v1.6.0

What's Changed

New Features

• Implement linking support for all BaseCartesianData subclasses and fix bugs that caused hanging in image viewer by @astrofrog in #2328
• Add the ability to create one-to-one 'join_on_key'-type links to the GUI link editor by @jfoster17 in #2313
• Allow specifying visual attributes when creating subset by @Carifio24 in #2333
• Export color settings in matplotlib viewers by @Carifio24 in #2322
• Add support for PyQt6 and PySide6 (<6.4) to Qt backends by @astrofrog in #2318

Bug Fixes

• Redraw empty histogram layer by @Carifio24 in #2300
• Apply foreground color to minor ticks by @Carifio24 in #2305
• Don't change labels when using log scale axes by @Carifio24 in #2323
• Fix bugs in BaseCartesianData.get_data for pixel and world component IDs by @astrofrog in #2327
• Don't change labels when using log x axis in histogram viewer by @Carifio24 in #2325
• Fix issue where matplotlib viewers using y log axes were not initialized correctly. by @Carifio24 in #2324
• Force line collection to always respect colormap by @Carifio24 in #2299
• Fix export to Python script to correctly use Coordinates or WCS in reference_data by @dhomeier in #2335
• Add a check for FITS files mistaken as ASCII to astropy_table_read for Python 3.11 compatibility by @dhomeier in #2321

Documentation

• Removed mention of defunct viz packages in Available plugins by @pllim in #2319
• Add PyQt6 and PySide6 status to glue-deps information by @dhomeier in #2338

Other Changes

• Require Python>=3.8 and PyQt5/PySide5>=5.14 by @astrofrog in #2334
• Performance improvements for CompositeArray by @astrofrog in #2343

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0