Changelog

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