All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[IOL 1.8.0] - 2023-12-19

IOL-828: Make sure that Python packages are built using the lowest NumPy version possible, for compatibility
IOL-779: Added support for Python 3.12
IOL-792: Rework the Indexer to use byte strides
IOL-784: Removed warnings when stacking images with inconsistent calibration
IOL-782: New class for UID generation
IOL-473: Rework and clean adapter for extracting vectorial images channels
IOL-743: Added documentation about extension identifiers
IOL-377: New API to convert VariantDataValue
IOL-830: Add a fallback for the use of deprecated indexers in RegionCopier
IOL-840: Fix error with Array when shape is empty

[IOL 1.7.2] - 2023-12-11

IOL-794: Remove reference on arguments in MultiImageViewFactory.create_from_list
IOL-812: Fix some memory leaks in the Python wrapping layer
IOL-825: Add tolerance when checking spacing and directions in AdapterStack
IOL-780: Fix Python slice operator on ImageView
IOL-824: Fix encoding of strings in C# wrapping layer
IOL-531: ImageViewFactory::fromRandomAccess now raises exception

[IOL 1.7.1] - 2023-11-23

IOL-781: Fix error in ImageView.write method in Python
IOL-783: Fix AdapterStack to support MultiImageView without ViewOrigin extension
IOL-804: Added missing capabilities in Proxy adapter

[IOL 1.7.0] - 2023-09-14

IOL-798: Fix issue for the wrapping of extra-modules based on IOLink
IOL-795: Fix version of DLL in NuGet package
IOL-764: Support for buffer protocol in read and write region methods in Python
IOL-700: Optimization of reading operations concerning stack of images
IOF-775: Restore support for RHEL8, but only with C++
IOL-763: Uniformize name of ImageView properties in Python
IOL-719: Implemented MemoryAccess capability for ImageViews created from a RandomAccess which has this capability
IOL-752: Improve compatibility of NuGet package on Linux, now tested on Debian 11 and 12.
IOL-709: Make variants of read methods that return an array in Python and C#
IOL-747: In Python, uniform method can now accept different input types
IOL-725: Add support for Python 3.11 and drop support for Python 3.7
IOL-672: Miscellaneous fixes in user guide and reference manual
IOL-486: Wrap MetadataNodeHelper in Python and C#
IOL-708: Improve read/write methods in ImageView and DataFrameView in C# and Python
IOL-711: Support for any sequence were you have a vector argument in Python
IOL-732: Drop support of Ubuntu 18.04

[IOL 1.6.1] - 2023-08-31

IOL-741: Throw exception when initializing vectors with the wrong number of elements
IOL-759: Fix adapter flip for small regions
IOL-751: Better error message when a file cannot be opened
IOL-746: Better error message when giving an ImageView with the wrong capabilities to NumPy interoperability.

[IOL 1.6.0] - 2023-06-26

IOL-720: Add precision in API documentation to restrict MEMORY_ACCESS capability usage (now reserved for CPU memory only)
IOL-734: Fix missing ViewOrigin extension initialization for DataFrameView
IOL-728: Add extension to View so as to retrieve data origins
IOL-629: Add string representation for DataFrameView, and also html in Python only.

[IOL 1.5.1] - 2023-06-14

IOL-738: Relax errors when decoding unicode strings in python

[IOL 1.5.0] - 2023-05-05

IOL-698: New helper to know if 2 views have common ancestors
IOL-678: Add shortcut to set elements of data frames
IOL-648: Implement ParallelAccess extension in all ImageView implementations
IOL-687: Add an allocate method to create empty in-memory DataFrameViews
IOL-681: Add shortcuts in ImageView to ease ImageProperties access
IOL-551: Upgrade to C++14
IOL-673: Drop support for MSVC14
IOL-652: Add support for C# 6.0
IOL-695: Remove RHEL8 platform
IOL-601: New extension to ImageView to retrieve information about parallel access capabilities
IOL-718: Fixed error in internal memory region copier for fast copy.
IOL-713: Handle MULTICHANNEL image in ExtractChannel factory

