Changelog

FabIO-0.11.0 (01/2021):

  • New support for Esperanto image format (includes bitfield compression) read & write
  • New support for HDF5 files generated by LImA (read-only so far)
  • New support for HDF5 files generated by Bragg-sparsify (definitevely read-only)
  • Improved support for CBF: Magic bytes, headers, + other bug corrections
  • Improved supportfor Tiff: Miss interpretation of colormap tags
  • Improved support for GE files gernerated at APS
  • Improved support for Bruker100 image format (read & write)
  • Stop testing for 32-bit operating systems.
  • Support for Python versions 3.6 to 3.9
  • Linux is officially the main platform, Windows and MacOS are supported in best effort mode.

FabIO-0.10.0 (04/2020):

  • edfimage:
    • Improved robustness (PR #315)
    • Read without all restrictions of the “Klora” convention (PR #318)
    • Fixed example (PR #322)
    • Improved performances: Do not create a temporary string (PR #323)
    • Recognize a Global Header Section and using it as default (PR #328)
    • Fixed cleaning header block reading (PR #332)
    • Reading binary data from files and tests (PR #333)
    • Make magic readable (PR #339)
  • mar345image: Provide all the default file extension for mar345 (PR #354)
  • numpyimage: Fixes (PR #314, #344)
  • pixiimage: Improved file series filename parsing (PR #317)
  • tifimage: Improved TIFF via Pillow (PR #321)
  • Added support of esperanto format (PR #347, #351)
  • Fixed minor issues (PR #338) and compatibility with h5py (PR #350)
  • Improved tests (PR #320, #341, #345) and requirement.txt (PR #331)
  • Updated debian packaging (PR #324, #326), added debian11/ubuntu20.04 support (PR #355)
  • Added changelog file (PR #357)
  • Remove packagin for debian 6, 7 and 8, add support for debian11
  • Drop support for Python2 and 3.4, validated version are 3.5-3.8 on mac, win & linux

FabIO-0.9.0 (03/2019):

  • Separate the concept of FabioFrame from FabioImage
  • FileSeries are available from fabio.open_series
  • Shape and dtype are directly exposed
  • Support d*TREK format which is a superset of ADSC
  • Improve code coverage on PiXi image
  • Major refactoring of EdfImage (for better performances, padding, …)
  • Clean up TiffIO (remove tests & demo from source)
  • Improved binning handling in DM3 images, and more quiet
  • Implement deprecation warnings àla silx
  • Enhanced installation on unsupported architectures
  • Enhanced tests (spr, Fit2dSpreadsheet, Rigaku, …)
  • Tested on Python (2.7, 3.4), 3.5, 3.6 & 3.7 on mac, win & linux

FabIO-0.8.0 (10/2018):

  • Increased maximum header size for EDF (contribution from OlivierU38)
  • Fix EDF header (contribution from Yann Diorcet)
  • New explicit registry (no more metaclass)
  • Lazy iterator for EDF (useful for huge multi-frames)
  • Improved JPEG 2000 support via glymur
  • Manylinux1 wheels built against the oldest numpy possible
  • Improved debian packaging
  • clean up repository and tests
  • Fix compilation with Python 3.7, python 2.7 still works but for how long ?

FabIO-0.7.0 (06/2018):

  • Improve CBF support (support Python3, better support of loops)
  • Improve Bruker100 image detection (contribution from Tomoya Onozuka)
  • Support TIFF multi-frames
  • Improve Pilatus TIFF support (contribution from Mika Pflüger)
  • Improve support of TIFF using indexed colors
  • Support pathlib and pathlib2 as opennable paths
  • Provide a copy operator for single frame images
  • Clean up EDF image API (contribution from Yann Diorcet)
  • Fix parsing of EDF headers
  • Fix convertion from EDF to TIFF
  • Fix support of # in filenames
  • Clean up of code and documentation (including contribution from Thomas Kluyver)

FabIO-0.6.0 (01/2018):

  • Improve the EDF reader (faster for file compound by many compressed blocks).
  • Refactoring fabio_viewer to support one of installed Qt binding PySide/PyQt4/PyQt5
  • Fix closing of file descriptor in case of unsupported format
  • Fix DM3 format under Python3
  • Small clean up and fix on the documentation
  • Update Debian package scripts to support Ubuntu
  • provide dummy “register” decorator to prepare explicit registration in v0.7
  • Last version to support Python2.7 and will be supported until 2020. v0.7 will require Python3.4+

FabIO-0.5.0 (08/2017):

  • All source files are now under MIT license (re-implement PCK/packbits in Cython)
  • Context manager for fabio.open + automatic closing of file.
  • Iterator over all frames in a file.
  • Debian packaging for debian 8 and 9.
  • Use (patched-) ordered dictionaries for storing headers.
  • Many clean up and bug-fixes
  • New formats: mpa, jpeg and jpeg2000
  • Provide “convert” and “viewer” scripts in the fabio-bin debian package.

