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- Re-wrote isochrones reading module. See :ref:`isochronesload`.
- Added `Gaia (E)DR3 extinction law <https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/edr3-extinction-law>`_.
See :ref:`synth_clusters`.
- Downgrade requirements to ``python=3.10`` to allow running in default Google Colab
- Fixed wrong masses and binary probabilities being assigned to stars with missing
photometric data
- Fixed bug in :class:`likelihood` when two colors were defined
- Move ``z_to_FeH`` argument from :class:`synthetic` to :class:`isochrones`
- Remove ``min_max()`` method from :class:`synthetic`, values are now shown when
instantiating an :class:`isochrones` class
- Allow plotting two colors in :class:`cluster` and :class:`synthetic` plotting modules

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- Skip hidden files when reading isochrones (`551 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/551>`_)

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Major update. **ASteCA** is now a proper Python package that can be installed with
`pip install asteca`. Some of the most important changes are:

- Added support for MIST and Basti isochrones, in addition to PARSEC
- No longer depends on `ptemcee <https://github.com/willvousden/ptemcee>`_, now the
user can employ any package to perform the parameter inference
- Updated binary systems generation
- Removed structural analysis function (for now at least)

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These version numbers were skipped due to the major changes introduced in version
``0.5.0``.

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This is a large update mostly on the synthetic cluster generation process. Two
extra free fundamental parameters are added: differential reddening and the
ratio of total to selective absorption.

- Fit Av instead of E(B-V) (`544 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/544>`__)
- Clean up before releasing 0.4.3 (`541 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/541>`__)
- Change the 'completeness' function (`540 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/540>`__)
- Structural analysis consumes too much memory for large fields (`539 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/539>`__)
- Remove mass parameter (`538 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/538>`__)
- Use pandas to read cluster data (`537 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/537>`__)
- Remove complete/incomplete codebase + simplify get_data() (`533 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/533>`__)
- Change several input parameters (`532 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/532>`__)
- Fix King profile fit (`529 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/529>`__)
- Add a flag to turn completeness on/off (`528 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/528>`__)
- Make the lower mass limits input parameters (`526 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/526>`__)
- Remove (RA, DE) transformation, RV mentions, trim frame, error rejection (`524 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/524>`__)
- Optimal radius estimation fails for some clusters (`521 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/521>`__)
- Gap in the synthetic cluster (`519 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/519>`__)
- DA 'read' mode: read from column (match with pyUPMASK) (`518 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/518>`__)
- Simplify Bayesian parallax inference (`516 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/516>`__)
- Per cluster fundamental parameters range (`514 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/514>`__)
- Revise default parallax offset following eDR3 release (`501 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/501>`__)
- Generalize mass-ratio distribution for binaries using a power law (`496 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/496>`__)
- Output of cluster memberships is very slow for large clusters (`437 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/437>`__)
- Generate finding chart plot (`210 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/210>`__)
- Probability density for binary assignment (`198 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/198>`__)
- Differential reddening (`174 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/174>`__)
- Make extinction parameter Rv a free parameter (`170 <https://github.com/asteca/ASteCA/issues/170>`__)

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- Fixed two issues: don't read hidden files from the ``input/`` folder, remove
forgotten parameter that was removed in the previous release.