QCoDeS 0.56.0

[jenshnielsen]

QCoDeS 0.56.0 (2026-03-16)

Breaking Changes:

• Passing arguments as positional arguments is deprecated for ParameterBase, Parameter,
  ArrayParameter, DelegateParameter, GroupParameter, GroupedParameter,
  MultiParameter, MultiChannelInstrumentParameter, ElapsedTimeParameter,
  and InstrumentRefParameter. Please pass all arguments except name as keyword arguments. Deprecate positional args to parameter classes #7880

Improved:

• Enabled setting shape of Measurement in measurement_extensions.py. Added shapes to DataSetDefinition and use it in setup_measurement_instances to set shape of measurement. Added new tests for new use cases. Improvement: added shapes to DatasetDefinition #7891

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This discussion was created from the release QCoDeS 0.56.0.