v0.7.4 (May 23, 2025)

Removals, Deprecations and Changes

• Drop support for python 3.9 PR #1313
• Updated type hints to take advantage of the | operator PR #1316
• Deprecated the following ScanImage interfaces: ScanImageMultiFileImagingInterface, ScanImageMultiPlaneImagingInterface, ScanImageMultiPlaneMultiFileImagingInterface, ScanImageSinglePlaneImagingInterface, and ScanImageSinglePlaneMultiFileImagingInterface. These interfaces will be removed in or after October 2025. Use ScanImageImagingInterface for all those cases instead. PR #1330 PR #1331
• Set minimum version requirement for ndx-pose to 0.2.0 PR #1322
• Set minimum version for roiextractors as 0.5.13 PR #1339
• ndx-events is now a required dependency by spikeglx PR #1353

Bug Fixes

• Fix AudioInterface to correctly handle WAV filenames with multiple dots by validating only the last suffix. PR #1327
• Fix a stubbing bug in SpikeGLXNIDQInterface and OpenEphysBinaryAnalogInterface PR #1360

Features

• Add metadata support for DeepLabCutInterface. PR #1319
• AudioInterface Adding support for IEEE float in WAV format PR #1325
• Added a RecordingInterface for WhiteMatter ephys data PR #1297 PR #1333
• Improved ScanImageInteface to support both single and multi-file data PR #1330
• DeepDict now behaves as a python dict when printed in notebooks PR #1351
• Enable chunking for InternalVideoInterface PR #1338
• ImageSeries and TwoPhotonSeries now are chunked by default even if the data is passed as a plain array PR #1338
• Added support for 'I;16' mode in ImageInterface. This mode is mapped to GrayscaleImage in NWB PR #1365

Improvements

• Make metadata optional in NWBConverter.add_to_nwbfile PR #1309
• Add installation instructions on the documentation for neuroconv PR #1344
• Separate dailies and dev-dailies workflows PR #1343
• Added support for renaming Skeletons with DeepLabCutInterface PR #1359
• Updated default PoseEstimationSeries names in DeepLabCutInterface PR #1363
• Testing dependencies include only testing packages (.e.g pytest, pytest-cov) PR #1357
• Testing modalities now run in their separated environment to avoid sequence contamination of dependencies PR #1357