Version 1.4.4 2017-11-05 by luispedro
	* Fix bug in Bernsen thresholding (issue #84)

Version 1.4.3 2016-10-03 by luispedro
	* Fix distribution (add missing README.md file)

Version 1.4.2 2016-10-02 by luispedro
	* Fix `resize_to` return exactly the requested size
	* Fix hard crash when computing texture on arrays with negative values
	(issue #72)
	* Added `distance` argument to haralick features (pull request #76, by
	Guillaume Lemaitre)

Version 1.4.1 2015-12-20 by luispedro
	* Add filter_labeled function
	* Fix tests on 32 bit platforms and older versions of numpy

Version 1.4.0 2015-07-08 by luispedro
	* Add `short` argument to citation() function
	* Add `max_iter` argument to thin() function
	* Fixed labeled.bbox when there is no background (issue #61, reported by
	Daniel Haehn)
	* Added ``mahotas-features.py`` script
	* bbox now allows dimensions greater than 2 (including when using the
	``as_slice`` and ``border`` arguments)
	* Extended croptobbox for dimensions greater than 2
	* Added use_x_minus_y_variance option to haralick features
	* Add function ``lbp_names``

Version 1.3.0 2015-05-28 by luispedro
	* Improve memory handling in freeimage.write_multipage
	* Fix moments parameter swap
	* Add labeled.bbox function
	* Add `return_mean` and `return_mean_ptp` arguments to haralick function
	* Add difference of Gaussians filter (by Jianyu Wang)
	* Add Laplacian filter (by Jianyu Wang)
	* Fix crash in median_filter when mismatched arguments are passed
	* Fix gaussian_filter1d for ndim > 2

Version 1.2.4 2014-12-23 by luispedro
	* Add PIL based IO

Version 1.2.3 2014-11-08 by luispedro
	* Export mean_filter at top level
	* Fix to Zernike moments computation (reported by Sergey Demurin)
	* Fix compilation in platforms without npy_float128 (patch by Gabi Davar)

Version 1.2.2 2014-10-19 by luispedro
	* Add minlength argument to labeled_sum
	* Generalize regmax/regmin to work with floating point images
	* Allow floating point inputs to ``cwatershed()``
	* Correctly check for float16 & float128 inputs
	* Make sobel into a pure function (i.e., do not normalize its input)
	* Fix sobel filtering

Version 1.2.1 2014-07-21 by luispedro
	* Explicitly set numpy.include_dirs() in setup.py [patch by Andrew
	Stromnov on github]

Version 1.2 2014-07-17 by luispedro
	* Export locmax|locmin at the mahotas namespace level
	* Break away ellipse_axes from eccentricity code as it can be useful on
	its own
	* Add find() function
	* Add mean_filter() function
	* Fix cwatershed() overflow possibility
	* Make labeled functions more flexible in accepting more types
	* Fix crash in close_holes() with nD images (for n > 2)
	* Remove matplotlibwrap
	* Use standard setuptools for building (instead of numpy.distutils)
	* Add overlay() function

Version 1.1.1 2014-07-04 by luispedro
	* Fix crash in close_holes() with nD images (for n > 2)

Version 1.1.0 2014-02-12 by luispedro
	* Better error checking
	* Fix interpolation of integer images using order 1
	* Add resize_to & resize_rgb_to
	* Add coveralls coverage
	* Fix SLIC superpixels connectivity
	* Add remove_regions_where function
	* Fix hard crash in convolution
	* Fix axis handling in convolve1d
	* Add normalization to moments calculation

Version 1.0.4 2013-12-15 by luispedro
	* Add mahotas.demos.load()
	* Add stretch_rgb() function
	* Add demos to mahotas namespace
	* Fix SLIC superpixels

