# SunPy 8.0 Released

**URL:** <https://community.openastronomy.org/t/sunpy-8-0-released/1434>\
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**Created:** [July 1, 2026, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/sunpy-8-0-released/1434 "2026-07-01T15:35:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![hayesla](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.openastronomy.org/hayesla/32/640_2.png) [@hayesla](https://community.openastronomy.org/u/hayesla)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.openastronomy.org/t/sunpy-8-0-released/1434/1 "2026-07-01T15:35:07Z")

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We are pleased to announce the latest release of sunpy, version 8.0.

In this major release, new features include:

- Support for Phi and Metis instruments onboard Solar Orbiter

- The integration of the Solar Orbiter Archive Fido client directly into sunpy

- Support for Saving sunpy coordinates with Astropy Table

There are also plenty of bug fixes, documentation improvements, and smaller features.

The full what’s new can be found at [What’s New in sunpy 8.0](https://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/8.0.html)?

and the full changelog at [Full Changelog](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 thanks to all those who contributed to this release and, in particular, those who contributed to sunpy for the first time: Aleksandr Burtovoi, Daragh M. Hollman, Giovanna Jerse, Herman le Roux, Jonas Sinjan, Kumar Amityush and Yaocheng Chen.

SunPy is a community powered project, and would not exist without continual input from you, so thank you!