v1.6.0

v1.6.0 - 2026-10-19

⛰️ Features

• (cli) Show deprecation notice - (abb3b45)
• (gui) Show deprecation banner in Launchpad - (3a5e2cf)
• Log deprecation notice on import - (1e3c4f8)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (deps) Adapt lint and tests to ruff 0.16 and typer 0.27 - (7c23819)
• (utils) Detect CLI mode for the Windows console script - (6dcd177)

🚜 Refactor

• (utils) Add root callback to prepare_cli - (48e03a6)

📚 Documentation

• (spec) Remove Docker from build chain SPEC - (61b7878)
• State maintenance-only policy - (e85ec25)
• Add deprecation banner to docs site - (52d2113)
• Add deprecation notice to README - (b86c479)
• Remove Docker distribution channel - (57eced2)
• Add "Get started with Console" user guide (#712) - (e59e8a3)
• Add "Get started with the API" developer guide (#713) - (220f30c)

🧪 Testing

• (application) Drop artifact count assertion from verbose list test - (9e0e6f1)
• (qupath) Parse stdout in QuPath inspect test - (08a9552)
• (qupath) Drop annotation count assertion from GUI e2e test - (b52c648)
• (system) Compare stdout in proxy config test - (8284373)
• Remove Docker e2e test and pytest-docker - (074c686)
• Increase deadline for submit_and_find E2E test - (5f89328)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• (claude) Remove project .claude directory and .mcp.json (#729) - (e5269bd)
• (deps) Bump oauthlib to 4.0.0 and update ATTRIBUTIONS.md - (4bc4304)
• (deps) Lock file maintenance - (09ff7b1)
• (deps) Update github actions - (17cf615)
• (tests) Bump he-tme to 2.0.0 and refresh expected results (#722) - (761205f)
• Update changelog for v1.6.0 - (c2f515e)
• Downgrade packages permission to read - (9200416)
• Stop publishing Docker images - (64b7317)
• Merge release/v1.5.0 into main - (312061b)

🛡️ Security

• Simplify Console guide and focus docs on Console, Library and API (#718) - (e3633c7)

Build

• Remove Docker image build files - (ea6d3b2)