Version 1.29.0

Features

• Add redis as cache backend option (#1469)

Improvements

• Better detect available memory in containers (#1532)
• Reject the promise from a canceled annotation (#1535)
• Disallow certain names from being read by any but specific sources (#1537)
• Add the ability to specify the dtype of a multi-source file (#1542)
• Handle bounds on openslide sources to handle sparse sources (#1543)

Changes

• Log more when saving annotations (#1525)
• Thumbnail generation jobs are less blocking (#1528, #1530)

Bug Fixes

• Annotations are sometimes paged when they shouldn't be (#1529)

Version 1.28.2

Improvements

• Improve uint16 image scaling (#1511)
• Read some untiled tiffs using the tiff source (#1512)
• Speed up multi source compositing in tiled cases (#1513)
• Speed up some tifffile and multi source access cases (#1515)
• Allow specifying a minimum number of annotations elements when maxDetails is used (#1521)
• Improved import of GeoJSON annotations (#1522)

Changes

• Limit internal metadata on multi-source files with huge numbers of sources (#1514)
• Make DICOMweb assetstore imports compatible with Girder generics (#1504)

Bug Fixes

• Fix touch actions in the image viewer in some instances (#1516)
• Fix multisource dtype issues that resulted in float32 results (#1520)

Version 1.28.1

Improvements

• When writing zarr sinks through the converter, use jpeg compression for lossy data (#1501)

Changes

• Improve algorithm sweep example options (#1498)

Bug Fixes

• Guard a race condition in vips new_from_file (#1500)
• Fix cropping with the zarr sink (#1505)

Version 1.28.0

Features

• Zarr tile sink (#1446)

Improvements

• Prioritize tile sinks (#1478)
• Add a dependency to the zarr source to read more compression types (#1480)
• Guard fetching internal metadata on zarr sources that have less data (#1481)
• Add a method to list registered extensions and mimetypes (#1488)
• Reduce bioformats keeping file handles open (#1492)
• Use more tile-frame textures in high frame count images (#1494)
• Zarr tile sink: generate downsampled levels (#1490)

Changes

• Prohibit bioformats from reading zip directly (#1491)

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue with single band on multi source with non uniform sources (#1474)
• Allow alternate name axes in the multi source schema (#1476)
• Adjust default threading on tile-frame generation to match documentation (#1495)
• Fix how zarr sink directory is cleaned up (#1496)

Version 1.27.4

Improvements

• Add a guard when reading incorrect associated images (#1472)

Version 1.27.3

Improvements

• Log and recover from occasional openslide failures (#1461)
• Add support for Imaging Data Commons (#1450)
• Speed up some retiling (#1471)

Changes

• Make GDAL an optional dependency for the converter (#1464)

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue with uniform band depth on multi source with non uniform sources (#1459)
• Fix histogram request bug in band compositing mode (#1463)
• Prevent duplicating config files with multiple writes (#1467)

Version 1.27.2

Improvements

• Support range requests when downloading DICOMweb files (#1444)
• Bypass some scaling code when compositing multi sources (#1447, #1449)
• Do not create needless alpha bands in the multi source (#1451)
• Infer DICOM file size, when possible (#1448)
• Swap styles faster in the frame viewer (#1452)
• Reduce color fringing in multi source compositing (#1456)
• Retry read_region if openslide reports an error (#1457)

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue with compositing sources in the multi source caused by alpha range (#1453)

Version 1.27.1

Improvements

• Read config values from the environment variables (#1422)
• Optimizing when reading arrays rather than images from tiff files (#1423)
• Better filter DICOM adjacent files to ensure they share series instance IDs (#1424, #1436, #1442)
• Optimizing small getRegion calls and some tiff tile fetches (#1427)
• Started adding python types to the core library (#1432, #1433, #1437, #1438, #1439)
• Use parallelism in computing tile frames (#1434)
• Support downloading DICOMweb files (#1429)

Changes

• Cleanup some places where get was needlessly used (#1428)
• Moved some internal code out of the base class (#1429)
• Handle changes to wsidicom (#1435)
• Refactored the tile iterator to its own class (#1441)

Version 1.27.0

Features

• Support affine transforms in the multi-source (#1415)

Improvements

• Remove NaN values from band information (#1414)
• Add a singleBand option to the multi-source specification (#1416)
• Allow better detection of multiple file dicom (#1417)
• Better missing data detection from tifffile (#1421)

Changes

• Remove an unused parameter in a private method (#1419)

Version 1.26.3

Improvements

• Reduce stderr noise in PIL and rasterio sources (#1397)
• Harden OME tiff reader (#1398)
• Improve checks for formats we shouldn't read (#1399)
• Support negative x, y in addTile (#1401)
• Add a utility function for getting loggers (#1403)
• Get bioformats jar version if bioformats was started (#1405)
• Improve thread safety of concurrent first reads using bioformats (#1406)
• Read more metadata from DICOMweb (#1378)
• Remove logic for determining DICOMweb transfer syntax (#1393)
• Speed up tile output (#1407)
• Speed up import time (#1408)
• Speed up some tile iteration by reducing the chance of multiple image decodes (#1410)

Changes

• Use an enum for priority constants (#1400)
• Don't automatically flush memcached tile cache on exit (#1409)
• Shift where netcdf information is reported (#1413)

Bug Fixes

• Fix an issue emitting geojson annotations (#1395)
• Fix an issue when tifffile reports no key frame (#1396)
• Frame Selector: Auto-Range format for saving presets (#1404)