v2.0.0rc0

Release notes

This version of silx supports Python 3.7 to 3.12.
The silx.gui package supports PySide6, PyQt6 and PyQt5 (PySide2 is no longer supported).

⚠️ Breaking API change: silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget's add methods (i.e., addCurve, addImage, ...) returns the plot item object instance instead of its legend (#3996).

What's Changed

• Dropped python 3.6 support, Removed CI for PySide2 by @t20100 in #3712
• Port v1.1.0 PRs from 1.1 branch and bumps version to 1.2.0dev by @t20100 in #3711
• 3713 bitshuffle decompression by @kif in #3714
• Fix HDF5TableView virtual and external dataset information by @woutdenolf in #3717
• skip if h5py is too old by @kif in #3722
• Skipif on test rather than on fonction ... by @kif in #3723
• CI: Use intel-opencl-icd package by @t20100 in #3727
• Fixed support of pint >= 0.20 by @t20100 in #3725
• silx.gui.plot: Fixed reset of interaction when closing mask tool by @t20100 in #3735
• Dedicated function to parse gl version by @vallsv in #3733
• silx.gui.plot: Fixed issue when PlotWidget has a size of 0 by @t20100 in #3736
• Update rules by @kif in #3732
• silx.gui: Fixed support of PySide6.4 enums by @t20100 in #3737
• Fixed numpy, scipy, matplotlib deprecation warnings by @t20100 in #3741
• Fix histogram visibility by @vallsv in #3742
• Added pytest-mock to Debian build dependencies by @t20100 in #3740
• h5todict errors argument bug by @woutdenolf in #3749
• 3747 h5todict string issue by @woutdenolf in #3748
• Update tutorials.rst by @kif in #3765
• Fixed support of cython 3.0.0b1 by @t20100 in #3770
• [silx view] Fixed support of NXData image with 0-length axis by @t20100 in #3768
• Fixed build-deb.sh: Avoid to run Python from src/silx by @t20100 in #3772
• Update PlotWidget.py by @payno in #3773
• silx.math: Fix several function docstrings by @loichuder in #3774
• Correct numpy 1.25 deprecation warnings by @vasole in #3777
• close 3778 by @kif in #3779
• Fixed silx.io.h5py_utils.retry by @t20100 in #3775
• silx.opencl.codec : Added support of pyopencl's Buffer and Array to BitshuffleLz4.decompress by @t20100 in #3787
• silx.gui.data: Fixed issue with hdf5 attributes string formatting by @t20100 in #3790
• silx.gui.widget.UrlSelectionTable: Fixed exception with interaction, renamed get|setSelection to get|setUrlSelection by @t20100 in #3791
• launcher: Better error message by @vallsv in #3793
• silx.gui.dialog.ColormapDialog: Fixed ColormapDialog layout by @t20100 in #3792
• ioutils: Supports recursive match "**" by @vallsv in #3795
• color: Exception if vrange is not finite by @vallsv in #3794
• gui: Expose silx dnd uri by @vallsv in #3796
• silx.io.dictdump: Removed dicttoh5 overwrite_data argument by @t20100 in #3806
• This test fails on edna site with a CPU device by @kif in #3809
• Remove deprecated modules by @t20100 in #3804
• Removed features deprecated since <=0.7.0 by @t20100 in #3798
• Improve url selection by @vallsv in #3797
• Removed features deprecated from v0.8 to v0.12 by @t20100 in #3799
• silx.gui.plot.StackView: Removed setColormap autoscale argument by @t20100 in #3805
• silx.opencl.common: Remove OpenCL.create_context useFp64 argument by @t20100 in #3801
• Refactor app utils by @vallsv in #3811
• Removed features deprecated from v0.13 to v0.15 by @t20100 in #3802
• silx.gui.plot.items: Remove ImageDataAggregated all-NaN warning by @t20100 in #3786
• silx.math.colormap: Added normalize function to normalize to uint8. by @t20100 in #3785
• Remove unused imports by @t20100 in #3814
• Drop support of PySide2 by @t20100 in #3784
• silx.gui: Added a warning about pyOpenGL and Qt compatibility by @t20100 in #3738
• silx.gui.qt: Updated PySide6 loadUi function by @t20100 in #3783
