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Simbad module evolutions
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Major breaking changes in version 0.4.8
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In version 0.4.8, the SIMBAD astroquery module switched from SIMBAD's deprecated
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interface to the TAP interface. This implied the following breaking changes:
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- `~astroquery.simbad.SimbadClass.query_objects` outputs now have an additional column
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``user_specified_id`` containing the objects' names as specified by the user. The
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votable_field option ``typed_id`` is removed,
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- All query methods will return tables with column names in lowercase (it was uppercase
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in 0.4.7 and before) -- except for optical filter names that are case sensitive,
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- the `~astroquery.simbad.SimbadClass.query_criteria` method is deprecated. See
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section :ref:`query_criteria_evolution`.
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For a more extensive list of changes, you can have a look at `the changelog
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<https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/blob/main/CHANGES.rst>`_.
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.. _query_criteria_evolution:
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