v0.7.0 (March 3, 2025)

Deprecations and Changes

• Interfaces and converters now have verbose=False by default PR #1153
• Added metadata and conversion_options as arguments to NWBConverter.temporally_align_data_interfaces PR #1162
• Deprecations in the ecephys pipeline: compression options, old iterator options, methods that did not end up in *to_nwbfile and the get_schema_from_method_signature function PR #1207
• Removed all deprecated functions from the roiextractors module: add_fluorescence_traces, add_background_fluorescence_traces, add_summary_images, add_segmentation, and write_segmentation #1233

Bug Fixes

• run_conversion does not longer trigger append mode when nwbfile_path points to a faulty file PR #1180
• DatasetIOConfiguration now recommends chunk_shape = (len(candidate_dataset),) for datasets with compound dtypes as used by hdmf >= 3.14.6.PR #1146
• OpenEphysBinaryRecordingInterface no longer stores analog data as an ElectricalSeries PR #1179

Features

• Added PlexonLFPInterface for converting Plexon FPl-Low Pass Filtered stream data PR #1209
• Added ImageInterface for writing large collection of images to NWB and automatically map the images to the correct NWB data types PR #1190
• Fixed AudioInterface to properly handle 24-bit WAV files by disabling memory mapping for 24-bit files PR #1226
• Use the latest version of ndx-pose for DeepLabCutInterface and LightningPoseDataInterface PR #1128
• Added a first draft of .clinerules PR #1229
• Support for pynwb 3.0 PR #1231
• Support for hdmf 4.0 PR #1204
• Support for numpy 2.0 PR #1206
• Support Spikeinterface 0.102 PR #1194

Improvements

• Simple writing no longer uses a context manager PR #1180
• Added Returns section to all getter docstrings PR #1185
• ElectricalSeries have better chunking defaults when data is passed as plain array PR #1184
• Ophys interfaces now call get_metadata by default when no metadata is passed PR #1200 and PR #1232