Site config change (MDSplus backend only)

• Change the env variable to set the path to the MDSplus models, from ids_path to MDSPLUS_MODELS_PATH

Improvements

• Separation of the Core documentation from high-level APIs ones
• Improve build w.r.t Data-Dictionary site config
• Improve CMake build for Windows
• Add CMake build for MacOS-arm

UDA backend

• Describe IMAS_LOCAL_HOSTS in the documentation
• Improve automated cache folder selection when using UDA when using fetch=1 query key

Bugfixes

• Fix corrupted reads when reading two IDSs back to back in tests
• Fix blocker when master.h5 was corrupted
• Fix segfault in HDF5 when attempting to write inconsistent time slices

New Contributors

• @prasad-sawantdesai made their first contribution in #7
• @paulotex made their first contribution in #20
• @maarten-ic made their first contribution in #21
• @Nush395 made their first contribution in #26
• @fleuryl-ai made their first contribution in #27
• @deepakmaroo made their first contribution in #33

Full Changelog: 5.5.3...5.6.0

What's Changed

Documentation

• Add standalone Sphinx documentation (previously it was only available as part of the high-level APIs)

Build

• Expand matrix of Python versions for wheels generated for Linux and Windows
• Fix build issues with stdc++fs on windows and macosX
• Fix discovery of DD XML using idsinfo idspath (DD 3.39.0 onwards)
• Fix build when not fetching deps with CMake

Full Changelog: 5.5.2...5.5.3