[AstroPy] ANN: glue v0.11 released

[Thomas Robitaille]

Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce the release of *glue v0.11*! For anyone not
familiar with this package, glue is a Python library and application for
multidimensional linked data exploration, which you can read up more about
at http://glueviz.org

*Changes in this release*

An overview of the main changes in this release is available here:

  http://glueviz.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.11.html

The most significant changes are as follows:

   - The overall interface has been improved, with a new toolbar at the top
   of the window and other esthetic improvements to help make glue more
   easily usable on small displays
   - The built-in viewers - the 1D histogram, 2D scatter, and 2D image
   viewers - have been re-written from scratch and include new features, such
   as the ability to color-code or change the size of scatter points according
   to attributes (as was possible in the 3D scatter viewer previously), the
   ability to show error bars, and (in the case of the image viewer) a more
   generalized way of combining different layers into multi-color images.
   - A new mechanism has been added for registering custom subset mask
   importers and exporters

In addition, this release includes many bug fixes and improvements in
usability, as well as significant improvements to the code under-the-hood
to make the code more accessible and easier to modify in future.

*New plugins*

In parallel with this release of glue we have also released two new plugins:

   - An astronomy plugin providing a WorldWide Telescope viewer (more info
   here
   <http://glueviz.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.11.html#experimental-worldwide-telescope-plugin>
   )
   - A new plugin for geospatial data (more info here
   <http://glueviz.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.11.html#experimental-geospatial-plugin>
   )

If you would be interested in helping develop these plugins, we would love
to hear from you!

*Installing/updating g**lue*

We recommend installing glue using the Anaconda Python Distribution
<http://continuum.io/downloads>. To get the latest version of glue (v0.11),
you will need to make sure you use the glueviz conda channel. If you are
using the conda command, this means that you need to do:

  conda install -c glueviz glueviz

*Note that this has changed from previous versions, for which glue was
installed from the conda-forge channel.*

If you use the Anaconda launcher or navigator to install glue graphically,
take a look at the instructions on our website
<http://www.glueviz.org/en/stable/installation/conda.html#graphical-user-interface>
to
find out how to get the latest version. We also provide instructions
<http://www.glueviz.org/en/stable/installation/installation.html> for other
installation methods, including pip.

Please let us know if you run into any issues installing or using glue -
you can either let us know by email, by opening GitHub issues, or you can
join the glue slack channel <http://glueviz.org/en/stable/help.html> and
chat with us there.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Tom
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