Version 1.0.3 2013-10-06 by luispedro
	* Add border & as_slice arguments to bbox()
	* Better error message in gaussian_filter
	* Allow as_rgb() to take integer arguments
	* Extend distance() to n-dimensions
	* Update to newer Numpy APIs (remove direct access to PyArray members)
	* Add morph.disk() function
	* Add perimeter() function
	* Add eccentricity() function

Version 1.0.2 2013-07-10 by luispedro
	* Fix requirements filename

Version 1.0.1 2013-07-09 by luispedro
	* Add lbp_transform() function
	* Add rgb2sepia function
	* Add mahotas.demos.nuclear_image() function
	* Work around matplotlib.imsave's implementation of greyscale
	* Fix Haralick bug (report & patch by Tony S Yu)
	* Add count_binary1s() function

Version 1.0 2013-05-21 by luispedro
	* Fix tests in Python 3
	* Fix a few corner cases in texture analysis
	* Integrate with travis
	* Update citation (include DOI)

Version 0.99 2013-05-04 by luispedro
	* Make matplotlib a soft dependency
	* Add demos.image_path() function
	* Add citation() function

Version 0.9.8 2013-04-22 by luispedro
	* Use matplotlib as IO backend (fallback only)
	* Compute dense SURF features
	* Fix sobel edge filtering (post-processing)
	* Faster 1D convultions (including faster Gaussian filtering)
	* Location independent tests (run mahotas.tests.run() anywhere)
	* Add labeled.is_same_labeling function
	* Post filter SLIC for smoother regions
	* Fix compilation warnings on several platforms

Version 0.9.7 2013-02-03 by luispedro
	* Add ``haralick_features`` function
	* Add ``out`` parameter to morph functions which were missing it
	* Fix erode() & dilate() with empty structuring elements
	* Special case binary erosion/dilation in C-Arrays
	* Fix long-standing warning in TAS on zero inputs
	* Add ``verbose`` argument to tests.run()
	* Add ``circle_se`` to ``morph``
	* Allow ``loc(max|min)`` to take floating point inputs
	* Add Bernsen local thresholding (``bernsen`` and ``gbernsen`` functions)

Version 0.9.6 2012-12-02 by luispedro
	* Fix distance() of non-boolean images (issue #24 on github)
	* Fix encoding issue on PY3 on Mac OS (issue #25 on github)
	* Add relabel() function
	* Add remove_regions() function in labeled module
	* Fix median_filter() on the borders (respect the `mode` argument)
	* Add mahotas.color module for conversion between colour spaces
	* Add SLIC Superpixels
	* Many improvements to the documentation

Version 0.9.5 2012-11-05 by luispedro
	* Fix compilation in older G++
	* Faster Otsu thresholding
	* Python 3 support without 2to3
	* Add `cdilate` function
	* Add `subm` function
	* Add tophat transforms (functions `tophat_close` and `tophat_open`)
	* Add `mode` argument to euler() (patch by Karol M. Langner)
	* Add `mode` argument to bwperim() & borders() (patch by Karol M. Langner)

Version 0.9.4 2012-10-10 by luispedro
	* Fix compilation on 32-bit machines (Patch by Christoph Gohlke)

Version 0.9.3 2012-10-09 by luispedro
	* Fix interpolation (Report by Christoph Gohlke)
	* Fix second interpolation bug (Report and patch by Christoph Gohlke)
	* Update tests to newer numpy
	* Enhanced debug mode (compile with DEBUG=2 in environment)
	* Faster morph.dilate()
	* Add labeled.labeled_max & labeled.labeled_min (This also led to a
	refactoring of the labeled_* code)
	* Many documentation fixes

Version 0.9.2 2012-09-01 by luispedro
	* Fix compilation on Mac OS X 10.8 (reported by Davide Cittaro)
	* Freeimage fixes on Windows by Christoph Gohlke
	* Slightly faster _filter implementaiton

