v1.7.0

Released on: 2023/02/27

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7678844

Bug fixes:

• Make archive extraction always take members into account (#316)
• Figshare downloaders fetch the correct version, instead of always the latest one. (#343)

New features:

• Allow spaces in filenames in registry files (#315)
• Refactor Pooch.is_available to use downloaders (#322)
• Add support for downloading files from Dataverse DOIs (#318)
• Add a new Pooch.load_registry_from_doi method that populates the Pooch registry using DOI-based data repositories (#325)
• Support urls for Zenodo repositories created through the GitHub integration service, which include slashes in the filename of the main zip files (#340)
• Automatically add a trailing slash to base_url on pooch.create (#344)

Maintenance:

• Drop support for Python 3.6 (#299)
• Port from deprecated appdirs to platformdirs (#339)
• Update version of Codecov's Action to v3 (#345)

Documentation:

• Update sphinx, theme, and sphinx-panels (#300)
• Add CITATION.cff for the JOSS article (#308)
• Use Markdown for the README (#311)
• Improve docstring of known_hash in retrieve function (#333)
• Replace link to Pooch's citation with a BibTeX code snippet (#335)

Projects that started using Pooch:

• Open AR-Sandbox (#305)
• climlab (#312)
• SciPy (#320)
• napari (#321)
• mne-python (#323)

This release contains contributions from:

• Alex Fikl
• Anirudh Dagar
• Björn Ludwig
• Brian Rose
• Dominic Kempf
• Florian Wellmann
• Gabriel Fu
• Kyle I S Harrington
• Leonardo Uieda
• myd7349
• Rowan Cockett
• Santiago Soler