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+# napari 0.6.6
+⚠️ *Note: these release notes are still in draft while 0.6.6 is in release candidate testing.* ⚠️
+
+*Fri, Oct 10, 2025*
+
+We're happy to announce the release of napari 0.6.6!
+napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python.
+It's designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional
+images. It's built on top of Qt (for the GUI), vispy (for performant GPU-based
+rendering), and the scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy).
+
+For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website,
+https://napari.org.
+
+napari follows [EffVer (Intended Effort Versioning)](https://effver.org/); this is a **Meso** release containing awesome new features, but some effort may be needed when updating previous projects to use this version.
+
+## Highlights
+
+This a small bugfix release, following up the changes in 0.6.5.
+
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix invisible zoom box ([#8344](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/8344))
+
+## Documentation
+
+- Add release notes for v0.6.6 ([docs#866](https://github.com/napari/docs/pull/866))
+
+## Other Pull Requests
+
+- Add a new `attr_to_settr` utility function and simplify layer control widgets layer to widget setup ([#8274](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/8274))
+- ci(dependabot): bump the actions group with 9 updates ([#8324](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/8324))
+- Delay settings import to avoid circular import ([#8327](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/8327))
+- Add info about conda forge manual trigger to release checklist ([#8328](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/8328))
+
+
+## 3 authors added to this release (alphabetical)
+
+(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳
+
+- [Daniel Althviz Moré](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=dalthviz) - @dalthviz
+- [Grzegorz Bokota](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=Czaki) - @Czaki
+- [Lorenzo Gaifas](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=brisvag) - @brisvag
+
+## 6 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)
+
+(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳
+
+- [Carol Willing](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=willingc) - @willingc
+- [Daniel Althviz Moré](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=dalthviz) - @dalthviz
+- [Grzegorz Bokota](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=Czaki) - @Czaki
+- [Lorenzo Gaifas](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=brisvag) - @brisvag
+- [Melissa Weber Mendonça](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=melissawm) - @melissawm
+- [Tim Monko](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=TimMonko) - @TimMonko