napari 0.2.7

We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.2.7! 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

  • Play button for animating axes now in the GUI

  • Threshold slider for much improved isosurface rendering

  • Dockable widgets (!)

  • Slice information on sliders

  • Dramatically improved performance with many invisible layers

  • Adopted a Governance model with a mission and values statement

  • Added a new Core Dev guide

New Features

  • Add governance model, mission and values, core dev guide (#655)

Improvements

  • Iso-surface threshold slider (#712)

  • Add play button to GUI (#726)

  • Make layers list dockable (#727)

  • Add Zenodo badge to documentation (#743)

  • Add a dock icon (#744)

  • Show splash screen for cli launch (#745)

  • Add benchmarks for setting .data in Image layers (#747)

  • Refactor layer tests to be more parametrized (#723)

  • Support opening labels layers via directly from path (#748)

  • Simplify keybindings info display (#749)

  • Clean up info box (#750)

  • Display slice info on right of slider (#759)

  • Block refresh for invisible layers (#776)

  • About copy button to info display box (#798)

  • Add blocked_signals context manager (#797)

  • Better selected menu header background color (#813)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix StringEnum setting and errors (#757)

  • scale argument now accepts array-like input (#765)

  • fix set_fps type to float (#767)

  • Add shutdown method to QtViewer that closes all resources (#769)

  • Change language around windows support in readme (#779)

  • Revert #784 console shutdown conditionals (#796)

  • Fix window raise & inactive menubar conflict (#795)

  • Change documentation on qt.py folder location (#783)

  • Updating qt_console with better resource management (#784)

  • Respect vispy max texture limits (#788)

  • Fix (minor) deprecation warnings (#800)

  • Fix FPS spin box on Qt < 5.12 (#803)

  • Bumpy vispy dependency to 0.6.4 (#807)

  • Set threshold for codecov failure (#806)

  • Rename util to utils in MANIFEST.in (#811)

  • Add requirements/release.txt with release dependencies (#809)

API Changes

  • Rename util to utils across repo (#808)

  • Move Labels utility functions to labels_util.py (#770)

  • Move Image layer utility functions to image_utils.py (#775)

  • Move Layer utility functions to /napari/layers/layer_utils.py (#778)

  • Refactor util.misc (#781)

  • Drop ndim keyword from labels layer (#773)

7 authors added to this release (alphabetical)

7 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)