In this major release, new features include:
* Support for Phi and Metis instruments onboard Solar Orbiter
* The integration of the Solar Orbiter Archive Fido client directly into sunpy
* Support for Saving sunpy coordinates with Astropy Table
There are also plenty of bug fixes, documentation improvements, and smaller features.
The full what’s new can be found at What’s New in sunpy 8.0? https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/8.0.html
and the full changelog at Full Changelog https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/changelog.html
To update you can run either:
* pip install --upgrade sunpy (for pip users)
* conda update sunpy (for conda users)
👏 Finally, we would like to give thanks to all those who contributed to this release and, in particular, those who contributed to sunpy for the first time: Aleksandr Burtovoi, Daragh M. Hollman, Giovanna Jerse, Herman le Roux, Jonas Sinjan, Kumar Amityush and Yaocheng Chen.
SunPy is a community powered project, and would not exist without continual input from you, so thank you!