Astropy voting member election now running

Hello, The 2026 Astropy Voting Member Election is now open and will run through 25 August. If you are

When should astropy drop support for Python 3.11?

PR to drop it is https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/20223 On Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 11:25:32

astropy core lib: Auto delete branch after merge?

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/

Astropy dev telecon

Hi, Astropy-dev telecons are open to all and we encores anyone writing code for astropy to attend.

Announcing Astropy Voting Member Election: August 2026

One more day to nominate new Astropy Voting Members! https://forms.gle/1Dtn1ZA4CKKZGRsj6 On Monday,

Proposal to add Michael Coughlin as a co-maintainer of astropy-healpix

I propose to add Prof. Michael Coughlin for the role of astropy-healpix co-maintainer in the Astropy

AI Policy for Astropy

Here is a proposed update to the accepted policy. Please review and comment at https://github.com/

Registration for 2026 Astropy Coordination Meeting is open

Hi everyone, Just another reminder to register for the Astropy Coordination Meeting if you haven'

astropy.wcs 'public' C-level API

Hi everyone, Since there are no objections, I have opened https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/

PR 19931 to drop win32 wheel

Is anyone using win32 wheel for astropy? Please comment at https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/

astropy v8.0.0b1 ready for testing

Tom R has released 8.0.0. Thanks, to Tom and everyone who helped! On Friday, June 12, 2026 at 8:48:12

ANN: astropy.samp is deprecated in astropy v8.0.0, use pyvo.samp

pyvo 1.9.1 has removed samp_hub command line interface, so the CLI conflict is gone, but also

We can now use [ci skip] for RTD, do we still want that?

Please discuss at https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/19854 . Thanks!

addopting pytest-skip-slow

As always +1 to deleting code. On 27/05/2026 21:05, Clément Robert wrote: Hi team pytest-skip-slow,

APE 23: Accepted!

Dear all, APE 23 has now been accepted. Please find the citation here: https://zenodo.org/records/

iers.conf.iers_degraded_accuracy = "warn" also for IERS-A data?

Hi, all. I opened https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/19823 for follow-up discussions. FYI. On

Astropy dev telecon June 3rd, 9:00 am Eastern time

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cache cleaning script

Hi everyone, For everyone that didn't follow my recent work closely, there were a couple test

PR 19714: Restored dynamic version information when setuptools_scm is installed

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/19714 reverts removal of accurate dev version reporting that

[GH-19710] Retire these labels: "good first issue", Package-novice, Package-intermediate, Hacktoberfest

Please express your thoughts at https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/19710 Thank you!

Sz 102

Hi, Ich bin irgendwie blöd heute. In welcher Publikation hatten wir dieses Bild?  Ich habe the Sz

Introducting Reem Hamraz (GSoC 2026)

Hi Reem, Welcome to the team! I'm looking forward to seeing the work you do this summer. Thanks,

astropy v8.0.dev now includes "overhaul cache and config dir discovery"

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/19575 is now merged. If you use or extend astropy caching and

Astropy dev telecon May 6th, 9:00 am Eastern time

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dev and dev_all are now dependency groups (previously extras)

Headsup to all devs: we're moving dev and dev_all to dependency groups in main (astropy 8.0 dev):

astropy v8.0.0 feature freeze on 1 May 2026

Hi everyone, if possible I would like to get these two PRs into this milestone, but I need a review

2026 Astropy Coordination meeting topic ideas

Planning for the 2026 Astropy Coordination meeting at SKAO in the UK is now ramping up! As per our

Adding Stuart Mumford to the Documentation Infrastructure team

I propose to add myself to the role documentation infrastructure role, this is to support my work

GH 19541: JPEGXL Compression for FITS

Please discuss at https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/19541 if you are interested. Thanks, all!

Proposal to add Clément to the astropy security team

I propose to add Clément to the astropy security team. See https://www.astropy.org/team for a list of