napari 0.5.1

⚠️ Note: these release notes are still in draft while 0.5.1 is in alpha/release candidate testing. ⚠️

Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024

We're happy to announce the release of napari 0.5.1!

napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It's designed for exploring, annotating, and analyzing multi-dimensional images. It's built on Qt (for the GUI), VisPy (for performant GPU-based rendering), and the scientific Python stack (NumPy, SciPy, and friends).

For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website: https://napari.org/

Highlights

napari 0.5.1 is a bugfix release hot on the heels of napari 0.5.0. It fixes a critical bug with creating viewers multiple times within a single IPython/Jupyter session (#7106), as well as regressions with viewing multiscale 3D time series (#7103) and with converting image layers to labels layers (#7095).

It also fixes a bug with NumPy 2 support (#7104 and our storing of layer axis info when using the channel_axis keyword argument for images (#7089).

Read on for the full list of changes since the last version from just two weeks ago!

Improvements

• [enh] add an add_plane convenience method to ClippingPlaneList (#6921)
• Cleanup _image_key_bindings (#7116)
• Add napari-plugin-manager to optional info list (#7117)

Bug Fixes

• Move the _is_created assignment to the top (#5078)
• Fix handling of units and axis_labels in add_image (#7089)
• Fix label conversion with proj mode (#7095)
• Account for displayed dimensions in multiscale translate adjustment (#7103)
• fix call of np.clip in _update_thumbnail (#7104)
• Always add Empty context key, even if action is already registered (#7106)

Documentation

• Add link to partners in README.md (#7069)
• Restore README image (#7098)
• Update docs constraints files for new napari-sphinx-theme release (#7111)
• Update Makefile to be consistent (docs#448)
• Use plausible configuration by the PyData Sphinx Theme (docs#453)
• More fixes to contributing documentation guide (docs#454)
• Add location field to community calendar (docs#455)
• Fix footer items (docs#456)
• Add docs about the new napari-base structure (docs#457)
• Add draft 0.5.1 release notes (docs#464

Other Pull Requests

• Remove ready to merge on update of constraints PR (#6984)
• Add actionlint on CI (#7049)
• fix: set target_commitish for commit sha to fix benchmarks (#7091)
• Use viewer.layers instead of _layers.model().sourceModel()._root for dummy context creation (#7109)
• Limit setuptools vesion for minimum requirements test (#7110)
• [Maint] Update dockerfile for xpra source change (#7115)
• Update version switcher to include 0.5.0 (docs#452)
• deploy docs on manual trigger (docs#462)
• Add actionlint to prevent GHA workflow errors (docs#463)

9 authors added to this release (alphabetical)

(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳

• danieldegroot2 - @danieldegroot2 +
• Draga Doncila Pop - @DragaDoncila
• Grzegorz Bokota - @Czaki
• jaime rodriguez-guerra - @jaimergp
• Juan Nunez-Iglesias (docs) - @jni
• Lorenzo Gaifas - @brisvag
• Markus Stabrin - @mstabrin
• Melissa Weber Mendonça (docs) - @melissawm
• Peter Sobolewski - @psobolewskiPhD

11 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)

(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳

• andrew sweet - @andy-sweet
• Draga Doncila Pop - @DragaDoncila
• Genevieve Buckley - @GenevieveBuckley
• Grzegorz Bokota - @Czaki
• jaime rodriguez-guerra - @jaimergp
• Juan Nunez-Iglesias (docs) - @jni
• Lorenzo Gaifas - @brisvag
• Lucy Liu - @lucyleeow
• Melissa Weber Mendonça (docs) - @melissawm
• Peter Sobolewski - @psobolewskiPhD
• Wouter-Michiel Vierdag - @melonora