New Features
- Added support for Numpy v2.0.
- Completely reimplemented the `fastf1.plotting` module. The new module
provides a more flexible and powerful API for creating custom plots. This
is an overview of the relevant new features and changes:
- Driver and team names, abbreviations and colors are now supported for
all seasons since 2018 instead of only for the most recent season.
- Driver changes and test drivers running in free practice session are now
supported automatically and do no longer require an update of FastF1.
- Users can now choose between the "offcial" F1 color map and the color map
that was already used previously by FastF1.
- Driver specific colors are deprecated. Users are encouraged to use more
visually distinct plot styling options instead to differentiate between
drivers of the same team. The new
`fastf1.plotting.get_driver_style` function can be used to easily
get driver specific styling options.
- Users can override team colors and short name constants on a per-session
basis.
- The API has been improved to be more consistent and easier to use.
- Added support for a fallback mirror for the F1 livetiming API. If the primary
API is unavailable, FastF1 will automatically switch to the fallback mirror
and continue to work without any user intervention.
This feature is experimental and for now provided without any guarantees.
- Added a warning that informs users when event, driver or team names are
fuzzy matched. (by Casper-Guo) (574)
- Improved fuzzy matching of event names to give better matching results. (by
Casper-Guo) (579)
- The SignalRClient can now be started when an async event loop is already
running by awaiting the new
`fastf1.livetiming.client.SignalRClient.async_start` coroutine. This
enables usage in newer versions of Juypter Notebooks, for example.
- Set a default connection timeout of five seconds for all requests to the
Ergast API. This should prevent long data loading times when the API is
unresponsive.
Bug Fixes
- Drivers that crashed on the very first lap are now assigned ``NaN`` as their
position, ensuring correct positions throughout the field at then end of the
first lap. (by AND2797) (595)
- Fixed a bug that prevented loading of any data when driver information was
unavailable from the F1 livetiming API.
- Fixed a bug in the client side rate limiting that allowed higher rates than
intended. This may have caused the client to be temporarily blocked by the
server.
Deprecations
- The following module level properties of :mod:`fastf1.plotting` have been
deprecated:
`fastf1.plotting.COMPOUND_COLORS`,
`fastf1.plotting.DRIVER_COLORS`,
`fastf1.plotting.DRIVER_TRANSLATE`,
`fastf1.plotting.TEAM_COLORS`,
`fastf1.plotting.TEAM_TRANSLATE`,
`fastf1.plotting.COLOR_PALETTE`
- The following functions in :mod:`fastf1.plotting` have been deprecated:
`fastf1.plotting.driver_color`,
`fastf1.plotting.team_color`,
`fastf1.plotting.lapnumber_axis`
- The argument ``misc_mpl_mods`` of function `fastf1.plotting.setup_mpl`
is deprecated and will be removed in the future without replacement for its
functionality.
- The argument ``color_scheme`` of function `fastf1.plotting.setup_mpl`
will default to ``None`` in the future, meaning that FastF1's default color
scheme will need to be enabled explicitly.
Increased minimum versions for dependencies
- The new minimum version of Python is 3.9. Support for Python 3.8 is dropped.
- The minimum versions for the following dependencies have been increased:
- numpy to >=1.23.1
- scipy to >=1.8.1