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**September 2022**
**Features**
* Implemented multi-population support for indexes
**Improvements**
* Boxes are defined through any two opposing corners, not just the min- and max-corners.
* "window_query" and "vicinity_query" are now "box_query" and "sphere_query", respectively; and analogously for "{window,vicinity}_counts".
* "endpoints" are now exported as a tuples and not as two separate objects
* "kind" field has been replaced by "is_soma"
* Removed support for memory mapped files from the Python API
* The multi-index cache usage statistics report has been deactivated by default, available on-demand by setting the environment variable "SI_REPORT_USAGE_STATS" to "1" or "On"
* Consistency improvements for the code
* Bug fix for multi-index creation.