[IOL 1.4.2] - 2023-04-26

IOL-699: Catch exceptions for methods of ReadOnlyMetadataNode class in Python

[IOL 1.4.1] - 2023-03-21

IOL-685: Fix Python wrapping to avoid error message when using Extensions
IOL-657: Catch exception in C# and Python if TilingInfo extension is not available
IOL-663: Exceptions in DecodeArrayX were not caught in Python and C#
IOL-670: Fixes in from_numpy inter-op methods in Python
IOL-654: Fix bug with C# streams
IOL-671: Python enums are now returned instead of anonymous integers

[IOL 1.4.0] - 2023-02-03

IOL-616: Add serialization support for ArrayX
IOL-617: DataFrameView serialization is now available
IOL-618: Add methods for Matrix serialization
IOL-557: ArrayX::toString method now displays array content (Numpy-style)
IOL-571: Add support of python 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 on Ubuntu18.04 and python 3.9, 3.10 on Ubuntu 20.04
IOL-608: Update dependencies and remove checker library from conan package
IOL-609: Upgrade boost to v1.80.0
IOL-619: Miscellaneous fixes in user guide and ref-man
IOL-630: Add dataframe cell value access
IOL-636: Fix in ImageView serialization to not repeat header twice
IOL-680: Fix wrapping issue with TilingInfoExtension::writeTile method
IOL-682: Remove Error.h include from DataFrameView.h

[IOL 1.3.2] - 2023-01-18

IOL-655: Miscellaneous fixes for public headers independency
IOL-634: Fix ImageInterpretation when ImageViewFactory::stack method is called on CHANNEL dimension
IOL-626: Fix DataFrameViewFactory input checks in Python

[IOL 1.3.1] - 2022-11-21

IOL-606: Fix problem with windows min and max macros
IOL-621: Fix problem in python wrapping which raised a warning at generation and an error in IOFormat
IOL-605: Fix in AdapterRegion and AdapterRegionPack to set interpretation to UNKNOWN if CHANNEL dimension is reduced
IOL-603: Fix extractAdjustedRegion method with 5D images

[IOL 1.3.0] - 2022-10-07

IOL-578: Add memory implementation for DataFrameView
IOL-581: Add equality operators for ArrayX
IOL-440: Possibility to convert ImageView to Numpy with dimensions reorder
IOL-524: Add support for Visual Studio 16 2019
IOL-585: Inter-operability between StreamAccess and RAW IOBase python interface
IOL-590: RegionX can now be stored in containers
IOL-580: Update Poco to release 1.12.2
IOL-594: Possibility for user to convert a Numpy into ImageView and set major properties
IOL-600: Fix data frame providers

[IOL 1.2.1] - 2022-08-09

IOL-573: Fix error in region adapters when dimension > 3
IOL-575: Fix behavior of toNumpy method in Python.

[IOL 1.2.0] - 2022-07-11

IOL-522: Add equality operators in ImageInfoProperty and SpatialCalibrationProperty
IOL-513: ImageType can now be initialized from an integer
IOL-401: Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 on Windows
IOL-529: Add missing checks on inputs, now exceptions are raised when null objects are given.
IOL-542: Make Conan package compatible with recent version of compilers
IOL-550: Remove RHEL7 from the supported platforms
IOL-530: Removed ambiguity during call to flip method in Python
IOL-566: Fix in flip method for error case
IOL-537: Python is now built using MSVC 14.0 toolkit
IOL-541: Fix warning messages when stacking
IOL-553: Added possibility to serialize ImageViews
IOL-535: Add a new extension for tiling information in ImageView instances

[IOL 1.1.1] - 2021-05-30

IOL-515: Remove cassert include from public headers
IOL-528: Enable implicit conversion for DataType.standard_range method in Python
IOL-443: Add missing documentation for Numpy interop
IOF-539: Export XML into NuGet to activate IntelliSense.
IOL-527: Fix in RandomAccessFactory::extractRegion
IOL-532: Fix ImageViewFactory.uniform method in Python
IOL-526: Fix of RandomAccess.from_buffer in Python
IOL-517: Various documentation fixes
IOL-570: Fix repr for ReadOnly MetadataNode, ImageProperties, VariantDatavalue, and for new objects

