# Release notes for nitime version 0.5

## Summary of changes

Major changes introduced in version 0.5 of `nitime`:

1. Python 3 support. Work led by Paul Ivanov and Ariel Rokem, with help from Thomas Kluyver, and Matthew Brett.

2. Multi-taper F-test for harmonic components. Work led by Mike Trumpis.

3. Continuous integration testing with Travis. Work led by Ariel Rokem.

4. Various fixes and robustifications from several contributors (see below).

## Contributors to this release

The following people contributed to this release:

- Ariel Rokem

- Dmitry Shachnev

- Eric Larson

- Mike Trumpis

- Paul Ivanov

- endolith

Note

This list was generated using:

git log –pretty=format:”* %aN” rel/0.4… | sort | uniq

Please let us know if you should appear on this list and do not, so that we can add your name in future release notes.

## Detailed stats from the github repository

GitHub stats for the last 730 days. We closed a total of 40 issues, 17 pull requests and 23 regular issues; this is the full list (generated with the script tools/github_stats.py):

Pull Requests (17):

- :ghissue:`124`: Buildbot mpl

- :ghissue:`114`: This should help the buildbot on older platforms

- :ghissue:`122`: Mpl units patch

- :ghissue:`121`: RF: Remove the dependency on external ‘six’, by integrating that file in

- :ghissue:`119`: Python3 support!

- :ghissue:`120`: Pi=py3k

- :ghissue:`115`: BF: For complex signals, return both the negative and positive spectrum

- :ghissue:`112`: Mt fix ups

- :ghissue:`118`: FIX: Pass int

- :ghissue:`117`: NF: On the way to enabling travis ci.

- :ghissue:`111`: Use inheritance_diagram.py provided by Sphinx (>= 0.6)

- :ghissue:`110`: BF + TST: Robustification and testing of utility function.

- :ghissue:`108`: Doc timeseries

- :ghissue:`109`: Spectra for multi-dimensional time-series

- :ghissue:`107`: DOC: fix parameter rendering for timeseries

- :ghissue:`106`: Fix rst definition list formatting

- :ghissue:`105`: FIX: Kmax wrong, BW = bandwidth

Issues (23):

- :ghissue:`116`: Refer to github more prominently on webpage

- :ghissue:`124`: Buildbot mpl

- :ghissue:`114`: This should help the buildbot on older platforms

- :ghissue:`123`: Memory error of GrangerAnalyzer

- :ghissue:`122`: Mpl units patch

- :ghissue:`121`: RF: Remove the dependency on external ‘six’, by integrating that file in

- :ghissue:`120`: Pi=py3k

- :ghissue:`119`: Python3 support!

- :ghissue:`115`: BF: For complex signals, return both the negative and positive spectrum

- :ghissue:`112`: Mt fix ups

- :ghissue:`118`: FIX: Pass int

- :ghissue:`117`: NF: On the way to enabling travis ci.

- :ghissue:`113`: Race condition provoked in TimeArray

- :ghissue:`111`: Use inheritance_diagram.py provided by Sphinx (>= 0.6)

- :ghissue:`110`: BF + TST: Robustification and testing of utility function.

- :ghissue:`108`: Doc timeseries

- :ghissue:`109`: Spectra for multi-dimensional time-series

- :ghissue:`107`: DOC: fix parameter rendering for timeseries

- :ghissue:`106`: Fix rst definition list formatting

- :ghissue:`105`: FIX: Kmax wrong, BW = bandwidth

- :ghissue:`30`: Make default behavior for fmri.io.time_series_from_file

- :ghissue:`84`: Note on examples

- :ghissue:`93`: TimeArray .prod is borked (because of overflow?)