• silx.gui.plot: Removed deprecated methods RegionOfInterest.get|setLabel by @t20100 in #3810
• Remove python2 support by @t20100 in #3815
• silx.opencl.backprojection: Remove deprecated fourier_filter function by @t20100 in #3816
• silx.gui.data.DataView: Removed patch for pymca <v5.3.0 support by @t20100 in #3800
• Debian12 by @kif in #3812
• Fix url with slices by @vallsv in #3821
• Urlselectiontable with 3 columns by @vallsv in #3822
• silx.io.nxdata.parser: Fixed NXdata validation by @t20100 in #3782
• silx.gui.plot: Deprecate PlotWidget's Curve and Image sequence-like access by @t20100 in #3803
• [silx compare] Create a dedicated app to compare images by @vallsv in #3788
• Polish image compare app by @vallsv in #3827
• silx.opencl.convolution: Removed Python 2 compatible code by @t20100 in #3818
• Replace OrderedDict by dict by @t20100 in #3830
• Add NXnote to the list of describable classes by @alejandrohomsp in #3832
• silx.gui.plot: Added margins argument to PlotWidget.setLimits by @t20100 in #3828
• silx.gui.plot: Fixed ImageStack handling of visible state by @t20100 in #3834
• silx.gui.plot: Fixed display of PlotWindow zoom in/out actions by @t20100 in #3837
• silx.gui.plot: Added Plotwidget.get|setDefaultColors and updated default colors behavior by @t20100 in #3835
• Removed copy of scipy's Delaunay from third_party by @t20100 in #3808
• Remove code for support of fabio<0.9 by @t20100 in #3829
• Update setup.py build configuration: Removed setup.py commands and options by @t20100 in #3831
• Documentation: Added silx.gui.plot.items.roi base classes to documentation by @t20100 in #3839
• silx.gui.colors, silx.gui.plot: Added indexed color names in rgba and PlotWidget by @t20100 in #3836
• silx.gui.dialog: Fixed ColormapDialog state when updating Item by @t20100 in #3833
• Fixed typo: 4 " quotes instead of 3. by @t20100 in #3838
• Remove C header for Python 2 on Windows compatibilty by @t20100 in #3840
• silx.third_party: Deprecated EdfFile and TiffIO by @t20100 in #3841
• Fix rgb profile by @vallsv in #3846
• silx.gui.plot.items.roi: Added RegionOfInterest's getText and setText methods by @t20100 in #3847
• Added profile to compare image by @vallsv in #3845
• silx.gui.plot: Added per-axis toggle of PlotWidget zoom by @t20100 in #3842
• CompareImage: Feature a consistent autoscale by @vallsv in #3823
• silx.gui.plot: Added per axes zoom to PlotWidget by @t20100 in #3843
• Update the curve color cycle by @vallsv in #3853
• Use linewidth2 as default selected style by @vallsv in #3854
• CompareImages: Fix the A-B visualization mode by @vallsv in #3856
• Get data without schema by @vallsv in #3859
• Use "C" prefix to identify a color from the default palette by @vallsv in #3861
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: do not reset zoom when changing axes scales by @t20100 in #3862
• silx view: Added keyboard shortcuts for open/close all by @t20100 in #3863
• compareimage: tune diff profile colors by @vallsv in #3864
• [OpenCL] atomic operation by @kif in #3855
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: do not reset zoom when changing axes scales - follow-up by @t20100 in #3869
• silx.io: Fixed small/big endian support in test by @t20100 in #3873
• ArcROI: Hide the handler instead of hidding the symbol by @vallsv in #3887
• There is no such file by @kif in #3899
• PlotWidget: Added sigBackendChanged by @vallsv in #3890
• silx.gui.plot: Fixed PlotWidget mouse cursor update by @t20100 in #3904
• Fix colormap dialog data bound by @vallsv in #3858
• Silx compare doc by @vallsv in #3884
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Fixed display of Shape with dashes and a background color by @t20100 in #3906
