Pymeasure

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Main items of this new release:

- 23 new instrument drivers have been added
- New dynamic Instrument properties can change their parameters at runtime
- Communication settings can now be flexibly defined per protocol
- Python 3.10 support was added and Python 3.6 support was removed.
- Many additions, improvements and have been merged

Instruments
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- New Agilent B1500 Data Formats and Documentation (moritzj29)
- New Anaheim Automation stepper motor controllers (samcondon4)
- New Andeen Hagerling capacitance bridges (dkriegner)
- New Anritsu MS9740A Optical Spectrum Analyzer (md12g12)
- New BK Precision 9130B Instrument (dennisfeng2)
- New Edwards nXDS (10i) Vacuum Pump (hududed)
- New Fluke 7341 temperature bath instrument (msmttchr)
- New Heidenhain ND287 Position Display Unit Driver (samcondon4)
- New HP 3478A (LongnoseRob)
- New HP 8116A 50 MHz Pulse/Function Generator (CodingMarco)
- New Keithley 2260B DC Power Supply (bklebel)
- New Keithley 2306 Dual Channel Battery/Charger Simulator (mfikes)
- New Keithley 2600 SourceMeter series (Daivesd)
- New Keysight N7776C Swept Laser Source (maederan201)
- New Lakeshore 421 (CasperSchippers)
- New Oxford IPS120-10 (CasperSchippers)
- New Pendulum CNT-91 frequency counter (bleykauf)
- New Rohde&Schwarz - SFM TV test transmitter (LongnoseRob)
- New Rohde&Schwarz FSL spectrum analyzer (bleykauf)
- New SR570 current amplifier driver (pyMatJ)
- New Stanford Research Systems SR510 instrument driver (samcondon4)
- New Toptica Smart Laser diode (dkriegner)
- New Yokogawa GS200 Instrument (dennisfeng2)
- Add output low grounded property to Keithley 6221 (CasperSchippers)
- Add shutdown function for Keithley 2260B (bklebel)
- Add phase control for Agilent 33500 (corna)
- Add assigning "ONCE" to auto_zero to Keithley 2400 (mfikes)
- Add line frequency controls to Keithley 2400 (mfikes)
- Add LIA and ERR status byte read properties to the SRS Sr830 driver (samcondon4)
- Add all commands to Oxford Intelligent Temperature Controller 503 (CasperSchippers)
- Fix DSP 7265 lockin amplifier (CasperSchippers)
- Fix bug in Keithley 6517B Electrometer (CasperSchippers)
- Fix Keithley2000 deprecated call to visa.config (bklebel)
- Fix bug in the Keithley 2700 (CasperSchippers)
- Fix setting of sensor flags for Thorlabs PM100D (bleykauf)
- Fix SCPI used for Keithley 2400 voltage NPLC (mfikes)
- Fix missing return statements in Tektronix AFG3152C (bleykauf)
- Fix DPSeriesMotorController bug (samcondon4)
- Fix Keithley2600 error when retrieving error code (bicarlsen)
- Fix Attocube ANC300 with new SCPI Instrument properties (dkriegner)
- Fix bug in wait_for_trigger of Agilent33220A (neal-kepler)

GUI
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- Add time-estimator widget (CasperSchippers)
- Add management of progress bar (msmttchr)
- Remove broken errorbar feature (CasperSchippers)
- Change of pen width for pyqtgraph (maederan201)
- Make linewidth changeable (CasperSchippers)
- Generalise warning in plotter section (CasperSchippers)
- Implement visibility groups in InputsWidgets (CasperSchippers)
- Modify navigation of ManagedWindow directory widget (jarvas24)
- Improve Placeholder logic (CasperSchippers)
- Breakout widgets into separate modules (mcdo0486)
- Fix setSizePolicy bug with PySide2 (msmttchr)
- Fix managed window (msmttchr)
- Fix ListParameter for numbers (moritzj29)
- Fix incorrect columns on showing data (CasperSchippers)
- Fix procedure property issue (msmttchr)
- Fix pyside2 (msmttchr)

Miscellaneous
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- Improve SCPI property support (msmttchr)
- Remove broken safeKeyword management (msmttchr)
- Add dynamic property support (msmttchr)
- Add flexible API for defining connection configuration (bilderbuchi)
- Add write_binary_values() to SerialAdapter (msmttchr)
- Change an outdated pyvisa ask() to query() (LongnoseRob)
- Fix ZMQ bug (bilderbuchi)

