ANN: DIPY 1.12.1 Release

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Hello all,

We are excited to announce a new release of DIPY: DIPY 1.12.1 !

DIPY 1.12.1 (Friday, 23 April 2026)

The full release notes are at: https://docs.dipy.org/stable/release_notes/release1.12.html.

Thank you all for your contributions and feedback!

Please click here to check 1.12.1 API changes.

Highlights of 1.12.1 release include:

  • NF: FORCE reconstruction model

  • NF: New BiasField correction method.

  • NF: Parallelization of EuDX tractography.

  • NF: Intermediate map for symmetric diffeomorphic registration.

  • NF: StatefulSurface class to handle surfaces.

  • NF: Multiple new workflows (dipy_fit_force, dipy_fit_msmtcsd, dipy_brain_mask, dipy_cluster_streamlines, dipy_fit_powermap, dipy_fit_fwdti).

  • ENH: Cythonization of multiple algorithms to improve performance.

  • RF: TRX as default file format for tractography outputs.

  • RF: Adoption of pathlib across workflows.

  • RF: Refactoring of NLmeans denoising (classic and blockwise variants).

  • Added support for Python 3.14 and drop support for Python 3.10.

  • Documentation update.

  • Closed 324 issues and merged 173 pull requests.

To upgrade or install DIPY

Run the following command in your terminal:

pip install --upgrade dipy

This version of DIPY depends on nibabel (3.0.0+).

For visualization you need FURY (0.12.0+).

Questions or suggestions?

For any questions go to https://dipy.org, or send an e-mail to dipy@python.org

Finally, a new forum is available at https://github.com/dipy/dipy/discussions

Have a wonderful time using the new version.

Please support us by citing DIPY in your papers using the following DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00008

On behalf of the DIPY developers,

Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Ariel Rokem, Serge Koudoro

https://dipy.org/contributors

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