- Update to 5.2.0
## New features
* Add generic Pointset and regularly spaced Grid data structures
in preparation for coordinate transformation and resampling
(#1251) (CM, reviewed by Oscar Esteban)
## Enhancements
* Add copy method to ArrayProxy (#1255) (CM, reviewed by Paul
McCarthy)
* Permit to_xml to pass keyword arguments to tostring (#1258)
(CM)
* Allow user expansion (e.g., ~/...) in strings passed to
functions that accept paths (#1260) (Reinder Vos de Wael,
reviewed by CM)
* Expand CIFTI-2 brain structures to permit synonyms (#1256) (CM,
reviewed by Mathias Goncalves)
* Annotate SpatialImage as accepting affine=None argument (#1253)
(Blake Dewey, reviewed by CM)
* Warn on invalid MINC2 spacing declarations, treat as missing
(#1237) (Peter Suter, reviewed by CM)
* Refactor find_private_section for improved readability and
maintainability (#1228) (MB, reviewed by CM)
## API changes and deprecations
* The nibabel.pydicom_compat module is deprecated and will be
removed in NiBabel 7.0. (#1280)
* The int_to_float and as_int functions are no longer needed to
work around NumPy deficiencies and have been deprecated (#1272)
(CM, reviewed by EL)
- Release 5.1
## Enhancements
* Make imagestats available with import nibabel (pr/1208) (Fabian
Perez, reviewed by CM)
* Use symmetric threshold for identifying unit quaternions on
qform calculations (pr/1182) (CM, reviewed by MB)
* Type annotations for nibabel.loadsave (pr/1213) and
nibabel.spatialimages.SpatialImage APIs (pr/1179),
nibabel.deprecated, nibabel.deprecator, nibabel.onetime and
nibabel.optpkg modules (pr/1188), nibabel.volumeutils
(pr/1189), nibabel.filename_parser and nibabel.openers
(pr/1197) (CM, reviewed by Zvi Baratz)
- Release 5.0
## New features
* SerializableImage now has to_stream() and from_stream() methods
to read/write streams implementing the io.IOBase interface. A
from_url() method enables loading images from URLs. (pr/1129)
(CM, reviewed by MB)
* TrkFile supports TRKv3, an undocumented but generally
compatible variant of TRKv2. (pr/1125) (CM)
## Enhancements
* Support multiline header fields in TCKFile (pr/1175) (CM,
reviewed by Matt Cieslak)
* Make layout order an initialization parameter of ArrayProxy
(pr/1131) (CM, reviewed by MB)
* Initial support for type annotations. (pr/1115, pr/1178) (CM,
reviewed by Zvi Baratz)
## API changes and deprecations
* Passing an int64 array to Nifti1Image without a header or dtype
argument will raise a ValueError. (pr/1173) (CM)
* tmpdirs.TemporaryDirectory is deprecated in favor of
tempfile.TemporaryDirectory. (pr/1172) (CM, reviewed by Zvi
Baratz)
* The nisext package is deprecated and will be removed in NiBabel
6.0. (pr/1170) (CM, reviewed by MB)
* Drop support for Python 3.7, Numpy < 1.19 (pr/1177) (CM)
* The following deprecated functions and methods will now raise
ExpiredDeprecationErrors
- nibabel.loadsave.read_img_data
- nibabel.dataobj_images.DataobjImage.get_data
- nibabel.loadsave.guessed_image_type
- nibabel.onetime.setattr_on_read
- nibabel.orientations.flip_axis
* Modules, classes and functions that expired at 4.0 were fully
removed. ExpiredDeprecationError will now be
AttributeError.