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+Announcement: scikits.image 0.3
+===============================
+
+After a brief (!) absence, we're back with a new and shiny version of
+scikits.image, the image processing toolbox for SciPy.
+
+This release runs under all major operating systems where
+Python (>=2.6 or 3.x), NumPy and SciPy can be installed.
+
+Please visit http://scikits-image.org for more information.
+
+New Features
+------------
+- Shortest paths
+- Total variation denoising
+- Hough and probabilistic Hough transforms
+- Radon transform with reconstruction
+- Histogram of gradients
+- Morphology, including watershed, connected components
+- Faster homography transformations (rotations, zoom, etc.)
+- Image dtype conversion routines
+- Line drawing
+- Better image collection handling
+- Constant time median filter
+- Edge detection (canny, sobel, etc.)
+- IO: Freeimage, FITS, Qt and other image loaders; video support.
+- SIFT feature loader
+- Example data-sets
+
+... as well as many bug fixes and minor updates.
+
+Contributors for this release
+-----------------------------
+Martin Bergtholdt
+Luis Pedro Coelho
+Chris Colbert
+Damian Eads
+Dan Farmer
+Emmanuelle Gouillart
+Brian Holt
+Pieter Holtzhausen
+Thouis (Ray) Jones
+Lee Kamentsky
+Almar Klein
+Kyle Mandli
+Andreas Mueller
+Neil Muller
+Zachary Pincus
+James Turner
+Stefan van der Walt
+Gael Varoquaux
+Tony Yu