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+# napari 0.5.4
+
+*Friday, Sep 27, 2024*
+
+We're happy to announce the release of napari 0.5.4!
+
+napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python.
+It's designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing large multi-dimensional
+images. It's built on top of Qt (for the GUI), vispy (for performant GPU-based
+rendering), and the scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy).
+
+For more information, examples, and documentation, please visit our website,
+https://napari.org.
+
+## Highlights
+
+Another release with a lot of bug fixes, but also some (more!) improvements to
+Shapes layer performance ([#7144](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7144),
+[#7256](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7256)), and a few nice
+usability/quality of life features!
+
+- you can now follow the value under the cursor around in images in 3D view as
+  well as 2D ([#7126](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7126))
+- Use standard keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out ({kbd}`Command/Ctrl+=`,
+  {kbd}`Command/Ctrl+-`) and to zoom-to-fit ({kbd}`Command/Ctrl+0`)
+  ([#7200](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7200))
+- you can now save tiff files larger than 4GB
+  ([#7242](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7242))
+
+Finally, we're starting some work on tweaking the UI to make it more
+self-consistent, with the ultimate goal of adding functionality such as showing
+common controls when multiple layers are selected, so that, for example, you
+can select multiple layers and adjust all their opacity settings together. As
+the first step for this, the *layer blending* controls have been moved directly
+under the opacity control, so that all per-layer controls are next to each
+other in the UI ([#7202](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7202))
+
+Read on for all the changes in this version!
+
+## New Features
+
+- enable get_value_3d for image layers ([#7126](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7126))
+- Preserve area of dock widgets between sessions ([#7247](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7247))
+
+## Improvements
+
+- Speed up `get_status` for Shapes layer by using bounding boxes ([#7144](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7144))
+- Enh: Add zoom options and keybindings to View menu ([#7200](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7200))
+- [ux/ui] Put blending controls under opacity slider in layer controls ([#7202](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7202))
+- Enable conflicts detection with layer keybindings when changing viewer ones and add group info to conflicts popup ([#7231](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7231))
+- Speedup `_is_convex` by avoid calling `np.roll` ([#7256](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7256))
+- Sort plugin manifests in alphabetical order for registration ([#7266](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7266))
+
+## Performance
+
+- Speed up `get_status` for Shapes layer by using bounding boxes ([#7144](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7144))
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+- start/stop status thread on show/hide main window ([#7240](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7240))
+- Added support for saving tiff files > 4GB :) ([#7242](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7242))
+- Accept any Mapping as output of a plugin widget ([#7250](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7250))
+- Eliminate nearly all Qt widget leaks by using qtbot ([#7251](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7251))
+- Enforce minimum side length when guessing if image is RGB ([#7273](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7273))
+- Fix color shuffling for bool labels ([#7294](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7294))
+- Fix cursor dimensionality race condition ([#7295](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7295))
+- Fix overflow error in shuffle colormap for signed integer labels ([#7296](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7296))
+
+## Documentation
+
+- Add beanli161514 to citation file ([#7272](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7272))
+- Doc/metadata: add jni's ORCID to the CITATION.cff file ([#7275](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7275))
+- Style fix: use recommended capitalization for "GitHub" in README ([#7284](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7284))
+- Add psygnal and pydantic to napari --info ([#7285](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7285))
+- Update version switcher to add 0.5.3 ([docs#488](https://github.com/napari/docs/pull/488))
+- Move release notes to be under Usage ([docs#489](https://github.com/napari/docs/pull/489))
+- Update release guide ([docs#491](https://github.com/napari/docs/pull/491))
+- Add 0.5.4 release notes ([docs#496](https://github.com/napari/docs/pull/496))
+
+## Other Pull Requests
+
+- Update script for vendored modules ([#5779](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/5779))
+- Update `certifi`, `dask`, `hypothesis`, `ipython`, `numpy`, `qtconsole`, `rich`, `scipy`, `tifffile` ([#7212](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7212))
+- Block zarr 3.0.0a1 and 3.0.0a2 in pre-release tests ([#7217](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7217))
+- Add autouse fixture that clears cached property `Action.injected` ([#7224](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7224))
+- Update `tifffile` ([#7235](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7235))
+- CI benchmark run comment will now include results table ([#7237](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7237))
+- [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate ([#7239](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7239))
+- Fix coverage and debug artifacts upload ([#7241](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7241))
+- Replaced broken link to the "Translations" page :) ([#7243](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7243))
+- Alow to call benchmark that do not have params ([#7252](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7252))
+- Block zarr=3.0.0a3 to fix pre-release tests ([#7254](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7254))
+- Change type of layer Metadata from dict to Mapping ([#7257](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7257))
+- Update `fsspec`, `hypothesis`, `pydantic`, `tensorstore`, `virtualenv`, `zarr` ([#7258](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7258))
+- Deprecate usage of `get_app` functions to get `QApplication` or `NapariApplication` instances ([#7269](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7269))
+- Block `zarr==3.0.0a4` ([#7271](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7271))
+- Update `dask`, `hypothesis`, `napari-plugin-manager`, `pandas`, `pydantic`, `pytest`, `rich`, `tifffile`, `virtualenv`, `xarray` ([#7274](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7274))
+- [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate ([#7276](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7276))
+- Fix `test_windows_grouping_overwrite` skip condition and asserts ([#7281](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7281))
+- Update menu sorting tests still using `mock_app` and `get_app` instead of `mock_app_model` and `get_app_model` ([#7283](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7283))
+- Remove obsolete self from layout argument ([#7291](https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7291))
+
+
+## 11 authors added to this release (alphabetical)
+
+(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳
+
+- [BeanLi](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=beanli161514) - @beanli161514
+- [Daniel Althviz Moré](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=dalthviz) - @dalthviz
+- [Draga Doncila Pop](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=DragaDoncila) - @DragaDoncila
+- [Grzegorz Bokota](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=Czaki) - @Czaki
+- [Ikko Eltociear Ashimine](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=eltociear) - @eltociear +
+- [Juan Nunez-Iglesias](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=jni) ([docs](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=jni))  - @jni
+- [Lorenzo Gaifas](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=brisvag) - @brisvag
+- [Lucy Liu](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=lucyleeow) - @lucyleeow
+- [Melissa Weber Mendonça](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=melissawm) - @melissawm
+- [Peter Sobolewski](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=psobolewskiPhD) - @psobolewskiPhD
+- [Sammy Hansali](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=sammyhansali) - @sammyhansali +
+
+
+## 13 reviewers added to this release (alphabetical)
+
+(+) denotes first-time contributors 🥳
+
+- [andrew sweet](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=andy-sweet) - @andy-sweet
+- [Ashley Anderson](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=aganders3) - @aganders3
+- [Daniel Althviz Moré](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=dalthviz) - @dalthviz
+- [Draga Doncila Pop](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=DragaDoncila) - @DragaDoncila
+- [Grzegorz Bokota](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=Czaki) - @Czaki
+- [jaime rodriguez-guerra](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=jaimergp) - @jaimergp
+- [Juan Nunez-Iglesias](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=jni) ([docs](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=jni))  - @jni
+- [kyle i. s. harrington](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=kephale) - @kephale
+- [Lorenzo Gaifas](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=brisvag) - @brisvag
+- [Lucy Liu](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=lucyleeow) - @lucyleeow
+- [Melissa Weber Mendonça](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=melissawm) - @melissawm
+- [Peter Sobolewski](https://github.com/napari/napari/commits?author=psobolewskiPhD) - @psobolewskiPhD
+- [Wouter-Michiel Vierdag](https://github.com/napari/docs/commits?author=melonora) - @melonora
+