0.13.1: 2020/07/22

Bug fix release:

• silx.gui.plot.dialog: Fixed ColormapDialog custom range input (PR #3155)
• Build: Fixed cython 3 compatibility (PR #3163).
• Documentation: Update version number and changelog (PR #3156)

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)

v0.13.0 beta 2: 09/06/2020

First release candidate of v0.13.0

https://pypi.org/project/silx/0.13.0b2/

v0.13.0 beta 1: 29/05/2020

Merge pull request #3082 from silx-kit/vallsv-patch-1

Bump version to beta 1

v0.13.0 beta 0: 21/02/2020

• silx view application:

  • Improved HDF5TableView information table to make text selectable and ease copy (PR #2903)
  • Fixed expand/collapse tree actions (PR #2881)
  • Fixed display of chunk infomation (PR #2902)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.colors.Colormap: Added mean+/-3*std autscale mode (PR #2877, #2900)

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

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

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget:

      • Renamed PlotWidget.addItem to PlotWidget.addShape to add Shape items (PR #2873)
      • Change behavior of PlotWidget.addItem and PlotWidget.removeItem to handle object items (previous behavior deprecated, not removed) (PR #2904, #2919)
      • Added pan with middle button pressed (PR #2909)
      • Fixed avoid display of offset for axis ticks (PR #2884)
      • Fixed crosshair position offset with right axis on (PR #2901)
      • Fixed image picking inconsitency between backends (PR #2913)
      • Fixed image profile window position being reset each time data is updated (PR #2933)
      • Cleaned-up backends (PR #2887, #2910)

    • 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)
      • Improved performance of colormapped items by caching data min/max (PR #2876, #2886)
      • Improved Scatter item regular grid visualization to be more resilient (PR #2918)

• Miscellaneous:

  • Requires fabio >= 0.9 (PR #2937)
  • Avoid deprecation warnings from Python 3.8 (PR #2891, #2934), h5py (PR #2854, #2893), matplotlib (PR #2890) and fabio (PR #2930)
  • Use numpy.errstate to ignore warnings rather than the warnings module (PR #2920)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Added debian 11/Ubuntu 20.04 packaging (PR #2875)
  • Removed Python 2 tests and packaging (PR #2838, #2917)
  • Improved test environement (PR #2870) and documentation (PR #2872, #2894, #2937)

v0.12.0: 09/01/2020

Python 2.7 is no longer officially supported (even if tests pass and most of the library should work).

• silx view application:

  • Added: keep the same axes selection when changing dataset except for the stack view (PR #2701, #2780)
  • Added a Description column in the browsing tree to display NeXus title or name (PR #2804)
  • Added support of URL as filename (PR #2750)
  • Behavior changed: no longer lock HDF5 files by default, can be changed with --hdf5-file-locking option (PR #2861)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Added scatter plot regular and irregular grid visualization mode (PR #2810, #2815, #2820, #2824, #2831)
    • Added baseline argument to PlotWidget addCurve and addHistogram methods (PR #2715)
    • Added right axis support to PlotWidget marker items (PR #2744)
    • Added BoundingRect PlotWidget item (PR #2823)
    • Added more markers to PlotWidget items using symbols (PR #2792)
    • Improved and fixed PlotWidget and backends rendering and picking to guarantee rendering order of items (PR #2602, #2694, #2726, #2728, #2730, #2731, #2732, #2734, #2746, #2800, #2822, #2829, #2851, #2853)
    • Improved RegionOfInterest: Added sigItemChanged signal, renamed get|setLabel to get|setName (PR #2684, #2729, #2794, #2803, #2860)
    • Improved StackView: Allow to save dataset to HDF5 (PR #2813)

  • silx.gui.plot3d:

    • Added colormapped isosurface display to ComplexField3D (PR #2675)

  • Miscellaneous:

    • Added cividis colormap (PR #2763)
    • Added silx.gui.widgets.ColormapNameComboBox widget (PR #2814)
    • Added silx.gui.widgets.LegendIconWidget widget (PR #2783)
    • Added silx.gui.utils.blockSignals context manager (PR #2697, #2702)
    • Added silx.gui.utils.qtutils.getQEventName function (PR #2725)
    • Added silx.gui.colors.asQColor function (PR #2753)
    • Minor fixes (PR #2662, #2667, #2674, #2719, #2724, #2747, #2757, #2760, #2766, #2789, #2798, #2799, #2805, #2811, #2832, #2834, #2839, #2849, #2852, #2857, #2864, #2867)

• silx.opencl:

  • Added silx.opencl.sparse.CSR with support of different data types (PR #2671)
  • Improved support of different platforms like PoCL (PR #2669, #2698, #2806)
  • Moved non-OpenCL related utilities to silx.opencl.utils module (PR #2782)
  • Fixed silx.opencl.sinofilter.SinoFilter to avoid importing scikit-cuda (PR #2721)
  • Fixed kernel garbage collection (PR #2708)
  • Fixed silx.opencl.convolution.Convolution (PR #2781)

