CHANGELOG.md

[UNRELEASED] - YYYY-MM-DD

[0.9.1] - 2024-05-13

Added

• Add option to select browser backend in settings (#415 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Prepare support for plotting raw data with MNE-Qt-Browser (#403 by Martin Schulz and Clemens Brunner)
• Fix drag and drop for PySide ≥ 6.7.0 (#422 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.9.0] - 2024-01-19

Added

• Add automatic light/dark theme switching on Windows (#398 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for importing .npy files (#213 by jgcaffari1 and Clemens Brunner)
• Add ability to import selected XDF marker streams (previously, all marker streams were automatically imported) (#395 by Clemens Brunner)

Removed

• Remove support for Python 3.8 (#396 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Correctly scale data when exporting to BrainVision (#376 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix ERDS maps plotting not working for MNE ≥ 1.1 (#382 by Jérémy Frey)

[0.8.6] - 2023-04-05

Added

• Add Python 3.11 support (#364 by Clemens Brunner)
• Support more microvolt unit abbreviations in XDF import (#365 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.8.5] - 2022-10-08

Added

• Show some keyboard shortcuts when no file is open (#350 by Clemens Brunner)
• Always show a notification when running the dev version (#351 by Clemens Brunner)
• Helpful error message when opening an unsupported file type (#360 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.8.4] - 2022-05-05

Added

• Support importing 1D arrays from .mat files (#348 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Restrict XDF marker channels to irregular sampling rate and a single channel (but arbitrary data type) (#349 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.8.3] - 2022-04-21

Fixed

• Fix XDF marker stream regression (#346 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.8.2] - 2022-04-13

Added

• Change the default cursor to a spinning wheel when the data is changed (#341 by Guillaume Favelier)

Fixed

• Fix XDF marker stream detection and loading (#345 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.8.1] - 2022-03-29

Fixed

• Fix loading of application icon (#339 by Guillaume Favelier)

[0.8.0] - 2022-03-25

Added

• Add support to select and load multiple files at once (#257 by Florian Hofer)
• Add drag and drop reordering to sidebar (#261 by Florian Hofer)
• Add support for plotting evoked potentials averaged over channels (Plot – Evoked comparison...) (#256 by Florian Hofer)
• Exceptions are now shown in an error message box instead of being silently caught (#268 by Florian Hofer)
• Add "Details" button to "Select XDF Stream" dialog (#266 by Florian Hofer)
• Add support for plotting evoked potentials for individual channels including topomaps (Plot – Evoked...) (#63 by Florian Hofer)
• Add support for plotting topomaps of evoked potentials (Plot – Evoked topomaps...) (#277 by Florian Hofer)
• Add montage name and location count to infowidget (#271 by Florian Hofer)
• Add possibility to specify match_case, match_alias, and on_missing to "Set montage..." (#271 by Florian Hofer)
• Add "Clear montage" to "Edit" menu (#271 by Florian Hofer)
• Add ability to pick channels by channel type (#285 by Florian Hofer)
• Add a settings menu (File – Settings...) (#289 by Florian Hofer)
• Add ability to import events from FIF files (#284 by Florian Hofer)
• Add support for plotting ERDS topomaps (Plot – ERDS topomaps...) (#278 by Florian Hofer)
• Add possibility to apply significance masks to ERDS plots (#279 by Florian Hofer)
• Add basic batch renaming of channels "Edit - Rename channels...") (#303 by Florian Hofer)
• Add support for loading data from .MAT files (#314 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for reading multiple XDF streams (via resampling) (#312 by Florian Hofer)
• Add app icon (#319 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add dialog to modify mapping between event IDs and labels (Edit - Events...) (#302 by Florian Hofer and Clemens Brunner)
• Add complete history for Find Events dialog (#333 by Clemens Brunner)

