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+Announcement: scikit-image 0.10.0
+=================================
+
+We're happy to announce the release of scikit-image v0.10.0!
+
+scikit-image is an image processing toolbox for SciPy that includes algorithms
+for segmentation, geometric transformations, color space manipulation,
+analysis, filtering, morphology, feature detection, and more.
+
+For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website:
+
+   http://scikit-image.org
+
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+In addition to many bug fixes, (speed) improvements and new examples, the 118
+pull requests (1112 commits) merged for this release include the following new
+or improved features (PR number in brackets):
+
+- BRIEF, ORB and CENSURE features (#834)
+- Blob Detection (#903)
+- Phase unwrapping (#644)
+- Wiener deconvolution (#800)
+- IPython notebooks in examples gallery (#1000)
+- Luv colorspace conversion (#798)
+- Viewer overlays (#810)
+- ISODATA thresholding (#859)
+- A new rank filter for summation (#844)
+- Faster MCP with anisotropy support (#854)
+- N-d peak finding (`peak_local_max`) (#906)
+- `imread_collection` support for all plugins (#862)
+- Enforce SLIC superpixels connectivity and add SLIC-zero (#857, #864)
+- Correct mesh orientation (for use in external visualizers) in
+  marching cubes algorithm (#882)
+- Loading from URL and alpha support in novice module (#916, #946)
+- Equality for regionprops (#956)
+
+
+API changes
+-----------
+
+The following backward-incompatible API changes were made between 0.9 and 0.10:
+
+- Removed deprecated functions in `skimage.filter.rank.*`
+- Removed deprecated parameter `epsilon` of `skimage.viewer.LineProfile`
+- Removed backwards-compatability of `skimage.measure.regionprops`
+- Removed {`ratio`, `sigma`} deprecation warnings of `skimage.segmentation.slic`
+  and also remove explicit `sigma` parameter from doc-string example
+- Changed default mode of random_walker segmentation to 'cg_mg' > 'cg' > 'bf',
+  depending on which optional dependencies are available.
+- Removed deprecated `out` parameter of `skimage.morphology.binary_*`
+- Removed deprecated parameter `depth` in `skimage.segmentation.random_walker`
+- Removed deprecated logger function in `skimage/__init__.py`
+- Removed deprecated function `filter.median_filter`
+- Removed deprecated `skimage.color.is_gray` and `skimage.color.is_rgb`
+  functions
+- Removed deprecated `skimage.segmentation.visualize_boundaries`
+- Removed deprecated `skimage.morphology.greyscale_*`
+- Removed deprecated `skimage.exposure.equalize`
+
+
+Contributors to this release
+----------------------------
+
+This release was made possible by the collaborative efforts of many
+contributors, both new and old.  They are listed in alphabetical order by
+surname:
+
+- Raphael Ackermann
+- Ankit Agrawal
+- Maximilian Albert
+- Pietro Berkes
+- Vighnesh Birodkar
+- François Boulogne
+- Olivier Debeir
+- Christoph Deil
+- Jaidev Deshpande
+- Jaime Frio
+- Jostein Bø Fløystad
+- Neeraj Gangwar
+- Christopher Gohlke
+- Michael Hansen
+- Almar Klein
+- Jeremy Metz
+- Juan Nunez-Iglesias
+- François Orieux
+- Guillem Palou
+- Rishabh Raj
+- Thomas Robitaille
+- Michal Romaniuk
+- Johannes L. Schönberger
+- Steven Sylvester
+- Julian Taylor
+- Gregor Thalhammer
+- Matthew Trentacoste
+- Siva Prasad Varma
+- Guillem Palou Visa
+- Stefan van der Walt
+- Josh Warner
+- Tony S Yu
+- radioxoma