whats_new.rst

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What's new?

Version 0.16 (unreleased)

👩🏽‍💻 Authors

The following authors contributed for the first time. Thank you so much! 🤩

• `Aaron Earle-Richardson`_
• `Amaia Benitez`_
• `Kaare Mikkelsen`_
• `Simon Kern`_
• `Thomas Hartmann`_
• `William Turner`_

The following authors had contributed before. Thank you for sticking around! 🤘

• `Daniel McCloy`_
• `Eric Larson`_
• `Stefan Appelhoff`_

Detailed list of changes

🚀 Enhancements

• :meth:`mne_bids.BIDSPath.match()` and :func:`mne_bids.find_matching_paths` now have additional parameters ignore_json and ignore_nosub, to give users more control over which type of files are matched, by `Kaare Mikkelsen`_ (:gh:`1281`)
• :func:`mne_bids.write_raw_bids()` can now handle event metadata as a pandas DataFrame, by `Thomas Hartmann`_ (:gh:`1285`)

🧐 API and behavior changes

• :func:`mne_bids.read_raw_bids` no longer warns about unit changes in channels upon reading, as that information is taken from channels.tsv and judged authorative, by `Stefan Appelhoff`_ (:gh:`1282`)
• MEG OPM channels are now experimentally included, by `Amaia Benitez`_ (:gh:`1222`)
• :func:`mne_bids.mark_channels` will no longer create a status_description column filled with n/a in the channels.tsv file, by `Stefan Appelhoff`_ (:gh:`1293`)
• :func:`mark_channels(..., ch_names=[]) <mne_bids.mark_channels>` now raises a deprecation warning, and in future its behavior will change from marking all channels to marking no channels; to avoid the warning use mark_channels(..., ch_names="all"), by `Daniel McCloy`_ (:gh:`1307`)

🛠 Requirements

• MNE-BIDS now requires Python 3.10 or higher.

🪲 Bug fixes

• Writing MEGIN data with MNE channel types chpi will now map to BIDS type HLU by `Simon Kern`_ (:gh:`1325`)
• When anonymizing the date of a recording, MNE-BIDS will no longer error during ~mne_bids.write_raw_bids if passing a ~mne.io.Raw instance to empty_room, by `Daniel McCloy`_ (:gh:`1270`)
• Dealing with alphanumeric sub entity labels is now fixed for :func:`~mne_bids.write_raw_bids`, by `Aaron Earle-Richardson`_ (:gh:`1291`)
• When processing subject_info data that MNE Python imports as numpy arrays with only one item, MNE-BIDS now unpacks these, resulting in a correct participants.tsv, by `Thomas Hartmann`_ (:gh:`1310`)
• Fixed broken links in examples 7 and 8, by `William Turner`_ (:gh:`1316`)
• All valid extensions for README files are now accepted. This prevents an extra README file being created, when one with a .txt, .md, or .rst extension is already present. By `Thomas Hartmann`_ (:gh:`1318`)
• A warning was given if no events were provided but the task was starting with 'rest' as recommended by `Simon Kern`_ (:gh:`1327`)

⚕️ Code health

• Keep MNE-BIDS up to date with recent changes on participant birthday date handling in MNE-Python, by `Eric Larson`_ (:gh:`1278`)
• Make rules for linting more strict, make quality assessment exceptions less permissive, by `Stefan Appelhoff`_ (:gh:`1283`)

:doc:`Find out what was new in previous releases <whats_new_previous_releases>`