<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">Hello everyone,</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">We are very pleased to announce the new v0.24 release of MNE-Python!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/balloon.png?v=10" title=":balloon:" class="emoji" alt=":balloon:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/balloon.png?v=10" title=":balloon:" class="emoji" alt=":balloon:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/balloon.png?v=10" title=":balloon:" class="emoji" alt=":balloon:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">This release is the culmination of more than 6 months of work by 45 contributors, 13 of whom contributed for the very first time – meaning almost one third of contributors were first-timers! Thanks so much to all of you!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/pray.png?v=10" title=":pray:" class="emoji" alt=":pray:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">We are extremely excited to share all the amazing things we’ve been working on.</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="google-summer-of-code-1" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#google-summer-of-code-1" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Google Summer of Code</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">The MNE-Python team supervised three students in this year’s<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">Google Summer of Code (GSoC)</a>. We are thrilled to announce that<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>all of our students successfully finished their projects,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>greatly enhancing the MNE-Python user experience:</p><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li><a href="https://adam2392.github.io/" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">Adam Li</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>produced the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/mne-connectivity/stable/index.html" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">MNE-Connectivity</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>package for advanced connectivity analysis with MNE-Python.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/alexrockhill" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">Alex Rockhill</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>created a new GUI for the localization of intracranial electrodes on CT and MRI scans, available via<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/stable/auto_tutorials/clinical/10_ieeg_localize.html#marking-the-location-of-each-electrode-contact" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word"><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.gui.locate_ieeg()</code></a>.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/marsipu" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">Martin Schulz</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>reimagined the time-series data browser and created the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-qt-browser" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">mne-qt-browser</a>package that will redefine your experience of visual data inspection: faster, smoother, better.</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">Adam, Alex, and Martin: We had a blast working with you! Thank you for your effort, endurance, and persistence!</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="summary-of-the-most-notable-changes-2" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#summary-of-the-most-notable-changes-2" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Summary of the most notable changes</h2><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>The coregistration GUI has been rebuilt from the ground up using a state-of-the-art technology stack. It was tedious and difficult work, believe us, but it was worth it! What changes for you? The GUI should be more responsive, easier to use, and work more reliably on all platforms!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/raised_hands.png?v=10" title=":raised_hands:" class="emoji" alt=":raised_hands:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>Working with intracranial recordings? A new GUI,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.gui.locate_ieeg()</code>, helps to localize intracranial electrodes with CT and MR scans!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/brain.png?v=10" title=":brain:" class="emoji" alt=":brain:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>Ever heard of MNE reports? These single-file HTML documents can help you track an entire analysis from beginning to end, and share the results with your coworkers. With this release, reports are easier to use and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/stable/auto_tutorials/intro/70_report.html#sphx-glr-auto-tutorials-intro-70-report-py" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">looking better than ever</a>!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/star_struck.png?v=10" title=":star_struck:" class="emoji" alt=":star_struck:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>Often find yourself creating separate evokeds for the different event types in your epochs? Well, we just made your life a bit easier!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">Epochs.average()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>now has a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">by_event_type</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>parameter to automatically produce evokeds for each event type – no need to write a loop anymore!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/relieved.png?v=10" title=":relieved:" class="emoji" alt=":relieved:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>A new, modern, good-looking and fast way to visualize time-series data has been added by Martin Schulz via the new (optional)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-qt-browser" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word"><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne-qt-browser</code></a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>package. We are certain it will redefine your experience of visual data inspection in MNE-Python!</li></ul><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="our-selection-of-highlights-3" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#our-selection-of-highlights-3" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Our selection of highlights</h2><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="preprocessing-epochs-and-evokeds-4" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#preprocessing-epochs-and-evokeds-4" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Preprocessing, epochs, and evokeds</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>Acquired some data with breaks<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/coffee.png?v=10" title=":coffee:" class="emoji" alt=":coffee:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>between experimental blocks, but the recording kept on running? These breaks can now be automatically annotated via<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.preprocessing.annotate_break()</code>.</li><li>The figures produced by<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">ICA.plot_sources()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>for evoked data now use different colors and line styles to make it easier to tell components apart.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/bar_chart.png?v=10" title=":bar_chart:" class="emoji" alt=":bar_chart:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>We have added cortical signal suppression (CSS) via<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.preprocessing.cortical_signal_suppression()</code>.