v2.9.0

What's Changed

• 🔧 🤖 Fix PR requirements state by @daquinteroflex in #2407
• Making normal requirement for tilted plane intersections less stringent by @momchil-flex in #2406
• 🎨 Add GUI and photonforge docs intro by @daquinteroflex in #2334
• feature[frontend]: improve printing of materials and material library by @groberts-flex in #2356
• Avoiding overflow in Simulation.num_cells by @momchil-flex in #2413
• 📚 Fix and upgrade documentation of latest by @daquinteroflex in #2417
• Some more autograd validators by @yaugenst-flex in #2419
• feat: add validation for units by @rahul-flex in #2335
• Fix:Error message for invalid task ID by @rahul-flex in #2345
• ✨ FEAT: Add reflection transformation with verification tests by @damianofranzo in #2414
• 🌈 📚 Update color scheme by @daquinteroflex in #2409
• maint[autograd]: validator for catching traced structures in ClipOperation by @yaugenst-flex in #2427
• feat[FieldData]: export to ZBF by @bzhangflex in #2397
• Vasily/refinement_region_clean by @vasilyzabelin in #2398
• Adding function NedeljkovicSorefMashanovich to docs by @marc-flex in #2432
• Fix bug when symmetry + non-symmetric boundary conditions are defined by @momchil-flex in #2429
• Change threshold for number of frequencies in EME for warning by @caseyflex in #2402
• Add support for 2D EME simulations by @caseyflex in #2410
• Add PermittivityMonitor to EMESimulation by @caseyflex in #2416
• fix[autograd]: remove frequency summing in CustomMedium gradient and … by @groberts-flex in #2430
• Adding refinement regions to the docs by @marc-flex in #2437
• fix[frontend]: fix computation of finite axis length for PolySlab by @groberts-flex in #2434
• Revert "Test slurm runners" by @daquinteroflex in #2442
• 🖌️ Final touches for docs color scheme by @daquinteroflex in #2439
• Delegate PEC check from MultiPhysicsMedium to its Optical Medium by @frederikschubertflex in #2431
• 🎨 Improve tab color on light style by @daquinteroflex in #2451
• ⚠️ RF License Validator Warning by @daquinteroflex in #2448
• 🔧 📚 Missing SourceTime API by @daquinteroflex in #2458
• linking FixedAngleSpec notebook to PlaneWave docstring by @FilipeFcp in #2454
• 🔧 ⚠️ Fix RF scope warning by @daquinteroflex in #2460
• Update RF threshold frequency by @weiliangjin2021 in #2464
• fix: set the width and height of the injected iframe for the plot_sim_3d function by @frederikschubertflex in #2462
• Fix a bug in capacitance when symmetry is present by @marc-flex in #2469
• fix multiphysics medium attribute lookup by @yaugenst-flex in #2468
• Last updates for 2.8.4 by @momchil-flex in #2459
• Momchil/latest 2 8 4 by @momchil-flex in #2470
• remove pulse amplitude and phase of forward source time in broadband adjoint source by @groberts-flex in #2466
• Min size autodetect by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #2325
• Gap automeshing by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #2390
• fix tests in develop by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #2474
• fix: NedeljkovicSorefMashanovich serialization by @yaugenst-flex in #2485
• adding eps_lim argument to plot_eps by @FilipeFcp in #2467
• only warning on VisualizationSpec color validation when matplotlib is not installed by @groberts-flex in #2488
• relax wave port bounds check by @dmarek-flex in #2452
• Making all adjoint helpers private by @yaugenst-flex in #2492
• Update changelog for EME precision improvements. by @caseyflex in #2499
• Remove gdspy by @frederikschubertflex in #2477
• Thin conductor thickness in LossyMetalMedium by @weiliangjin2021 in #2500
• Add AuxFieldTimeMonitor to api docs by @momchil-flex in #2491
• Structure priority option in structure overlapping region by @weiliangjin2021 in #2336
• fix: changelog by @yaugenst-flex in #2504
• Added resistance calculation by @marc-flex in #2476
• adjust adjoint source fwidth to decay before zero frequency when possible by @groberts-flex in #2455
• Custom heat source by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #2447
• Add Tidy3D Matplotlib Styles on Import by @frederikschubertflex in #2428
• fix: add delegation for necessary properties of a Simulation with MultiPhysicsMedium structures by @frederikschubertflex in #2487
• Fix to DC voltage source units for compatibility by @momchil-flex in #2507
• chore: add coverage report action to local tests by @frederikschubertflex in #2501
• fix shaping of custom medium derivatives by @groberts-flex in #2503
• Adding function to generate trimesh geometry from height p… by @tomflexcompute in #2479
• Allow kwargs to be used with autograd primitives by @bzhangflex in #2497
• Unsteady heat support by @marc-flex in #2388
• fix: interpolate_spline doctests by @yaugenst-flex in #2509
