v0.12.0: 09/01/2020

Python 2.7 is no longer officially supported (even if tests pass and most of the library should work).

• silx view application:

  • Added: keep the same axes selection when changing dataset except for the stack view (PR #2701, #2780)
  • Added a Description column in the browsing tree to display NeXus title or name (PR #2804)
  • Added support of URL as filename (PR #2750)
  • Behavior changed: no longer lock HDF5 files by default, can be changed with --hdf5-file-locking option (PR #2861)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Added scatter plot regular and irregular grid visualization mode (PR #2810, #2815, #2820, #2824, #2831)
    • Added baseline argument to PlotWidget addCurve and addHistogram methods (PR #2715)
    • Added right axis support to PlotWidget marker items (PR #2744)
    • Added BoundingRect PlotWidget item (PR #2823)
    • Added more markers to PlotWidget items using symbols (PR #2792)
    • Improved and fixed PlotWidget and backends rendering and picking to guarantee rendering order of items (PR #2602, #2694, #2726, #2728, #2730, #2731, #2732, #2734, #2746, #2800, #2822, #2829, #2851, #2853)
    • Improved RegionOfInterest: Added sigItemChanged signal, renamed get|setLabel to get|setName (PR #2684, #2729, #2794, #2803, #2860)
    • Improved StackView: Allow to save dataset to HDF5 (PR #2813)

  • silx.gui.plot3d:

    • Added colormapped isosurface display to ComplexField3D (PR #2675)

  • Miscellaneous:

    • Added cividis colormap (PR #2763)
    • Added silx.gui.widgets.ColormapNameComboBox widget (PR #2814)
    • Added silx.gui.widgets.LegendIconWidget widget (PR #2783)
    • Added silx.gui.utils.blockSignals context manager (PR #2697, #2702)
    • Added silx.gui.utils.qtutils.getQEventName function (PR #2725)
    • Added silx.gui.colors.asQColor function (PR #2753)
    • Minor fixes (PR #2662, #2667, #2674, #2719, #2724, #2747, #2757, #2760, #2766, #2789, #2798, #2799, #2805, #2811, #2832, #2834, #2839, #2849, #2852, #2857, #2864, #2867)

• silx.opencl:

  • Added silx.opencl.sparse.CSR with support of different data types (PR #2671)
  • Improved support of different platforms like PoCL (PR #2669, #2698, #2806)
  • Moved non-OpenCL related utilities to silx.opencl.utils module (PR #2782)
  • Fixed silx.opencl.sinofilter.SinoFilter to avoid importing scikit-cuda (PR #2721)
  • Fixed kernel garbage collection (PR #2708)
  • Fixed silx.opencl.convolution.Convolution (PR #2781)

• silx.math/silx.image:

  • Added trilinear interpolator: silx.math.interpolate.interp3d (PR #2678)
  • Added silx.image.utils.gaussian_kernel function (PR #2782)
  • Improved silx.image.shapes.Polygon argument check (PR #2761)
  • Fixed and improved silx.math.fft with FFTW backend (PR #2751)
  • Fixed support of not finite data in fit manager (PR #2868)

• silx.io:

  • Added asarray=True argument to silx.io.dictdump.h5todict function (PR #2692, #2767)
  • Improved silx.io.utils.DataUrl (PR #2790)
  • Increased max number of motors in specfile (PR #2817)
  • Fixed data conversion when reading images with fabio (PR #2735)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Added Cython as a build dependency (PR #2795, #2807, #2808)
  • Added Debian 10 packaging (PR #2670, #2672, #2666, #2686, #2706)
  • Improved documentation (PR #2673, #2680, #2679, #2772, #2759, #2779, #2801, #2802, #2833, #2857, #2869)
  • Improved testing tools (PR #2704, #2796, #2818)
  • Improved bootstrap.py script (PR #2727, #2733)