cta-observatory/ctapipe: v0.30.0 – 2026-03-20

Summary Please find the detailed changelog in the docs and the list of merged pull requests below. Contributors @LukasBeiske, @TjarkMiener, @kosack, @maxnoe, @mexanick and @yaochengchen What has changed since v0.29.0 Pull-requests containing changes of multiple nature are repeated. Prepare release 0.30 (#2968) @maxnoe Add data quality-related subgroup definitions to HDF5 data format (#2965) @mexanick allow gain selection when skipping R1 calibration in SimTelEventSourve (#2943) @TjarkMiener Feature: EventPreprocessor (#2928) @kosack Fix missing example blocks in trigger doc (#2959) @maxnoe Typo hillas (#2956) @yaochengchen Fix typos in hillas_reconstructor.py (#2957) @yaochengchen Fix trigger check in HDF5EventSource.is_compatible (#2949) @yaochengchen Improve developer setup instructions in Getting Started guide (#2948) @yaochengchen EarthLocation of the telescopes in subarray (#2947) @mexanick Allow filtering by telescope event type in software trigger (#2941) @maxnoe Minimize VIZIER queries in CI by only running catalog tests in coverage job (#2937) @maxnoe Provide better error in case of missing changelog snippet (#2934) @maxnoe Fix sonar (#2939) @maxnoe Fix FeatureGenerator gives wrong units (#2921) @kosack Fix PendingDeprecationWarning for docutils arg (#2860) @maxnoe Rename konrad weights to aspect-weighted-intensity weights (#2880) @LukasBeiske Fix sphinx warnings (#2923) @kosack New features Extend MonitoringSource interface (#2933) @mexanick Bug Fixes Not store tel-wise fixed pointing tables if telescope_events is set to false (#2936) @TjarkMiener set is_valid to true in VarianceExtractor (#2930) @TjarkMiener