0.13.0: 2020/06/23

This version drops the support of Python 2.7 and Python <= 3.4.

• silx view application:

  • Added support of compound data (PR #2948)
  • Added Close All menu (PR #2963)
  • Added default title to plots (PR #2979, #2999)
  • Added a button to enable/disable file content sorting (PR #3132)
  • Added support of a SILX_style HDF5 attribute to provide axes and colormap scale (PR #3092)
  • Improved HDF5TableView information table to make text selectable and ease copy (PR #2903)
  • Fixes (PR #2881, #2902, #3083)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.colors.Colormap:

    • Added mean+/-3std autoscale mode (PR #2877, #2900)
    • Added sqrt, arcsinh and gamma correction colormap normalizations (PR #3010, #3054, #3057, #3066, #3070, #3133)
    • Limit number of threads used for computing the colormap (PR #3073)
    • Reordered colormaps (PR #3137)

  • silx.gui.dialog.ColormapDialog: Improved widget (PR #2874, #2915, #2924, #2954, #3136)

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Major rework/extension of the regions of interest (ROI) (PR #3007, #3008, #3018, #3020, #3022, #3026, #3029, #3044, #3045, #3055, #3059, #3074, #3076, #3078, #3079, #3081, #3131)

    • Major rework/extension of the profile tools (PR #2933, #2980, #2988, #3004, #3011, #3037, #3048, #3058, #3084, #3088, #3095, #3097)

    • Added silx.gui.plot.ImageStack widget (PR #2480)

    • Added support of scatter in PixelIntensitiesHistoAction (PR #3089, #3107)

    • Added auto update of FitAction fitted data and range (PR #2960, #2961, #2969, #2981)

    • Improved mask tools (PR #2986)

    • Fixed PlotWindow (PR #2965) and MaskToolsWidget (PR #3125)

    • silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget:

      • Changed behaviour of PlotWidget.addItem and PlotWidget.removeItem to handle object items (previous behavior deprecated, not removed) and added PlotWidget.addShape method to add Shape items (PR #2873, #2904, #2919, #2925, #3120)
      • Added support of uint16 RGBA images (PR #2889)
      • Improved interaction (PR #2909, #3014, #3033)
      • Fixed PlotWidget (PR #2884, #2901, #2970, #3002)
      • Fixed and cleaned-up backends (PR #2887, #2910, #2913, #2957, #2964, #2984, #2991, #3023, #3064, #3135)

    • silx.gui.plot.items:

      • Added sigDragStarted and sigDragFinished signals to marker items and sigEditingStarted and sigEditingFinished signals to region of interest items (PR #2754)
      • Added XAxisExtent and YAxisExtent items in silx.gui.plot.items to control the plot data extent (PR #2932)
      • Added ImageStack item (PR #2994)
      • Added Scatter item histogram visualization mode (PR #2912, #2923)
      • Added isDragged method to marker items (PR #3000)
      • Improved performance of colormapped items by caching data min/max (PR #2876, #2886)
      • Improved Scatter item regular grid (PR #2918) and irregular grid (PR #3108) visualizations

  • silx.gui.qt:

    • Changed behavior of QObject multiple-inheritance (PR #3052)
    • Limit silxGlobalThreadPool function to use 4 threads maximum (PR #3072)

  • silx.gui.utils.glutils: Added isOpenGLAvailable to check the availability of OpenGL (PR #2878)

  • silx.gui.widgets:

    • Added ElidedLabel widget (PR #3110, #3111)
    • Fixed LegendIconWidget (PR #3112)

• silx.io:

  • Added support of signal dataset name-based errors to NXdata (PR #2976)
  • Added dicttonx function and support of HDF5 attibutes in dicttoh5 function (PR #3013, #3017, #3031, #3093)
  • Fixed url.DataUrl.path (PR #2973)

• silx.opencl:

  • Fixed issue with Python 3.8 (PR #3036)
  • Disable textures for Nvidia Fermi GPUs for convolution (PR #3101)

• Miscellaneous:

  • Requires fabio >= 0.9 (PR #2937)
  • Fixed compatibility with h5py<v2.9 (PR #3024), cython 3 (PR #3034)
  • Avoid deprecation warnings (PR #3104) from Python 3.7 (PR #3012), Python 3.8 (PR #2891, #2934, #2989, #2993, #3127), h5py (PR #2854, #2893), matplotlib (PR #2890), fabio (PR #2930) and numpy (PR #3129)
  • Use numpy.errstate to ignore warnings rather than the warnings module (PR #2920)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Dropped Python2 support (PR #3119, #3140) and removed Python 2 tests and packaging (PR #2838, #2917)
  • Added debian 11/Ubuntu 20.04 packaging (PR #2875)
  • Improved test environment (PR #2870, #2949, #2995, #3009, #3061, #3086, #3087, #3122), documentation (PR #2872, #2894, #2937, #2987, #3042, #3053, #3068, #3091, #3103, #3115) and sample code (PR #2978, #3130, #3138)
  • Fixed Windows "fat binary" build (PR #2971)