# Sunpy 5.1 released

**URL:** <https://community.openastronomy.org/t/sunpy-5-1-released/826>\
**Category:** SunPy\
**Tags:** sunpy\
**Created:** [November 24, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/sunpy-5-1-released/826 "2023-11-24T09:20:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/sunpy-5-1-released/826/1 "2023-11-24T09:20:26Z")

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The sunpy developers present to you the latest release of sunpy, version 5.1. In this major release new features include:

- 🧲 New coordinate frames related to the Earth’s magnetic field (Geomagnetic, Solar Magnetic, and Geocentric Solar Magnetic).
- 🌶 A new sub-module (sunpy.coordinates.spice) to do coordinate computations with SPICE kernels.
- 🥁 Support for GONG synoptic map data.
- 🤫 Improved support for WISPR data.
- 🌞 A new function to calculate the solar eclipse fraction at a given location and time.

There are also plenty of bug fixes, documentation improvements, and several removals of deprecated functionality.

The full what’s new can be found at [What’s New in sunpy 5.1? — sunpy 5.1.0 documentation](https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/5.1.html), and the full changelog at [Full Changelog — sunpy 5.1.0 documentation](https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/changelog.html).

To update you can run either:

- “pip install --upgrade sunpy” (for pip users)
- “conda update sunpy” (for conda users)

👏 Finally, we would like to give a shout out to new contributors to sunpy for this major release: Trestan Simon, Hannah Collier, Brett Graham, Kurt McKee, Paul Wright, Sam Van Kooten, and Sam Badman.

SunPy is a community powered project, and would not exist without continual input from contributors around the world!