LiberTEM 0.7.0 released

[Dieter Weber]

Dear subscribers,

we are happy to announce the release of LiberTEM 0.7.0! This version
introduces features that are essential for live data processing, but can
be used for offline processing as well: Live plotting, API for bundled
execution of several UDFs in one run, iteration over partial UDF
results, and asynchronous UDF execution. Features and infrastructure
that are specific to live processing are included in the LiberTEM-live
package <https://github.com/LiberTEM/LiberTEM-live/>, which will be
released very soon and announced in a separate message.

Examples for running LiberTEM within Gatan Digital Micrograph (GMS) were
updated and extended, including live plotting. They can be found at
https://github.com/LiberTEM/LiberTEM/tree/master/examples

Furthermore, the performance of chunked HDF5 files was improved
significantly.

The deprecated job interface was removed as previously announced, and
the strain mapping code is now only available in the
https://github.com/LiberTEM/LiberTEM-blobfinder subpackage.

The full release notes with details on the changes and new features can
be found at https://libertem.github.io/LiberTEM/changelog.html#latest


Future plans
------------

A focus for the coming months will be support for Dask arrays as input
data. This will be instrumental for integration with Hyperspy, Pyxem and
Pixstem, as already described in the previous release announcement.
Likely, this will involve a major redesign of some LiberTEM internals,
together with improved support for live processing and ptychography.
This shouldn't affect the external API, though.

A plugin interface to make integration of new functionality in the GUI
easier is planned as well.

If you are using LiberTEM, and have feedback for us, don't hesitate to
reach out! Please also let us know if you are missing a crucial feature
which currently prevents you from using LiberTEM.

You can reach us online in the Issue tracker
<https://github.com/LiberTEM/LiberTEM/issues>, Gitter chat
<https://gitter.im/LiberTEM/Lobby> or by e-mail: Alexander Clausen
<a.cl...@fz-juelich.de>, Dieter Weber <d.w...@fz-juelich.de>.

With best regards,
Dieter

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Dr. Dieter WEBER

Peter Grünberg Institute, Microstructure Research (PGI-5)
Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
52425 Jülich, Germany

Email: d.w...@fz-juelich.de
Phone: +49 2461 61 85118


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