napari 0.2.1¶
We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.2.1! 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
New Features¶
added a code of conduct (#374)
added grid mode that allows for looking at layers side by side (#565)
added the ability to bind custom mouse functions (#544)
added a benchmarking suite (#573, #577)
added help menu with about dialog and keybindings dialog (#580, #583, #591)
Improvements¶
improved performance of the thumbnail generation for points layers (#564)
more comprehensive testing of keybindings functionality (#583)
now use square brackets to indicate auto-incremented names (#589)
unify file IO and add dask lazy loading of folders (#590)
API Changes¶
added the ability to pass viewer keyword arguments to our
view_*methods (#584)Allow add_points() to be called without an argument to create empty points layer (#594)
Bug Fixes¶
fixed some pyramid data types (#585)
fix points updating (#571)
stop vispy error catching (#551)
4 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)¶
Ahmet Can Solak - @AhmetCanSolak
Juan Nunez-Iglesias - @jni
Kira Evans - @kne42
Nicholas Sofroniew - @sofroniewn