Ashlar

New features
* Use zlib compression with predictor pre-filter in OME-TIFF output by jmuhlich in 176, 177
* Add bioformats support to fileseries/filepattern readers by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/178
* Add --stitch-alpha and --maximum-error args by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/181
* Add barrel/pincushion correction support by jmuhlich in 183, 184, 185
* Allow preview_slide to use any image reader (fileseries etc.) by jmuhlich in b5c261dfe5e7ae0ed39e3378570b12d3daed0199

Bugfixes
* Small fixes to visualization helpers by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/175
* Correct handling of linear model fitting failure by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/187
* Fix errors when stitching synthetic data by jmuhlich in 387eff51b5961874e99458735efd36e0f0dc2b84)
* Escape parentheses in fileseries/filepattern pattern by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/192
* Fix tile size and dtype logic in fileseries and filepattern readers by jmuhlich in 62fbc424693b65a89d7f61ee477379c56eaf41f3
* Tell Bioformats not to "flatten" pyramids by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/193
* Fix napari image interpolation argument by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/182

Other improvements
* Improve coarse-alignment thumbnail quality by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/180
* Update seaborn JointGrid call to latest API by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/179
* Update dependencies installed in docker container by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/186
* Bump nokogiri from 1.13.6 to 1.14.3 in /docs by dependabot in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/189
* Update link to manuscript by jtefftHiTS in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/155


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/compare/v1.17.0...v1.18.0

New features
* Support common RGB image formats like JPEG and PNG in fileseries/filepattern readers by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/139

Bugfixes
* Fix error in fileseries reader when channel count is not 3 or 4 by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/136
* Set minimum number of pyramid levels to 1 by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/137
* Use old normalization method (none) for new scikit-image version of phase cross correlation, to match the old behavior of Ashlar by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/144
* Account for non-integer relative offsets in LayerAligner by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/142
* Fix regressions in plates (HTS) mode by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/149

Other improvements
* Bump tzinfo from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10 in /docs by dependabot in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/145


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/compare/v1.16.0...v1.17.0

General Improvements
* Improve argument parsing and help text by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/128
* Update scikit-image to 0.19 by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/130

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/compare/v1.15.3...v1.16.0

Bugfixes
* Tolerate very slightly non-square pixels by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/123


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/compare/v1.15.2...v1.15.3

Bugfixes
* Fix some bugs in our usage of tifffile by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/120


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/compare/v1.15.1...v1.15.2

Bugfixes
* Work around pyjnius mishandling of bool args by jmuhlich in https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/pull/118
(Fixes the error `TypeError: Invalid instance of 'java/lang/Integer' passed for a 'java/lang/Boolean'` when using pyjnius>=1.4)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/labsyspharm/ashlar/compare/v1.15.0...v1.15.1