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/no_bell.png?v=10" title=":no_bell:" class="emoji" alt=":no_bell:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">Epochs.average()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>now has a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">by_event_type</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>parameter to generate evokeds for each event type.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/sunglasses.png?v=10" title=":sunglasses:" class="emoji" alt=":sunglasses:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>We know you missed it:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">Evoked</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>objects now have a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">get_data()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>method, just like<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">Raw</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">Epochs</code>! You’re welcome.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/pray.png?v=10" title=":pray:" class="emoji" alt=":pray:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="source-estimation-5" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#source-estimation-5" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Source estimation</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>The coregistration GUI has been rebuilt from the ground up and no longer requires Mayavi.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/hammer_and_wrench.png?v=10" title=":hammer_and_wrench:" class="emoji" alt=":hammer_and_wrench:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>We’ve added a new function,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.bem.make_scalp_surfaces()</code>, to compute the scalp surfaces required for coregistration. Previously, this could only be done on the command line.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/skull.png?v=10" title=":skull:" class="emoji" alt=":skull:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.inverse_sparse.mixed_norm</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>now supports the SURE method to automate setting of the regularization parameter.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/chart_with_upwards_trend.png?v=10" title=":chart_with_upwards_trend:" class="emoji" alt=":chart_with_upwards_trend:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="ieeg-6" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#ieeg-6" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>iEEG</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>There is a new GUI,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.gui.locate_ieeg()</code>, to locate intracranial electrode contacts from a CT and anatomical MRI scans. This is described in a<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/stable/auto_tutorials/clinical/10_ieeg_localize.html" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">new tutorial</a>.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/brain.png?v=10" title=":brain:" class="emoji" alt=":brain:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="fnirs-7" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#fnirs-7" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>fNIRS</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>Oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin data types can now be interpolated.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/drop_of_blood.png?v=10" title=":drop_of_blood:" class="emoji" alt=":drop_of_blood:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>NIRSport, NIRSport2, and data acquired with NIRx devices using Aurora software version 2021.9 can now be read.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/open_book.png?v=10" title=":open_book:" class="emoji" alt=":open_book:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="reports-8" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#reports-8" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Reports</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>We completely revamped the report experience: new HTML layout, many new methods, more flexibility! The functionality is demonstrated in the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/stable/auto_tutorials/intro/70_report.html" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">respective tutorial</a>.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/closed_book.png?v=10" title=":closed_book:" class="emoji" alt=":closed_book:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="file-io-9" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#file-io-9" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>File I/O</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>We’ve added support for exporting evoked MFF and raw EDF+ files.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/articulated_lorry.png?v=10" title=":articulated_lorry:" class="emoji" alt=":articulated_lorry:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>All functions for reading and writing files should now automatically handle<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">~</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(the tilde character) and expand it to the user’s home directory. Saves you Linux and macOS folks some typing!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/keyboard.png?v=10" title=":keyboard:" class="emoji" alt=":keyboard:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="dependencies-10" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#dependencies-10" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Dependencies</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li><a href="https://www.fatiando.org/pooch/latest/" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">pooch</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is now required to download the included datasets.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/open_file_folder.png?v=10" title=":open_file_folder:" class="emoji" alt=":open_file_folder:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="api-enhancements-changes-and-deprecations-11" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#api-enhancements-changes-and-deprecations-11" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>API enhancements, changes, and deprecations</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>All<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">get_data()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>methods now have<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">tmin</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">tmax</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>parameters to specify which time period to get. No more manual fiddling with those pesky indices!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/stopwatch.png?v=10" title=":stopwatch:" class="emoji" alt=":stopwatch:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>You should not modify the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">Info</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>object manually as this can have unexpected consequences. We’re now starting to enforce this and produce warnings if you don’t follow our advice 🥸 And in a future release of MNE-Python, these warnings will change into exceptions. So please pay attention to them! And do let us know if you need help avoiding them.</li><li>We will remove Mayavi and PySurfer 3D plotting backends in the next version.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/wastebasket.png?v=10" title=":wastebasket:" class="emoji" alt=":wastebasket:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>The<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne kit2fiff</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>GUI has been split off into the separate<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-kit-gui" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word"><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne-kit-gui</code></a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>package.