[Neuroimaging] Announcing Nibabel 2.5.0

[Matthew Brett]

Hi Chris,

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:06 PM Christopher Markiewicz
<markiewicz at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Nibabel 2.5.0 is out, and with it, we'll be beginning our transition away from Python 2. The 2.5.x series will have extended bug-fix-only support for Python 2.7 (and probably 3.4, in passing) through the end of 2020, while Nibabel 3+ will require Python 3.5+.
>
> This release also sees a number of API changes that have been threatened in FutureWarnings and DeprecationWarnings for a while, so if you've been ignoring them, expect some minor breakage, and hopefully some other warnings will be getting louder. Nibabel 3 will be seeing the first round of significant removals, so there will be a 1-month minimum release candidate period there.
>
> The most interesting new feature is to_bytes/from_bytes methods for some single-image formats, which should make passing images around networked applications much less fiddly.
>
> Moving forward, I'm strongly considering replacing the current versioning scheme with Versioneer, which will basically normalize the non-release versions to PEP-440 compatible version strings and drop our custom githash code. I recently wrote my overall strategy up as a gist. If you have concerns with this move, please email me or open an issue (or wait on the PR).

Many thanks for doing the release,

Cheers,

Matthew