v0.3.0

We're pleased to announce the release of dask-image 0.3.0!

Highlights

• Python 3.8 is now supported (#131)
• Support for Python 2.7 and 3.5 has been dropped (#119) (#131)
• We have a dask-image quickstart guide (#108), available from the dask examples page: https://examples.dask.org/applications/image-processing.html

New Features

• Distributed labeling has been implemented (#94)
• Area measurement function added to dask_image.ndmeasure (#115)

Improvements

• Optimize out first where in label (#102)

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix in center_of_mass to correctly handle integer input arrays (#122)
• Test float cast in _norm_args (#105)
• Handle Dask's renaming of atop to blockwise (#98)

API Changes

• Rename the input argument to image in the ndimage functions (#117)
• Rename labels in ndmeasure function arguments (#126)

Support

• Update installation instructions so conda is the preferred method (#88)
• Add Python 3.7 to Travis CI (#89)
• Add instructions for building docs with sphinx to CONTRIBUTING.rst (#90)
• Sort Python 3.7 requirements (#91)
• Use double equals for exact package versions (#92)
• Use flake8 (#93)
• Note Python 3.7 support (#95)
• Fix the Travis MacOS builds (update XCode to version 9.4 and use matplotlib 'Agg' backend) (#113)

7 authors added to this release (alphabetical)

• Amir Khalighi - @akhalighi
• Elliana May - @Mause
• Genevieve Buckley - @GenevieveBuckley
• jakirkham - @jakirkham
• Jaromir Latal - @jermenkoo
• Juan Nunez-Iglesias - @jni
• timbo8 - @timbo8

2 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)

• Genevieve Buckley - @GenevieveBuckley
• jakirkham - @jakirkham