Changelog

v0.19.1 (unreleased)

Major Changes

• Dropped support for Python 3.9, now requiring Python 3.10 or higher (#576)

Internal Changes

• Dropped black and blackdoc in favor of ruff for code style and formatting (#576)

• Updated pre-commit hook versions and adjusted configurations for Python 3.10+ support (#576)

• Adjusted a handful of typing issues in raven.utilities for more accurate type hints (#576)

v0.19.0 (2025-07-16)

Major Changes

• The raven library is now available for installation on PyPI (under the name birdhouse-raven) (#536, #569)

• Documentation has been overhauled so that WPS processes are listed in a more organized manner (#535)

• Reimplemented the cruft configuration and ported recent changes to ensure that the project is up-to-date (#536)

• Removed pysheds and watershed delineation process due to a licensing issue (#495)

• Updated several dependencies to ensure that processes emit fewer warnings and notebooks render properly (#535)

Internal Changes

• Allowed for larger int fields when writing to GeoJSON (#535)

• Ensured that JSON-serialized output does not include numpy complex types (#535)

• Added a GitHub Workflow to test the Dockerfile recipe configuration for RavenWPS (#481)

• Cleaned up the Dockerfile recipe configuration for raven. Now using gunicorn for service management (#481)

• Testing data fetching mechanism has been refactored to use pooch for better maintainability (#569)

• Tooling has been updated to use ruff and other newer tools for code quality and formatting (#569)

• raven now uses Trusted Publisher for TestPyPI and PyPI releases (#569)

v0.18.2 (2023-07-06)

• Removed pin on owslib below v0.29 and pin on fiona below v2.0 (#480)

• Added a GitHub Workflow to test against macOS builds (#480)

• Adapted zonal statistics processes to support the latest fiona and zonalstats API changes (#480)

v0.18.1 (2023-05-23)

• Removed obsolete components related to HPC interfaces (#477)

• Added Python3.11 to supported versions with a build for Python3.11 in CI (#477)

• Adjusted ReadMe to reflect recent significant changes (#477)

• Updated deprecated GitHub Actions (#477)

v0.18.0 (2023-05-23)

Major Changes

• singularity components have been removed from raven (#470)

• Removed Raven WPS capabilities for hydrological modelling, graphing and forecasting (moved to RavenPy) (#464)

• Removed notebooks and migrated to Ravenpy. Adapted them to the new Ravenpy configuration (#464)

• Removed all tests related to Raven WPS modelling (#464)

• Raise error message if shape area for NALCMS zonal stats raster is above 100,000 km2 (#473)

v0.17.1 (2023-04-04)

Internal Changes

• Dockerfile configuration now uses Python3.8 and condaforge/mambaforge base image (#466)

• pandas is temporarily pinned below v2.0 (#466)

v0.17.0 (2023-02-28)

Major Changes

• Updated testing ensemble to use pytest-xdist (#448)

• Updated RavenPy to v0.11.0, raven-hydro to v3.6, and fiona to v1.9 (#461)

• Modified several geospatial processes to adapt to new APIs (#461)

• Datetime signatures for some models used in notebooks have been adjusted/fixed (#453)

Internal Changes

• Makefile updates to better perform notebook refresh actions (#459)

• Pre-commit style updates (#446, #447, #449, #461)

• Use provision-with-micromamba GitHub Action in CI workflows (#462)

v0.16.0 (2022-11-01)

Major Changes

• Added data assimilation workbook (#421)

• Overhaul of all existing notebooks within documentation (#424)

• Added notebooks for case-study paper (#435)

• Update to RavenPy 0.8.1 (#439)

• Dropped support for Python3.7 (#439)

Internal Changes

• Added pre-commit.ci to workflows and updated black formatting (#428 and #429)

• Adjust documentation to remove sphinx-autoapi artefact files and set ReadTheDocs to fail_on_warning (#439)

• Set pre-commit to run new correction and verification hooks (#439):

  • pyupgrade: Ensure that coding style uses Python3.8+ conventions

  • pygrep: Checks for bare noqa comments and malformed code blocks in documentation

  • nbqa: Black, Isort, PyUpgrade now runs over notebooks

  • check-manifest: Ensure relevant modules and data are explicitly installed

  • black + blackdoc + yamllint: Clean up code, code examples within documentation and reformat yaml files for readability

  • check-jsonschema: Verify that GitHub and ReadTheDocs workflows are valid

• Added a Zenodo/DOI configuration

v0.15.1 (2022-01-14)

• Modified handling for GDAL to better support conda-build configuration

• Update to RavenPy 0.7.8

• Upgrade to PyWPS 4.5.1

v0.15.0 (2021-12-22)

• Update to RavenPy 0.7.7

• Update required Python consistently to v3.7+

• Set development status to Beta.

