Summary of changes in STIR release 5.0

This version is 95% backwards compatible with STIR 4.0 for the user (see below). Developers might need to make code changes as detailed below.

Overall summary

Of course, there is also the usual code-cleanup and improvements to the documentation.

This release contains mainly code written by Kris Thielemans (UCL) and Richard Brown (UCL).

Patch release info

Summary for end users (also to be read by developers)

Changes breaking backwards compatibility from a user-perspective

General

Python (and MATLAB)

New functionality

Changed functionality

Bug fixes

Known problems

See our issue tracker.

Documentation changes

What's new for developers (aside from what should be obvious from the above):

Backward incompatibities

New functionality

Other code changes

Build system

Test changes

recon_test_pack changes

C++ tests