freud version 3.0.0 Released

[tommy-waltmann]

Version 3.0.0 of freud is now released. Thank you to all who contributed code and reported issues. Please report issues and suggest feature enhancements via the freud GitHub issue tracker.

conda-forge package: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/freud
PyPI package: https://pypi.org/project/freud-analysis/
Documentation: https://freud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Source tarball: https://glotzerlab.engin.umich.edu/Downloads/freud/

For help migrating to freud version 3, please see the new migration section of the documentation and feel free to ask any questions here if something is unclear. This release includes a few changes, see below for the changelog entry:

Added

• Coloring plots by polytope area in freud.locality.Voronoi.
• Neighbor vectors to freud.locality.NeighborLists.

Changed

• The normalize argument to freud.density.RDF is now normalization_mode.
• The neighbors argument to env_neighbors for EnvironmentMotifMatch class.
• The neighbors argument to cluster_neighbors for EnvironmentCluster class.
• freud.order.Nematic uses orientation vectors instead of quaternions and a nematic director.
• freud.order.Nematic raises a warning when the zero is vector passed.
• Remove zero-padding from arrays in freud.environment.EnvironmentCluster and freud.environment.EnvironmentMotifMatch and replace with ragged lists of NumPy arrays.
• Provide support via GitHub discussions.

Removed

• The global_search flag in freud.environment.EnvironmentCluster.