Version 2.4.2

This version has several improvements, the most notable are:

• Improvements to the MIR reader and interface.
• A new gridding-based baseline redundancy finding algorithm that is now used by default (the older algorithm is still available).
• A new UVBeam.new() method that creates a new, self-consistent UVBeam object from scratch from a set of flexible input parameters.
• Improvements for handling of telescopes on the moon.

Full changes detailed below and in our changelog:

What's Changed

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1350
• Better handing of discrepancies for LSTs and telescope position in check by @kartographer in #1356
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1358
• MS writer improvements by @kartographer in #1363
• Pyx datatypes by @mkolopanis in #1357
• Clean up freq_range and freq_array handling in UVCal by @bhazelton in #1361
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1366
• Drop python 3.8 support, add python 3.12 by @bhazelton in #1367
• Update flake8 plugin versions to match CI by @bhazelton in #1364
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1369
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1370
• Uvh5 memo updates by @bhazelton in #1368
• Updating antenna positions in UVData by @kartographer in #1372
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1373
• Run the tutorial plotting code in doctests by @bhazelton in #1374
• Replacing deprecated scipy simps method in MWA code by @kartographer in #1377
• Add a UVBeam.new() method similar to the ones on UVData and UVCal by @bhazelton in #1378
• Minor bug fix for tests.WarningChecker when IERS is down by @kartographer in #1382
• Miriad support (UVFITS and UV file writing) and MS write with legacy array shape by @kartographer in #1392
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1385
• Fix so that write_uvfits doesn't change the object, add loopback testing by @bhazelton in #1393
• Mcmf enu calc by @mkolopanis in #1376
• SMA/MirParser Improvements by @kartographer in #1371
• Add a changelog entry for small UVFlag bug fixed in a recent PR by @bhazelton in #1394
• Fix CI by @bhazelton in #1398
• Handle differently sorted ant metadata in UVFlag to_baseline and to_antenna by @bhazelton in #1397
• Minor fixes for handling of older SMA data by @kartographer in #1399
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #1400
• Adding support for initializing MirParser from Path objects by @kartographer in #1405
• ignore warnings in hera_cal and hera_qm test runs by @bhazelton in #1402
• Add an option to use the HERA gridding algorithm to find redundancies by @bhazelton in #1403
• Prepare for v2.4.2 by @bhazelton in #1406

Full Changelog: v2.4.1...v2.4.2