FabIO-0.4.0 (07/2016):

  • Write support for Bruker100 (contribution from Sigmund Neher)
  • Read support for Princeton instrumentation cameras (contribution from Clemens Percher)
  • Read support for FIT2D binary format
  • Read support for Eiger detector (Dectris) and generic HDF5 (partial)
  • Switch ESRF-contributed file formats to MIT license (more liberal)
  • Drop support for python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3. Supports only 2.7 and 3.4+
  • Include TiffIO into core of FabIO (no more third-party)
  • Refactor mar345 (contributed by Henri Payno)
  • Enhanced byte-offset compression using Cython
  • Move master repository to silx-kit (https://github.com/silx-kit)

FabIO-0.3.0 (12/2015):

  • Migrate to PEP8 for class names.
  • Use a factory & registry instead of fiddling in sys.modules for instance creation
  • dim1, dim2, bpp and bytecode are properties. Use their private version while reading.
  • FabioImage.header[“filename”] has disappeared. Use FabioImage.filename instead.
  • Automatic backported package down to debian-8
  • Compatibility checked with 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5
  • Continuous integration based on appveyor (windows) and travis (linux)
  • Support for numpy 2d-array and PNM saving
  • Move away from Sourceforge -> Github.

FabIO-0.2.2 (07/2015):

  • work on the auto-documentation on ReadTheDocs (see http://fabio.readthedocs.org)
  • fix regression when reading BytesIO
  • Python3 compatibility
  • prepare multiple package for debian

FabIO-0.2.1 (02/2015):

  • Fix issues with variable endianness (tested PPC, PPC64le, i386, x86-64, ARM processors)
  • Optimization of byte-offset reader (about 20% faster on some processors)

FabIO-0.2.0 (01/2015):

  • Compatibility with Python3 (tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.4)
  • Support for Mar555 flat panel
  • Optimization of CBF reader (about 2x faster)
  • include tests into installed module (and download in /tmp)

FabIO-0.1.4:

  • Work on compatibility with Python3
  • Specific debian support with test images included but no auto-generated files
  • Image viewer (fabio_viewer) based on Qt4 (Thanks for Gaël Goret)
  • Reading images from HDF5 datasets
  • Read support for “MRC” images
  • Read support for “Pixi detector (Thanks for Jon Wright)
  • Read support for “Raxis” images from Rigaku (Thanks to Brian Pauw)
  • Write support for fit2d mask images
  • Drop support for python 2.5 + Cythonization of other algorithms

FabIO-0.1.3:

  • Fixed a memory-leak in mar345 module
  • Improved support for bruker format (writer & reader)
  • Fixed a bug in EDF headers (very long headers)
  • Provide template for new file-formats
  • Fix a bug related to PIL in new MacOSX
  • Allow binary-images to be read from end

FabIO-0.1.2 (04/2013):

  • Fixed a bug in fabioimage.write (impacted all writers)
  • added Sphinx documentation “python setup.py build_doc”
  • PyLint compliance of some classes (rename, …)
  • tests from installer with “python setup.py build test”

FabIO-0.1.1:

  • Merged Mar345 image reader and writer with cython bindings (towards python3 compliance)
  • Improve CBF image writing under windows
  • Bz2, Gzip and Flat files are managed through a common way … classes are more (python v2.5) or less (python v2.7) overloaded
  • Fast EDF reading if one assumes offsets are the same between files, same for ROIs

FabIO-0.1.0:

  • OXD reader improved and writer implemented
  • Mar345 reader improved and writer implemented
  • CBF writer implemented
  • Clean-up of the code & bug fixes
  • Move towards python3
  • Make PIL optional dependency
  • Preliminary Python3 support (partial).

FabIO-0.0.8:

  • Support for Tiff using TiffIO module from V.A.Solé
  • Clean-up of the code & bug fixes

FabIO-0.0.7 (03/2011):

  • Support for multi-frames EDF files
  • Support for XML images/2D arrays used in EDNA
  • new method: fabio.open(filename) that is an alias for fabio.openimage.openimage(filename)

FabIO-0.0.6 (01/2011):

  • Support for CBF files from Pilatus detectors
  • Support for KCD files from Nonius Kappa CCD images
  • write EDF with their native data type (instead of uint16 by default)

FabIO-0.0.4 (2009):

  • Support for EDF and many other formats