• chore(github): add script to determine test scope by @frederikschubertflex in #2510
• fix bug when inserting snapping points near sim min boundary by @dmarek-flex in #2513
• fix contains check for lumped element, which was too strict by @dmarek-flex in #2511
• fix[web]: use dedicated endpoint for web.delete_old() by @yaugenst-flex in #2457
• Upgrade ruff 0.5.5 -> 0.10.11 & review rules by @yaugenst-flex in #2486
• Add local subpixel integration by @caseyflex in #2494
• Minor improvement to import check for local subpixel by @caseyflex in #2516
• 🤖 📦 Tests in Docker Image by @daquinteroflex in #2404
• 🔧 Fix standalone testing permissions by @daquinteroflex in #2517
• 🔧 🤖 Ignore CI comments on PR label by @daquinteroflex in #2519
• Fix bug in EME simulations with bends by @caseyflex in #2515
• Fix field colocation in EMEModeSolverMonitor by @caseyflex in #2526
• Disable local subpixel by default by @caseyflex in #2521
• Bug fix for EME _extract_mode_solver_data introduced in last PR by @caseyflex in #2528
• Adding unsteady heat and custom source to changelog. by @marc-flex in #2532
• Adding heat, charge and conduction simulations to test/utils.py by @marc-flex in #2514
• update pre-commit hook by @dmarek-flex in #2536
• Limiting number of pytest workers to 4 by @bryance-flexcompute in #2533
• Adding monitor validations for Conduction simulations by @marc-flex in #2524
• Avoid interpolation errors with some xarray versions by @momchil-flex in #2538
• Validating that structure rotation in the mode solver can be done by @momchil-flex in #2534
• ⏫ Update to new version control by @daquinteroflex in #2540
• 🔧 Fix version linting by @daquinteroflex in #2548
• ⬆️ Update poetry lock for release by @daquinteroflex in #2549
• fix impedance calculation for lossy transmission lines by @dmarek-flex in #2552
• Automatically use periodic boundary on zero-size dimensions by @caseyflex in #2553
• Setting default mode precision to 'double', except in EME solver by @momchil-flex in #2547
• fix(tidy3d): lazy load scipy to reduce import time by @frederikschubertflex in #2543
• ⬅️ Changing version management by @daquinteroflex in #2556
• 🤖 Update tests to slurm runners by @daquinteroflex in #2555
• Determining zero dimesnions in slices by @marc-flex in #2558
• Jax plugin deprecation by @momchil-flex in #2559
• account for weighting of adjoint field source current when simulation uses symmetry by @groberts-flex in #2557
• Remove special characters in jax deprecation message by @momchil-flex in #2561
• fix validation of CustomGridBoundaries by @dmarek-flex in #2562
• Final updates for 2.9.0rc1 by @momchil-flex in #2564
• Fixed bug when validating the grid near coax port by @dmarek-flex in #2541
• add grid refinement option and validation for WavePorts by @dmarek-flex in #2563
• Prevent arrow lengths from being too long by @jewettaijfc in #2576
• Bumping version to 2.9.0rc2 by @momchil-flex in #2580
• feat(autograd): add primitive for np.unwrap by @yaugenst-flex in #2593
• Fix to mode solver simulation reduction in web.upload by @momchil-flex in #2583
• Fix to plane wave with negative azimuth angle by @momchil-flex in #2592
• Partially reverting #2534 and reorganizing mode validation by @momchil-flex in #2590
• docs[webapi]: add missing webapi methods to docs and reorganize sections by @yaugenst-flex in #2588
• Adding some missing classes by @marc-flex in #2597
• feat: add Nunley variant to germanium material library by @yaugenst-flex in #2599
• refc[adjoint]: Refactor PoleResidue derivative calculation by @yaugenst-flex in #2585
• Revert to GaussianBeam.num_freqs = 1 by default by @momchil-flex in #2603
• perf(autograd): optimize grey_dilation with striding by @yaugenst-flex in #2589
• Add VolumeMesher and VOLUME_MESH task type by @momchil-flex in #2493
• clean up polygon intersection glitches VERSION 2 (using only shapely functions) (issue #2560) by @jewettaijfc in #2596
• fix(pytorch): Correct gradient for array-valued functions in wrapper by @yaugenst-flex in #2608
• ci(tidy3d): docker disk cleanup by @daquinteroflex in #2613
• a warning message is generated when num_layers <= 6 (instead of an error) by @jewettaijfc in #2606
• Fix: added missing desciptions of a few parameters in docstring by @George-Guryev-flxcmp in #2619
• Add option to use dispersion fitter without rich.progress by @caseyflex in #2258
• Move imaginary factor in MonitorData.get_amplitude() to internal adjoint calculation by @yaugenst-flex in #2627
• set vgpu task priority by @QingengWei in #2616
• ci: Enforce stricter pr-requirements-pass by @daquinteroflex in #2628
• ci: Not require local-tests to merge by @daquinteroflex in #2629
• Validating that simulation md5 stored in mesher task matches solver task by @momchil-flex in #2611