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/package.png?v=10" title=":package:" class="emoji" alt=":package:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li><li>The<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne.gui.fiducials()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>GUI has been deprecated, use<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne coreg</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><code style="font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace;font-size:1em">mne_kit_gui.fiducials()</code><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>to set MRI fiducials instead.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/wastebasket.png?v=10" title=":wastebasket:" class="emoji" alt=":wastebasket:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px; height: 20px;"></li></ul><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="full-changelog-12" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#full-changelog-12" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Full changelog</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">For a full list of improvements and API changes, see the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/stable/whats_new.html#version-0-24" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">changelog</a>.</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="installing-the-new-release-13" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#installing-the-new-release-13" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Installing the new release</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">Since quite a few things – including dependencies – have changed, we recommend creating a new environment with a “fresh” installation. Please follow the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/stable/install/mne_python.html" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">installation instructions</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>on our website.</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="feedback-14" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#feedback-14" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Feedback</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">As usual, we welcome your bug reports, feature requests, critiques, and contributions. Development takes place on GitHub. If you would like to contribute, star ⭐ the project, or just take a peek at the code, visit<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">mne-tools/mne-python</a>.</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="staying-up-to-date-15" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#staying-up-to-date-15" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Staying up to date</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">You may follow us on Twitter at<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mne_news" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">@mne_news</a></p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="getting-help-16" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#getting-help-16" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Getting help</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">The<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.discourse.group/" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">MNE-Python forum</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is an excellent way to ask your questions and to share your knowledge with others. We also announce our bi-weekly<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>online office hours<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>there.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">And of course, we provide a large body of documentation, tutorials, and examples on our website,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mne.tools/" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">mne.tools</a>.</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="closing-remarks-17" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#closing-remarks-17" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Closing remarks</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">We hope you will enjoy the new features and the many, many small improvements we have added, and are looking forward to receiving your feedback.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">We will also start highlighting and demonstrating some of the new functionality in brief tutorials and video clips shortly, so be sure to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mne_news" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">follow us<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>on Twitter to not miss any of those!</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">Stay safe and take care!</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">The MNE-Python developers</p><h2 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="contributors-18" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#contributors-18" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>Contributors</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">MNE-Python is a community-driven project. We are always very happy to welcome new contributors of code and documentation! 45 people contributed to this release, and 13 of them (29%) contributed for the very first time – thank you so much for your time and effort, we truly appreciate it!</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px">This is the list of contributors, in alphabetical order.</p><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="first-time-contributors-19" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#first-time-contributors-19" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>First-time contributors</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>Darin Erat Sleiter</li><li>Dominique Makowski</li><li>Evgeny Goldstein</li><li>Jan Sosulski</li><li>John Samuelsson</li><li>Joshua Teves</li><li>Marian Dovgialo</li><li>Mathieu Scheltienne</li><li>Pierre-Antoine Bannier</li><li>Reza Shoorangiz</li><li>Romain Derollepot</li><li>Timothy Gates</li><li>Xiaokai Xia</li></ul><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin:30px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="all-other-contributors-20" class="gmail-anchor" href="https://mne.discourse.group/#all-other-contributors-20" style="text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;opacity:0"></a>All other contributors</h3><ul style="margin:1em 0px 1em 1.25em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25em;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><li>Adam Li</li><li>Alex Rockhill</li><li>Alexandre Gramfort</li><li>Britta Westner</li><li>Clemens Brunner</li><li>Daniel McCloy</li><li>David Julien</li><li>Denis A. Engemann</li><li>Eric Larson</li><li>Erica Peterson</li><li>Evan Hathaway</li><li>Fede Raimondo</li><li>Gansheng Tan</li><li>Guillaume Favelier</li><li>Hubert Banville</li><li>Jean-Remi King</li><li>Jeff Stout</li><li>Johann Benerradi</li><li>Josh Koen</li><li>Lukas Hecker</li><li>Luke Bloy</li><li>Marijn van Vliet</li><li>Martin Schulz</li><li>Mikołaj Magnuski</li><li>Richard Höchenberger</li><li>Riessarius Stargardsky</li><li>Robert Luke</li><li>Ross Maddox</li><li>Ryan Law</li><li>Stefan Appelhoff</li><li>Steve Matindi</li><li>Valerii Chirkov</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/heart.png?v=10" title=":heart:" class="emoji gmail-only-emoji" alt=":heart:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 32px; height: 32px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/heart.png?v=10" title=":heart:" class="emoji gmail-only-emoji" alt=":heart:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 32px; height: 32px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/apple/heart.png?v=10" title=":heart:" class="emoji gmail-only-emoji" alt=":heart:" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 32px; height: 32px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.008000373840332px"><br></p></div>