.. _release0.96.0:

SpikeInterface 0.96.0 release notes
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21st October 2022


Main change:
  * Change setup.py to pyproject.toml
  * Enable loading waveform extractor without recording and with pre-existing sorting
  * Implement NpzFolder for saving Sorting object
  * Implement in-memory waveform extensions
  * Improve NEO event handling
  * Modify pyks for IBL version
  * Implement sparse PCA
  * Extend comparison to multi-segment sortings
  * Various improvements to widgets modules

core:
  * Enable loading waveform extractor without recording and with pre-existing sorting (#929 - #990)
  * Make split_sorting dumpable (#934)
  * Fix recording propagation in run_sorter_by_property (#937)
  * Add 'use_relative_path' param to WaveformExtractor.select_units() (#956)
  * Check chunk_size VS number of samples in random chunks (#959)
  * Missing values for dtype object should be None (#960)
  * UnitsAggregationSorting property inheritance (#961)
  * Implement NpzFolder for saving Sorting object (#966)
  * Remove scipy dependency from core (#980)
  * Implement in-memory waveform extensions (#981 - #1003)
  * Simplify and improve check_json() function (#1014 - #1019)

extractors:
  * Add NWBRecordingExtractor in extractorlist (#982)
  * Fix deprecation warning for HDsortSortingExtractor (#991)
  * Improve NEO event handling (#995 - #1001)
  * Don't load phy spike_templates if not necessary (#998)
  * Use proper annotation key instead of 'k' (#1017)

sorters:
  * Improve run sorter in docker and singularity containers (#938)
  * Modify pyks for IBL version (#1011)
  * Better handling of SI dev install in containers (#1013 - #1015)
  * Improvements to Circus2 pipeline (#971)

postprocessing:
  * Fix border effect for compute_spike_amplitudes (#962)
  * Implement sparse PCA (#975)
  * Protect against PCA projection on unfitted models (#983)
  * Protect solve monopolar triangulation from optimization errors (#1012)

qualitymetrics:
  * Catch errors in PC metrics (#941)

comparison:
  * Implement hybrid recordings (#944)
  * Extend comparison to multi-segment sortings (#963 - #984)

exporters:
  * Allow export_to_phy to make parent directories (#948)

widgets:
  * Sortingview backend: display in jupyter (#942)
  * Improve timeseries widgets (#945 - #1008)
  * Use segment_index=0 as default in plot_amplitudes (#964)
  * Hide diagonal in similarity plot (#968)
  * Fix labels and unit selection in widgets (#977)
  * Fix spikes_on_traces widget (#989)
  * Fix spike amplitudes and widgets tests (#996)
  * Port plot_unit_summary to the new widgets API (#999)
  * Fix order_channel_by_depth with multiple layers (#1000)
  * Fix show_legend flag in locations plots (#1005)
  * Check backend kwargs validity (#1002)
  * Sortingview metrics and unit tables fixes (#1019)
  * Add sortingview curation widget (#1023)

package:
  * Change setup.py to pyproject.toml (#986)

CI:
  * Fix ephy_testing_data cache (#993)

docs:
  * Update overview doc diagram (#940)
  * Fix doc index.html image (#1007)
  * Use correct test badge and add Twitter (remove unused Gitter) (#1016)