)
+* [Wei Ji Leong](https://github.com/weiji14)
+* [Michael Grund](https://github.com/michaelgrund)
+
+---
+
 ## Release v0.16.0 (2025/06/18)
 
 [![Digital Object Identifier for PyGMT v0.16.0](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.15628725.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15628725)

doc/minversions.md

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ compatibility reasons.
 | PyGMT Version | Documentation | GMT | Python | NumPy | pandas | Xarray |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | [Dev][]* | <doc:dev>, [HTML+ZIP](doc:dev/pygmt-docs.zip), [PDF](doc:dev/pygmt-docs.pdf) | {{ requires.gmt }} | {{ requires.python }} | {{ requires.numpy }} | {{ requires.pandas }} | {{ requires.xarray }} |
+| <tag:v0.17.0> | <doc:v0.17.0>, <html:v0.17.0>, <pdf:v0.17.0> | >=6.5.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.26 | >=2.2 | >=2023.10 |
 | <tag:v0.16.0> | <doc:v0.16.0>, <html:v0.16.0>, <pdf:v0.16.0> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.26 | >=2.1 | >=2023.07 |
 | <tag:v0.15.0> | <doc:v0.15.0>, <html:v0.15.0>, <pdf:v0.15.0> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.25 | >=2.0 | >=2023.04 |
 | <tag:v0.14.2> | <doc:v0.14.2>, <html:v0.14.2> | >=6.4.0 | >=3.11 | >=1.25 | >=2.0 | >=2023.04 |