ANTS 2.2 (September 2025)#

For a full list of changes see the release ticket MOSRS #2716.

Features#

MOSRS #2615 The handling of the history attribute has been improved to allow combining of multiple different ancillaries that have come through different processing chains into a single NetCDF file.
MOSRS #2617 Horizontal regrid extrapolation mode is now configurable through the configuration file using the extrapolation_mode setting in the [ants_regridding_horizontal] section.
MOSRS #2658 pad_width is now configurable for decomposition. This may solve issues with region overlap when decomposing polar domains.
MOSRS #1643 ants.tests.stock has been refactored to be more configurable. The functions in ants.tests.stock have the same interface but now rely on cube construction using the new ants.utils.cube.CubeBuilder.

MOSRS #2547 Fixed raster load to use numpy.linspace() to prevent differing output lengths of numpy.arange(). This was done in response to a user encountering issues when loading a GeoTIFF file.

MOSRS #2719 The cache location for cartopy data is no longer configurable via the environment variable ANTS_CARTOPY_CACHE (previously added in MOSRS #2381). Cartopy can be configured directly if needed, for example via the CARTOPY_DATA_DIR environment variable. For guidance on configuring cartopy, see the cartopy documentation.
MOSRS #2221 The proc_ants package has been removed from core ANTS. All application-specific code from proc_ants has been moved to Contrib. Any generic code has been moved to a relevant location within the ants package. In particular, the functions extract_region_by_geometry() and fetch_seed_index() were relocated from proc_ants to ants.
MOSRS #2437 Non-generic cover mapping code has been moved from core ANTS to Contrib. In particular, ants.fileformats.cover_mapping has been entirely moved from core ANTS to the LCT application in Contrib. Generic functions remain in ants.analysis.cover_mapping.
MOSRS #2656 The Raymond filter has been moved from core ANTS to the Orography directory in Contrib. Attempting to use ants.analysis.filters.raymond() will result in an error.
MOSRS #2588 Source data files for rose stem testing have been removed from the repository and now are pointed to from a central location using the ANTS_SOURCES_DIRECTORY_OVERRIDE environment variable. See Managing Sources.
MOSRS #2733 ants.analysis.calc_grad() has been moved to Contrib due to the implementation being specific to orography.

MOSRS #2346 ANTS has been updated to use pyproject.toml rather than setup.py for installation.
MOSRS #2521 ANTS rose stem test suite is no longer reliant on rose ana. Instead it uses direct calls to mule-cumf and nccmp for KGO validation.

MOSRS #2312 An accessibility statement has been added to the documentation.
MOSRS #2559 The ANTS installation instructions have been updated to clarify how to run the full set of unit tests on the installed package.