[Neuroimaging] ANN: nibabel 2.4.1

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:10 PM Christopher Markiewicz
<markiewicz at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Just a quick announcement that nibabel has a new bug-fix release, version 2.4.1. The next anticipated release will be 2.5.0, targeted for July, and 2.5.x will be the last of the Python 2-compatible series, with bug-fix-only support through the *end* of 2020.
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> Probably the highest-impact change in 2.4.1 is that all DataobjImages accept the `mmap` keyword argument on a best-effort basis, so `nibabel.load(fname, mmap=False)` will now succeed for all but GIFTI images. Additionally, GIFTI data arrays are editable again with recent numpy, and FreeSurfer annotation files can be written more reliably.
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> For a (probably) very small set of users, the `keep_file_open` parameter and `nibabel.arrayproxy.KEEP_FILE_OPEN_DEFAULT` will now raise warnings if set to 'auto'. This was scheduled to happen at 2.4.0, but we missed it. Apologies.
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> Thanks very much to new contributors Egor Pafilov and Jath Palasubramaniam, as well as Richard Nemec and Dave Allured who helped diagnose and provide fixes to some deeply non-obvious bugs.

Great - thanks very much for this.  Thanks too, to Egor, Jath, Richard and Dave,

Cheers,

Matthew