MetPy 0.8.0 has been released. This release has a wide collection of new features as well as minor bug fixes, including several contributions from our community. For full release notes see the GitHub Release Page.
Work in the overall scientific Python ecosystem to sunset Python version 2.7 is underway in earnest, so the time has come for Unidata's Python team to start planning the timeline for our own software (MetPy and Siphon) to do the same. We propose to drop support for Python 2.7 in the Fall of 2019; this means that releases of MetPy and Siphon in the Fall of 2019 will be the first that support only Python 3.