v0.7.0

What's Changed

Added

• Add spatialdata-io version and reader name to attrs by @LucaMarconato in #360
• Allow overriding scale_factor in visium hd by @LucaMarconato in #394

Changed

• Xenium: cache zip store opening; vectorize cell id encoding by @LucaMarconato in #370
• Faster imports by @LucaMarconato in #373
• Improve Xenium performance, fix multinucleate cells bug by @LucaMarconato in #376
• Refactor xenium reader by @LucaMarconato in #386
• feat: add support for non-gex data in visium hd by @stephenwilliams22 in #391
• Use scanpy for reading matrixes by @cgeyskens in #292

Fixed

• Faster xenium points parsing by precomputing categories by @LucaMarconato in #363
• Faster xenium polygon parsing via ragged arrays by @LucaMarconato in #365
• Xenium avoid calling get_element_instances(); fix deprecation warning by @LucaMarconato in #369
• fix codex reader - table by @nilchia in #377
• fix visium_hd reader by @Mira-Kreuzer in #389
• Fixes #298: Repeatedly appending parent path to flatFiles by @mayank-singh-sikarwar in #305
• adjusted docstrings in steinbock reader py file by @LukasHats in #165
• Handle autofluorescence channels and pass through unknown image types by @MSHelm in #368
• Align CLI arguments with reader APIs for full parameter consistency by @Copilot in #321

New Contributors

• @nilchia made their first contribution in #377
• @Mira-Kreuzer made their first contribution in #389
• @mayank-singh-sikarwar made their first contribution in #305
• @LukasHats made their first contribution in #165
• @cgeyskens made their first contribution in #292
• @Copilot made their first contribution in #321

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0