• silx.gui: Check Qt/pyopengl platform compatibility; silx view/compare: Use matplotlib if OpenGL is not available by @t20100 in #3905
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Added support for 'other' kind of plot items by @t20100 in #3908
• add split pseudo-voigt with split lorentzian fraction by @woutdenolf in #3902
• Build: Removed constraint on setuptools version by @t20100 in #3909
• Dependency: Replaced setuptools's pkg_resources with packaging as runtime dependency by @t20100 in #3910
• silx view: Added --slices option by @t20100 in #3860
• silx.gui: For PySide6 required version is >=6.4 by @t20100 in #3872
• Arc roi getPositionRole by @vallsv in #3894
• Added populateContextMenu to ROIs by @vallsv in #3891
• silx.opencl.common: Reworked initialisation of the module by @t20100 in #3903
• Fix: Datasets with many rows fail to load due to incorrect variable type by @carez in #3926
• Do not probe GPU interfaced with PoCL by @kif in #3924
• 3932 pyopencl ctx by @kif in #3933
• [dicttoh5] better error message for non-serializable data by @woutdenolf in #3937
• Fix order of floating point operations by @kif in #3935
• Issue #3942 - silx compare typo by @lesaintjerome in #3943
• Add typings for PlotAction by @loichuder in #3941
• io.utils.open: do not lock the file by @woutdenolf in #3939
• tools: Clean-up Python2 support code by @t20100 in #3952
• silx view: Fixed setting focus at startup when opening a dataset by @t20100 in #3953
• silx.gui.plot.tools.roi: Fixed RegionOfInterestTableWidget glitch by @t20100 in #3954
• silx view: Stopped displaying a message box for each error by @t20100 in #3955
• silx.gui.plot.items: Added Marker item font configuration; silx.config: Added DEFAULT_PLOT_MARKER_TEXT_FONT_SIZE config by @t20100 in #3956
• silx.gui.plot: Added Python typing by @t20100 in #3957
• [GUI] Histogram Action. QHoverEvent does not have attribute pos by @vasole in #3960
• gui: add WaiterOverlay. To display processing wheel on top of another widget by @payno in #3876
• silx.gui: Fixed PyQt6 support by not using deprecated qt.QPalette.Normal by @t20100 in #3966
• Fix mark-up and broken link in CONTRIBUTING by @loichuder in #3970
• Add typings for DataUrl by @loichuder in #3968
• [CI] Test latest Python 3.12 by @vasole in #3967
• silx.gui.plot3d.ParamTreeView: Fixed Qt6 support by @t20100 in #3971
• compare: Few improvements by @vallsv in #3944
• UrlList: allow removal of url from the list by @payno in #3913
• silx.gui.plot3d.ParamTreeView and silx.gui.widgets.FloatEdit: Added typing + cleanup by @t20100 in #3972
• silx.gui.plot.items.image: improve handling of data ndim and shape by @payno in #3976
• ColormapDialog: upgrade _DataInPlotMode to DisplayMode by @payno in #3964
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Use matplotlib tight layout as experimental feature by @vallsv in #3865
• silx.gui: Fixed support of OpenGL with python3.12 and pyopengl <=3.1.7 by @t20100 in #3982
• Lazy-loading of multiprocessing module by @vasole in #3979
• Get rid of h5py 3.10.0 deprecation warning by @vasole in #3980
• silx.gui.colors: Added typing by @t20100 in #3974
• silx.gui: Added support for QT_API environment variable by @t20100 in #3981
• Do not call multiprocessing module in frozen binaries by @vasole in #3984
• [CI] Test OpenGL on latest software by @vasole in #3983
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Refactored item management by @t20100 in #3986
• silx.gui.plot.tools.PositionInfo: Fixed support of dark theme by @t20100 in #3965
• silx.gui.plot: Use PlotWidget.get|setActiveScatter instead of PlotWidget._get|setActiveItem(kind="scatter"..) by @t20100 in #3987