[IOL 1.1.0] - 2021-03-29

IOL-272: Add ToString methods to most common objects
IOL-482: New friendly variant of ReadRegion in C# IOLink
IOL-427: Add possibility in Python to initialize a Vector/VectorX with an iterable
IOL-450: Make capabilities more user friendly in Python
IOL-500: Add simple method in Python to read a region from an ImageView
IOL-466: Enhance MetadataNodeHelper
IOL-458: Make enum more readable in Python by using enum module
IOL-469: Make capabilities more user friendly in C#
IOL-484: Make MetadataNode implement Enumerable<T> in CSharp
IOL-505: Add 'support' method for all objects with capabilities
IOL-499: Fix the wrapping of enums in Python to use 64 bits
IOL-475: Matrix value initialization in C#
IOL-358: Python slice operator available on ImageView to extract a region
IOL-498: Fixed errors in python documentation
IOL-372: Use C# properties for more user friendly getters and setters
IOL-483: C# Factory methods now usable as extension for ImageView, MultiImageView, RandomAccess and StreamAccess
IOL-518: Fix StreamAccessBridge origin storage accessor
IOL-501: Make accessors as properties in Python
IOL-508: C++ Exceptions are intercepted in Python wrapping
IOL-502: Create readonly wrappers around const objects in C#
IOL-533: Add missing checks on inputs in NumpyInterop in Python
IOL-503: Add readonly wrappers for ImageProperties and MetadataNode in Python
IOL-523: Fix truncated DataTypeId enum in C#
IOL-546: Fix compatibility problem of conan package with 1.0.0
IOL-399: C# documentation (reference manual and user guide) is now available
IOL-525: Fix ambiguity of MultiImageViewFactory::unstack in Python
IOL-540: Fix typo in DataType::PrimitiveType method name
IOL-515: Remove cassert includes from public headers
IOL-528: Enable implicit conversion for DataType.standard_range method in Python

[IOL 1.0.1] - 2021-03-14

IOL-496: Fix problem with Uri containing queries

[IOL 1.0.0] - 2021-01-20

IOL-441: Homogenize integers in API
IOL-442: Handle copy of constant references output in Python
IOL-436: Impact of API Review on properties
IOL-453: Move Endianess converter in DataConverter class
IOL-448: Arrays API review
IOL-445: API review on Region class
IOL-456: Implementation of RegionXDivider is made private and renaming
IOL-462: Fix in RegionXDivider
IOL-446: Rework of Indexer API
IOL-455: Remove ComposedView interface
IOL-455: Error implementation made private
IOL-447: API review impact on DataType and DataTypeId
IOL-452: Changes after DataAccess API review
IOL-472: Fix an include typo in HTTPHeaders.h
IOL-454: API Review impact on Matrix
IOL-444: Changes after vector API review
IOL-432: Fixes in documentation
IOL-463: Add method to check the presence of a child in a MetadataNode
IOL-439: Remove warning about 'extend' when stacking on CHANNEL dimension
IOL-451: Wrap const references output as values in C#
IOL-459: Remove numpy limitations (not-aligned data) when exporting to ImageView
IOL-460: Remove lockers for threadsafety access to improve performance
IOL-479: Make conan package dependencies really private.
IOL-491: ImageInfoProperty passed by reference in ImageProperties constructor
IOL-514: Fix C# wrapping issues

[IOL 0.30.0] - 2021-12-16

IOL-429: Add copyright header to include files in Conan package
IOL-408: MetadataNode refactored as a class
IOL-434: Add extension system on views
IOL-437: Refactor ImageViewFactory after API Review
IOL-438: Remove optional parameters from public API
IOL-435: ImageView API changes after API review
IOL-464: Fix MetadataNode memory leaks

[IOL 0.29.0] - 2021-11-17

IOL-390: Calibration property rework to work in 3D space
IOL-295: Cross product and normalization for vectors
IOL-415: New class to create a flag system from an enum
IOL-409: ImageView refactoring for runtime capabilities
IOL-375: Reinforce DataAccess interfaces contract
IOL-411: Refactor DataAccess to make capabilities Runtime
IOL-410: MultiImageView refact for runtime capabilities
Remove an useless assert
Fix stream seeking
Enable to read from end of stream without an error
Fix StackAdapter capabilities
Fix handling of StreamAccess directors in C#

