[Neuroimaging] Nipy 0.4.0, finally

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

I am pleased and relieved to announce the 0.4.0 release of nipy.

Here's the changelog:

Abbreviated authors are:

* MB - Matthew Brett
* BT - Bertrand Thirion
* AR - Alexis Roche
* YH - Yarik Halchenko
* JBP - Jean-Baptiste Poline
* JT - Jonathan Taylor

* 0.4.0 (Saturday 18 October 2015)

  * Bugfix, refactoring and compatibility release;
  * Full port to Python 3 using single code-base;
  * Various fixes for modern numpy, scipy, sympy, nibabel compatibility;
  * Refactor space-time realignment (AR);
  * Change in interface for slice-timing options in space-time realign
    (AR+MB);
  * New ``nipy_4d_realign`` script to run space-time realign (Ariel Rokem);
  * Drop requirement for BLAS / LAPACK external library at build-time (AR);
  * Move much code out of nipy.labs into main tree (AR, BT);
  * Deprecate remaining code in nipy.labs (AR, BT);
  * Updates to landmark learning code including API (BT);
  * Various fixes to design matrix machinery (BT, Michael Waskom);
  * Fix to two-sample permutation test suggested by github user jwirsich (BF);
  * Refactoring and fixes to design matrix drift calculations (JBP);
  * Extending API of resampling code to allow more ndimage kwargs (JBP);
  * Start of new example on OpenFMRI ds105 dataset (JT);
  * New ``block_design`` function for designs with specified onsets (JT);
  * New ``show_contrast`` function for reviewing contrasts (JT);
  * Fix for bug in ``nipy_diagnose`` script / ``screens`` module giving
    incorrect PCA output;
  * Added SPM HRF to other HRF options;
  * Redesign concept of an image "space" with new image space modules,
    functions, classes;
  * Various fixes for correct installation provided or suggested by YH;
  * Some visualization changes by Elvis Dohmatob;

The latest source and wheels should be up on pypi in in :

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nipy

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

Alexis Roche
Bertrand Thirion
Ariel Rokem
Elvis Dohmatob
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Yaroslav Halchenko
Jonathan Taylor
Ben Cipollini
Gael Varoquaux
Fabian Pedregosa
Endolith
Michael Waskom

And of course - your noble selves for discussion and advice,

Cheers,

Matthew