silx-kit/silx: 0.14.0: 2020/12/11

This is the first version of silx supporting h5py >= v3.0.

This is the last version of silx officially supporting Python 3.5.

• silx.gui:

  • Added support for HDF5 external data (virtual and raw) (PR #3222)
  • Added lazy update handling of OpenGL textures (PR #3205)
  • Deprecated silx.gui.plot.matplotlib module (use silx.gui.utils.matplotlib instead) (PR #3158)
  • Improved memory allocation by using already defined fontMetrics instread of creating a new one (PR #3239)
  • Make TextFormatter compatible with h5py>=3 (PR #3253)

  • Fixed matplotlib 3.3.0rc1 deprecation warnings (PR #3145)

  • silx.gui.colors.Colormap:

    • Added Colormap.get|setNaNColor to change color used for NaN, fix different NaN displays for matplotlib/openGL backends (PR #3143)
    • Refactored PlotWidget OpenGL backend to enable extensions (PR #3147)
    • Fixed use of QThreadPool.tryTake to be Qt5.7 compliant (PR #3250)

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Added the feature to compute statistics inside a specific region of interest (PR #3056)
    • Added an action to switch on/off OpenGL rendering on a plot (PR #3261)
    • Added test for ROI interaction mode (PR #3283)
    • Added saving of error bars when saving a plot (PR #3199)
    • Added ImageStack.clear (PR #3167)
    • Improved image profile tool to support PlotWidget item extension (PR #3150)
    • Improved Stackview: replaced setColormap autoscale argument by scaleColormapRangeToStack method (PR #3279)
    • Updated 3 stddev autoscale algorithm, clamp it with the minmax data in order to improve the contrast (PR #3284)
    • Updated ROI module: splitted into 3 modules base/common/arc_roi (PR #3283)
    • Fixed ColormapDialog custom range input (PR #3153)
    • Fixed issue when changing ROI mode while a ROI is being created (PR #3186)
    • Fixed RegionOfInterest refresh when highlighted (PR #3197)
    • Fixed arc roi shape: make sure start and end points are part of the shape (PR #3257)

    • Fixed issue in Colormap 3 stdev autoscale mode and avoided warnings (PR #3295)

    • Major improvements of PlotWidget:

      • Added get|setAxesMargins methods to control margin ratios around plot area (PR #3196)
      • Added PlotWidget.[get|set]Backend enabling switching backend (PR #3255)
      • Added multi interaction mode for ROIs (can be switched with a single click on an handle, or the context menu) (PR #3260)
      • Added polar interaction mode for arc ROI (PR #3260)
      • Added PlotWidget.sigDefaultContextMenu to allow to feed the default context menu (PR #3260)
      • Added context menu to the selected ROI to remove it (PR #3260)
      • Added pan interaction to ROI authoring (select-draw) interaction mode (PR #3291)
      • Added support of right axis label with OpenGL backend (PR #3293)
      • Added item visible bounds feature to PlotWidget items (PR #3223)
      • Added a DataItem base class for items having a "data extent" in the plot (PR #3212)
      • Added support for float16 texture in OpenGL backend (PR #3194)
      • Improved support of high-DPI screen in OpenGL backend (PR #3203)
      • Updated: Use points rather than pixels for marker size and line width with OpenGL backend (PR #3203)
      • Updated: Expose PlotWidget colors as Qt properties (PR #3269)
      • Fixed time serie axis for range < 2.5 microseconds (PR #3195)
      • Fixed initial size of OpenGL backend (PR #3209)
      • Fixed PlotWidget image items displayed below the grid by default (PR #3235)
      • Fixed OpenGL backend image display with sqrt colormap normalization (PR #3248)
      • Fixed support of shapes with multiple polygons in the OpenGL backend (PR #3259)
      • Fixes duplicated callback on ROIs (there was one for each ROI managed created on the plot) (PR #3260)
      • Fixed RegionOfInterest contains methods (PR #3336)

  • silx.gui.colors.plot3d:

    • Improved scene rendering (PR #3149)
    • Fixed handling of transparency of cut plane (PR #3204)

• silx.image:

  • Fixed slow image.tomography.get_next_power() (PR #3168)

• silx.io:

  • Added support for HDF5 link preservation in dictdump (PR #3224)
  • Added support for numpy arrays of numbers (PR #3251)
  • Make h5todict resilient to issues in the HDF5 file (PR #3162)

• silx.math:

  • Improved colormap performances for small datasets (PR #3282)

• silx.opencl:

  • Added textures availability check (PR #3273)
  • Added a warning when there is an issue in the Ocl destruction (PR #3280)
  • Fixed Sift test on modern GPU (PR #3262)

• Miscellaneous:

  • Added HDF5 strings: handle h5py 2.x and 3.x (PR #3240)
  • Fixed cython 3 compatibility and deprecation warning (PR #3164, #3189)