Release notes v2.0.0#
Quick Overview#
First stable release of FURY built on pygfx/wgpu, replacing the legacy VTK-based rendering pipeline.
Added a migration guide to help users transition from FURY 0.12.x to v2.0.0.
Completed the UI framework port to the v2 architecture:
TextBox2D,ComboBox2D,ListBox2D,Card2D,TabUI,ImageContainer2D,RangeSlider,LineDoubleSlider2D,RingSlider2D,PlaybackPanel, andRadio Button/Checkboxcomponents.Ported the Animation
Timeline and Camera Animationsystems from VTK to pygfx.Added new actors and features, including Network Visualization, per-instance geometry parameters for actors, and a chunked Vector Field actor for large datasets.
Revamped the FURY website with a new homepage, light/dark theming, community page, and improved documentation footer.
Added new demos and examples: Flight Simulator, Solar System Animation, and an interactive science domain showcase.
Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements across actors, UI event handling, and the documentation build pipeline.
Details#
GitHub stats for 2026/04/03 - 2026/08/03 (tag: v2.0.0a7)
These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
The following 7 authors contributed 254 commits.
Aditya Gupta
JigyasuRajput
Maharshi Gor
Medha Bhardwaj
Praneeth Shetty
Serge Koudoro
williamcancodee
We closed a total of 123 issues, 99 pull requests and 24 regular issues;
this is the full list (generated with the script
tools/github_stats.py):
Pull Requests (99):
#1302: Add migration guide for FURY 0.12.x to v2.0.0
#1316: Update pre-commit hooks
#1314: Seo optimization cherrypick
#1315: BF: backreference warning fix
#1312: Revamp FURY website
#1313: RF: Update the code to set unset env variables without needing to set…
#1310: BF: macOS glfw warning fix
#1305: NF: Porting Radio button and check box.
#1309: Update pre-commit hooks
#1308: Bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 in the actions group
#1306: BF: Fix phantom sphere in the case of imposter (billboard) Sphere.
#1299: Week 7: Rounded Rectangle Research and Website Enhancements
#1304: Update pre-commit hooks
#1297: Demo: Adding Flight Simulator
#1303: UI: Combobox expands on TextBlock clicks
#1296: Week 6: Combobox UI Component and Global Theme Integration
#1298: Update pre-commit hooks
#1295: Aligns FURY text in line with the logo
#1259: Feat: Adding UI Event Recorder
#1286: BF: Dev doc builds were not generating the examples.
#1293: Community page (both light and dark mode)
#1290: MNT: Added analyze-snapshot test cases.
#1289: NF: Polyxios Integration.
#1292: Week 5: Advancing the FURY Homepage Revamp
#1287: UI/normalize uniform color
#1291: Update pre-commit hooks
#1288: Bump actions/cache from 5 to 6 in the actions group
#1284: Adds FURY next to logo in homepage in navbar
#1282: Override Default CSS with Custom Styles to Update Doc Page Colors
#1271: Introduces Combobox
#1280: RF: Updated the package name.
#1285: BF: Fixed chipping of text.
#1281: Implements global light mode theme for internal pages (same as homepage)
#1279: Week 4: UI Components and Website Homepage Revamp
#1272: NF: Record functionality properly added.
#1278: Implements global dark mode theme for internal pages (same as homepage)
#1274: Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 in the actions group
#1277: Update pre-commit hooks
#1276: Extracts shared navbar/footer styles into fury_theme.css and scope homepage.css to home.html
#1275: Migrate images to PNG and update logo card styling
#1267: refactor: enhance homepage responsiveness and refine mobile UI components
#1266: Implement and integrate custom documentation footer
#1265: Adds community and support section to homepage
#1270: RF: Title available in show method.
#1264: Adds examples gallery and installation section to the homepage
#1263: RF: Animation Timeline 3rd part.
