Pre-release v3.4.0 alpha0

Alpha pre-release for reimplemented plotting submodule.

Discussion in #585

Release v3.3.5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that causes no result data to be available for 'Sprint Qualifying' sessions

• Correctly handle reinstated lap times after they were previously deleted

Release v3.3.4

Bug Fixes

• Correctly support the new "Sprint Qualifying" (#570)

Release v3.3.3

New Features

• Added support for driver Ayumu Iwasa (IWA)

Release v3.3.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the track status values for each lap to be sometimes incorrect in the 'TrackStatus' column of the Laps DataFrame (fixes #557 and more).

Release v3.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix: correctly handle empty strings when parsing them in fastf1.utils.to_datetime (by @erdieee) (#531)

• Fix: gracefully handle empty strings when parsing datetime values in Ergast responses (by @mdsakalu) (#546). This fixes partially missing data in the results Qualifying and Race results for the 2024 Saudi Arabia GP.

Release v3.3.0

New Features

• Updated team names and team colors for the 2024 season. (As usual, this means
  that this information is no longer valid for the previous season! see note below)

• Improved the accuracy of fastf1.utils.delta_time (by @grahamjwhite)
  (#512)

Note: The update of the team names and team colors for the 2024 season means that you may no longer be able to visualize data from 2023 correctly. This is a long-standing issue that will most likely be resolved with the next minor release in a few months.

Release v3.2.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed another bug that caused fastf1.core.Session.get_circuit_info
  to fail only in some cases if the default resampling frequency for
  telemetry data is changed (#455)

Release v3.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused timestamps of telemetry data to have (apparent)
  microseconds precision (even though this is not the case). As a result,
  merging position data and car data did not have a well matching timestamp
  index resulting in additional interpolated values. This problem only occurred
  in combination with recent versions of Pandas.

Other

• Various changes to address deprecations in Pandas.

Release v3.2.0

New Features

• Added support for Pandas version v2.1.0 and higher.

• Methods fastf1.core.Lap.get_telemetry and
  fastf1.core.Laps.get_telemetry now take an optional additional
  frequency keyword argument to override the default frequency that is
  used for resampling.

• Added fastf1.core.Laps.pick_box_laps to select inlaps and outlaps
  (#454) (by @pesaventofilippo)

• Added the lap number to race control messages, see
  fastf1.core.Session.race_control_messages (#475) (by @manpean)

• Improved lap data integrity checks (#449) (by @d-tomasino)

• Added a string representation for the Cache class that gives information
  about the cache path and the cache size

• Added the function fastf1.Cache.get_cache_info that returns
  information about the cache path and the cache size

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect lap number (zero instead of one) for generated laps that are
  added when a driver crashes on the very first lap

• Fixed fastf1.core.Session.get_circuit_info fails if the default
  resampling frequency for telemetry data is changed (#455)

• Fixed multiple issues with the Ergast API interface that resulted in
  invalid request being made and consequentially no data being returned
  (#489, #494) (by @Lombardoc4)

• Fixed missing driver information for drivers that did not start in a race
  (classified as DNS - did not start) (#447)

• Fixed a regression introduced in v3.1.3 that caused the CountryCode
  to be missing from fastf1.core.SessionResults

• Fixed a compatibility issued with Pandas v1.3.5