History

0.14.0 (2024-03-13)

  • Add support for new processes and methods added in Raven v3.8. (PR #335)

  • Add Interpolation command options. (PR #338)

  • Let VegetationClass records contain symbolic expressions. (PR #338)

  • Add support for custom RV subclasses. (PR #338)

  • Use HRU_ID (if available) instead of SubId in BasinMaker reservoirs extraction logic. (PR #338)

  • Added support for Python 3.12 and dropped support for Python3.8. (PR #341, PR #343)

  • Added support for raven-hydro v0.3.0 and RavenHydroFramework to v3.8. (PR #341, PR #351)

  • ravenpy now requires xclim >= v0.48.2, xarray >= v2023.11.0, and pandas >= 2.2.0. (PR #341)

  • Now automatically filters HRUs based on the hru_type. (issue #340, PR #334)

Internal changes

  • Updated GitHub publishing workflows to use Trusted Publisher for TestPyPI/PyPI releases. (PR #341)

  • Added Dependabot to keep dependencies up-to-date. (PR #342)

  • Now using step-security/harden-runner action to harden GitHub Actions runners. (PR #341)

  • Adjusted GitHub Workflows to test against Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12. (PR #341, PR #343)

  • Updated the build-system requirements when testing with tox to use newer setuptools and wheel versions when building gdal. (PR #341)

0.13.0 (2024-01-10)

  • Fixed problem with scalar elevation in netCDF files parsed with nc_specs. (issue #279, PR #323)

  • Added notebook on sensitivity analysis. (PR #320)

  • Updated Notebooks 03 and 04. (PR #319)

  • Upgrade to pydantic v2.0. (PR #326)

  • Pin cf-xarray for Python3.8. (PR #325)

  • Fix Coveralls Workflows. (PR #328)

  • Fix notebook execution. (PR #329)

  • Refactor and simplify testing data fetching. (PR #332)

Breaking changes

  • Update to pydantic v2.0. (PR #326)

  • Added h5netcdf as a core dependency to provide a stabler backend for xarray.open_dataset. (PR #332)

  • Switched from autodoc_pydantic to autodoc-pydantic for pydantic v2.0+ support in documentation. (PR #326)

Internal changes

  • Removed some redundant pytest fixtures for running emulators tests.

  • “session”-scoped pytest fixtures used for hindcasting/forecasting are now always yielded and copied to new objects within tests.

0.12.3 (2023-10-02)

  • RavenPy now uses platformdirs to write raven_testing to the user’s cache directory. Dynamic paths are now used to cache data dependent on the user’s operating system. Developers can now safely delete the .raven_testing_data folder in their home directory without affecting the functionality of RavenPy.

  • Updated raven-hydro to v0.2.4 to address CMake build issues.

Breaking changes

  • In tests, set xclim’s missing value option to skip. As of xclim v0.45, missing value checks are applied to the fit indicator, meaning that parameters will be set to None if missing values are found in the fitted time series. Wrap calls to fit with xclim.set_options(check_missing="skip") to reproduce the previous behavior of xclim.

  • The _determine_upstream_ids function under ravenpy.utilities.geoserver has been removed as it was a duplicate of ravenpy.utilities.geo.determine_upstream_ids. The latter function is now used in its place.

Internal changes

  • Added a GitHub Actions workflow to remove obsolete GitHub Workflow cache files.

  • RavenPy now accepts a RAVENPY_THREDDS_URL for setting the URL globally to the THREDDS-hosted climate data service. Defaults to https://pavics.ouranos.ca/twitcher/ows/proxy/thredds.

  • RavenPy processes and tests that depend on remote GeoServer calls now allow for optional server URL and file location targets. The server URL can be set globally with the following environment variable:
    • RAVENPY_GEOSERVER_URL: URL to the GeoServer-hosted vector/raster data. Defaults to https://pavics.ouranos.ca/geoserver. This environment variable was previously called GEO_URL but was renamed to narrow its scope to RavenPy.
      • GEO_URL is still supported for backward compatibility but may eventually be removed in a future release.

