diffpy · sbillinge · Nov 18, 2025 · Nov 18, 2025 · Nov 18, 2025
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -19,172 +19,149 @@ Release notes
 Version 2024.2.2
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-Changes
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+**Fixes:**
 
-Fixes
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-- Correct powder pattern plotting with a non-empty name
+* Correct powder pattern plotting with a non-empty name
 
 Version 2024.2.1
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- **PowderPattern**:
-  - Fix re-using a matplotlib figure when plotting
-  - Add ``figure`` property
+* PowderPattern:
+  * Fix re-using a matplotlib figure when plotting
+  * Add ``figure`` property
 
 Version 2024.2
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- **DiffractionDataSingleCrystal**: add ``SetHklIobs``, ``SetIobs``, ``SetSigma``, ``GetSigma``, ``GetChi2``, ``FitScaleFactorForRw`` and ``FitScaleFactorForR`` (`issue #42 <https://github.com/diffpy/pyobjcryst/issues/42>`_)
-- Add a single crystal data notebook example
-- Online documentation notebooks now include the plots `<https://pyobjcryst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples>`_
+* **DiffractionDataSingleCrystal**: add ``SetHklIobs``, ``SetIobs``, ``SetSigma``, ``GetSigma``, ``GetChi2``, ``FitScaleFactorForRw`` and ``FitScaleFactorForR`` (`issue #42 <https://github.com/diffpy/pyobjcryst/issues/42>`_)
+* Add a single crystal data notebook example
+* Online documentation notebooks now include the plots `<https://pyobjcryst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples>`_
 
-Fixes
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+**Fixes:**
 
-- From libobjcryst: update the ScatteringComponentList when a Scatterer is removed from a Crystal (`issue #41 <https://github.com/diffpy/pyobjcryst/issues/41>`_)
+* From libobjcryst: update the ScatteringComponentList when a Scatterer is removed from a Crystal (`issue #41 <https://github.com/diffpy/pyobjcryst/issues/41>`_)
 
 Version 2024.1
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- Add python access to MolZAtom, for ``Molecule.AsZMatrix()``
+* Add python access to MolZAtom, for ``Molecule.AsZMatrix()``
 
 Version 2.2.6
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- Support for Windows and Python>=3.8
-- Added a zoom limit for 3D crystal views
+* Support for Windows and Python>=3.8
+* Added a zoom limit for 3D crystal views
 
-Fixes
-~~~~~
+**Fixes:**
 
-- Correct error preventing pyobjcryst import for Windows and Python>=3.8 (`issue #33 <https://github.com/diffpy/pyobjcryst/issues/33>`_)
-- Fix for matplotlib >=3.7.0 when removing hkl labels
+* Correct error preventing pyobjcryst import for Windows and Python>=3.8 (`issue #33 <https://github.com/diffpy/pyobjcryst/issues/33>`_)
+* Fix for matplotlib >=3.7.0 when removing hkl labels
 
 Version 2.2.5
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- Raise an exception if ``alpha``, ``beta`` or ``gamma`` are not within ``]0;pi[`` when changing lattice angles
-- Add ``UnitCell.ChangeSpaceGroup()``
+* Raise an exception if ``alpha``, ``beta`` or ``gamma`` are not within ``]0;pi[`` when changing lattice angles
+* Add ``UnitCell.ChangeSpaceGroup()``
 
-Fixes
-~~~~~
+**Fixes:**
 
-- Avoid duplication of plots when using ipympl (aka ``%matplotlib widget``)
-- Correct powder pattern tests to avoid warnings
+* Avoid duplication of plots when using ipympl (aka ``%matplotlib widget``)
+* Correct powder pattern tests to avoid warnings
 
-Deprecated
-~~~~~~~~~~
+**Deprecated:**
 
-- ``loadCrystal`` – use ``create_crystal_from_cif()`` instead
+* ``loadCrystal`` – use ``create_crystal_from_cif()`` instead
 
 Version 2.2.4
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- The list of HKL reflections will now be automatically re-generated for a ``PowderPatternDiffraction`` when the Crystal's spacegroup changes, or the lattice parameters are modified by more than 0.5%
+* The list of HKL reflections will now be automatically re-generated for a ``PowderPatternDiffraction`` when the Crystal's spacegroup changes, or the lattice parameters are modified by more than 0.5%
 
-Fixes
-~~~~~
+**Fixes:**
 
-- Fixed the powder pattern indexing test
+* Fixed the powder pattern indexing test
 
 Version 2.2.3
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-Added
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+**Added:**
 
-- Support for Windows install (works with Python 3.7, and with PyPy 3.8 and 3.9)
-- Native support for Apple arm64 (M1, M2) processors
-- Fourier maps calculation
-- Add ``gDiffractionDataSingleCrystalRegistry`` to globals
+* Support for Windows install (works with Python 3.7, and with PyPy 3.8 and 3.9)
+* Native support for Apple arm64 (M1, M2) processors
+* Fourier maps calculation
+* Add ``gDiffractionDataSingleCrystalRegistry`` to globals
 
 Version 2.2.2
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-Changes
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+**Changes:**
 
