napari 0.4.12#
We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.4.12! 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 is a bug fix release with many minor improvements and bug fixes. The user experience for users of dask arrays might be significantly improved by a new approach to setting the contrast limits based on the current slice (#3425).
A progress bar will now display when opening multiple files (#3355). Thanks to first-time contributor @tibuch the data type of labels layers can now be converted from a context menu on the layer list (#3402).
See the full list of merged pull requests below for further delails!
New Features#
- Add progress bar when opening list of files (#3355) 
- Add right-click context menu to convert label data type. (#3402) 
Improvements#
- Support for - Futurereturn type in magicgui widget (#2581)
- Don’t register dask cache globally - but do use cache as context manager when slicing (#3285) 
- Hide or Destroy dock widgets (#3331) 
- _vispymodule cleanup (#3333)
- Add expressions API (will eventually support - whenexpressions for internal & plugin usage) (#3350)
- Experimental npe2 support (#3354) 
- Disable save options if no layers available (#3363) 
- Add cancel and cancel all actions to plugin dialog and improve UI (#3369) 
- Add an option to change the theme to match the system one (#3370) 
- Add toggle visibility to layer actions (#3372) 
- Remove 0.4.9 deprecations (#3377) 
- Move - progressoutside of- qtand eliminate need for- qtimports in headless mode (#3379)
- Normalize_dtype() when setting contrast limits. (#3380) 
- Add translucent no depth blending mode (#3398) 
- Center data within points thumbnail (#3406) 
- Add back support for big-endian NumPy dtypes in get_dtype_limits (#3424) 
- Schedule contrast limits calculation for dask arrays after first set_view_slice (#3425) 
- Minor refactor of get_active_layer_dtype (#3434) 
- Add event filter to convert tooltips to richtext (#3442) 
- Remove duplicate test parameter (#3443) 
- Check if proper function name is found when connect to EventEmmiter (#3445) 
- Prevent shapes removal while creating (#3451) 
- Bug fix for individual shape selection with shift modifier (#3456) 
- Multiscale slicing extends beyond shape (#3460) 
- Added float16 support to dtype normalization (#3463) 
- Updates for magicgui 0.3.0 (#3465) 
- Finds layer_controls based on layer’s MRO (#3471) 
- Use - ensure_main_threadinstead of custom thread propagation mechanism in NapariQtNotification (#3473)
- Drop pythonw patch in windows bundle (#3479) 
- Revert “drop pythonw patch (#3479)” (#3501) 
Bug Fixes#
- Fix - _old_sizeattribute error in main window (#3329)
- Fix problem with local function signal binding (#3352) 
- Fix getattr in WorkerBase (#3368) 
- Fix off-by-one bug in extent of Image and Labels layers (#3381) 
- Try to fix bundle building. (#3403) 
- Fix to_labels default output shape (#3412) 
- Fix lazy load console (#3419) 
- Fix teardown of menus to prevent widget test leaks (#3433) 
- Fix off-by one error in Dims.range for non pixel-based layers (#3444) 
- Fix naming inconsistency for windows bundle (#3476) 
- Add ability to provide empty data to vectors layer (#2995) 
API Changes#
Deprecations#
Documentation#
- Fix docs order in _toc.yml for 0.4.11 (#3330) 
- Add example with data of mixed dimensionality (#3392) 
Build Tools and Support#
- Split windows pyside/pyqt into own GitHub action check (#2989) 
- Attempt to cache tox virtualenv. (#2996) 
- Update references to master to point to main (#3351) 
- Fix docs build from main branch (#3365) 
- Turn on testing examples on CI again (#3367) 
- Add certifi to dependencies (#3386) 
- Update README.md (#3396) 
- Fix CI failure from example (#3397) 
- Attempt to speedup tests around theme. (#3405) 
- Add global test timeout to avoid regression. (#3407) 
- Add missing rendering documentation (#3436) 
- Try to skip test on windows. (#3438) 
- Add wheel to bundle run dependecies (#3450) 
- Clarify existing behavior of - TextManagerwith new tests and benchmarks (#3452)
- Move 8s tiemout to github actions only (#3457) 
- Move icons to package src (#3462) 
- Fix image display for plugin installation page. (#3480) 
- Fix broken links in documentation (#3481) 
- Update formatting in README.md (#3482) 
- Fix formatting of Layers docstrings (#3483) 
- Add links to napari repo in README (#3484) 
- Bump minimum NumPy requirement to 1.18 (as per NEP29) (#3485) 
- Remove make_napari_viewer in vispy tests. (#3486) 
- Update ubuntu image to 18.04 (#3348) 
- Bundle: canonicalize arch names (#3349) 
- Fix min_req text matrix by skiping test (#3496) 
- Bundle: make fork multiprocessing default in macos again (#3498) 
20 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)#
- Alister Burt - @alisterburt 
- Andy Sweet - @andy-sweet 
- Draga Doncila Pop - @DragaDoncila 
- Genevieve Buckley - @GenevieveBuckley 
- Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos - @goanpeca 
- Gregory R. Lee - @grlee77 
- Grzegorz Bokota - @Czaki 
- Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra - @jaimergp 
- Juan Nunez-Iglesias - @jni 
- Kevin Yamauchi - @kevinyamauchi 
- Lorenzo Gaifas - @brisvag 
- Lukasz Migas - @lukasz-migas 
- Matthias Bussonnier - @Carreau 
- Nathan Clack - @nclack 
- Nicholas Sofroniew - @sofroniewn 
- Pam - @ppwadhwa 
- psobolewskiPhD - @psobolewskiPhD 
- Talley Lambert - @tlambert03 
- Tim-Oliver Buchholz - @tibuch 
- Ziyang Liu - @potating-potato 