  • RavenPy has temporarily pinned xarray below v2023.9.0 due to incompatibilities with xclim v0.45.0`.

0.12.2 (2023-07-04)

This release is primarily a bugfix to address issues arising from dependencies.

Breaking changes

  • raven-hydro version has been bumped from v0.2.1 to v0.2.3. This version provides better support for builds on Windows and MacOS.

  • Due to major breaking changes, pydantic has been pinned below v2.0 until changes can be made to adapt to their new API.

  • numpy has been pinned below v1.25.0 to ensure compatibility with numba.

Internal changes

  • test_geoserver::test_select_hybas_ar_domain_point is now temporarily skipped when testing on MacOS due to a mysterious domain identification error.

0.12.1 (2023-06-01)

This release is largely a bugfix to better stabilize performance and enhance the documentation.

  • Avoid repeatedly calling xr.open_dataset in OutputReader’s hydrograph and storage properties. This seems to cause kernel failures in Jupyter notebooks.

Internal changes

  • Hyperlinks to documented functions now points to entries in the User API section.

  • Docstrings are now more conformant to numpy-docstring conventions and formatting errors raised from badly-formatted pydantic-style docstrings have been addressed.

  • In order to prevent timeout and excessive memory usage, Jupyter notebooks have been adjusted to no longer run on ReadTheDocs. All notebooks have been updated to the latest RavenPy and remain tested against RavenPy externally.

  • Documentation built on ReadTheDocs is now set to fail_on_warning.

0.12.0 (2023-05-25)

This release includes major breaking changes. It completely overhauls how models are defined, and how to run simulations, and any code relying on the previous release will most likely break. Please check the documentation to see how to use the new improved interface.

Breaking changes

  • The entire model configuration and simulation interface (see PR #269).

  • The Raven model executable is now updated to v3.7.

  • Added support for Ensemble Kalman Filter using RavenC.

  • Now employing the spotpy package for model calibration instead of ostrich.

  • BasinMaker importer assumes SubBasin=HRU in order to work with files downloaded from the BasinMaker web site.

  • Ravenpy now employs a new method for installing the Raven model using the raven-hydro python package (based on scikit-build-core) (see PR #278).

  • Replaced setup.py, requirements.txt, and Manifest.in for PEP 517 compliance (pyproject.toml) using the flit backend (see PR #278).

  • Dealt with an import-based error that occurred due to the sequence in which modules are loaded at import (attempting to call ravenpy before it is installed).

  • Updated pre-commit hooks to include formatters and checkers for TOML files.

  • The build recipes no longer build on each other, so when installing the dev or docs recipe, you must also install the gis recipe.

  • Updated the GeoServer API calls to work with the GeoPandas v0.13.0.

0.11.0 (2023-02-16)

  • Update RavenC executable to v3.6.

  • Update xclim library to v0.40.0.

  • Update fiona library to v1.9.

  • Address some failures that can be caused when attempting to run CLI commands without the proper GIS dependencies installed.

  • Addressed warnings raised in conda-forge compilation due to badly-configured MANIFEST.in.

  • Update installation documentation to reflect most recent changes.

0.10.0 (2022-12-21)

  • Update Raven executable to 3.5. Due to a bug in RavenC, simulations storing reservoir information to netCDF will fail. We expect this to be resolved in the next release. Note that we only test RavenPy with one Raven version. There is no guarantee it will work with other versions.

  • Relax geo test to avoid failures occurring due to GDAL 3.6.

  • Pin numpy below 1.24 (see https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/8615)

0.9.0 (2022-11-16)

Breaking changes

  • HRUState’s signature has changed. Instead of passing variables as keyword arguments (e.g. soil0=10.), it now expects a state dictionary keyed by variables’ Raven name (e.g. {“SOIL[0]”: 10}). This change makes `rvc files easier to read, and avoids Raven warnings regarding ‘initial conditions for state variables not in model’.

  • nc_index renamed to meteo_idx to enable the specification of distinct indices for observed streamflow using hydro_idx. nc_index remains supported for backward compatibility.

