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SpikeInterface 0.102.0 release notes
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7th February 2025

Main changes:

* Added auto-label functions in curation module (#2918)
* Refactored and improved auto-merge functions in curation module (#3435, #3601)
* Added `spikeinterface.load()` function to load any SpikeInterface object (#3613, #3651)
* Improved handling of time in base recording (#3509, #3623)
* Multi-segment handling of motion interpolation (#3659)
* Support for Numpy 2.0 and Zarr<3.0 (#3481,#3598)


core:

* Extend si.load capabilities (#3651)
* Use process as default in global job kwargs (#3648)
* Fix node pipeline when multiple retrievers (#3642)
* Add `get_start_time`/`get_end_time` functions and use them in `get_duration` (#3623)
* Fix dataframe index dtype due to csv in  quality metrics  (#3622)
* Replace `load_extractor` with `load_function` from `loading.py` (#3613)
* Adding SharedMemoryTemplates (#3580)
* Implement engine="thread" in ChunkRecordingExecutor (#3526)
* Add `shift start time` function. (#3509)
* recording_slices in run_node_pipeline() (#3506)
* Template loading average or median (#3495)
* Refactor matching with nodepiepeline (#3447)
* Improve noise level machinery (#3359)
* nodepipeline : skip chunks when no peaks inside and skip_after_n_peaks (#3356)

extractors:

* Pin `pyedflib` version after breaking change in annotations (#3644)
* Add experiment_name annotation to open ephys (#3624)
* Add `NwbTimeSeriesExtractor` to load non-electrical series data from NWB (#3587)
* Add `stream_mode` as extra_requirements for NWB when streaming (#3548)
* Fix cbin_file_path (#3524)
* Expose reading attempts in Plexon2 (#3401)
* Add neuronexus allego recording Extractor (#3235)

preprocessing:

* Check for channel_indices is None (#3636)
* Fix silence periods (#3557)
* Extend whitening tests (#3531)
* Don't let decimate mess with times and skim tests (#3519)
* Whitening fix - compute covariance matrix in float (#3505)

sorters:

* Change to default value `use_binary_file=True` for KS4 (#3614)
* Remove Non-Serializable writing of json (#3482)
* Sc2 fixes (#3250, #3518)

postprocessing:

* Add a fast correlogram merge (#3607)
* Unify template and quality metrics (#3537)
* Only load `template_metrics` extension on compute if keeping some metrics (#3478)
* Unit localization (#3476)
* Optimizations for template_similarity (numba and dependencies) (#3405)

qualitymetrics:

* Hard code `synchony_sizes` (#3559)
* Unify template and quality metrics (#3537)
* Fix dtype of quality metrics before and after merging (#3497)

curation:

* Small fixes in curation format and `apply_curation()` (#3601)
* Refactoring auto_merge (#3435)
* Automatic curation with metrics  (#2918)

widgets:

* Make `time_range` conversion to array dtype `float64`  (#3638)
* Fix `plot_sorting_summary` widget  (#3627)
* Changes for spikeinterface-gui (#3616)
* Patch to allow ipywidget plot_unit_templates to work with sparse templates (instead of analyzer) (#3575)
* Allow `export_report` to run without waveforms (#3493)
* Add vspacing_factor as a param for TracesWidget (#3461)

generators:

* Use strings as ids in generators (#3588)


sortingcomponents:

* Split PCA (#3610)
* Adding Hanning filtering (#3604)
* Fix use of keep during run_sorter benchmark (#3556)
* Clustering components api (#3533)
* Kilosort-matching in SpikeInterface (#3488)
* Matched filtering with both peak signs simultaneously (#2914)

motion correction:

* Multi-segment handling in motion interpolation (#3659)
* MotionEstimationStudy : plot drift with the scatter plot (#3553)
* Fix a cross-band interpolation bug, and allow time_vector in interpolate_motion (#3517)

documentation:

* Fix plot_1_automated_curation.py (#3674)
* Extend templates extension docs (#3663)
* Use SpikeInterface-ported pre-trained models in doc (#3652)
* Dev Doc touchup (#3641)
* Fix precision/recall in hybrid example (#3635)
* Improve docstring of `get_neuropixels_sample_shifts`  (#3620)
* Switch RTD build to fail on gallery example failure (#3619)
* Fix sphinx doc build (#3612)
* Convert generated unit_ids in docs to strings (#3600)
* Correct method default in docstring (#3570)
* Add custom tutorials index page. (#3504)
* Add error messaging around use of get data in templates (#3501)
* Fix a few typos in the curation docs (#3496)
* Improve error message for `set_probegroup`/`set_probe` (#3479)

continuous integration:

* Fix codecov tests (#3569)
* Add python 313 to CI test (#3481)

packaging:

* Support numpy 2.0 (#3640)
* Force latest hdmf-zarr version (#3639)
* Update zarr version (#3598)

testing:

* Add python Numpy2.0 to CI test (#3481)

Contributors:

* @522848942
* @JoeZiminski
* @OlivierPeron
* @alejoe91
* @anoushkajain
* @chrishalcrow
* @cwindolf
* @guptadivyansh
* @h-mayorquin
* @jakeswann1
* @RobertoDF
* @samuelgarcia
* @yger
* @zm711