tobac 1.4.0

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Changelog:

Enhancements

• Added the ability to detect feature mergers and splits (#136)
• Added spectral filtering of input data to feature detection (#137)
• Substantial improvements to documentation (#138, #150, #155, #173, #189, #195, #197)
• Added a new function to combine feature dataframes when feature detection is run in parallel (#186)

Bug fixes

• Reset the adaptive search parameters back to default when using adaptive trackpy tracking (#168)
• Added checks to make sure that both adaptive_step and adaptive_stop are set when using adaptive tracking (#168)
• Added error raising when trying to use the not yet implemented extrapolation feature (#177)
• Fixed a bug where min_distance did not work in feature detection (#187)
• Fixed a bug where feature detection output different feature locations depending on the order that thresholds are passed in (#199)

Documentation

• Updated docstrings to NumPy format (#138, #155, #173)
• Enabled API documentation generation (#150)
• Enhanced documentation of feature detection and segmentation parameters (#150)
• Added contributors to zenodo (#139)
• Added __version__ as a parameter (#175)
• Updated the feature detection docstrings to add clarification around units (#189)
• Added documentation on why sometimes no features are segmented (#195)
• Added updates to README file, including linking the google groups (#162, #197)

Repository enhancements

• Specified the version of black to use for validating formatting during CI (#161)
• Lowered threshold before code coverage CI fails on pull requests (#159)

Deprecations

• Support for Python 3.6 and earlier is now deprecated and will be removed in v1.5.0 (#193)

Full Changelog: v1.3.3...v1.4.0

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