• silx.math/silx.image:

  • Added trilinear interpolator: silx.math.interpolate.interp3d (PR #2678)
  • Added silx.image.utils.gaussian_kernel function (PR #2782)
  • Improved silx.image.shapes.Polygon argument check (PR #2761)
  • Fixed and improved silx.math.fft with FFTW backend (PR #2751)
  • Fixed support of not finite data in fit manager (PR #2868)

• silx.io:

  • Added asarray=True argument to silx.io.dictdump.h5todict function (PR #2692, #2767)
  • Improved silx.io.utils.DataUrl (PR #2790)
  • Increased max number of motors in specfile (PR #2817)
  • Fixed data conversion when reading images with fabio (PR #2735)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Added Cython as a build dependency (PR #2795, #2807, #2808)
  • Added Debian 10 packaging (PR #2670, #2672, #2666, #2686, #2706)
  • Improved documentation (PR #2673, #2680, #2679, #2772, #2759, #2779, #2801, #2802, #2833, #2857, #2869)
  • Improved testing tools (PR #2704, #2796, #2818)
  • Improved bootstrap.py script (PR #2727, #2733)

v0.12.0 release candidate 0: 16/12/2019

First release candidate for v0.12.0

v0.11.0: 03/07/2019

• Graphical user interface:

  • Plot:

    • Add sample code on how to update a plot3d widget from a thread
    • ScatterPlot: add the possibility to plot as a surface using Delaunay triangulation
    • ScatterView: add a tool button to change scatter visualization mode (ex. Solid)
    • (OpenGL backend) Fix memory leak when creating/deleting widgets in a loop

  • Plot3D:

    • Add an action to toggle plot3d's PositionInfoWidget picking.
    • Add a 3D complex field visualization: Complex3DField (also available from silx view)
    • Add a PositionInfoWidget and a tool button to toggle the picking mode to SceneWindow
    • Add the possibility to render the scene with linear fog.

  • silx.gui.widgets:

    • Fix ImageFileDialog selection for a cube with shape like 1,y,x.

• Miscellaneous:

  • Requires numpy version >= 1.12
  • HDF5 creator script
  • Support of Python 3.4 is dropped. Please upgrade to at least Python 3.5.
  • This is the last version to officially support Python 2.7.
  • The source code is Python 3.8 ready.
  • Improve PySide2 support. PyQt4 and PySide are deprecated.

v0.10.1: 14/03/2019

Bug fix release

v0.10.0: 19/02/2019

0.10.0: 2019/02/19

• Graphical user interface:

  • Plot:

  • Add support of foreground color

  • Fix plot background colors

  • Add tool to mask ellipse

  • StatsWidget:

  • Add support for plot3D widgets

  • Add a PyMca like widget

  • Colormap: Phase colormap is now editable

  • ImageView: Add ColorBarWidget

  • PrintPreview:

  • Add API to define 'comment' and 'title'

  • Fix resizing in PyQt5

  • Selection: Allow style definition

  • ColormapDialog: display 'values' plot in log if colormap uses log

  • Synchronize ColorBar with plot background colors

  • CurvesROIWidget: ROI is now an object.

  • Plot3D:

  • SceneWidget: add ColormapMesh item

  • Add compatibility with the StatsWidget to display statistic on 3D volumes.

  • Add ScalarFieldView.get|setOuterScale

  • Fix label update in param tree

  • Add ColormapMesh item to the SceneWidget

  • HDF5 tree:

  • Allow URI drop

  • Robustness of hdf5 tree with corrupted files

  • silx.gui.widgets:

  • Add URL selection table

• Input/output:

  • Support compressed Fabio extensions
  • Add a function to create external dataset for .vol file

• silx view:

  • Support 2D view for 3D NXData
  • Add a NXdata for complex images
  • Add a 3d scalar field view to the NXdata views zoo
  • Improve shortcuts, view loading
  • Improve silx view loading, shortcuts and sliders ergonomy
  • Support default attribute pointing to an NXdata at any group level

• silx convert

  • Allow to use a filter id for compression

• Math:

  • fft: multibackend fft

• OpenCL:

  • Compute statistics on a numpy.ndarray

  • Backprojection:

  • Add sinogram filters (SinoFilter)

  • Input and/or output can be device arrays.

• Miscellaneous:

  • End of PySide support (use PyQt5)
  • Last version supporting numpy 1.8.0. Next version will drop support for numpy < 1.12
  • Python 2.7 support will be dropped before end 2019. From version 0.11, a deprecation warning will be issued.
  • Remove some old deprecated methods/arguments
  • Set Cython language_level to 3