Release/v1.8

[teubert]

Release branch for ProgPy v1.8

Release notes:

ProgPy v1.8

• New Feature Discrete States: Inputs, states, outputs, or performance metrics can now be represented by a discrete state object, which will only exist in a set of defined states. See the Discrete State Notebook for examples of use
• New model: Simplified Battery. This is a simplified version of the BatteryElectroChemEOD model first introduced in the PHM Society Conference ProgPy Tutorial. See Included Models for details
• Support for Python3.13 (with the exception of ProgPy's data driven dependencies due to Tensorflow not supporting this Python version)
• Dropped support of end-of-life Python3.7 and Python3.8
• Improved “ProgPy Short Course”: A series of Jupyter Notebooks designed to help users get started with ProgPy and understand how to use it for prognostics. See https://github.com/nasa/progpy/tree/master/examples
• Various bugfixes and efficiency improvements

[teubert]

Passed release review on 5/14.

Approved pending action items by Jason, Chetan, Adam, Michelle, Katy, Portia, Chris

[teubert]

Action items from release review:

• Investigate increase in lines of code [CT]
• Add discrete state to new model notebook [ML]
• Add discrete state to documentation [CT]
  • file:///Users/cteubert/dev/progpy/docs/prog_models_guide.html#states
  • Discrete discretemodel and discretestate to glossary
  • Note about difference between discrete*
  • Add discrete state to API Reference
• Release notes (Release page in sphinx_config and on release branch)- date to phm tutorial - reference paper, link to tutorial [ML]
• Chetan: Tutorial link broken? [CK]
• Included models page is broken [ML]
• Check there is an issue for improving the battery tests [ML]
• Release notes - python3.13 with data-driven [KG]
• release notes progpy, prog_server- no longer support versions 3.7, 8… [KG]
• Remove mention of threshold_met in doccomment at top of simulate_to_threshold [ML]
• prog_server - complete v1.7 [CT]
• Data-tools support for Intel macs
  Worst-case: data-tools won’t work on intel mac
  2 options:
  1. PyTorch [CT]
  2. Dependency Hack