**First full-version release of PyBADS**, a Python package for fast and robust *black-box* optimization. Full documentation is available at https://acerbilab.github.io/pybads/. Feedback is welcome, see troubleshooting and contact. The same packaged version is also available at https://pypi.org/project/PyBADS/#history.
Additional detail of the algorithm can be found the paper Practical Bayesian Optimization for Model Fitting with Bayesian Adaptive Direct Search paper published in NeurIPS in [2017](https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/hash/df0aab058ce179e4f7ab135ed4e641a9-Abstract.html).
A MATLAB implementation is also available at the [acerbilab/BADS](https://github.com/acerbilab/bads) repository.