  • The distributed python testing library, pytest-xdist is now a testing and development requirement.

  • xarray has been pinned below “2022.11.0” due to incompatibility with climpred==”2.2.0”.

New features

  • Add support for hydrometric gauge data distinct from meteorological input data. Configuration parameter hydro_idx identifies the gauge station index, while meteo_idx (previously nc_index) stands for the meteo station index.

  • Add support for multiple gauge observations. If a list of hydro_idx is provided, it must be accompanied with a list of corresponding subbasin identifiers (gauged_sb_ids) of the same length.

  • Automatically infer scale and offset :LinearTransform parameters from netCDF file metadata, so that input data units are automatically converted to Raven-compliant units whenever possible.

  • Add support for the command :RedirectToFile. Tested for grid weights only.

  • Add support for the command :WriteForcingFunctions.

  • Add support for the command :CustomOutput.

  • Multiple other new RavenCommand objects added, but not integrated in the configuration, including :SoilParameterList, :VegetationParameterList and :LandUseParameterList.

  • Multichoice options (e.g. calendars) moved from RV classes to config.options, but aliases created for backward compatibility.

  • Patch directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2007-4559).

  • A local copy of the raven-testdata with environment variable (RAVENPY_TESTDATA_PATH) set to that location is now no longer needed in order to run the testing suite. Test data is fetched automatically and now stored at ~/.raven_testing_data.

  • RavenPy now leverages pytest-xdist to distribute tests among Python workers and significantly speed up the testing suite, depending on number of available CPUs. File access within the testing suite has also been completely rewritten for thread safety.
    • On pytest launch with “–numprocesses > 0”, testing data will be fetched automatically from Ouranosinc/raven-testdata by one worker, blocking others until this step is complete. Spawned pytest workers will then copy the testing data to their respective temporary directories before beginning testing.

  • To aid with development and debugging purposes, two new environment variables and pytest fixtures are now available:
    • In order to skip the data collection step: export SKIP_TEST_DATA=true

    • In order to target a specific branch of Ouranosinc/raven-testdata for data retrieval: export MAIN_TESTDATA_BRANCH=”my_branch”

    • In order to fetch testing data using the user-set raven-testdata branch, pytest fixtures for get_file and get_local_testdata are now available for convenience

0.8.1 (2022-10-26)

  • Undo change related to suppress_output, as it breaks multiple tests in raven. New Raven._execute method runs models but does not parse results.

0.8.0

Breaking changes

  • Parallel parameters must be provided explicitly using the parallel argument when calling emulators.

  • Multiple nc_index values generate multiple gauges, instead of being parallelized.

  • Python3.7 is no longer supported.

  • Documentation now uses sphinx-apidoc at build-time to generate API pages.

  • Add generate-hrus-from-routing-product script.

  • Do not write RV zip file and merge outputs when suppress_output is True. Zipping rv files during multiple calibration runs leads to a non-linear performance slow-down.

  • Fixed issues with coverage reporting via tox and GitHub Actions

  • Add partial support for :RedirectToFile command, tested with GridWeights only.

0.7.8

  • Added functionalities in Data Assimilation utils and simplified tests.

  • Removed pin on setuptools.

  • Fixed issues related to symlinks, working directory, and output filenames.

  • Fixed issues related to GDAL version handling in conda-forge.

  • Updated jupyter notebooks.

0.7.7

  • Updated internal shapely calls to remove deprecated .to_wkt() methods.

0.7.6

  • Automate release pipeline to PyPI using GitHub CI actions.

  • Added coverage monitoring GitHub CI action.

  • Various documentation adjustments.

  • Various metadata adjustments.

  • Pinned owslib to 0.24.1 and above.

  • Circumvented a bug in GitHub CI that was causing tests to fail at collection stage.

0.7.5

  • Update test so that it works with xclim 0.29.

0.7.4

  • Pinned climpred below v2.1.6.

0.7.3

  • Pinned xclim below v0.29.

0.7.2

  • Update cruft.

