Merge pull request #1930 from emmanuelle/release_notes

First version of release notes for 0.12

doc/release/release_0.12.txt

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+Announcement: scikit-image 0.12.0
+=================================
+
+We're happy to announce the release of scikit-image v0.12.0!
+
+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
+
+and our gallery of examples
+
+http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/
+
+Highlights and new features
+---------------------------
+
+For this release, we merged over 200 pull requests with bug fixes,
+cleanups, improved documentation and new features.  Highlights
+include:
+
+
+- Parallelization framework using ``dask``:``skimage.util.apply_parallel`` 
+  (#1493)
+- Laplacian operator ``filters.laplace`` (#1763)
+- Synthetic 2-D and 3-D binary data with rounded blobs (#1485)
+- Plugin for ``imageio`` library (#1575)
+- Inpainting algorithm (#1804)
+- Partial support of 3-D images for ``skimage.measure.regionprops``
+  (#1505)
+- Multi-block local binary patterns (MB-LBP) for texture classification (#1536)
+- Seam Carving (resizing without distortion) (#1459)
+- Simple image comparison metrics (PSNR, NRMSE) (#1897)
+- Region boundary based region adjacency graphs (RAG) (#1495)
+- Construction of RAG from label images (#1826)
+- ``morphology.remove_small_holes`` now complements
+  ``morphology.remove_small_objects`` (#1689)
+- Faster cython implementation of ``morphology.skeletonize``
+- More appropriate default weights in
+  ``restoration.denoise_tv_chambolle`` and ``feature.peak_local_max``
+- Correction of bug in the computation of the Euler characteristic in
+  ``measure.regionprops``.
+- Replace jet by viridis as default colormap
+- Alpha layer support for ``color.gray2rgb``
+- The measure of structural similarity (``measure.compare_ssim``) is now
+  n-dimensional and supports color channels as well.
+- We fixed an issue related to incorrect propagation in plateaus in
+  ``segmentation.watershed``
+
+
+
+Documentation:
+
+- New organization of gallery of examples in sections
+- More frequent update of online documentation
+
+API Changes
+-----------
+
+- ``equalize_adapthist`` now takes a ``kernel_size`` keyword argument,
+  replacing  the ``ntiles_*`` arguments.
+- The functions ``blob_dog``, ``blob_log`` and ``blob_doh`` now return
+  float  arrays instead of integer arrays.
+- ``transform.integrate`` now takes lists of tuples instead of integers
+  to define the window over which to integrate. 
+
+Deprecations
+------------
+
+- ``filters.gaussian_filter`` has been renamed ``filters.gaussian``
+- ``filters.gabor_filter`` has been renamed ``filters.gabor``
+- ``restoration.nl_means_denoising`` has been renamed
+  ``restoration.denoise_nl_means``
+- ``measure.LineModel`` was deprecated in favor of ``measure.LineModelND``
+- ``measure.structural_similarity`` has been renamed
+  ``measure.compare_ssim``
+- ``data.lena`` has been deprecated, and gallery examples use instead the
+  ``data.astronaut()`` picture.
+
+Contributors to this release
+----------------------------
+(Listed alphabetically by last name)
+
+- K.-Michael Aye
+- Connelly Barnes
+- Sumit Binnani
+- Vighnesh Birodkar
+- François Boulogne
+- Matthew Brett
+- Steven Brown
+- Arnaud De Bruecker
+- Olivier Debeir
+- Charles Deledalle
+- endolith
+- Eric Lubeck
+- Victor Escorcia
+- Ivo Flipse
+- Joel Frederico
+- Cédric Gilon
+- Christoph Gohlke
+- Korijn van Golen
+- Emmanuelle Gouillart
+- J. Goutin
+- Blake Griffith
+- M. Hawker
+- Jonathan Helmus
+- Dhruv Jawali
+- Lee Kamentsky
+- Kevin Keraudren
+- Julius Bier Kirkegaard
+- David Koeller
+- Gustav Larsson
+- Gregory R. Lee
+- Guillaume Lemaitre
+- Benny Lichtner
+- Himanshu Mishra
+- Juan Nunez-Iglesias
+- Ömer Özak
+- Leena P.
+- Michael Pacer
+- Daniil Pakhomov
+- David Perez-Suarez
+- Egor Panfilov
+- David PS
+- Sergio Pascual
+- Ariel Rokem
+- Nicolas Rougier
+- Christian Sachs
+- Kshitij Saraogi
+- Martin Savc
+- Johannes Schönberger
+- Arve Seljebu
+- Tim Sheerman-Chase
+- Scott Sievert
+- Steven Silvester
+- Alexandre Fioravante de Siqueira
+- Daichi Suzuo
+- Noah Trebesch
+- Pratap Vardhan
+- Gael Varoquaux
+- Stefan van der Walt
+- Joshua Warner
+- Josh Warner
+- Warren Weckesser
+- Daniel Wennberg
+- John Wiggins
+- Robin Wilson
+- Olivia Wilson
+
+

doc/release/release_dev.txt

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 New Features
 ------------
 
-- ``skimage.util.apply_parallel`` (#1493)
-- Plugin for ``imageio`` library (#1575)
-- Inpainting algorithm (#1804)
+
+
 
 Improvements
 ------------
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 ------------
 
 
+Contributors to this release
+----------------------------