Compatibility Notices

As the Conda package ecosystem evolves and third-party software updates are released by Continuum and other providers, this may interfere with the stability of other codebases, such as STScI’s software. This page will proactively chronicle such events as they occur as well as provide workarounds to these issues.

If you spot a compatibility problem not listed here please let us know by sending an email to help@stsci.edu

Note

You may be affected by an issue if you have updated your AstroConda environment on or after the dates listed in each section below.

12/23/2016

AstroPy v1.3 fully deprecated calls to astropy.io.fits.new_table. The following packages are known to be incompatible with this release:

  • calcos =< 3.1.8 - Bugfix pending
  • costools <= 1.2.1 - Bugfix pending
  • fitsblender =< 0.2.6 - 0.3.0 released (01/17/2017)

Recommended user actions:

  • Upgrade fitsblender to version 0.3.0 (i.e. conda update fitsblender)

Alternative user actions:

  • Downgrade astropy to version 1.2.1 (i.e. conda install astropy=1.2.1)

Future

A list of known deprecation warnings detected in regression tests managed by STScI Science Software Branch is available here. This list is refreshed daily from “dev” and “public” test results.