Changed

• Simplify rereferencing workflow (#258 by Florian Hofer)
• Move "Show information..." from toolbar to "File" menu and rename to "Show XDF metadata" (#266 by Florian Hofer and #318 by Clemens Brunner)
• Replace utils.has_location with utils.count_locations, which returns the number of locations instead of a boolean (#271 by Florian Hofer)
• Stop requiring existing annotations or events to enable editing them (#283 by Florian Hofer)
• Replace "(channels dropped)" suffix with "(channels picked)" and use pick_channels instead of drop_channels (#285 by Florian Hofer)
• The overwrite confirmation dialog is now fail-safe because it defaults to creating a new dataset (#304 by Clemens Brunner)
• Show signal length in hours, minutes, and seconds (#334 by Clemens Brunner)
• Show unique event counts if there are no more than seven unique event types in the main window (#335 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix splitting name and extension for compatibility with Python 3.8 (#252 by Johan Medrano)
• Fix exporting to BrainVision with annotations starting with "BAD" or "EDGE" (#276 by Clemens Brunner)
• Exporting to .fif.gz now uses the correct extension on macOS (#301 by Clemens Brunner)
• Round physical minima and maxima to integers in EDF export (#310 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix crop limit could exceed the signal length (#336 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.7.0] - 2021-12-29

Added

• Switch to PySide6 (#237 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add button in Append dialog that simplifies moving data between source and destination lists (#242 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add dialog (File - Show XDF chunks...) which diplays chunk information for (possibly corrupted) XDF files (#245 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix loading of XDF files that contained additional dots in their file names (#244 and #246 by Clemens Brunner)
• Improve microvolts unit detection in XDF files (#247 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.6] - 2021-11-19

Added

• Add option to use effective sampling rate when importing XDF files (#236 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add option to disambiguate markers with identical names in different marker streams with the prefix_markers parameter (#239 and #240 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix history for importing XDF files and dropping channels (#234 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.5] - 2021-11-08

Changed

• Remove support for Python 3.6 and 3.7 and add support for Python 3.10 (#233 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix EDF/BDF export of data containing stim channels (#230 by Clemens Brunner)
• Close EDF/BDF file in export (#232 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.4] - 2021-10-19

Fixed

• Remove auto-installation of PySide2 when using pip (#196 by Clemens Brunner)
• Removing annotations and events is now as fast as it should be (#206 and #207 by Clemens Brunner)
• Supported files can now be opened even if their extension is not all lower case (e.g. EDF) (#212 by Clemens Brunner)
• XDF files with missing channel units can now be imported (#225 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix export to BrainVision files for newer versions of pybv (#226 by Clemens Brunner)
• XDF files containing channels in microvolts are now correctly scaled during import (#227 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.3] - 2021-01-05

Added

• Add Python 3.9 support (#190 by Clemens Brunner)

Changed

• PySide2 installed by default if wrapped Qt bindings (PyQt5, PySide2) are not found (#187 by Guillaume Dollé)

Fixed

• Fix export functionality (#184 by Guillaume Dollé)
• Fix ICA computation in separate process (#192 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.2] - 2020-10-30

Fixed

• Include requirements-extras.txt in MANIFEST.in (by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.1] - 2020-10-30

Fixed

• Include requirements.txt in MANIFEST.in (by Clemens Brunner)

[0.6.0] - 2020-10-30

Added

• Add option to convert events to annotations (#166 by Alberto Barradas)
• Retain annotation descriptions when converting to events (#170 by Alberto Barradas and Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for basic ERDS maps (#174 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add syntax highlighting in history dialog (#179 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add copy to clipboard in history dialog (#180 by Clemens Brunner)

Changed

• Required dependencies are now listed only in one place (requirements.txt) (#172 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Show correct signal length in seconds (#168 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix export functionality (#177 by Guillaume Dollé and Clemens Brunner)

[0.5.7] - 2020-07-13

Fixed

• Include missing icons in package (#158 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.5.6] - 2020-06-12

Added

• Add support for automatic light/dark mode switching on macOS (#152 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix bug that prevented exporting data (#156 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.5.5] - 2020-06-03

Added

• Add support for appending continuous raw data (#108 by Lukas Stranger and Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for appending epoched data (#135 by Lukas Stranger)
• Add support for NIRS data and conversion to optical density and haemoglobin (#145 by Robert Luke and Clemens Brunner)