  • Subclass derived_parameters in Ostrich emulators to avoid having to pass params.

0.7.0

  • Add support for V2.1 of the Routing Product in ravenpy.extractors.routing_product.

  • Add collect-subbasins-upstream-of-gauge CLI script.

  • Modify WFS request functions to use spatial filtering (Intersects) supplied by OWSLib.

0.6.0

  • Add support for EvaluationPeriod commands. Note that as a result of this, the model’s diagnostics property contains one list per key, instead of a single scalar. Also note that for calibration, Ostrich will use the first period and the first evaluation metric.

  • Add SACSMA, CANADIANSHIELD and HYPR model emulators.

0.5.2

  • Simplify RVC configuration logic.

  • Add ravenpy.utilities.testdata.file_md5_checksum (previously in xarray.tutorial).

0.5.1

  • Some adjustments and bugfixes needed for RavenWPS.

  • Refactoring of some internal logic in ravenpy.config.rvs.RVT.

  • Improvements to typing with the help of mypy.

0.5.0

  • Refactoring of the RV config subsystem:

    • The config is fully encapsulated into its own class: ravenpy.config.rvs.Config.

    • The emulator RV templates are inline in their emulator classes.

  • The emulators have their own submodule: ravenpy.models.emulators.

  • The “importers” have been renamed to “extractors” and they have their own submodule: ravenpy.extractors.

0.4.2

  • Update to RavenC revision 318 to fix OPeNDAP access for StationForcing commands.

  • Fix grid_weights set to None by default.

  • Pass nc_index to ObservationData command.

  • Expose more cleanly RavenC errors and warnings.

0.4.1

  • Add notebook about hindcast verification skill.

  • Add notebook about routing capability.

  • Modify geoserver functions to have them return GeoJSON instead of GML.

  • Collect upstream watershed aggregation logic.

  • Fix RVC bug.

0.4.0

This is an interim version making one step toward semi-distributed modeling support. Model configuration is still in flux and will be significantly modified with 0.5. The major change in this version is that model configuration supports passing multiple HRU objects, instead of simply passing area, latitude, longitude and elevation for a single HRU.

  • GR4JCN emulator now supports routing mode.

  • Add BLENDED model emulator.

  • DAP links for forcing files are now supported.

  • Added support for tox-based localized installation and testing with python-pip.

  • Now supporting Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9.

  • Build testing for pip and conda-based builds with GitHub CI.

0.3.1

  • Update external dependencies (Raven, OSTRICH) to facilitate Conda packaging.

0.3.0

  • Migration and refactoring of GIS and IO utilities (utils.py, utilities/gis.py) from RavenWPS to RavenPy.

  • RavenPy can now be installed from PyPI without GIS dependencies (limited functionality).

  • Hydro routing product is now supported from geoserver.py (a notebook has been added to demonstrate the new functions).

  • New script ravenpy aggregate-forcings-to-hrus to aggregate NetCDF files and compute updated grid weights.

  • Add the basis for a new routing emulator option (WIP).

  • Add climpred verification capabilities.

0.2.3

  • Regionalisation data is now part of the package.

  • Fix tests that were not using testdata properly.

  • Add tests for external dataset access.

  • utilities.testdata.get_local_testdata now raises an exception when it finds no dataset corresponding to the user pattern.

0.2.2

  • Set wcs.getCoverage timeout to 120 seconds.

  • Fix Raven.parse_results logic when no flow observations are present and no diagnostic file is created.

  • Fix ECCC test where input was cached and shadowed forecast input data.

0.2.1

  • Fix xarray caching bug in regionalization.

0.2.0

  • Refactoring of ravenpy.utilities.testdata functions.

  • Bump xclim to 0.23.

0.1.7

  • Fix xarray caching bug affecting climatological ESP forecasts (#33).

  • Fix deprecation issue with Fiona.

0.1.6 (2021-01-15)

  • Correct installer bugs.

0.1.5 (2021-01-14)

  • Release with docs.

0.1.0 (2020-12-20)

  • First release on PyPI.