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SpikeInterface 0.105.1 release notes
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October 9th 2026

Minor release with bug fixes and performance improvements


core:

* Override search_cached_spikes_sorted for identity selections (#4845)
* Fix group (and other property) propagation in channel slice (#4838)
* Fix: remove ``set_times`` warning (#4834)
* Enable case omission  on ``get_unit_spike_train_in_seconds`` (#4811)
* Optimize ``SpikeRetriever`` and RAM usage for extensions (#4809)
* Fix: provenance handling in ``SortingAnalyzer`` (#4805)
* Fix: drop new_unit_ids of non-mergeable units (#4804)
* Fix: zarr pickling in ``SortingAnalyzer`` with ``try``/``except`` (#4801)
* Fix: make seed JSON serializable (#4798)
* Fix sorting times segment propagation (#4796)
* UnitSelectionSorting improvements: remove lexsort, fix bug, save memory by sharing parent cache when possible (#4783)
* Extract waveforms to zarr dataset (#4708)

extractors:

* Add ``NeuroExplorerSortingExtractor`` (#4825)
* Don't mount remote paths when running a sorter in a container (#4821)
* Build one probe per electrode group in NwbRecordingExtractor (#4820)
* Read the last spike from the unit end offsets in ``NwbSortingExtractor`` (#4819)
* Don't follow symlinks when storing extractor paths (#4812)

preprocessing:

* Fix: artifact detection crossing chunks (#4803)
* Speed up FFT phase shifts for Neuropixels recordings (#4802)
* Fix: frame slicing after resample/decimation (#4799)

sorters:

* Don't mount remote paths when running a sorter in a container (#4821)

postprocessing:

* Test empty postprocessing and metric extension outputs (#4807)
* Precompute unit-pair spatial overlap once in find_collisions (#4797)
* Avoid dense waveform allocation when exporting PC features (#4789)
* Speed up template similarity with pair-level parallelism (#4785)

curation:

* Fix: cast infinites to NaN is overflow error (#4830)

sortingcomponents:

* Speed up Wobble peak search with a linear maximum filter (#4782)

documentation:

* Fix manual split example in process_by_channel_group docs (#4846)
* Clarify PSD threshold units and recording scaling (#4808)

continuous integration:

* Drop the separate core test workflow (#4822)
* Run the tests with ``forkserver`` on Linux (#4818)

packaging:

* Support python 3.14 (#4173)

testing:

* Test empty postprocessing and metric extension outputs (#4807)

Contributors:

* @alejoe91
* @AtomicGlance
* @grahamfindlay
* @guptaishaan
* @h-mayorquin
* @JESUSROYETH
* @JoeZiminski