-- Add correct wrapping for C++-instantiated objects available through global registries, e.g. when loading an XML file. The objects are decorated with the python functions when accessed through the global registries ``GetObj()``
-- Moved global object registries to ``pyobjcryst.globals``
-- Update documentation
+* Add correct wrapping for C++-instantiated objects available through global registries, e.g. when loading an XML file. The objects are decorated with the python functions when accessed through the global registries ``GetObj()``
+* Moved global object registries to ``pyobjcryst.globals``
+* Update documentation
 
-Fixed
-~~~~~
+**Fixed:**
 
-- Fix access to ``PRISM_TETRAGONAL_DICAP``, ``PRISM_TRIGONAL``, ``ICOSAHEDRON`` and ``TRIANGLE_PLANE``
-- Fix powder pattern plot issues (NaN and update of hkl text with recent matplotlib versions)
+* Fix access to ``PRISM_TETRAGONAL_DICAP``, ``PRISM_TRIGONAL``, ``ICOSAHEDRON`` and ``TRIANGLE_PLANE``
+* Fix powder pattern plot issues (NaN and update of hkl text with recent matplotlib versions)
 
 Version 2.2.1 -- 2021-11-28
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-- Add quantitative phase analysis with ``PowderPattern.qpa()``, including an example notebook using the QPA Round-Robin data
-- Correct import of ``urllib.request.urllopen()`` when loading CIF or z-matrix files from HTTP URLs
-- Fix blank line javascript output when updating the Crystal 3D view
-- Add ``RefinableObj.xml()`` to directly get the XMLOutput as a string
-- Add example notebooks to the sphinx-generated html documentation
-- Fix issue when using ``Crystal.XMLInput()`` for a non-empty structure. Existing scattering power will be re-used when possible, and otherwise not deleted anymore (which could lead to crashes)
+* Add quantitative phase analysis with ``PowderPattern.qpa()``, including an example notebook using the QPA Round-Robin data
+* Correct import of ``urllib.request.urllopen()`` when loading CIF or z-matrix files from HTTP URLs
+* Fix blank line javascript output when updating the Crystal 3D view
+* Add ``RefinableObj.xml()`` to directly get the XMLOutput as a string
+* Add example notebooks to the sphinx-generated html documentation
+* Fix issue when using ``Crystal.XMLInput()`` for a non-empty structure. Existing scattering power will be re-used when possible, and otherwise not deleted anymore (which could lead to crashes)
 
 Version 2.2.0 -- 2021-06-08
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-- Add access to ``Radiation`` class & functions to change RadiationType, wavelength in ``PowderPattern`` and ``ScatteringData`` (and hence ``DiffractionDataSingleCrystal``) classes
-- Fix the custodian_ward when creating a ``PowderPatternDiffraction``: ``PowderPatternDiffraction`` must persist while ``PowderPattern`` exists, and Crystal must persist while ``PowderPatternDiffraction`` exists
-- Add 3D Crystal viewer ``pyobjcryst.crystal.Crystal.widget_3d``
+* Add access to ``Radiation`` class & functions to change RadiationType, wavelength in ``PowderPattern`` and ``ScatteringData`` (and hence ``DiffractionDataSingleCrystal``) classes
+* Fix the custodian_ward when creating a ``PowderPatternDiffraction``: ``PowderPatternDiffraction`` must persist while ``PowderPattern`` exists, and Crystal must persist while ``PowderPatternDiffraction`` exists
+* Add 3D Crystal viewer ``pyobjcryst.crystal.Crystal.widget_3d``
 
 Version 2.1.0 -- 2019-03-11
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-Added
-~~~~~
+**Added:**
 
-- Support for Python 3.7
-- Validation of compiler options from ``python-config``
-- Make scons scripts compatible with Python 3 and Python 2
-- Support ``np.array`` arguments for ``SetPowderPatternX``, ``SetPowderPatternObs``
-- Declare compatible version requirements for client Anaconda packages
-- Facility for silencing spurious console output from libobjcryst
+* Support for Python 3.7
+* Validation of compiler options from ``python-config``
+* Make scons scripts compatible with Python 3 and Python 2
+* Support ``np.array`` arguments for ``SetPowderPatternX``, ``SetPowderPatternObs``
+* Declare compatible version requirements for client Anaconda packages
+* Facility for silencing spurious console output from libobjcryst
 
-Changed
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+**Changed:**
 
-- Build Anaconda package with Anaconda C++ compiler
-- Update to libobjcryst 2017.2.x
+* Build Anaconda package with Anaconda C++ compiler
+* Update to libobjcryst 2017.2.x
 
-Deprecated
-~~~~~~~~~~
+**Deprecated:**
 
-- Variable ``__gitsha__`` in the ``version`` module, renamed to ``__git_commit__``
+* Variable ``__gitsha__`` in the ``version`` module, renamed to ``__git_commit__``
 
-Removed
-~~~~~~~
+**Removed:**
 
-- Support for Python 3.4
+* Support for Python 3.4
 
-Fixed
-~~~~~
+**Fixed:**
 
-- Ambiguous use of boost::python classes and functions
-- Name suffix resolution of ``boost_python`` shared library
-- ``SetPowderPatternX`` crash for zero-length argument
-- Incorrectly doubled return value from ``GetInversionCenter``
+* Ambiguous use of boost::python classes and functions
+* Name suffix resolution of ``boost_python`` shared library
+* ``SetPowderPatternX`` crash for zero-length argument
+* Incorrectly doubled return value from ``GetInversionCenter``
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