.. currentmodule:: discretize

.. _0.5.0_notes:

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``discretize`` 0.5.0 Release Notes
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September 2, 2020

This minor release has a few small bug fixes as well as a new volume averaging
operator.

The Volume Averaging operator has been implemented for arbitrary `TensorMesh`,
`TreeMesh`, and combinations of them. It is defined as being a mass conserving
operation. More details can be found in its documentation, :func:`discretize.utils.volume_average`.

There are also some updates for the new deprecations in ``matplotlib`` to hopefully
throw less deprecation warnings internally. There are still a few left which are
on our radar to fix in the next patch.

We are also dropping support for python 3.5 which will reach end-of-life within
a few weeks.

Contributors
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* @jcapriot
* @prisae
* @bluetyson


Pull requests
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* `#212 <https://github.com/simpeg/discretize/pull/212>`__: Volume average
* `#216 <https://github.com/simpeg/discretize/pull/216>`__: Update 2_tensor_mesh.py
* `#217 <https://github.com/simpeg/discretize/pull/217>`__: Fix Slicer matplotlib-warning.
* `#220 <https://github.com/simpeg/discretize/pull/220>`__: 0.5.0 release notes and requirements update