New features
- Use zlib compression with predictor pre-filter in OME-TIFF output by @jmuhlich in #176, #177
- Add bioformats support to fileseries/filepattern readers by @jmuhlich in #178
- Add --stitch-alpha and --maximum-error args by @jmuhlich in #181
- Add barrel/pincushion correction support by @jmuhlich in #183, #184, #185
- Allow preview_slide to use any image reader (fileseries etc.) by @jmuhlich in b5c261d
Bugfixes
- Small fixes to visualization helpers by @jmuhlich in #175
- Correct handling of linear model fitting failure by @jmuhlich in #187
- Fix errors when stitching synthetic data by @jmuhlich in 387eff5)
- Escape parentheses in fileseries/filepattern pattern by @jmuhlich in #192
- Fix tile size and dtype logic in fileseries and filepattern readers by @jmuhlich in 62fbc42
- Tell Bioformats not to "flatten" pyramids by @jmuhlich in #193
- Fix napari image interpolation argument by @jmuhlich in #182
Other improvements
- Improve coarse-alignment thumbnail quality by @jmuhlich in #180
- Update seaborn JointGrid call to latest API by @jmuhlich in #179
- Update dependencies installed in docker container by @jmuhlich in #186
- Bump nokogiri from 1.13.6 to 1.14.3 in /docs by @dependabot in #189
- Update link to manuscript by @jtefftHiTS in #155
Full Changelog: v1.17.0...v1.18.0