• silx.gui.utils.image: Added support of QImage.Format_Grayscale8 to convertQImageToArray by @t20100 in #3958
• silx.gui: Fixed QMouseEvent.globalPos() not available with PyQt6 by @t20100 in #3989
• PlotWindow: add an option to get tape measure by @payno in #3959
• silx.gui.plot.tools.roi.RegionOfInterestManager: Changed interaction mode for ROI creation by @t20100 in #3978
• silx.gui.plot.items: Make highlighted RegionOfInterest take priority for interactions by @t20100 in #3975
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Added support of dashed line gap color by @t20100 in #3973
• Using black to format the code by @t20100 in #3991
• Add test for H5Node soft link to an external link bug by @woutdenolf in #3220
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Refactored management of active items by @t20100 in #3988
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Changed add* methods return value to return the item instead of its legend by @t20100 in #3996
• Doc: move to pydata sphinx theme by @payno in #3994
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidged: Fixed tick display of timeseries by @t20100 in #4000
• silx.gui.qt: Fixed PyQt6 support by @t20100 in #3999
• silx.gui.plot.items.Shape: Changed Shape.get|setLineBgColor to get|setLineGapColor by @t20100 in #4001
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Fixed line rendering with OpenGL by @t20100 in #4002
• [GUI] PyQt6 compatibility by @vasole in #4003
• FloatEdit: Added widgetResizable by @vallsv in #4006
• Added StackedProgressBar by @vallsv in #4008
• silx.gui: improved qWidgetFactory test fixture by @t20100 in #4009
• Bump to 2.0.dev by @vallsv in #4014
• Robustness on the colorbar by @vallsv in #4013
• Added background color for markers by @vallsv in #4012
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Updated plot axes tick labels behavior by @t20100 in #4007
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Improved line dash rendering for OpenGL backend by @t20100 in #4015
• Update build-deb.sh by @kif in #4022
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Added support of line style defined as (offset, (dash pattern)) by @t20100 in #4020
• Create an example to check and compare backend features by @vallsv in #4031
• Fixed mpl marker without background by @vallsv in #4028
• Improve ruler by @vallsv in #4005
• Try to use the default font from mpl by @vallsv in #4025
• remove debian10 and 11 packaging by @t20100 in #4017
• Antialiasing on opengl markers by @vallsv in #4023
• cython3 compatibility by @kif in #4033
• Update documentation by @t20100 in #4037
• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Improved text background rendering for OpenGL backend by @t20100 in #4034
• build: Updated build dependencies by @t20100 in #4035
• Updated and fixed documentation by @t20100 in #4036
• Documentation: Updated landing page by @t20100 in #4039
• silx.gui.plot: Added workaround for erroneous DPI reported by Qt by @t20100 in #4038
• Documentation: Added a link to download the Windows app by @t20100 in #4042
• Build: Fixed support of PyInstaller v6 by @t20100 in #4041
• silx.gui.dialog.ColormapDialog: Updated tests by @t20100 in #4044
• Fixed deprecation warnings by @t20100 in #4045
• Tests: Fixed test execution by @t20100 in #4043
• silx.gui.plot3d: Revert unwanted change and fixed deprecation warning by @t20100 in #4046
• silx.gui.plot and plot3d: Updated font management by @t20100 in #4047

New Contributors

• @loichuder made their first contribution in #3774
• @alejandrohomsp made their first contribution in #3832
• @carez made their first contribution in #3926
• @lesaintjerome made their first contribution in #3943

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v2.0.0rc0