PyGMT v0.4.1 released
Announcing PyGMT v0.4.1, a patch release with a few new gallery examples!
The PyGMT team is pleased to present version v0.4.1, a quick maintenance release with 4 new gallery examples and a couple of highlights:
- Change default GitHub branch name from “master” to “main” to increase inclusivity (#1360)
- Add a “PyGMT Team” page (#1308)
The full list of changes can be found in the changelog. Installation/Upgrade instructions can be found at Installing — PyGMT, or you can try it online first at try-gmt! Special shoutout to @yohaimagen for adding an example for the contour method during the SciPy 2021 sprint! Cheers to @mgrund for adding examples for plotting custom symbols and clipping grid values, and @core-man for adding an example for plotting multiple colormaps. All of these can be found at the PyGMT gallery (click on the image below).
Thank you also to new contributors @kadatatlukishore, @sean0921, and @soham4abc for some improvements and quick fixes to our documentation! There is now a team gallery to recognize the people working hard behind the scenes to make PyGMT what it is today - a tool used by geoscientists across the globe! We welcome new contributors to join in and contribute to this amazing open source project 
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Roadmap to v0.5.0
For the next minor release, here are some things we have planned (many of which we need help with!):
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Design a fresh new PyGMT logo!- Integration with ObsPy to process seismological data (#967)
- Add a beginner
friendly PyGMT tutorial that is a good roadmap for new GMT/PyGMT users (#770) - More features/enhancements
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Upcoming deprecations
No one likes software that breaks. To ensure a bug-free product and consistency, these are some of the deprecations coming up for future releases of PyGMT:
- v0.5.0 - NEP29: drop support for NumPy 1.17 so that NumPy 1.18 or above is required
- v0.6.0 - Aliases “columns” and “sizes” are replaced by “incols” and “size” respectively (a FutureWarning is raised since PyGMT v0.4.0)
- v1.0.0 (?) - Short form aliases (e.g. ‘R’) will not work if long form aliases (e.g. ‘region’) are available (a SyntaxWarning is raised since PyGMT v0.4.0, see #1316)
The compatibility matrix will be listed on PyGMT, so make sure you keep things up to date!
Community events
We’re going big on outreach and welcome people to join in on these virtual events:
Earth Science Women’s Network Developer workshop (17-19 Aug 2021), registration has closed. The workshop materials will be open, with more details posted through the GMT Forum/Twitter this week!
AGU 2021 session (13-17 Dec 2021), an abstract has been submitted! Stay tuned for more details 
EGU 2022 short-course (3-8 Apr 2022), call for proposals is open, let us know if you’re keen to take part or help with organizing and we’ll try to make this happen!
Feel free to reach out to the PyGMT team during those events, or anytime in between! We have quarterly PyGMT community meetings (see the last one in mid June 2021), and are active on this forum and GitHub too. That’s all for now
Enjoy 
P.S. Feel free to share the word on twitter 
, #PyGMT @gmt_dev!