[IOL 0.28.0] - 2021-10-07

IOL-379: New factory to flip an ImageView
IOL-384: Prefix log levels by LOG
IOL-396: Fix shape computation when importing Numpy with new dimension order
IOL-395: Fix OffsetReadRandomAccess assert clause
IOL-403: Fix resourceId field of any DataAccess created through a bridge (RandomAccess <--> StreamAccess)
IOL-391: Manage the conversion of sliced numpy array into ImageView

[IOL 0.27.0] - 2021-09-09

IOL-343: Rework of Array for interoperability
IOL-383: Fix in adapters, as units were not connectly managed
IOL-386: Fix missing symbol in GCC48 of Matrix constructor
IOL-381: Add a factory to address a subset of a RandomAccess

[IOL 0.26.0] - 2021-07-22

IOL-365: New chapter about custom interface implementation in user guide
IOL-355: A checker is available for Interface implementation
IOL-364: Hide attributes of public classes
IOL-362: Uniformization of factories
IOL-373: Make disk ImageView use classical file streams
IOL-361: Rework of ImageView API
IOL-389: Add new factory to wrap a StreamAccess into standard IOStream
IOL-388: Add new factory to subSample an ImageView

[IOL 0.25.0] - 2021-06-24

IOL-346: Versioning utilities
IOL-336: Modify the function to import NumPy arrays
IOL-312: Remove converter method in ImageView factory
IOL-347: Add a chapter in user guide about DLL issues when shared between many components
IOL-334: Add support for Ubuntu 20.04 platform
IOL-356: Factory added to load an ImageView onto disk
IOL-367: Add support for writing on disassembled image views
IOL-342: New Matrix type
IOL-328: Shrink a MemoryImageView shape now reduces memory consumption

[IOL 0.24.0] - 2021-06-10

IOL-354: Fix threadsafety issues when reading a disassembled view
Fix an issue in DataType constructor
Added exceptions raised in Region/X and MemoryImageView when giving invalid arguments
Fix issue when stacking a read-only ImageView

[IOL 0.23.0] - 2021-04-29

IOL-322: Add disassembleChannels method to transform a vectorial-type ImageView into planar image ImageViewFactory::assembleChannels method can now handle the case CHANNEL dimension is not the last one
Fix in Stack method
Add a new mapped file storage.
IOL-321: Add job and packages for Python 3.7 and Python 3.8 on Windows
IOL-299: New method ImageViewFactory::allocateOnDisk to create an ImageView from a mapped file in memory.
Fix: Input properties and metadata are now cloned when creating a View.
IOL-332: Deliver C# for Rhel8 platform in IOLink Nuget
IOL-340: In python, version is available to display iolink version
Some fixes in Python User guide - code snippets
IOL-339: Add Endianness converter for samples

[IOL 0.22.1] - 2021-04-01

IOL-337: Fix the problem of View released while associated Numpy array still in use
IOL-335: Seeking over the end is now allowed for MemoryStream. The stream is automatically resized.

[IOL 0.22.0] - 2021-03-25

IOL-292: Added unit test to check public header independency
IOL-323: Rename RandomAccessProvider::toRead to RandomAccessProvider::toRandom
IOL-310: Add units in CalibrationProperties
IOL-202: Added test for C# framework v4.6.1 in CI
IOL-324: Remove support for OSX platform
IOL-330: Remove resetProperties parameter from reshape method
IOL-329: Fix behavior in MemoryRandomAccess
Replace assert by raising exception to handle user input errors
IOL-326: New method ImageViewFactory::fromImageView allowing to apply specific properties/metadata to a ReadImageView without impact on originals.

