<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear all,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are excited to announce a new public release of Diffusion Imaging in Python (DIPY).</span></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 0.11 release follows closely on the heels of the 0.10 release, resolving issues that existed in that release on the Windows 64 bit platform. New features of the 0.11 and 0.10 release cycles include many additional fixes and new frameworks. Here are some of the highlights:</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DIPY 0.11.0 (Monday, 21 February 2016):</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- New framework for contextual enhancement of ODFs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Compatibility with new version of numpy (1.11).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Compatibility with VTK 7.0 which supports Python 3.x.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Faster PIESNO for noise estimation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Reorient gradient directions according to motion correction parameters.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Supporting Python 3.3+ but not 3.2.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Reduced memory usage in DTI prediction.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- DSI now can use datasets with multiple b0s.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Fixed different issues with Windows 64bit and Python 3.5.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DIPY 0.10.1 (Friday, 4 December 2015):</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Compatibility with new versions of scipy (0.16) and numpy (1.10).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- New cleaner visualization API, including compatibility with VTK 6, and functions to create your own interactive visualizations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI): Google Summer of Code work by Rafael Henriques.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Mean Apparent Propagator (MAP) MRI for tissue microstructure estimation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Anisotropic Power Maps from spherical harmonic coefficients.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- A new framework for affine registration of images.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Detailed release notes can be found here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://dipy.org/release0.11.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://dipy.org/release0.11.html</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://dipy.org/release0.10.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://dipy.org/release0.10.html</span></a></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">T</span><a href="http://dipy.org/release0.10.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">o upgrade, run the following command in your terminal: </span></a></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">pip install --upgrade dipy</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the complete installation guide look here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://dipy.org/installation.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://dipy.org/installation.html</span></a></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For any questions go to </span><a href="http://dipy.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://dipy.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, or </span><a href="https://neurostars.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://neurostars.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or send an e-mail to </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:neuroimaging@python.org" target="_blank">neuroimaging@python.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We also have a new instant messaging service and chat room available at </span><a href="https://gitter.im/nipy/dipy" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://gitter.im/nipy/dipy</span></a></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of the DIPY developers,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eleftherios Garyfallidis & Ariel Rokem</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://dipy.org/developers.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none">http://dipy.org/developers.html</a></span></p></div>