v0.7.2 (April 4, 2025)

Deprecations and Changes

• Split VideoInterface (now deprecated) into ExternalVideoInterface and InternalVideoInterface PR #1251 PR #1256 #1278
• output_filepath deprecated on configure_and_write_nwbfile use nwbfile_path instead PR #1270
• Temporary set a ceiling on pydantic <2.11 PR #1275

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a check in _configure_backend on neurodata_object ndx_events.Events to work only when ndx-events==0.2.0 is used. PR #998
• Added an append_on_disk_nwbfile argumento to run_conversion. This changes the semantics of the overwrite parameter from assuming append mode when a file exists to a more conventional safe writing mode where confirmation is required to overwrite an existing file. Append mode now is controlled with the append_on_disk_nwbfile. #1256

Features

• Added SortedRecordingConverter to convert sorted recordings to NWB with correct metadata mapping between units and electrodes PR #1132
• Support roiextractors 0.5.11 PR #1236
• Added stub_test option to TDTFiberPhotometryInterface PR #1242
• Added ThorImagingInterface for Thor TIFF files with OME metadata PR #1238
• Added always_write_timestamps parameter to ExternalVideoInterface and InternalVideoInterface to force writing timestamps even when they are regular #1279

Improvements

• Filter out warnings for missing timezone information in continuous integration PR #1240
• FilePathType is deprecated, use FilePath from pydantic instead PR #1239
• Change np.NAN to np.nan to support numpy 2.0 PR #1245
• Re activate Plexon tests on Mac. Testing this for a while as they are unreliable tests #1195
• Testing: only run tests for oldest and newest versions of python #1249
• Improve error display on scan image interfaces PR #1246
• Added concurrency to live-service-testing GitHub Actions workflow to prevent simultaneous write to the dandiset. #1252
• Updated GitHub Actions workflows to use Environment Files instead of the deprecated set-output command #1259
• Propagate verbose parameter from Converters to Interfaces #1253
• Replace uses of scipy load_mat and h5storage loadmat with pymat_reader read_mat in CellExplorerSortingInterface #1254
• Added camera device support for ExternalVideoInterface and InternalVideoInterface: PR #1282