Tifffile

- Towards reading JPEG and other compressions via imagecodecs package (WIP).
- Read SampleFormat VOID as UINT.
- Add function to validate TIFF using `jhove -m TIFF-hul`.
- Save bool arrays as bilevel TIFF.
- Accept pathlib.Path as filenames.
- Move software argument from TiffWriter __init__ to save.
- Raise DOS limit to 16 TB.
- Lazy load LZMA and ZSTD compressors and decompressors.
- Add option to save IJMetadata tags.
- Return correct number of pages for truncated series (fix).
- Move EXIF tags to TIFF.TAG as per TIFF/EP standard.

- Always save RowsPerStrip and Resolution tags as required by TIFF standard.
- Do not use badly typed ImageDescription.
- Coerce bad ASCII string tags to bytes.
- Tuning of __str__ functions.
- Fix reading undefined tag values.
- Read and write ZSTD compressed data.
- Use hexdump to print bytes.
- Determine TIFF byte order from data dtype in imsave.
- Add option to specify RowsPerStrip for compressed strips.
- Allow memory-map of arrays with non-native byte order.
- Attempt to handle ScanImage <= 5.1 files.
- Restore TiffPageSeries.pages sequence interface.
- Use numpy.frombuffer instead of fromstring to read from binary data.
- Parse GeoTIFF metadata.
- Add option to apply horizontal differencing before compression.
- Towards reading PerkinElmer QPI (QPTIFF, no test files).
- Do not index out of bounds data in tifffile.c unpackbits and decodelzw.

- Many backward incompatible changes improving speed and resource usage:
- Add detail argument to __str__ function. Remove info functions.
- Fix potential issue correcting offsets of large LSM files with positions.
- Remove TiffFile sequence interface; use TiffFile.pages instead.
- Do not make tag values available as TiffPage attributes.
- Use str (not bytes) type for tag and metadata strings (WIP).
- Use documented standard tag and value names (WIP).
- Use enums for some documented TIFF tag values.
- Remove memmap and tmpfile options; use out='memmap' instead.
- Add option to specify output in asarray functions.
- Add option to concurrently decode pages using threads.
- Add TiffPage.asrgb function (WIP).
- Do not apply colormap in asarray.
- Remove colormapped, rgbonly, and scale_mdgel options from asarray.
- Consolidate metadata in TiffFile _metadata functions.
- Remove non-tag metadata properties from TiffPage.
- Add function to convert LSM to tiled BIN files.
- Align image data in file.
- Make TiffPage.dtype a numpy.dtype.
- Add ndim and size properties to TiffPage and TiffPageSeries.
- Allow imsave to write non-BigTIFF files up to ~4 GB.
- Only read one page for shaped series if possible.
- Add memmap function to create memory-mapped array stored in TIFF file.
- Add option to save empty arrays to TIFF files.
- Add option to save truncated TIFF files.
- Allow single tile images to be saved contiguously.
- Add optional movie mode for files with uniform pages.
- Lazy load pages.
- Use lightweight TiffFrame for IFDs sharing properties with key TiffPage.
- Move module constants to TIFF namespace (speed up module import).
- Remove fastij option from TiffFile.
- Remove pages parameter from TiffFile.
- Remove TIFFfile alias.
- Deprecate Python 2.
- Require enum34 and futures packages on Python 2.7.
- Remove Record class and return all metadata as dict instead.
- Add functions to parse STK, MetaSeries, ScanImage, SVS, Pilatus metadata.
- Read tags from EXIF and GPS IFDs.
- Use pformat for tag and metadata values.
- Fix reading some UIC tags.
- Do not modify input array in imshow (fix).
- Fix Python implementation of unpack_ints.

- Write correct number of SampleFormat values (fix).
- Use Adobe deflate code to write ZIP compressed files.
- Add option to pass tag values as packed binary data for writing.
- Defer tag validation to attribute access.
- Use property instead of lazyattr decorator for simple expressions.

- Write IFDs and tag values on word boundaries.
- Read ScanImage metadata.
- Remove is_rgb and is_indexed attributes from TiffFile.
- Create files used by doctests.

- Read Zeiss SEM metadata.
- Read OME-TIFF with invalid references to external files.
- Rewrite C LZW decoder (5x faster).
- Read corrupted LSM files missing EOI code in LZW stream.