Hi Folks,

Larch version 0.9.58 has been released. It should now be installed by default using all installation mechanisms, and you may see a notice to update if running xas_viewer.

Coming only 6 weeks after 0.9.57, and with the holidays in between, this is mostly a set of bug fixes, especially surrounding installation and errors associated with our use of deprecated features of silx and numpy. Thanks mostly to Mauro for this, and for updating the documentation for installation, especially for existing Anaconda Python users, and on Linux.

FWIW, I checked that a fresh install works on Windows 10, MacOS 12, CentOS 7, CentOS 8 Stream, and that "auto-updates" work with "larch -u" or from XAS Viewer works on MacOS 12 and on Fedora 34. But, of course, let us know if you have suggestions, comments, or problems.

There are a few fixes for reading some kinds of data files and with de-glitching XAS spectra. The plans discussed in the previous release message (see https://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2021-December/010345.html) about saving more complex projects and how to think "reference spectra" have not had much work done on them. The request for suggestions and comments on these topics still stands.

--Matt