Honeychrome v0.8.0

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Honeychrome v0.8.0 Release Notes

This release contains several new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Major new features

• The two major components of AutoSpectral have been added: Control Cleaning and Autofluorescence. These (optional) enhancements of the unmixing workflow are rapidly becoming the standard tool for fixing unmixing artifacts caused by variable autofluorescence.
• tabbed plugin system: Honeychrome now automatically loads plugins from a plugins folder; two example plugins included. Note that plugins are currently only available if Honeychrome is run in the Python environment (see installation instructions), not as a precompiled executable.
• 2D plots can now be shown as dot plots coloured by gate
• debug data: Honeychrome can send error/crash data if allowed by the user. Note that no personal identifiable information is collected or sent.

PyPi release

• You can now use Honeychrome in a Python environment, simply by issuing the command: "pip install honeychrome", then run "honeychrome" from the command line

Numerous improvements, including the following

• automatic recognition of antigens and fluorophore names in the spectral model editor
• better colourmap ranges to avoid saturation
• imported FCS files can now live anywhere: if they are not in the experiment folder, a symbolic link is set up from the experiment folder, so no more broken relative paths
• build system now produces executable installers for Linux (Ubuntu > 22.04), Windows (10, 11), and MacOs (ARM). Hopefully this will now cover (almost) everyone who had trouble running the previous executables

Also numerous bug fixes.

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