Change Log#

GSD releases follow semantic versioning.

3.x#

3.0.1 (2023-06-20)#

Fixed:

  • Prevent ValueError: signal only works in main thread of the main interpreter when importing gsd in a non-main thread.

3.0.0 (2023-06-16)#

Added:

  • gsd.version.version - version string identifier. PEP8 compliant name replaces __version__.

  • GSDFile.flush - flush write buffers (C API gsd_flush) (#237).

  • GSDFile.maximum_write_buffer_size - get/set the write buffer size (C API gsd_get_maximum_write_buffer_size / gsd_set_maximum_write_buffer_size) (#237).

  • GSDFile.index_entries_to_buffer - get/set the write buffer size (C API index_entries_to_buffer / index_entries_to_buffer) (#237).

  • On importing gsd, install a SIGTERM handler that calls sys.exit(1) (#237).

Changed:

  • write_chunk buffers writes across frames to increase performance (#237).

  • Use Doxygen and breathe to generate C API documentation in Sphinx (#237).

Removed:

  • gsd.__version__ - use gsd.version.version.

  • gsd.hoomd.Snapshot - use gsd.hoomd.Frame (#249).

  • gsd.hoomd.HOOMDTrajectory.read_frame - use gsd.hoomd.HOOMDTrajectory.__getitem__ (#249).

  • The file modes 'wb', 'wb+', 'rb', 'rb+', 'ab', 'xb', and 'xb+'. Use 'r', 'r+', 'w', 'x', or 'a' (#249).

2.x#

2.9.0 (2023-05-19)#

Added:

  • File modes 'r', 'r+', 'w', 'x', and 'a' (#238).

Changed:

  • Test on gcc9, clang10, and newer (#235).

  • Test and provide binary wheels on Python 3.8 and newer (#235).

Deprecated:

  • File modes 'wb', 'wb+', 'rb', 'rb+', 'ab', 'xb', and 'xb+' (#238).

  • [C API] GSD_APPEND file open mode (#238).

v2.8.1 (2023-03-13)#

Fixed:

  • Reduce memory usage in most use cases.

  • Reduce likelihood of data corruption when writing GSD files.

v2.8.0 (2023-02-24)#

Added:

  • gsd.hoomd.read_log - Read log quantities from a GSD file.

  • gsd.hoomd.Frame class to replace gsd.hoomd.Snapshot.

Changed:

  • Improved documentation.

Deprecated:

  • gsd.hoomd.Snapshot.

v2.7.0 (2022-11-30)#

Added

  • Support Python 3.11.

v2.6.1 (2022-11-04)#

Fixed:

  • Default values are now written to frame N (N != 0) when non-default values exist in frame 0.

  • Data chunks can now be read from files opened in ‘wb’, ‘xb’, and ‘ab’ modes.

v2.6.0 (2022-08-19)#

Changed:

  • Raise an error when writing a frame with duplicate types.

v2.5.3 (2022-06-22)#

Fixed

  • Support Python >=3.6.

v2.5.2 (2022-04-15)#

Fixed

  • Correctly handle non-ASCII characters on Windows.

  • Document that the fname argument to gsd_ C API functions is UTF-8 encoded.

v2.5.1 (2021-11-17)#

Added

  • Support for Python 3.10.

  • Support for clang 13.

v2.5.0 (2021-10-13)#

Changed

  • Improved documentation.

Deprecated

  • HOOMDTrajectory.read_frame - use indexing (trajectory[index]) to access frames from a trajectory.

v2.4.2 (2021-04-14)#

Added

  • MacOS and Windows wheels on PyPI.

Fixed

  • Documented array shapes for angles, dihedrals, and impropers.

v2.4.1 (2021-03-11)#

Added

  • Support macos-arm64.

Changed

  • Stop testing with clang 4-5, gcc 4.8-6.

v2.4.0 (2020-11-11)#

Changed

  • Set gsd.hoomd.ConfigurationData.dimensions default based on box’s \(L_z\) value.

Fixed

  • Failure in test_fl.py when run by a user and GSD was installed by root.

v2.3.0 (2020-10-30)#

Added

  • Support clang 11.

  • Support Python 3.9.

Changed

  • Install unit tests with the Python package.

Fixed

  • Compile error on macOS 10.15.

v2.2.0 (2020-08-05)#

Added

  • Command line convenience interface for opening a GSD file.

v2.1.2 (2020-06-26)#

Fixed

  • Adding missing close method to HOOMDTrajectory.

  • Documentation improvements.

v2.1.1 (2020-04-20)#

Fixed

  • List defaults in gsd.fl.open documentation.

v2.1.0 (2020-02-27)#

Added

  • Shape specification for sphere unions.

v2.0.0 (2020-02-03)#

Note

  • This release introduces a new file storage format.

