SpiceyPy 8.0.0

[8.0.0] - 2025-10-27

Version bump to fix api breaking issues and add Python 3.14 support.

Added

• Added Python 3.14 support and builds

Fixed

• Missing import for no_found_check in spiceypy.py
• Swapped order of spice error check and found flag check decorators to avoid spurious NotFound exceptions.

SpiceyPy 7.0.0

[7.0.0] - 2025-09-22

SpiceyPy with Cyice, Cython accelerated Spice

Added

• Cython extension submodule Cyice for accelerated SpiceyPy
• Cyice includes wrappers for over 90 CSPICE functions, vectorized for majority of functions, shares kernel pool with spiceypy so new functions are drop-in replacements
• Cyice functions tested and benchmarked against spiceypy ctypes wrapper functions
• new Cyice docs
• new required reading docs pages (#489)
• python 3.13 builds (#488) and native aarch64 runners (#490)

Fixed

• Various issues and typos in docs (#503) (#492) (#350) (#481) (#477)
• Various CI improvements (#484) (#479)

Changed

• Switched build system to scikit_build_core/cmake to simplify builds
• Pckcov returns “cover” arg (#504)
• URLs to naif are now versioned (#493)

Removed

• Get_spice.py, setup.cfg, setup.py, and related old build system

SpiceyPy 7.0.0-alpha

[7.0.0-alpha] - 2025-08-29

Alpha Release of SpiceyPy with Cyice, Cython accelerated Spice

This is just for testing new build system/ci steps for publishing artifacts.
They should show up on testpypi, if not we may do a few more alpha releases...

Added

• Cython extension submodule Cyice for accelerated SpiceyPy
• Cyice includes wrappers for over 90 CSPICE functions, vectorized for majority of functions, shares kernel pool with spiceypy so new functions are drop-in replacements
• Cyice functions tested and benchmarked against spiceypy ctypes wrapper functions
• new cyice docs
• new required reading docs pages (#489)
• python 3.13 builds (#488) and native aarch64 runners (#490)

Fixed

• Various issues and typos in docs (#503) (#492) (#350) (#481) (#477)
• Various CI improvements (#484) (#479)

Changed

• Switched build system to scikit_build_core/cmake to simplify builds
• Pckcov returns “cover” arg (#504)
• URLs to naif are now versioned (#493)

Removed

• Get_spice.py, setup.cfg, setup.py, and related old build system

SpiceyPy 6.0.3

[6.0.3] - 2025-07-17

Backport fix for spice cell functions

Added

• Add assertions that passed-in SpiceCell is correct type for bltfrm(), ckcov(), ckobj(), kplfrm(), spkobj()

Fixed

• Corrected bug where bool was used instead of is Null for specifying return SpiceCell in bltfrm(), ckcov(), ckobj(), kplfrm(), spkobj()
• fixed sdist publishing issue in ci publish workflow

SpiceyPy 6.0.2

[6.0.2] - 2025-07-12

Backport fix to avoid numpy version change before v7.0.0 release

Changed

• changed numpy version pin to be 'numpy>=1.23.5'

SpiceyPy 6.0.1

[6.0.1] - 2025-06-24

Backport release of various small fixes and typo corrections

Added

• python 3.13 builds
• missing exceptions from cspice #494
• new required readings docs #489

Removed

• cirrus ci was removed
• gitter chat info

Changed

• Added units to many parameter descriptions in function docstrings to address #350
• updated various aspects of ci builds
• copyright date ranges updated to 2025
• moved naif doc urls to versioned

Fixed

• various readthedocs and docs issues
• cylsph was fixed as it was calling the wrong cspice function #496
• various typos

SpiceyPy 6.0.0

[6.0.0] - 2023-08-31

Fixed several major typos and fortran array ordering issues in tkfram, zzdynrot as well as failing tests on arm64 macos.

Added

• SpiceNOTENOUGHDATA2 exception #466
• Context manager for SPICE kernels #458
• CITATION.cff file
• DeprecationWarning for zzdynrot

Changed

• tkfram_c now used in tkfram wrapper function
• updated setup.cfg
• type hints for sincpt to be more correct

Deprecated

• python 3.6
• python 3.7

Removed

• codecov as a dependency in dev

Fixed

• fixed zzdynrot and tkfram return matrix element ordering
• typo in exceptions.rst #459
• fixed test test_sphlat
• fixed sphlat to use correct libspice function call
• fixed tests for dskx02, dskxsi, gfsntc for arm64 macos floating point issues #470
• fixed typo in test_oscelt and test_oscltx

SpiceyPy 5.1.2

[5.1.2] - 2022-10-14

fix for exception error message toolkit version

Fixed

• exceptions now use dynamic lookup of toolkit version for error messages

SpiceyPy 5.1.1

[5.1.1] - 2022-07-30

fixes macOS arm64 cross compile

Fixed

• updated get_spice.py to allow for arch override for macos arm64

SpiceyPy 5.1.0

[5.1.0] - 2022-07-09

adds wrappers for the majority of new function in n67

Added

• azlcpo
• azlrec
• chbigr
• chbint
• chbval
• ckfrot
• ckfxfm
• ckgr02
• ckgr03
• ckmeta
• cknr02
• cknr03
• dafhsf
• dasadc
• dasadd
• dasadi
• dashfs
• daslla
• dasllc
• dasonw
• dasops
• dasrdd
• dasrdi
• dasudd
• dasudi
• daswbr
• dazldr
• dlabns
• dlaens
• dlaopn
• dnearp
• drdazl
• ednmpt
• edpnt
• evsgp4
• getfvn
• hrmesp
• invstm
• lgresp
• lgrint
• qderiv
• recazl
• stlabx
• tagnpt
• tkfram
• tparch
• trgsep
• twovxf
• vprojg

Fixed

• fixed docstring for frinfo
• fixed freebsd support in getspice