#1268: docs: add new examples to valid list
#1262: Add interactive science domain showcase section to homepage (light and dark mode)
#1260: Adds interactive features to homepage (both dark and light mode)
#1258: Improve copy-to-clipboard functionality with improved UI feedback and minor refactor
#1257: Week 3: Expanding UI Components and Automated GIF Recording
#1261: CI: skip deploy and cron jobs on forks
#1223: Feat: Adding Network Visualization
#1134: Ports Textbox2d to v2 architecture
#1255: Update pre-commit hooks
#1256: Implement dark mode for the homepage on top of light mode
#1254: Implement custom homepage layout with hero section and navigation overrides (light mode)
#1241: Introduces Rangeslider and LineDoubleSlider2D
#1248: Introduces ListBox2D
#1243: Add automated GIF recording support for animation examples
#1250: Introduces Card 2d
#1253: Remove legacy custom doc UI and restore default PyData Sphinx theme
#1228: Feat: Adding Demos and Examples
#1251: Week 2: Fixing Doc Build Warnings and Improving Documentation Pipeline
#1252: RF: Camera Animation Port
#1249: Update pre-commit hooks
#1246: RF: Initial Animation Port from vtk to pygfx.
#1245: BF: Fixed missing post and release notes.
#1236: Tab UI Introduced
#1239: ImageContainer2D Introduced
#1227: Feat: Adding Solar System Animation Example
#1244: Enables strict documentation builds with warnings treated as errors
#1233: Integrate Version Switcher, Add Local Docs Server and Fix Version Redirection
#1242: Week 1: Fixing Doc Build Warnings and Introducing RingSlider
#1240: Update pre-commit hooks
#1235: Week 0 Blog
#1237: Fix GL01 and address SS06 warnings (after removing as exceptions from toml)
#1234: Update pre-commit hooks
#1230: MTN: Update the master with 0.12.0 release notes
#1232: Fix: fetch_viz_icons for icomoon icons
#1225: Fix: Block UI Events to not propagate to 3D Controllers
#1164: Fix documentation build warnings
#1229: MTN: Cleanup for the v2 branch.
#1121: Ports RingSlider2D to v2 architecture
#1226: Update pre-commit hooks
#1142: UI: Adding PlaybackPanel UI
#1171: ENH: Add normalize_colors() utility for standardized color input (#1089)
#1170: ENH: Support per-instance geometry parameters for actors
#1220: Update pre-commit hooks
#1156: Fix: Panel2D crashes when used without borders (#1155)
#1101: Allow create_text to accept multiple texts and materials fixes #1012
#1215: NF: Vector Field Actor chunked based on device limits.
#1217: Update pre-commit hooks
#1219: Bump conda-incubator/setup-miniconda from 3 to 4 in the actions group
#1213: Update pre-commit hooks
#1212: Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 8.1.0 to 8.1.1 in the actions group
#1211: Update pre-commit hooks
#1181: fix(docs): Implement exponential backoff for GitHub API to resolve HTTP 429/403 crashes
#1208: REL: release prep for 2.0.0a7
Issues (24):
#1122: Re-implement UI Event Recorder and Counter
#1173: BUG: fury.testing imports distutils.version.LooseVersion, breaking tests on Python 3.12+
#1188: Documentation build issues and missing dependencies
#1247: Animation module need update
#1140: [BUG] load_image() returns wrong shape for 16-bit grayscale PNG
#1110: Port ComboBox2D Component to v2
#1084: VTK version constraint prevents installation on fresh environments
#1139: BLD: Sphinx doc build crashes on Windows due to missing encoding in apigen.py
#1109: Port TextBox2D Component to v2
#1115: Port LineDoubleSlider2D Component to v2
#1117: Port RangeSlider Component to v2
#1111: Port ListBox2D Component to v2
#1113: Port Card2D Component to v2
#1107: Port TabUI Component to v2
#1108: Port ImageContainer2D Component to v2
#1116: Port RingSlider2D Component to v2
#1221: fetch_viz_icons(): icomoon.tar.gz cannot be downloaded from UW server
#1224: UI Interactions should not interfere with 3D Scenes
#1089: Standardize Color usage throughout Codebase
#1091: Update actors to accept individual or ndarray for actor features
#1222: CI: Authentication failed for https://github.com/dipy/docs.dipy.org.git/
#1155: Panel2D Does not work without borders
#1012: Provide Multiple text into one actor.
#924: Doc Generation Error - HTTP Error 429