napari 0.4.6

We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.4.6! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional images. It’s built on top of Qt (for the GUI), vispy (for performant GPU-based rendering), and the scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy).

For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website: https://github.com/napari/napari

Highlights

This release is the first that adds support for persistent settings in napari (#2212). Right now we just store the current theme and window geometry but we will be expanding this to include a full set of preferences in future releases.

We’ve also made plugin installation from our plugin dialog more flexible, including supporting installation from anything supported by pip, such as a package name, url, or local file (#2319).

New Features

  • Add the ability to show contours of labels (#2168)

  • Add initial settings management for theme and window geometry (#2212)

  • More flexible plugin install (from url, name or file) (#2319)

Improvements

  • Use pydantic for viewer model (#2066)

  • Use vectorized indexing for xarray arrays in labels (#2191)

  • Add basic composite tree model (#2217)

  • Add Qt Tree Model and View (#2222)

  • Change status_format to return an existing string as-is (#2235)

  • Add translator stub and example (#2254)

  • Add hook implementation function name to plugin call order sorter (#2255)

  • Add theme parameter to get_stylesheet (#2263)

  • Add typing to event.py (#2269)

  • Add canvas.background_color_override (#2270)

  • QColoredSVGIcon class for dynamic colorized svg icons (#2279)

  • Add EventedSet class (#2280)

  • Refactor icon build process (#2285)

  • Add more tooltips (#2292)

  • Make contour thickness settable (#2296)

  • Add _json_encode method API for EventedModel serdes (#2297)

  • Don’t subclass Layer directly from Image, (adds _ImageBase) (#2307)

  • Disable run pre release test outside napari main repository (#2331)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix QtPoll to poll when camera moves (#2227)

  • Prevent garbage collection of viewer during startup. (#2262)

  • Fix EventedModel signatures with PySide2 imported (#2265)

  • Remove callsignature (#2266)

  • Fix bug with not display points close to given layer (#2289)

  • Fix plugin discovery in bundle (use certifi context for urlopen) (#2298)

  • Call processEvents before nbscreenshot (#2303)

  • Add handling of python <= 3.7 for translator (#2305)

  • Add parent parameter to about dialog to correctly inherit and apply theme (#2308)

  • Remove unneeded stylesheet on QtAbout dialog (#2312)

  • Avoid importing xarray (and other array libs) for equality checkers (#2325)

API Changes

  • The ViewerModel is now a Pydantic BaseModel and so subclassing the Viewer might require reading some of the Pydantic BaseModel documentation. Otherwise the API of the ViewerModel is unchanged.

  • Because Labels no longer inherit from Image (#2307), magicgui function parameters annotated as napari.layers.Image will no longer include napari.layers.Labels layer types in the dropdown menu. (napari.layers.Layer may still be used to show all layer types in the magicgui-generated dropdown menu.)

Build Tools and Support

  • Add missing release notes 0.4.5 (#2250)

  • Explicitly document ability to implement multiple of the same hook (#2256)

  • Update install instructions to work with zsh default Mac shell (#2258)

  • Fix broken links in README (#2275)

  • Documentation typos (#2294)

  • Documentation on napari types in magicgui (#2306)

  • Pin pydantic < 1.8.0 (#2323)

  • Fix docs build with code execution (#2324)

  • Pin pydantic != 1.8.0 (#2333)

12 authors added to this release (alphabetical)

13 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)

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