Minor Release: v2.8.0

[jgostick]

🚀 New features

• Added new flexible species classes with properties determined using "chemicals" package #new
• Added export to Statoil format and a wrapper for calling pnflow.exe #new
• Added support for GPU solvers via CuPy library #new
• Overhauled and renovated the conduit flow approach (see docs) #new

🍰 Enhancements

• Updated PoreSpy IO class to work with PoreSpy V2 #enh
• Enhance tic/toc functions #enh
• Changed matplotlib backend to SVG in examples for sharper images #enh
• Plot functions now accept axis as well as figure handles #enh

🔧 Maintenance

• Updated requirements in porespy_requirements.txt and in setup.py #maint
• Add lower bound for docrep version in requirements #maint
• Replaced pardiso4py with pypardiso (now officially in pip and conda-forge) #maint
• Minor refactoring of TransientReactiveTransport to make it more readable #maint
• Fixed incorrect scipy.sparse import in graphtools #maint
• Fixed failing Ubuntu Action by adding openmpi as a test dependency #maint

⚠️ API changes

• Flipped "front" and "back" labels to respect the right-hand-rule #api
• Added logger message to Cubic init notifying about front/back switch #api
• plot_connections, plot_coordinates, and plot_intrusion_curve now accept axis obj rather than figure #api
• ad_dif and ad_dif_mig conductance models no longer export local Peclet numbers #api

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed bug in cylindrical point generator and replaced missing Delaunay example #bug
• Flipped "front" and "back" labels to respect the right-hand-rule #bug
• Corrected pore.seed in StickAndBall2D to be same as the 3D version #bug

📗 Documentation

• Changed matplotlib backend to SVG in examples for sharper images #doc
• Updated documentation to pydata theme #doc

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This discussion was created from the release v2.8.0.