Release notes v2.0.0a2

Quick Overview

• Second Pre-release of the v2.0.0 version of the library.

• Added support for various new actors including Streamline, Streamtube, PeaksSlicer, Ring, Image, and more.

• Introduced new primitives and utilities for actor creation.

• Fixed various bugs and improved compatibility with existing code.

Details

GitHub stats for 2025/06/19 - 2025/08/22 (tag: v2.0.0a1)

These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.

The following 5 authors contributed 38 commits.

• Maharshi Gor

• Manish Reddy Rakasi

• Mohamed Agour

• Praneeth Shetty

• Serge Koudoro

We closed a total of 36 issues, 16 pull requests and 20 regular issues; this is the full list (generated with the script tools/github_stats.py):

Pull Requests (16):

• PR #1023: Streamtubes actor w/ multithreading and numba

• PR #1021: NF: Streamline actor introduced

• PR #1025: BF: Handle empty scene case in update camera

• PR #1024: BF: Updated the line_buffer_separator

• PR #1022: ENH: Update the odf parameters

• PR #1020: build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 in the actions group

• PR #1019: RF: update star primitive

• PR #1015: ENH: Update to use texture coordinates in surface

• PR #1018: NF: Peaks slicer introduced

• PR #1017: NF: Adding Ring Actor

• PR #1014: RF: actor.py file refractored into multiple files

• PR #1013: CI: Activate Build doc for v2 branch

• PR #1001: NF: Image Actor w/ Directions

• PR #1009: NF: Spherical Harmonics for general purpose.

• PR #1011: BF: CI fix for the keyword argument not accepted any more

• PR #1008: MTN: release preparation for v2.0.0a1

Issues (20):

• #994: NF: Streamtube Actor

• #1023: Streamtubes actor w/ multithreading and numba

• #1021: NF: Streamline actor introduced

• #1025: BF: Handle empty scene case in update camera

• #1024: BF: Updated the line_buffer_separator

• #1022: ENH: Update the odf parameters

• #1020: build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 in the actions group

• #1016: Star actor does not look symmetric from any median

• #1019: RF: update star primitive

• #1015: ENH: Update to use texture coordinates in surface

• #1018: NF: Peaks slicer introduced

• #1017: NF: Adding Ring Actor

• #1014: RF: actor.py file refractored into multiple files

• #1013: CI: Activate Build doc for v2 branch

• #1001: NF: Image Actor w/ Directions

• #1009: NF: Spherical Harmonics for general purpose.

• #1011: BF: CI fix for the keyword argument not accepted any more

• #1010: Ci fix

• #1008: MTN: release preparation for v2.0.0a1

• #1007: Rel prep 2.0.0a1