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From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 14:30:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: 0.4 release notes.

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+Announcement: scikits-image 0.4
+===============================
+
+We're happy to announce the 0.4 release of scikits-image, an image processing
+toolbox for SciPy.
+
+Please visit our examples gallery to see what we've been up to:
+
+   http://scikits-image.org/docs/0.3/auto_examples/
+
+Note that, in this release, we renamed the module from ``scikits.image`` to
+``skimage``, to work around name space conflicts with other scikits (similarly,
+the machine learning scikit is now imported as ``sklearn``).
+
+A big shout-out also to everyone currently at SciPy India; have fun, and
+remember to join the scikits-image sprint!
+
+This release runs under all major operating systems where Python (>=2.6 or
+3.x), NumPy and SciPy can be installed.
+
+For more information, visit our website
+
+  http://scikits-image.org
+
+New Features
+------------
+- Module rename from ``scikits.image`` to ``skimage``
+- Contour finding
+- Grey-level co-occurrence matrices
+- Skeletonization and medial axis transform
+- Convex hull images
+- New test data sets
+- GDAL I/O plugin
+
+... as well as some bug fixes.
+
+Contributors to this release
+----------------------------
+* Andreas Mueller
+* Christopher Gohlke
+* Emmanuelle Gouillart
+* Neil Yager
+* Nelle Varoquaux
+* Riaan van den Dool
+* Stefan van der Walt
+* Thouis (Ray) Jones
+* Tony S Yu
+* Zachary Pincus