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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
interface to the TAP interface. This implied the following breaking changes:

- `~astroquery.simbad.SimbadClass.query_objects` outputs now have an additional column
``user_specified_id`` containing the objects' names as specified by the user. The
votable_field option ``typed_id`` is removed,
- All query methods will return tables with column names in lowercase (it was uppercase
in 0.4.7 and before) -- except for optical filter names that are case sensitive,
- the `~astroquery.simbad.SimbadClass.query_criteria` method is deprecated. See
section :ref:`query_criteria_evolution`.

For a more extensive list of changes, you can have a look at `the changelog
<https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/blob/main/CHANGES.rst>`_.

.. _query_criteria_evolution:

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