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# Release History
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Below, you'll find details about the version history of `qim3d`.
Remember to keep your pip installation [up to date](../../index.md/#get-the-latest-version) so that you have the latest features!
### v1.0.0 (21/01/2025)
- First stable release of the library, with significant refactoring.
- Layout and organizational update for the documentation.
- Additional coverage for unit tests.
### v0.4.5 (21/11/2024)
- Updated Layer surface segmentation GUI
- Sphericity as feature from volumes
- Colorbar for visualization functions
- Chunk visualization tool
- Histogram visualization
### v0.4.4 (11/10/2024)
- Introduction of `itk-vtk-viewer` for OME-Zarr data visualization 🎉 
### v0.4.3 (02/10/2024)
- Updated requirements
- Introduction of mesh generation, visualization, saving and loading 🎉 
### v0.4.2 (30/09/2024)
- Export and import is now possible in the OME-Zarr standard, including multi-scale datasets.
- Filters now have the option to use Dask when available 
### v0.4.1 (30/07/2024)
- Fixed issue with example volumes not being loaded
### v0.4.0 (29/07/2024)
- Refactored imports to use lazy loading
- Namespace `utils` reserved for internal tools only
- All deep-learning related functions moved to `models`
- Running `pip install qim3d` does not install DL requirements. For those, use `pip install qim3d['deep-learning']`
### v0.3.9 (24/07/2024)
- Loading and saving for Zarr files
- File convertion using the CLI, including Zarr
- Refactoring for the GUIs
- Color visualization for structure tensor 
- Refactoring for synthetic data generation, from `utils` to `generate`
- Introduction of `qim3d.generate.collection` 🎉 
### v0.3.8 (20/06/2024)
- Minor refactoring and bug fixes
### v0.3.7 (17/06/2024)
- Performance improvements when importing
- Refactoring for blob detection 
### v0.3.6 (30/05/2024)
- Refactoring for performance improvement
- Welcome message for the CLI
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.fade_mask` 🎉 
### v0.3.5 (27/05/2024)
- Added runtime and memory usage in the documentation
- Introduction of `qim3d.utils.generate_volume` 🎉 
- CLI refactoring, adding welcome message to the user 
- Introduction of `preview` CLI 🎉
### v0.3.4 (22/05/2024)
- Documentation for `qim3d.viz.plot_cc`
- Fixed issue with Annotation tool and recent Gradio versions
- New colormap: `qim3d.viz.colormaps.qim`, showcasing the Qim colors!
- Object separation using `qim3d.processing.operations.watershed`
- Added option to pass `dim_order` to `vol/vgi` files
- The 'Data Explorer' GUI now can load image sequences also
- Warning in case user tries to load a file larger than available memory
- Objects colormap now can enforce a `min_dist` between neighbor colors
- It is possible to load a directory with a sequence of PIL images
- Aspect ratio issue for k3d fixed
### v0.3.3 (11/04/2024)
- Introduction of `qim3d.viz.slicer` (and also `qim3d.viz.orthogonal` ) 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.gui.annotation_tool` 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.Blob` for blob detection 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.local_thickness` 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.structure_tensor` 🎉
- Support for loading DICOM files with `qim3d.io.load`
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.get_3d_cc` for 3D connected components and `qim3d.viz.plot_cc` for associated visualization 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.viz.colormaps` for easy visualization of e.g. multi-label segmentation results 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.operations.background_removal` 🎉
- Documentation refactoring
- Fixed bug preventing `Data Explorer` to show files
### v0.3.2 (23/02/2024)
This version focus on the increased usability of the `qim3d` library
- Online documentation available at [https://platform.qim.dk/qim3d](https://platform.qim.dk/qim3d)
- Virtual stacks also available for `txm` files
- Updated GUI launch pipeline
- New functionalities for `qim3d.viz.slices_grid`
- Introduction of `qim3d.processing.filters` 🎉
- Introduction of `qim3d.viz.vol` 🎉
### v0.3.1 (01/02/2024)
Release expanding the IO functionalities
- Support for loading `vol` `nii` and `bigtiff` files
- Data loader now supports `virtual_stack`
- Save functionality for all file formats except `txm`
### v0.3.0 (23/01/2024)
- Introduction of qim3d CLI 🎉
- Introduction of memory utils 🎉
- Data Explorer GUI
- Save functionality for `tif` files
### v0.2.0 (18/09/2023)
Includes new develoments toward the usability of the library, as well as its integration with the QIM platform.
- Refactored code for the graphical interfaces
- For the local thicknes GUI, now it is possible to pass and receive numpy arrays instead of using the upload functionality.
- Improved data loader
- Now the extensions `tif`, `h5` and `txm` are supported.
- Added `qim3d.viz.slices_grid` for easy slice visualization.
- U-net model creation
- Model availabe from `qim3d.models.UNet`
- Data augmentation class at `qim3d.utils.Augmentation`
- Notebook with full pipeline at `docs/notebooks/Unet.ipynb`
- Image examples accessible from `qim3d.examples`
### v0.1.3 (17/05/2023)
First stable release.
- Simple Tiff data loader
- Graphical interfaces
- Local thickness
- 3D Isosurfaces
- Data exploration tool