Python-casacore

General
- Removed many warnings issued by newer compiler versions (798, 809, 819, 820, 866, 883)
- Further improved thread-safety (817, 869, 877, 886)
- Added variance and standard deviation of complex numbers (851)

Tables
- Improved parallel storage manager based on ADIOS2
- Support of Int64 table columns (859)
- Added O_DIRECT support when using MultiFile (885)
- TaQL improvements (813, 851, 867)
- Small CTDS fixes (840, 868)

Measurement Set
- Small improvements (858, 864, 872)
- Better handling of FITS-IDI data bit sampling (836)

Images
- Support for non-chunked HDF5 data sets (879, 880)
- Fixed count overflow on very large images (849)

- Improve the setup procedure (146)
- prepare for 3.0.0 (147)
- More find_boost improvements build system (131)
- gcc failure when attempting setup.py build_ext on Red Hat EL 7.4 (quantamath.cc) (135)
- python-casacore uses hardcoded casa:: calls (136)
- quanta example not working with python 2.7.6 bug (17)
- Fix build and namespace problem (137)
- Remove deprecated has_key (132)
- Correct header guard macro definition (156)
- Avoiding TypeError deep down in setuptool (155)

General
- This release fixes a bug where TableIterator would skip a row

General
- Bug fixes and improvements
- This version can be used to compile CASA 5.0
- Improved error checking when parsing dates/times (619)
- Statistics: allow data provider to specify number of threads (645)

MS
- Disable caching of MS main table columns (597)
- Properly copy the `SIGMA_SPECTRUM` column, if present (599)
- Implement getTimesForSpws (600)

FITS and FITS-IDI
- Implement digital corrections for DiFX/VLBA (602)
- Several improvements for WEIGHTS when reading FITS-IDI (590, 608)
- Parallactic angle calculation for Nasmyth mounts (627)
- Modernised matrix syntax in FITS files now follows standard 3.0 (606)

General
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Improved installation documentation in README
- Add an option to use Ccache (`-DUseCcache`) (549)
- Add some statistics functionality (569)

Python
- Make some of the TableProxy functionality publicly available (559)
- Make version checking from python (or plain C) possible (583)

TaQL
- Fix transpose in TaQL (563)
- Added functions `delay` and `uvwapp` to `mscal` (562)

FITS
- MSFitsOutput now writes ant diams (536)
- Improvements to FITS-IDI conversion (538, 590, 579)

- Expose MeasurementSet functionality (61)
- Many improvements to documentation and test coverage
Thanks to Shibasis Patel (shibasisp) our Google summer of Code '17 student.

A full list of changes can be found on the issue tracker:

https://github.com/casacore/python-casacore/milestone/6?closed=1