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First release in the 1.3.x series.
This release includes enhancements and bug-fixes towards the release of the first
LTS (*long-term support*) version of *fMRIPrep*.
*PyBIDS* has been revised to use more recent versions, a series of ANTs' interfaces
have been deemed ready to upstream into *Nipype*, and several improvements regarding
multi-echo EPI are included.
With thanks to Basile Pinsard for contributions.
* FIX: Patch ``ApplyTransforms`` spec to permit identity in a chain (554)
* FIX: Add dots to extensions in PyBIDS' config file (548)
* FIX: Segmentation plots aligned with cardinal axes (544)
* FIX: Skip T1w file existence check if ``anat_derivatives`` are provided (545)
* FIX: Avoid diverting CIFTI dtype from original BOLD (532)
* ENH: Add ``smooth`` input to ``RegridToZooms`` (549)
* ENH: Enable ``DerivativesDataSink`` to take multiple source files to derive entities (547)
* ENH: Allow ``bold_reference_wf`` to accept multiple EPIs/SBRefs (408)
* ENH: Numerical stability of EPI brain-masks using probabilistic prior (485)
* ENH: Add a pure-Python interface to resample to specific resolutions (511)
* MAINT: Upstream all bug-fixes in the 1.2.9 release
* MAINT: Finalize upstreaming of ANTs' interfaces to Nipype (550)
* MAINT: Update to Python +3.6 (541)