0.6.2a1
Pre-release
Pre-release
napari 0.6.2
Mon, Jun 23, 2025
We're happy to announce the release of napari 0.6.2!
napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python.
It's designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional
images. It's built on top of Qt (for the GUI), vispy (for performant GPU-based
rendering), and the scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy).
For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website,
https://napari.org.
Highlights
- Qt controls for thick slicing (#6146)
- Add grid overlay (#7827)
- Grid mode using vispy ViewBox and linked cameras (#7870)
- Features table widget as builtin (#7877)
- Move napari into
src
layout (#7952) - Add public API to get access to docked widgets (#7965)
New Features
- Qt controls for thick slicing (#6146)
- Add automatic area and perimeter measurement for shapes + action (#7262)
- Add canvas color to public API (#7778)
- Add grid overlay (#7827)
- Tiling canvas overlays (#7836)
- Features table widget as builtin (#7877)
Improvements
- Allow use functions from PartSegCore-compiled-backend as numba alternative for data to texture mapping (#6617)
- Reduce warmup of numba if non numba backend is selected (#7917)
- Optional rotation handle for selection box overlay + simplify inheritance for Vispy overlays (#7958)
- Add public API to get access to docked widgets (#7965)
- Implement pasting spatial information into higher dimensions (#7973)
- Allow to use ViewerModel as annotation of plugin constructor argument (#8002)
- speedup edge width set by use
batched_updates
context manager (#8006)
Performance
- Allow use functions from PartSegCore-compiled-backend as numba alternative for data to texture mapping (#6617)
- [Shapes] Use the plural methods to update colors of all selected shapes at once (#7995)
Bug Fixes
- Fix scalebar theme connection (#7902)
- Don't add widgets to non-contributable menus (#7926)
- Fix handle mouse events (#7936)
- Fix moving of first/last vertex of polygons added in ring mode (#7942)
- Update shapes highlight on zoom (#7953)
- Fix invalidate of extent cache in Layers (#7972)
- [Points] Fix events.data_indices for ActionType.ADDED event when adding single point (#7983)
- Fix interaction box initialization (#8011)
- Fix angles not showing correctly in UI (#8013)
API Changes
- Expose force_sync context manager (#7908)
Documentation
- Add example linking the cameras of two viewers (#6881)
- Update README to use
imshow
and add example to generate image (#7989) - Update version switcher for 0.6.1 (docs#713)
- Update contributing docs page (docs#715)
- Update code of conduct committee members (docs#716)
- Add initial documentation about widget communication (docs#721)
- Update installation.md to link to conda getting started not miniconda (docs#726)
- Update governance docs (docs#729)
- Initial release notes for alpha of 0.6.2 (docs#734)
Other Pull Requests
- Layer controls widgets refactor (#7355)
- Add codespell support (config, workflow to detect/not fix) and make it fix few typos (#7619)
- Add docs constraints for python 3.12 (#7714)
- Include Qt PyPI server for pre-releases (#7803)
- Refactor layer overlays visuals from VispyLayer to VispyCanvas (#7835)
- Use information about units when calculate scale of layers when render (#7889)
- Add cron check to update reader extensions (#7907)
- Update
dask
,hypothesis
,numpy
,tensorstore
,vispy
(#7948) - Move export ROI implementation into qt_viewer (#7950)
- [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#7951)
- Add cron check to update reader extensions v2 (#7957)
- Restore image in Readme (#7959)
- Add cron check to update reader extensions v3 (#7966)
- Update
coverage
,dask
,fsspec
,hypothesis
,pydantic
,tifffile
,vispy
(#7967) - fix vendored script and trigger workflow on pull_request (#7968)
- [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#7970)
- Remove
layers_change
event that is marked to be removed in 0.5.0 (#7971) - [maintenance] Use Wandalen/wretry.action to auto-retry fail in --pre tests (#7986)
- Update
hypothesis
,ipython
,jsonschema
,tifffile
(#7987) - [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#7988)
- Stop status thread on Keyboard Interruption (Ctrl+C) (#7994)
- Update
hypothesis
,magicgui
,pandas
,pyqt6
,pytest
,pytest-pretty
(#8000) - Update pyproject.toml to fix coverage paths (alt) (#8001)
- [Maintenance] Remove redundant initialization in Points layer and restructure for clarity (#8005)
- Update[shortcuts]: add Ctrl/Cmd-A as secondary keybinding for select_all_shapes (#8015)
- Fix comment and manual dispatch triggered build jobs (docs#723)
10 authors added to this release (alphabetical)
(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳
- Draga Doncila Pop (docs) - @DragaDoncila
- Grzegorz Bokota (docs) - @Czaki
- Jacopo Abramo - @jacopoabramo +
- Juan Nunez-Iglesias - @jni
- Lorenzo Gaifas - @brisvag
- Maximilian Mayrhauser - @Llewi +
- Melissa Weber Mendonça - @melissawm
- Peter Sobolewski (docs) - @psobolewskiPhD
- Rahul Kumar - @rahul713rk +
- Tim Monko (docs) - @TimMonko
13 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)
(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳
- Ashley Anderson - @aganders3
- Carol Willing - @willingc
- Daniel Althviz Moré - @dalthviz
- Draga Doncila Pop (docs) - @DragaDoncila
- Grzegorz Bokota (docs) - @Czaki
- Jacopo Abramo - @jacopoabramo +
- Juan Nunez-Iglesias - @jni
- Lorenzo Gaifas - @brisvag
- Melissa Weber Mendonça - @melissawm
- Peter Sobolewski (docs) - @psobolewskiPhD
- Tim Monko (docs) - @TimMonko
- Wouter-Michiel Vierdag - @melonora
- Yaroslav Halchenko - @yarikoptic