0.9.0

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New features:

• Support for Python 3.10 (drops support for Python 3.6)
• All C extensions moved to FlowUtils (and FlowUtils now provides pre-built wheels - should avoid the need for a compiler for most users)
• New function extract_wsp_sample_data to parse FlowJo 10 wsp & extract Sample metadata (keywords) to a Python dictionary
• New GatingStrategy method get_max_depth to get max depth of gate tree
• New Session method summary for a quick summary of what the session contains
• Sample class now supports exporting new FCS files with metadata (set_metadata() for newly created samples #89)

API changes:

• Sample attribute channel_lin_log removed, lin / log metadata now available as "pne" column in Sample.channels attribute
• Sample class: export method has new kwarg include_metadata for including all key/value pairs in self.metadata in the output FCS file

Bug fixes:

• Fixed typo in FCS_STANDARD_KEYWORDS for 'date' keyword
• Fixed parsing of FlowJo workspaces where sample groups have "gate-less" samples (import flowjo workspace with groups containing samples with no gates / subpopulations #91)
• Replace special quote characters that caused a UnicodeDecodeError on some Windows installs (Install issue [windows 10, python 3.9.9] #97)

Dependencies:

• FlowIO requirement updated to 1.0.0
• FlowUtils requirement updated to 1.0.0 (with pre-built binaries for most platforms)
• NumPy minimum requirement of 1.20 when using pre-built FlowUtils binaries (required for NumPy C API compatibility)
• Fix deprecation warnings from Pandas 1.4 (squeeze kwarg removed from read_csv)

Acknowledgements:

• Special thanks to @sbenz for help testing this release on arm64 Macs (Apple Silicon)

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This discussion was created from the release 0.9.0.