[IOL 0.21.0] - 2021-02-25

Wrap LodImageView in Python
IOL-307: New storage and accessor interfaces
IOL-319: Improve ImageView::Stack method to handle all possible cases
IOL-304: Some fixes in reference manual (missing method descriptions in StreamAccessFactory)
Exceptions now handled in the Python wrapping of ImageView
Fix Uri on Windows (file:///)

[IOL 0.20.1] - 2021-02-08

Fix output properties issues from Image factories

[IOL 0.20.0] - 2021-01-29

HTTPStorage: Set the HTTP keep-alive timeout value to 18000 seconds.
IOL-298: NympyInterop.to_numpy_array now uses Numpy convention for dimension order
IOL-287: Add a string representation for python objects
IOL-294: Possibility to create/allocate an in-memory stream
IOL-309: Dimension info properties are now impacted by unstack operation

[IOL 0.19.1] - 2021-01-14

IOL-263: Add RHEL8 support
IOL-305: Fix problem for C# framework. Native Dlls are now copied in generation folder

[IOL 0.19] - 2021-01-07

IOL-282: Python naming conventions
IOL-297: Fix RandomAccessStorage symbols export
IOL-296: Add C# comparison operators to ImageType
IOL-300: Fix C# disposing on views

[IOL 0.18] - 2020-12-03

IOL-289: Fix the calibration of the View created by ImageViewFactory::stack
IOL-273: Add new DataType interpretations for symmetric matrices.
IOL-281: Handle NumpyArrays with C-layout for conversion into ImageViews
IOL-285: Allow reinterpretOrder method to reorder existing dimensions
IOL-283: Expose publicly the method swig getCPtr() and pointer constructor
IOL-293: Avoid ImageTypeId values from being modified in C#
IOL-266: Now only one nuget is delivered for all supported platforms
IOL-284: Python user guide and refman

[IOL 0.17.1] - 2020-11-13

Fix the symbols exported, causing a problem on OSX

[IOL 0.17] - 2020-11-05

IOL-271: Reinterpret ImageType and re-order dimensions
IOL-276: Fix some miscellaneous errors in code and refman
IOL-270: Python method orderFromNumpyArray is added to reorder dimensions when importing Numpy arrays
- some improvements in Python wrapping
IOL-279: Fix a bug linked to directors and shared pointers
IOL-274: Deinterlace and unstack multi-channel images now provide ImageInterpretation as metadata

[IOL 0.16] - 2020-10-09

Fix readRegion size when reading full region from a storage view
IOL-267: Add catches clauses in C# wrapping to retreive C++ exception in C#
IOL-269: Take into account feedbacks from user about refman
IOL-261: Add way to get a MetadataNode from a path through the MetadataNodeHelper class.
IOL-268: New convert method in ImageView factory to remove or add alpha channel
IOL-259: New API to reset properties or not when reshaping a view
IOL-271: New methods in ImageFactory to reinterpret ImageType and reorder dimensions

[IOL 0.15] - 2020-09-08

IOL-262: A StreamStorage can now be loaded in memory with StreamStorageFactory method
Fix in Storage seek method
IOL-241: Make ChangeLog and API ChangeLog public in user guide
IOL-260: Added peek to IStreamStorage and a check for infinite streams in ReadRandomAccessStorageBridge

[IOL 0.14] - 2020-08-13

IOL-234: Properties MkII
IOL-250: Rework Java packaging
IOL-255: [C#] Writing into an empty memory stream was not accepted
IOL-254: Impossible to seek in the stream after reading the end of the stream.

[IOL 0.13] - 2020-07-15

IOL-245: Add a 'slice' method for Region and RegionX to quicky create slice from a region
Fix in reference manual for 'DataType'
Some fixes and improvements in User guide for properties and metadata
IOL-244: Writer interface is completed with new methods to get name and version, and to set options
IOL-236: Correct ImageInterpretations values
IOL-228: New public logging interface
IOL-232: [C#] The method ImageViewFactory.Uniform required an System.IntPtr for the value, it was not user friendly.
Added toString conversion in MetadataValueConverter
IOL-238: Added provider for LodImageView (it helps for LodImageView discrimination from view and conversion)

[IOL 0.12] - 2020-06-18

IOL-184: Add converter (MetadataValueConverter) which allows you to convert any single numerical MetadataValue to any other numerical type
Pass VectorXu64 by reference when possible, instead of by value
IOL-233: Fix invalid writing when posting data consecutively to an HTTP server.

[IOL 0.11] - 2020-05-19

IOL-182: Add Interlace method in ImageViewFactory This method allows to interlace frames from a MultiImageView into a single ImageView.