v2.1.0 (2024-06-26)
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Deprecations and Removals
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- Removed explicit support and testing for Python 3.7 and 3.8. (`#132 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/132>`_)


Features
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- Created package specific base `Warning` class
  `~bapsflib.utils.warnings.BaPSFWarning`, and implement throughout
  `bapsflib` inplace of `UserWarning`. (`#134 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/134>`_)
- Created package specific base `Exception` class
  `~bapsflib.utils.exceptions.BaPSFError`. (`#134 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/134>`_)
- Modified silent mode ``silent=True`` of `~bapsflib._hdf.utils.file.File`
  and its methods :meth:`~bapsflib._hdf.utils.file.File.read_data`\ ,
  :meth:`~bapsflib._hdf.utils.file.File.read_controls`\ , and
  :meth:`~bapsflib._hdf.utils.file.File.read_msi` such that only warnings
  subclassed from `~bapsflib.utils.warnings.BaPSFWarning` are silenced. (`#134 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/134>`_)


Trivial/Internal Changes
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- Addressed `numpy`\ 's `FuturWarning` about `shape-1 fields in dtypes
  <https://numpy.org/doc/1.26/release/1.17.0-notes.html#shape-1-fields-in-dtypes-won-t-be-collapsed-to-scalars-in-a-future-version>`_. (`#135 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/135>`_)


Package Management
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- Removed dependency on deprecated package `pkg_resources`\ .  As a
  result, `bapsflib` gains the documentation dependency `packaging`\ . (`#133 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/133>`_)
- Removed upper dependency limit on `numpy`, ``numpy < 2.0``. (`#136 <https://github.com/BaPSF/bapsflib/pull/136>`_)