Version 2021.12.0

We're pleased to announce the release of dask-image 2021.12.0!

Highlights

The major highlights of this release include the introduction of new featurees for find_objects and spline filters. We have also moved to using CalVer (calendar version numbers) to match the main Dask project.

New Features

• Find objects bounding boxes (#240)
• Add spline_filter and spline_filter1d (#215)

Improvements

• ENH: add remaining kwargs to binary_closing and binary_opening (#221)
• ndfourier: support n > 0 (for rfft) and improve performance (#222)
• affine_transform: increased shape of required input array slices (#216)

Bug Fixes

• BUG: add missing import of warnings in dask_image.ndmeasure (#224)
• Fix wrap bug in ndfilters convolve and correlate (#243)
• Upgrade for compatibility with latest dask release (#241)

Test infrastructure

• GitHub actions testing (#188)
• Set up gpuCI testing on PRs (#248)
• Remove RAPIDS_VER axis, bump CUDA_VER in gpuCI matrix (#249)

Documentation updates

• Code style cleanup (#227)
• Remove out of date email address, strip author & email (#225)
• Update release guide, Dask CalVer uses YYYY.MM.DD (#236)
• Update min python version in setup.py (#250)
• Use new Dask docs theme (#245)
• Docs: Add find_objects to the coverage table (#254)

Other Pull Requests

• Switch to CalVer (calendar versioning) (#233)

6 authors added to this release (alphabetical)

• anlavandier <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=anlavandier>_ - @anlavandier
• Charles Blackmon-Luca <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=charlesbluca>_ - @charlesbluca
• Genevieve Buckley <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=GenevieveBuckley>_ - @GenevieveBuckley
• Gregory R. Lee <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=grlee77>_ - @grlee77
• Jacob Tomlinson <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=jacobtomlinson>_ - @jacobtomlinson
• Marvin Albert <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=m-albert>_ - @m-albert

6 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)

• anlavandier <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=anlavandier>_ - @anlavandier
• Genevieve Buckley <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=GenevieveBuckley>_ - @GenevieveBuckley
• Gregory R. Lee <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=grlee77>_ - @grlee77
• Jacob Tomlinson <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=jacobtomlinson>_ - @jacobtomlinson
• jakirkham <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=jakirkham>_ - @jakirkham
• Marvin Albert <https://github.com/dask/dask-image/commits?author=m-albert>_ - @m-albert