Changelog entry for v0.2.0 (#599)

Second minor release of PyGMT.

* Merge some maintenance related items
* Add changelog entry for link to try-gmt binder repository
* Format Pull Request links using sed
* Add reserved Zenodo DOI badge for v0.2.0
* Set release date to 2020/09/12

Co-authored-by: Dongdong Tian <[email protected]>

Author: weiji14

README.rst

@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ Documentation for other versions
 * `Development <https://www.pygmt.org/dev>`__ (reflects the *master* branch on
   Github)
 * `Latest release <https://www.pygmt.org/latest>`__
+* `v0.2.0 <https://www.pygmt.org/v0.2.0>`__
 * `v0.1.2 <https://www.pygmt.org/v0.1.2>`__
 * `v0.1.1 <https://www.pygmt.org/v0.1.1>`__
 * `v0.1.0 <https://www.pygmt.org/v0.1.0>`__

doc/changes.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,78 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Release v0.2.0 (2020/09/12)
+---------------------------
+
+.. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.4025418.svg
+   :alt: Digital Object Identifier for the Zenodo archive
+   :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4025418
+
+Highlights:
+
+* 🎉 **Second minor release of PyGMT** 🎉
+* Minimum required GMT version is now 6.1.1 or newer (`#577 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/577>`__)
+* Plotting xarray grids using grdimage and grdview should not crash anymore and works for most cases (`#560 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/560>`__)
+* Easier time-series plots with support for datetime-like inputs to plot (`#464 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/464>`__) and the region argument (`#562 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/562>`__)
+
+New Features:
+
+* Wrap GMT_Put_Strings to pass str columns into GMT C API directly (`#520 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/520>`__)
+* Wrap meca (`#516 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/516>`__)
+* Wrap x2sys_init and x2sys_cross (`#546 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/546>`__)
+* Let grdcut() accept xarray.DataArray as input (`#541 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/541>`__)
+* Initialize a GMTDataArrayAccessor (`#500 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/500>`__)
+
+Enhancements:
+
+* Allow passing in pandas dataframes to x2sys_cross (`#591 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/591>`__)
+* Sensible array outputs for pygmt info (`#575 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/575>`__)
+* Allow pandas.DataFrame table and 1D/2D numpy array inputs into pygmt.info (`#574 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/574>`__)
+* Add auto-legend feature to grdcontour and contour (`#568 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/568>`__)
+* Add common alias verbose (V) (`#550 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/550>`__)
+* Let load_earth_relief() support all resolutions and optional subregion (`#542 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/542>`__)
+* Allow load_earth_relief() to load pixel or gridline registered data (`#509 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/509>`__)
+
+Documentation:
+
+* Link to try-gmt binder repository (`#598 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/598>`__)
+* Improve docstring of data_kind() to include xarray grid (`#588 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/588>`__)
+* Improve the documentation of Figure.shift_origin() (`#536 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/536>`__)
+* Add shading to grdview gallery example (`#506 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/506>`__)
+
+Bug Fixes:
+
+* Ensure surface and grdcut loads GMTDataArray accessor info into xarray (`#539 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/539>`__)
+* Raise an error if short- and long-form arguments coexist (`#537 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/537>`__)
+* Fix the grdtrack example to avoid crashes on macOS (`#531 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/531>`__)
+* Properly allow for either pixel or gridline registered grids (`#476 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/476>`__)
+
+Maintenance:
+
+* Add a test for xarray shading (`#581 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/581>`__)
+* Remove expected failures on grdview tests (`#589 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/589>`__)
+* Redesign check_figures_equal testing function to be more explicit (`#590 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/590>`__)
+* Cut Windows CI build time in half to 15 min (`#586 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/586>`__)
+* Add a test for Session.write_data() writing netCDF grids (`#583 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/583>`__)
+* Add a test to make sure shift_origin does not crash (`#580 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/580>`__)
+* Add testing.check_figures_equal to avoid storing baseline images (`#555 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/555>`__)
+* Eliminate unnecessary jobs from Travis CI (`#567 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/567>`__) and Azure Pipelines (`#513 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/513>`__)
+* Improve the workflow to test both GMT master (`#485 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/485>`__) and 6.1 branches (`#554 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/554>`__)
+* Automatically cancel in-progress CI runs of old commits (`#544 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/544>`__)
+* Remove the Stickler CI configuration file (`#538 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/538>`__), run style checks using Github Actions (`#519 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/519>`__)
+* Cache GMT remote data as artifacts on Github (`#530 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/530>`__)
+* Let pytest generate both HTML and XML coverage reports (`#512 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/512>`__)
+* Run Continuous Integration tests on Github Actions (`#475 <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/475>`__)
+
+Contributors:
+
+* `Dongdong Tian <https://github.com/seisman>`__
+* `Wei Ji Leong <https://github.com/weiji14>`__
+* `Tyler Newton <https://github.com/tjnewton>`__
+* `Liam Toney <https://github.com/liamtoney>`__
+
+----
+
 Release v0.1.2 (2020/07/07)
 ---------------------------