Bug fix release for the 2.5.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.

References like "pr/298" refer to github pull request numbers.

2.5.1 (Monday 23 September 2019)

The 2.5.x series is the last with support for either Python 2 or Python 3.4. Extended support for this series 2.5 will last through December 2020.

Enhancements

• Ignore endianness in nib-diff if values match (pr/799) (YOH, reviewed by CM)

Bug fixes

• Correctly handle Philips DICOMs w/ derived volume (pr/795) (Mathias Goncalves, reviewed by CM)
• Raise CSA tag limit to 1000, parametrize for future relaxing (pr/798, backported to 2.5.x in pr/800) (Henry Braun, reviewed by CM, MB)
• Coerce data types to match NIfTI intent codes when writing GIFTI data arrays (pr/806) (CM, reported by Tom Holroyd)

Maintenance

• Require h5py 2.10 for Windows + Python < 3.6 to resolve unexpected dtypes in Minc2 data (pr/804) (CM, reviewed by YOH)

API changes and deprecations

• Deprecate nicom.dicomwrappers.Wrapper.get_affine() in favor of affine property; final removal in nibabel 4.0 (pr/796) (YOH, reviewed by CM)