napari 0.5.1#

Thursday, Jul 25, 2024

We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.5.1!

napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for exploring, annotating, and analyzing multi-dimensional images. It’s built on Qt (for the GUI), VisPy (for performant GPU-based rendering), and the scientific Python stack (NumPy, SciPy, and friends).

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

Highlights#

napari 0.5.1 is a bugfix release hot on the heels of napari 0.5.0. It fixes a critical bug with creating viewers multiple times within a single IPython/Jupyter session (#7106), as well as regressions with viewing multiscale 3D time series (#7103) and with converting image layers to labels layers (#7095).

It also fixes a bug with NumPy 2 support (#7104) and our storing of layer axis info when using the channel_axis keyword argument for images (#7089).

Read on for the full list of changes since the last version from just two weeks ago!

Improvements#

  • [enh] add an add_plane convenience method to ClippingPlaneList (#6921)

  • Cleanup _image_key_bindings (#7116)

  • Add napari-plugin-manager to optional info list (#7117)

Bug Fixes#

  • Move the _is_created assignment to the top (#5078)

  • [Bugfix] Fix logic in setting settings using env vars. (#6669)

  • Fix handling of units and axis_labels in add_image (#7089)

  • Fix label conversion with proj mode (#7095)

  • Account for displayed dimensions in multiscale translate adjustment (#7103)

  • fix call of np.clip in _update_thumbnail (#7104)

  • Always add Empty context key, even if action is already registered (#7106)

  • fix condition of adding asterix, when save reader of path (#7112)

  • Normalize path when searching for a plugin to open file (#7127)

Documentation#

  • Add link to partners in README.md (#7069)

  • Restore README image (#7098)

  • Update docs constraints files for new napari-sphinx-theme release (#7111)

  • Update release notes for 0.5.1 with new PRs (docs#466)

  • Update Bundled App Installation Instructions (docs#74)

  • Update Makefile to be consistent (docs#448)

  • Use plausible configuration by the PyData Sphinx Theme (docs#453)

  • More fixes to contributing documentation guide (docs#454)

  • Add location field to community calendar (docs#455)

  • Fix footer items (docs#456)

  • Add docs about the new napari-base structure (docs#457)

  • Add draft 0.5.1 release notes (docs#464)

  • Update draft warning on 0.5.1 release notes (docs#465)

  • Update release notes for 0.5.1 with new PRs (docs#466)

Other Pull Requests#

  • Remove ready to merge on update of constraints PR (#6984)

  • Update app-model, coverage, dask, fsspec, hypothesis, imageio, ipython, jsonschema, matplotlib, napari-svg, numpy, pillow, pint, pydantic, pyqt5, pyqt6, pytest, scipy, tifffile (#7045)

  • Add actionlint on CI (#7049)

  • fix: set target_commitish for commit sha to fix benchmarks (#7091)

  • Use viewer.layers instead of _layers.model().sourceModel()._root for dummy context creation (#7109)

  • Limit setuptools vesion for minimum requirements test (#7110)

  • [Maint] Update dockerfile for xpra source change (#7115)

  • Fix pinning packages workflow by remove special pinning from macOS and add special for Windows (#7119)

  • Trigger docs deployment on tagged commit (#7122)

  • Update version switcher to include 0.5.0 (docs#452)

  • deploy docs on manual trigger (docs#462)

  • Add actionlint to prevent GHA workflow errors (docs#463)

9 authors added to this release (alphabetical)#

(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳

11 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)#

(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳

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