New feature release for the 2.4.x series.

Most work on NiBabel so far has been by Matthew Brett (MB), Chris Markiewicz (CM), Michael Hanke (MH), Marc-Alexandre Côté (MC), Ben Cipollini (BC), Paul McCarthy (PM), Chris Cheng (CC), Yaroslav Halchenko (YOH), Satra Ghosh (SG), Eric Larson (EL), Demian Wassermann, and Stephan Gerhard.

2.4.0 (Monday 1 April 2019)

New features

• Alternative Axis-based interface for manipulating CIFTI-2 headers (#641) (Michiel Cottaar, reviewed by Demian Wassermann, CM, SG)

Enhancements

• Accept TCK files produced by tools with other delimiter/EOF defaults (#720) (Soichi Hayashi, reviewed by CM, MB, MC)
• Allow BrainModels or Parcels to contain a single vertex in CIFTI (#739) (Michiel Cottaar, reviewed by CM)
• Support for NIFTI_XFORM_TEMPLATE_OTHER xform code (#743) (CM)

Bug fixes

• Skip refcheck in ArraySequence construction/extension (#719) (Ariel Rokem, reviewed by CM, MC)
• Use safe resizing for ArraySequence extension (#724) (CM, reviewed by MC)
• Fix typo in error message (#726) (Jon Haitz Legarreta Gorroño, reviewed by CM)
• Support DICOM slice sorting in Python 3 (#728) (Samir Reddigari, reviewed by CM)
• Correctly reorient dim_info when reorienting NIfTI images (#744) (Konstantinos Raktivan, CM, reviewed by CM)

Maintenance

• Import updates to reduce upstream deprecation warnings (#711, #705, #738) (EL, YOH, reviewed by CM)
• Delay import of nibabel.testing, nose and mock to speed up import (#699) (CM)
• Increase coverage testing, drop coveralls (#722, #732) (CM)
• Add Zenodo metadata, sorted by commits (#732) (CM + others)
• Update author listing and copyrights (#742) (MB, reviewed by CM)