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+# v0.12.0 (Tue Feb 21 2023)
+
+#### 🚀 Enhancement
+
+- strip non-alphanumeric from session ids too [#647](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/647) ([@keithcallenberg](https://github.com/keithcallenberg) [@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+#### 🐛 Bug Fix
+
+- Docker images: tag also as "unstable", strip "v" prefix, and avoid building in non-release workflow for releases. [#642](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/642) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- add install link to README [#640](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/640) ([@asmacdo](https://github.com/asmacdo))
+- Setting git author and email in test environment [#631](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/631) ([@TheChymera](https://github.com/TheChymera))
+- Duecredit dcm2niix [#622](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/622) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- Do not issue warning if cannot parse _task entity [#621](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/621) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- Provide codespell config and workflow [#619](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/619) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- BF: Use .get in group_dicoms_into_seqinfos to not puke if SeriesDescription is missing [#622](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/622) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- DOC: do provide short version for sphinx [#609](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/609) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+#### ⚠️ Pushed to `master`
+
+- DOC: add clarification on where docs/requirements.txt should be "installed" from ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- fix minor typo ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- DOC: fixed the comment. Original was copy/pasted from DataLad ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+#### 🏠 Internal
+
+- dcm2niix explicitly noted as a (PyPI) dependency and removed from being installed via apt-get etc [#628](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/628) ([@TheChymera](https://github.com/TheChymera) [@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+#### 📝 Documentation
+
+- Reword number of intended ideas in README.rst [#639](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/639) ([@candleindark](https://github.com/candleindark))
+- Add a bash anon-cmd to be used to incrementally anonymize sids [#615](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/615) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- Reword and correct punctuation on usage.rst [#644](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/644) ([@candleindark](https://github.com/candleindark) [@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- Clarify the infotodict function [#645](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/645) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- Added distribution badges [#632](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/632) ([@TheChymera](https://github.com/TheChymera))
+- Capitalize sentences and end sentences with period [#629](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/629) ([@candleindark](https://github.com/candleindark))
+- Tune up .mailmap to harmonize Pablo, Dae and Mathias [#629](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/629) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- Add HOWTO 101 section, with references to ReproIn to README.rst [#623](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/623) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+- minor fix -- Fix use of code:: directive [#623](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/623) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+#### 🧪 Tests
+
+- Add 3.11 to be tested etc [#635](https://github.com/nipy/heudiconv/pull/635) ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+#### Authors: 5
+
+- Austin Macdonald ([@asmacdo](https://github.com/asmacdo))
+- Horea Christian ([@TheChymera](https://github.com/TheChymera))
+- Isaac To ([@candleindark](https://github.com/candleindark))
+- Keith Callenberg ([@keithcallenberg](https://github.com/keithcallenberg))
+- Yaroslav Halchenko ([@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
+
+---
+
 # v0.11.6 (Thu Nov 03 2022)
 
 #### 🏠 Internal