[Neuroimaging] ANN: NiBabel 3.1.0 and 2.5.2

[JB Poline]

Ditto - thanks so much !

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:28 AM Bertrand Thirion <bertrand.thirion at inria.fr>
wrote:

> Congratulations for the release ! and thx !
>
> Bertrand
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *De: *"Christopher Markiewicz" <markiewicz at stanford.edu>
> *À: *"Neuroimaging analysis in Python" <neuroimaging at python.org>
> *Envoyé: *Lundi 20 Avril 2020 15:25:08
> *Objet: *[Neuroimaging] ANN: NiBabel 3.1.0 and 2.5.2
>
> Hi all,
>
> NiBabel 3.1.0 is out. This release completes a conversion from nose to
> pytest, ensuring Python 3.9 compatibility when that comes out later this
> year. Additionally, we added some conformation tools as both a Python
> function and a new nib-conform command-line interface.
>
> NiBabel 2.5.2 was released about two weeks ago, an update in the 2.5.x
> series that retains support for Python 2.7 and 3.4. A couple fixes for
> SyntaxWarnings were back-ported, but the main change was setting maximum
> compatible versions for numpy and scipy to 1.16.x and 1.2.x, which are
> respectively the final series with Python 2 support in those projects.
> Python 3 users who want to use newer features of numpy and scipy are
> encouraged to upgrade to NiBabel 3.
>
> Particular thanks to the team that sprinted on tests in February (Dorota
> Jarecka, Roberto Guidotti, Anibal Solon, and Or Duek). And thanks as usual
> to everyone who's contributed, submitted bug reports or fixes.
>
> Please cite NiBabel 2.5.2 using the Zenodo archive:
> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3745545
> Please cite NiBabel 3.1.0 using the Zenodo archive:
> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3757992
>
> I hope everybody is staying well.
>
> Full changelog follows.
>
> -----
>
> Most work on NiBabel so far has been by Matthew Brett (MB), Chris
> Markiewicz
> (CM), Michael Hanke (MH), Marc-Alexandre Côté (MC), Ben Cipollini (BC),
> Paul
> McCarthy (PM), Chris Cheng (CC), Yaroslav Halchenko (YOH), Satra Ghosh
> (SG),
> Eric Larson (EL), Demian Wassermann, Stephan Gerhard and Ross Markello
> (RM).
>
> References like "pr/298" refer to github pull request numbers.
>
> 3.1.0 (Monday 20 April 2020)
> ============================
>
> New feature release in the 3.1.x series.
>
> New features
> ------------
> * Conformation function (``processing.conform``) and CLI tool
>   (``nib-conform``) to apply shape, orientation and zooms (pr/853) (Jakub
>   Kaczmarzyk, reviewed by CM, YOH)
> * Affine rescaling function (``affines.rescale_affine``) to update
>   dimensions and voxel sizes (pr/853) (CM, reviewed by Jakub Kaczmarzyk)
>
> Bug fixes
> ---------
> * Delay import of h5py until neded (pr/889) (YOH, reviewed by CM)
>
> Maintenance
> -----------
> * Fix typo in documentation (pr/893) (Zvi Baratz, reviewed by CM)
> * Tests converted from nose to pytest (pr/865 + many sub-PRs)
>   (Dorota Jarecka, Krzyzstof Gorgolewski, Roberto Guidotti, Anibal Solon,
>   Or Duek, CM)
>
> API changes and deprecations
> ----------------------------
> * ``kw_only_meth``/``kw_only_func`` decorators are deprecated (pr/848)
>   (RM, reviewed by CM)
>
>
> 2.5.2 (Wednesday 8 April 2020)
> ==============================
>
> Bug-fix release in the 2.5.x series. This is an extended-support series,
> providing bug fixes for Python 2.7 and 3.4.
>
> This and all future releases in the 2.5.x series will be incompatible with
> Python 3.9. The last compatible series of numpy and scipy are 1.16.x and
> 1.2.x, respectively.
>
> If you are able to upgrade to Python 3, it is recommended to upgrade to
> NiBabel 3.
>
> Bug fixes
> ---------
> * Change strings with invalid escapes to raw strings (pr/827) (EL, reviewed
>   by CM)
> * Re-import externals/netcdf.py from scipy to resolve numpy deprecation
>   (pr/821) (CM)
>
> Maintenance
> -----------
> * Set maximum numpy to 1.16.x, maximum scipy to 1.2.x (pr/901) (CM)
>
> --
>
> Chris Markiewicz
>
> Center for Reproducible Neuroscience
>
> Stanford University
>
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