- Documentation for passing tuples to control property (bklebel)
- Documentation bugfix (CasperSchippers)
- Fixed broken links in documentation. (samcondon4)
- Updated widget documentation (mcdo0486)
- Fix typo SCIP->SCPI (mfikes)

- Remove Python 3.6, add Python 3.10 testing (bilderbuchi)
- Modernise the code base to use Python 3.7 features (bilderbuchi)
- Added image data generation to Mock Instrument class (samcondon4)
- Add autodoc warnings to the problem matcher (bilderbuchi)
- Update CI & annotations (bilderbuchi)
- Test workers (mcdo0486)
- Change copyright date to 2022 (LongnoseRob)
- Removed unused code (msmttchr)

New Contributors
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LongnoseRob, neal, hududed, corna, Daivesd, samcondon4, maederan201, bleykauf, mfikes, bicarlsen, md12g12, CodingMarco, jarvas24, mcdo0486!

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pymeasure/pymeasure/compare/v0.9...v0.10.0

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- PyMeasure is now officially at github.com/pymeasure/pymeasure
- Python 3.9 is now supported, Python 3.5 removed due to EOL
- Move to GitHub Actions from TravisCI and Appveyor for CI (bilderbuchi)
- New additions to Oxford Instruments ITC 503 (CasperSchippers)
- New Agilent 34450A and Keysight DSOX1102G instruments (theMashUp, jlarochelle)
- Improvements to NI VirtualBench (moritzj29)
- New Agilent B1500 instrument (moritzj29)
- New Keithley 6517B instrument (wehlgrundspitze)
- Major improvements to PyVISA compatbility (bilderbuchi, msmttchr, CasperSchippers, cjermain)
- New Anapico APSIN12G instrument (StePhanino)
- Improvements to Thorelabs Pro 8000 and SR830 (Mike-HubGit)
- New SR860 instrument (StevenSiegl, bklebel)
- Fix to escape sequences (tirkarthi)
- New directory input for ManagedWindow (paulgoulain)
- New TelnetAdapter and Attocube ANC300 Piezo controller (dkriegner)
- New Agilent 34450A (theMashUp)
- New Razorbill RP100 strain cell controller (pheowl)
- Fixes to precision and default value of ScientificInput and FloatParameter (moritzj29)
- Fixes for Keithly 2400 and 2450 controls (pyMatJ)
- Improvments to Inputs and open_file_externally (msmttchr)
- Fixes to Agilent 8722ES (alexmcnabb)
- Fixes to QThread cleanup (neal-kepler, msmttchr)
- Fixes to Keyboard interrupt, and parameters (CasperSchippers)

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- Python 3.8 is now supported
- New Measurement Sequencer allows for running over a large parameter space (CasperSchippers)
- New image plotting feature for live image measurements (jmittelstaedt)
- Improvements to VISA adapter (moritzj29)
- Added Tektronix AFG 3000, Keithley 2750 (StePhanino, dennisfeng2)
- Documentation improvements (mivade)
- Fix to ScientificInput for float strings (moritzj29)
- New validator: strict_discrete_range (moritzj29)
- Improvements to Recorder thread joining
- Migrating the ReadtheDocs configuration to version 2
- National Instruments Virtual Bench initial support (moritzj29)

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- Dropped support for Python 3.4, adding support for Python 3.7
- Significant improvements to CI, dependencies, and conda environment (bilderbuchi, cjermain)
- Fix for PyQT issue in ResultsDialog (CasperSchippers)
- Fix for wire validator in Keithley 2400 (Fattotora)
- Addition of source_enabled control for Keithley 2400 (dennisfeng2)
- Time constant fix and input controls for SR830 (dennisfeng2)
- Added Keithley 2450 and Agilent 33521A (hlgirard, Endever42)
- Proper escaping support in CSV headers (feph)
- Minor updates (dvase)

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- Added Elektronica SM70-45D, Agilent 33220A, and Keysight N5767A instruments
(CasperSchippers, sumatrae)
- Fixes for Prologix adapter and Keithley 2400 (hlgirard, ronan-sensome)
- Improved support for SRS SR830 (CasperSchippers)

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- New VXI11 Adapter for ethernet instruments (chweiser)
- PyQt updates to 5.6.0
- Added SRS SG380, Ametek 7270, Agilent 4156, HP 34401A, Advantest R3767CG, and
Oxford ITC503 instrustruments (sylkar, jmittelstaedt, vik-s, troylf, CasperSchippers)
- Updates to Keithley 2000, Agilent 8257D, ESP 300, and Keithley 2400 instruments
(watersjason, jmittelstaedt, nup002)
- Various minor bug fixes (thosou)