  • GSD >= 2.0 can read and write to files created by GSD 1.x.

  • Files created or upgraded by GSD >= 2.0 can not be opened by GSD < 1.x.

Added

  • The upgrade method converts a GSD 1.0 file to a GSD 2.0 file in place.

  • Support arbitrarily long chunk names (only in GSD 2.0 files).

Changed

  • gsd.fl.open accepts None for application, schema, and schema_version when opening files for reading.

  • Improve read latency when accessing files with thousands of chunk names in a frame (only for GSD 2.0 files).

  • Buffer small writes to improve write performance.

  • Improve performance and reduce memory usage in read/write modes (‘rb+’, ‘wb+’ and (‘xb+’).

  • C API: functions return error codes from the gsd_error enum. v2.x integer error codes differ from v1.x, use the enum to check. For example: if (retval == GSD_ERROR_IO).

  • Python, Cython, and C code must follow strict style guidelines.

Removed

  • gsd.fl.create - use gsd.fl.open.

  • gsd.hoomd.create - use gsd.hoomd.open.

  • GSDFile v1.0 compatibility mode - use gsd.fl.open.

  • hoomdxml2gsd.py.

Fixed

  • Allow more than 127 data chunk names in a single GSD file.

v1.x#

v1.10.0 (2019-11-26)#

  • Improve performance of first frame write.

  • Allow pickling of GSD file handles opened in read only mode.

  • Removed Cython-generated code from repository. fl.pyx will be cythonized during installation.

v1.9.3 (2019-10-04)#

  • Fixed preprocessor directive affecting Windows builds using setup.py.

  • Documentation updates

v1.9.2 (2019-10-01)#

  • Support chunk sizes larger than 2GiB

v1.9.1 (2019-09-23)#

  • Support writing chunks wider than 255 from Python.

v1.9.0 (2019-09-18)#

  • File API: Add find_matching_chunk_names()

  • HOOMD schema 1.4: Add user defined logged data.

  • HOOMD schema 1.4: Add type_shapes specification.

  • pytest >= 3.9.0 is required to run unit tests.

  • gsd.fl.open and gsd.hoomd.open accept objects implementing os.PathLike.

  • Report an error when attempting to write a chunk that fails to allocate a name.

  • Reduce virtual memory usage in rb and wb open modes.

  • Additional checks for corrupt GSD files on open.

  • Synchronize after expanding file index.

v1.8.1 (2019-08-19)#

  • Correctly raise IndexError when attempting to read frames before the first frame.

  • Raise RuntimeError when importing gsd in unsupported Python versions.

v1.8.0 (2019-08-05)#

  • Slicing a HOOMDTrajectory object returns a view that can be used to directly select frames from a subset or sliced again.

  • raise IndexError when attempting to read frames before the first frame.

  • Dropped support for Python 2.

v1.7.0 (2019-04-30)#

  • Add hpmc/sphere/orientable to HOOMD schema.

  • HOOMD schema 1.3

v1.6.2 (2019-04-16)#

  • PyPI binary wheels now support numpy>=1.9.3,<2

v1.6.1 (2019-03-05)#

  • Documentation updates

v1.6.0 (2018-12-20)#

  • The length of sliced HOOMDTrajectory objects can be determined with the built-in len() function.

v1.5.5 (2018-11-28)#

  • Silence numpy deprecation warnings

v1.5.4 (2018-10-04)#

  • Add pyproject.toml file that defines numpy as a proper build dependency (requires pip >= 10)

  • Reorganize documentation

v1.5.3 (2018-05-22)#

  • Revert setup.py changes in v1.5.2 - these do not work in most circumstances.

  • Include sys/stat.h on all architectures.

v1.5.2 (2018-04-04)#

  • Close file handle on errors in gsd_open.

  • Always close file handle in gsd_close.

  • setup.py now correctly pulls in the numpy dependency.

v1.5.1 (2018-02-26)#

  • Documentation fixes.

v1.5.0 (2018-01-18)#

  • Read and write HPMC shape state data.

v1.4.0 (2017-12-04)#

  • Support reading and writing chunks with 0 length. No schema changes are necessary to support this.

v1.3.0 (2017-11-17)#

  • Document state entries in the HOOMD schema.

  • No changes to the gsd format or reader code in v1.3.

v1.2.0 (2017-02-21)#

  • Add gsd.hoomd.open() method which can create and open hoomd gsd files.

  • Add gsd.fl.open() method which can create and open gsd files.

  • The previous create/class GSDFile instantiation is still supported for backward compatibility.

v1.1.0 (2016-10-04)#

  • Add special pairs section pairs/ to HOOMD schema.

  • HOOMD schema version is now 1.1.

v1.0.1 (2016-06-15)#

  • Fix compile error on more strict POSIX systems.

v1.0.0 (2016-05-24)#

Initial release.