Merge pull request microsoft#2169 from QCoDeS/changelog_18

Add 0.18.0 release changelog

docs/changes/0.18.0.rst

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+Changelog for QCoDeS 0.18.0
+===========================
+
+The September 2020 release of QCoDeS.
+
+
+Breaking Changes:
+_________________
+
+There are no breaking changes in this release of QCoDeS.
+
+
+New:
+____
+
+- Support nested ``Measurement`` context managers; in particular, only create
+  one background writer thread for multiple datasets (#2124)
+- Interactive widget to explore datasets in Jupyter Notebooks (#1967, #2163)
+
+
+Improved:
+_________
+
+- Jump to value when trying to set a parameter that cannot be set in steps
+  (can't be swept) (#2128)
+- Raise exception if ``get_cmd`` is not defined in a ``Group`` of
+  ``GroupParameter`` s (#2133)
+- Add new ``set_parameters`` method to ``Group`` and remove the old deprecated 
+  ``set`` method (#2137)
+- Update ArrayParameter Docs (#2126)
+- Add a docs page listing projects to QCoDeS project (#2142)
+
+
+Improved drivers:
+_________________
+
+- Keysight B1500: fix measure range bug, ``measure_config`` method is deprecated (#2150)
+- Remove warning about complex numbers in R&S ZNB driver (#2140)
+
+
+Under the hood:
+_______________
+
+- Simplify instrument destructor (#2132)
+- Add types to ``RunDescriber`` dict representations (#2134)
+- Rework ``RunDescriber`` and update to version 2 (#2135)
+- Allow ``from_dict_to_current`` to deserialize ``RunDescriber`` from new
+  versions (#2144)
+- Add ``python_requires`` as key to ``setup.py`` (#2123)
+
+
+Dependencies:
+_____________
+
+- Constrain all requirements and their dependencies in requirements.txt (#2164)
+- Use ``pip`` s new resolver when installing dependencies (#2168)
+- Fix docs and test requirements to minor version (#2148)
+- Restrict pyvisa to less than 1.11 (#2162)
+- Install pyqt for python 3.8 (#2157)
+- Require latest opencensus packages (#2141)
+- Remove no longer needed apt dependecies from travis (#1843)
+- Update nbconvert requirement from 5.6.1 to ~=6.0.3 (#2146, #2152, #2160)
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=6.0.1 to ~=6.0.2 (#2151)
+- Update coverage requirement from ~=5.2.1 to ~=5.3 (#2154)
+- Update sphinx-jsonschema requirement from ~=1.16.1 to ~=1.16.2 (#2155)
+- Update hypothesis requirement from ~=5.5.5 to ~=5.35.3 (#2158)

docs/changes/index.rst

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    0.15.0 <0.15.0>
    0.16.0 <0.16.0>
    0.17.0 <0.17.0>
+   0.18.0 <0.18.0>