• ci: Fix concurrency failure by @daquinteroflex in #2631
• Feat: Add PointDipole.from_angles() by @saeedece in #2623
• ci: Yet another test of protection rules by @daquinteroflex in #2630
• Turning a few validators into root validators by @momchil-flex in #2632
• Electric field monitor for Charge by @marc-flex in #2566
• chore(deps): 🤖 Daily update poetry.lock by @github-actions[bot] in #2634
• Fix EME port modes symmetry expansion by @caseyflex in #2605
• Add interval_space to EMEFieldMonitor by @caseyflex in #2622
• ci: Standardise and create daily dependency updates by @daquinteroflex in #2633
• Enhance Custom Validator Error Messages with Object Names by @jewettaijfc in #2618
• ci: Rename to link to github actions index by @daquinteroflex in #2639
• ci: Skip diff-changes if fork by @daquinteroflex in #2645
• Add FreqRange utility class and unit tests (related issue #2529) by @George-Guryev in #2542
• feat(web): add nexus environment (FXC-1750) by @frederikschubertflex in #2643
• refactor: remove debug print statement from sim_data.py by @yaugenst-flex in #2652
• fix: wrongly decorated _validate_inplane_pec validator by @yaugenst-flex in #2653
• feat: Proper semantic versioning schema-change verification by @daquinteroflex in #2642
• ci: pr-requirements-tests only on PR events by @daquinteroflex in #2656
• Adding 'precision' option to Simulation by @momchil-flex in #2624
• Enable bulk PMC material by @weiliangjin2021 in #2502
• ci: forbid module-level import of scipy & matplotlib by @yaugenst-flex in #2658
• download files atomically from s3 by @jewettaijfc in #2649
• Warning about symmetry expansion in ModeSolver and ModeSimulation by @momchil-flex in #2626
• ci: Add merge_group trigger by @daquinteroflex in #2665
• ci: Remove concurrency conflicts by @daquinteroflex in #2667
• ci: Retrigger from reviews, but always verify-schema by @daquinteroflex in #2668
• fix[autograd]: sample fields along slab height and polygon edges by @yaugenst-flex in #2418
• fix(style): remove global styles that interfere with structure plots (FXC-1802) by @frederikschubertflex in #2659
• fix: solve most warnings in test suite & some deprecation warnings too by @yaugenst-flex in #2661
• Singularity correction at metallic edges by @weiliangjin2021 in #2498
• Last updates for 2.9.0rc2 by @momchil-flex in #2672
• Fix small error in doping computation by @marc-flex in #2675
• fix: TerminalComponentModeler serialization by @daquinteroflex in #2670
• Bumping version to 2.9.0 by @momchil-flex in #2676
• fix(ci): develop schema updates by @daquinteroflex in #2678
• add ssl_verify from Env to HttpSessionManager by @bryance-flexcompute in #2646
• Fix unsteady heat test by @marc-flex in #2677
• Add check for conduction by @marc-flex in #2666
• Giving opposite boundaries different names no longer causes a symmetry validator failure by @jewettaijfc in #2682
• Interrupted Batch downloads can be resumed by @jewettaijfc in #2654
• Add support for uniform frequency and wavelength sampling in freqs() and ldas() by @George-Guryev-flxcmp in #2657
• chore(deps): 🤖 Daily update poetry.lock by @github-actions[bot] in #2637
• feat: add mil and inch units to plot_length_units by @yaugenst-flex in #2655
• Revert "feat: add mil and inch units to plot_length_units" by @daquinteroflex in #2688
• ci: Trigger requirement-pass on merge_group by @daquinteroflex in #2689
• tighter tolerance used for mode solvers by @dmarek-flex in #2671
• fix: validate parameters for InverseDesignResult are in valid range by @yaugenst-flex in #2692
• Use slurm-container for self-hosted python test by @bryance-flexcompute in #2695
• fix: multifrequency adjoint performance by vectorizing over frequencies by @yaugenst-flex in #2693
• Add access to field decay values in SimulationData by @mardolph-ruco in #2699
• release: 2.9.0 by @daquinteroflex in #2686
• ci: Update RTD sync by @daquinteroflex in #2714
• Updating changelog for 2.9.0 by @momchil-flex in #2713
• Validate against EMEFieldMonitor with EMELengthSweep by @caseyflex in #2698
• Fix adjoint postprocessing frequency batching by @groberts-flex in #2716
• release: Regenerate test files by @daquinteroflex in #2717

New Contributors

• @damianofranzo made their first contribution in #2414
• @frederikschubertflex made their first contribution in #2431
• @bryance-flexcompute made their first contribution in #2533
• @jewettaijfc made their first contribution in #2576
• @George-Guryev-flxcmp made their first contribution in #2619
• @saeedece made their first contribution in #2623
• @github-actions[bot] made their first contribution in #2634
• @George-Guryev made their first contribution in #2542
• @mardolph-ruco made their first contribution in #2699

Full Changelog: v2.8.3...v2.9.0