napari 0.5.2#

Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024

We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.5.2!

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#

This is primarily a bug-fix release, but we snuck a couple of new features in there, including smoother, prettier, better rendering of Labels volumes in 3D (#7100) and the ability to display scale bar at a fixed length in world coordinates, rather than having it resize dynamically to take up a small part of the screen (#7167).

See below for the full list of changes!

New Features#

  • Add option for smoother labels rendering in 3D (#7100)

  • Add optional fixed length parameter to scale bar (#7167)

Improvements#

  • Update shortcuts.py to have Enter be primary Shapes completion (#7063)

  • Change shortcuts _mark_conflicts logic to always compare between strings representations of shortcuts (#7124)

  • Allow easy call single benchmark (#7145)

Bug Fixes#

  • [bugfix] update Point size slider on selection (current_size event) (#7137)

  • Disconnect all dims events when closing viewer (#7140)

  • Update event connection order (#7150)

  • Run slider animation without using timer (#7158)

  • Emit highlight event only if selection changed (#7162)

  • [Bugfix] Only import darkdetect when needed (#7163)

  • FIX QtViewer._open_files_dialog handing of stack (#7172)

Documentation#

  • Update example annotate_segmentation_with_text.py to add link to the tutorial (#7134)

  • Document command ID naming conventions (docs#405)

  • Turn on warnings as error option for sphinx build (docs#409)

  • Update version switcher for v0.5.1 (docs#468)

  • Add documentation for run benchmark under debugger (docs#470)

  • Update installation notes about macOS arm processors and Qt5 backends (docs#471)

  • Fix docs CI (docs#472)

  • Add October and July workshops from 2023 (docs#473)

  • Add 0.5.2 release notes (docs#476)

  • Remove warning and update date on 0.5.2 release notes (docs#478)

Other Pull Requests#

  • [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#7000)

  • Add CI action to check that set milestone is the next release (#7083)

  • Use app-model KeyBinding.to_text and KeyCode.os_symbol over Shortcut logic (#7113)

  • Add some basic codeowners (#7118)

  • Clean action manager to avoid side effects during tests (#7120)

  • [maint] Drop singularity action to fix failed container action (#7121)

  • Remove post identifier in fetching release notes (#7125)

  • Update coverage, hypothesis, magicgui, matplotlib, napari-plugin-manager, npe2, pytest, tensorstore, tifffile, tqdm, xarray (#7138)

  • ci(dependabot): bump the actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#7147)

  • [Maint] Update version_denylist.txt to block mpl 3.9.1 on windows (#7154)

  • [Maint] Increase timeout in test_async_out_of_bounds_layer_loaded to 500 ms (#7157)

  • Use delete instead of getmethod for delete ready to merge label (#7160)

  • [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#7161)

  • fix: typo in shape model name (#7166)

  • Update dask, hypothesis, magicgui, matplotlib, pyyaml (#7169)

  • Update docs constraints to pin sphinx<8 (#7170)

  • Move parallel setting for coverage calculation to tox.ini (#7173)

  • Clarify workflow names (#7174)

  • correct typos in comments (#7175)

  • MNT Parametrize test_open_files_dialog to check for stack True and False (#7176)

  • Update babel, hypothesis, lxml, numpydoc, tifffile (#7179)

  • Remove post identifier when determine deploy directory (docs#467)

12 authors added to this release (alphabetical)#

(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳

13 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)#

(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳

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