• Replace pip-installed packages with conda-forge equivalents.

v0.14.2 (2021-09-03)

• Update to RavenPy 0.7.4 (pin climpred below version 2.1.6)

• Fixed a process-breaking bug in wps_hydrobasins_shape_selection

v0.14.1 (2021-08-31)

• Update to RavenPy 0.7.3 (pin xclim version 0.28.1)

v0.14.0 (2021-08-30)

• Update to RavenPy 0.7.2

• Use new OWSlib WFS topological filters

• More informative install documentation

• Upgrade to PyWPS 4.4.5

v0.13.0 (2021-05-14)

• Update RavenPy to 0.5.1

• Remove the name (watershed name) from the WPS interface for Raven processes

• Add random_numbers WPS param to pass optional OstRandomNumbers.txt file to Ostrich processes

• Add error handlers for regionalisation and climatology processes

v0.12.1 (2021-04-16)

• Fix bug where the name of configuration files was used, while the client transmission of data does not carry the file name.

• Update notebooks

• Move draft notebooks to sandbox

v0.12.0 (2021-04-14)

• Update RavenPy to 0.4.2

• Migrate utilities to RavenPy

• Add notebook for advanced forecasting

• Add notebook for probabilistic flood assessment

• Option to skip slow tests

• Add climpred verification WPS service

• Pre-commit hooks

• Install from conda Raven and Ostrich libraries

• Support passing HRUs

• Use scale/offset instead of linear_transform

• Enable GitHub CI

• Fix broken notebooks

• Improve error reporting by including stack trace in error messages.

v0.11.x (2021-02-01)

• Add processes to run hydrological simulations on ECCC GEPS forecasts/hindcasts

• Add process to create forecast graphic

• Add first basic data assimilation utilities

• Factor out extra project RavenPy (at version 0.2.2), using Raven 3.0.1

• Upgrade to xclim +0.23.0

• Upgrade to xarray +0.16.2

• Add configuration options: deaccumulate

• Clean notebooks

• Pin RavenPy to 0.3.0

• Pin owslib to 0.21

• Fix RavenC binaries installation for deployment

• Move some tests to RavenPy

• Regionalization data is now bundled with RavenPy

• Upgrade and pin PyWPS to 4.4.1

• Factor out most GIS functions to RavenPy (0.3.0)

• Add nalcms-zonal-stats-raster process using pymetalink

• Simplify documentation build environment.

v0.10.x (2020-03-09) Oxford

• suppress_ouput also triggers :DontWriteWatershedStorage

• Added support for ERA5 (hourly), NRCan and CANOPEX datasets

• Support linear transforms (unit changes)

• Calibration now uses :SuppressOutput by default

• Added options for rain_snow_fraction, evaporation and ow_evaporation

• Updated Raven version to 295

• Support passing shapes as zip files

v0.9.x (2019-11-11)

• Return configuration files used to run model in a zip archive

v0.8.x (2019-10-22)

• Added more documentation for users

• Fixed reprojection errors in GIS utilities

• Specified HydroBASINS in lieu of HydroSHEDS in processes

• Optimized memory usage in ReadTheDocs builds when using Sphinx autodoc by employing mock

• Cleaner GeoJSON outputs for many subsetting processes

• Employed ipyleaflets for notebook-based web-maps

• Run py.test on notebooks from local or remote server

v0.7.x (2019-06-25)

• Regionalization database

• Graphics for frequency analysis

• Many new notebook tutorials

• Bug fixes

v0.6.x (2019-06-05)

• Regionalization process allowing the estimation of parameters of ungauged watersheds

• Added time series analysis processes, including frequential analysis

• Added processes creating graphics

• GIS processes now use GeoServer capabilities

• Docker configuration

v0.5.0 (2019-04-12)

• Added watershed geospatial analysis processes - Hydroshed basin selection (with upstream contributors) - Watershed properties - DEM property analysis - Land-use property analysis

• Added multi-parameter parallel simulations

• Added multi-model parallel simulations

• Added multi-bassin parallel simulations

v0.4.0 (2019-03-12)

• Added model calibration processes using Ostrich

• Added support for launching a singularity image

• Added library functions for model regionalization

v0.3.0 (2019-01-24)

• Adds process for MOHYSE emulator

• Adds process for HBV-EC emulator

v0.2.0 (2018-11-29) Washington

• Provides generic RAVEN framework configuration

• Process for GR4J-Cemaneige emulator

• Process for HMETS emulator