Changed

• Use QtPy to support both PyQt5 and PySide2 (#118 by Clemens Brunner)
• Remove resource file and include icons directly (#125 by Clemens Brunner)
• Improve internal logic of the ICA dialog (#136 by Lukas Stranger and Clemens Brunner)
• Remove Pebble again and use multiprocessing.Pool (#140 by Clemens Brunner)
• Require MNE ≥ 0.20 (#146 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add function utils.has_locations to determine if channel locations are available (#147 by Clemens Brunner)
• Refactor readers and writers (#148 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix loading of BrainVision files that have an extension other than .eeg (#142 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.5.3] - 2020-02-03

Added

• Add history for setting reference (#100 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add history for setting montage, switching/duplicating data sets, plot PSD, and plotting data with events (#109 by Clemens Brunner)

Changed

• Use environment markers in setup.py for install_requires (#105 by Clemens Brunner)
• Bump required minimum MNE version to 0.19 (#107 by Clemens Brunner)
• Spawn ICA process pool via Pebble instead of multiprocessing to avoid Python segfaulting on macOS conda installations (#119 by Richard Höchenberger)

Fixed

• Fix blurry icons on macOS HiDPI screens (#102 by Clemens Brunner)
• Use mne.channels.make_standard_montage instead of deprecated mne.channels.read_montage (#107 by Clemens Brunner)
• Ensure MNELAB is run using a "framework build" of Python on conda installations on macOS (#119 by Richard Höchenberger)

[0.5.2] - 2019-10-30

Fixed

• Fix multiprocessing runtime error (context has already been set) (#98 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.5.1] - 2019-10-24

Fixed

• Remove binary wheel on PyPI because of a macOS-only package dependency (#95 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.5.0] - 2019-10-23

Added

• MNELAB is now shown as an app name in the menu bar on macOS (#83 by Clemens Brunner)
• The About dialog now lists all package dependencies (#88 by Clemens Brunner)
• Added a dialog (File - Show Information) that shows XDF meta information (stream headers and footers) (#92 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fixed dropping XDF files on MNELAB and loading XDF files without channel labels (#86 by Clemens Brunner)
• Disable XDF streams of type string in selection dialog (#90 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.4.0] - 2019-09-04

Added

• Add MNELAB logo to About dialog (by Clemens Brunner)
• Export data is split into submenus with a separate entry for each supported export format (#66 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for exporting to BrainVision files (#68 and #75 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for loading .fif.gz files (#74 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for loading Neuroscan .cnt, EGI Netstation .mff, and Nexstim eXimia .nxe file formats (#77 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add support for cropping data (#78 by Clemens Brunner)

Changed

• The internally used have dictionary now contains version numbers for existing modules (#76 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Correctly report file size for BrainVision data (#69 by Clemens Brunner)
• Retain events when creating epochs (#73 by Clemens Brunner)
• Better handling of file extensions (especially when there are multiple extensions such as .fif.gz) (#74 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.3.0] - 2019-08-13

Added

• Add option to interpolate bad channels (#55 by Victor Férat)
• Add dialog to show the command history (#58 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add history when changing channel properties (e.g. bads, channel names, channel types) (#59 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add toolbar (#61 by Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Update view when all bads have been deselected in channel properties dialog (by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix visual glitch in info widget when showing error dialogs (#57 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.2.0] - 2019-07-11

Added

• Show version number in About dialog (#28 by Clemens Brunner)
• Add "Apply ICA" to Tools menu that allows users to apply a fitted ICA solution to the current dataset (#43 by Victor Férat)
• Plot raw shows the dataset name in the title (instead of "Raw data") (by Clemens Brunner)
• Add option to convert annotations to events (#50 by Clemens Brunner)
• Enable epoching of continuous data (#45 by Tanguy Vivier and Clemens Brunner)

Fixed

• Fix crash when no channel labels are present in XDF file (by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix crash when opening a file from the Recent menu that doesn't exist anymore (#37 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix crash when opening a BrainVision VHDR file where the EEG and/or VMRK file(s) are missing (#46 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix crash when dropping channels (when using MNE < 0.19) (#49 by Clemens Brunner)
• Fix crash when importing annotations (#54 by Clemens Brunner)

[0.1.0] - 2019-06-27

Added

• Initial release (by Clemens Brunner)