v2.9.0rc1

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
• 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

New Contributors

• @damianofranzo made their first contribution in #2414
• @frederikschubertflex made their first contribution in #2431
• @bryance-flexcompute made their first contribution in #2533

Full Changelog: v2.8.3...v2.9.0rc1