Version 0.9.1 2012-08-28 by luispedro
	* Haar wavelets (forward and inverse transform)
	* Daubechies wavelets (forward and inverse transform)
	* Corner case fix in Otsu thresholding
	* Add soft_threshold function
	* Memory usage improvements in regmin/regmax/close_holes (first reported
	as issue #9 by thanasi)
	* Have polygon.convexhull return an ndarray (instead of a list)
	* Python 3 support

Version 0.9 2012-07-16 by luispedro
	* Auto-convert integer to double on gaussian_filter (previously, integer
	values would result in zero-valued outputs).
	* Check for integer types in (reg|loc)(max|min)
	* Use name `out` instead of `output` for output arguments. This matches
	Numpy better
	* Switched to MIT License

Version 0.8.1 2012-06-06 by luispedro
	* Fix gaussian_filter bug when order argument was used (reported by John
	Mark Agosta)
	* Add morph.cerode
	* Improve regmax() & regmin(). Rename previous implementations to locmax()
	& locmin()
	* Fix erode() on non-contiguous arrays

Version 0.8 2012-05-07 by luispedro
	* Move features to submodule
	* Add morph.open function
	* Add morph.regmax & morph.regmin functions
	* Add morph.close function
	* Fix morph.dilate crash

Version 0.7.3 2012-03-14 by luispedro
	* Fix installation of test data
	* Greyscale erosion & dilation
	* Use imread module (if available)
	* Add output argument to erode() & dilate()
	* Add 14th Haralick feature (patch by MattyG) --- currently off by default
	* Improved zernike interface (zernike_moments)
	* Add remove_bordering to labeled
	* Faster implementation of ``bwperim``
	* Add ``roundness`` shape feature

Version 0.7.2 2012-02-13 by luispedro
	* Fix type bug in 32 bit machines (Bug report by Lech Wiktor Piotrowski)
	* Add as_rgb (especially useful for interactive use)
	* Fix convolve1d
	* Fix rank_filter
	* Add Gaussian filtering (from scipy.ndimage)

Version 0.7.1 2012-01-06 by luispedro
	* Add ``descriptor_only`` argument to surf.descriptors
	* Specify all function signatures on freeimage.py
	* Check that convolution arguments have right dimensions (instead of
	crashing)
	* Add convolve1d (from scipy.ndimage)
	* Fix Compilation on Mac OS X

Version 0.7 2011-12-05 by luispedro
	* Allow specification of centre in Zernike moment computation
	* Fix Local Binary Patterns
	* Remove dependency on scipy
	* Add interpolate module (from scipy.ndimage)
	* Add labeled_sum & labeled_sizes
	* gvoronoi no longer depends on scipy
	* mahotas is importable without scipy
	* Fix bugs in 2D TAS (reported by Jenn Bakal)
	* Support for 1-bit monochrome image loading with freeimage
	* Fix GIL handling on errors (reported by Gareth McCaughan)
	* Fix freeimage for 64-bit computers

Version 0.6.6 2011-08-08 by luispedro
	* Fix fill_polygon bug (fix by joferkington)
	* Fix Haralick feature 6 (fix by Rita Simões)
	* Implement morph.get_structuring_element for ndim > 2. This implies that
	functions such as label() now also work in multiple dimensions
	* Add median filter & rank_filter functions
	* Add template_match function
	* Refactor by use of mahotas.internal
	* Better error message for when the compiled modules cannot be loaded
	* Update contact email. All docs in numpydoc format now.

Version 0.6.5 2011-05-16 by luispedro
	* Add `max_points` & `descriptor_only` arguments to mahotas.surf
	* Fix haralick for 3-D images (bug report by Rita Simões)
	* Better error messages
	* Fix hit&miss for non-boolean inputs
	* Add `label()` function

Version 0.6.4 2011-04-06 by luispedro
	* Fix bug in ``cwatershed()`` when using return_lines=1
	* Fix bug in ``cwatershed()`` when using equivalent types for image and
	markers
	* Move tests to mahotas.tests and include them in distribution
	* Include ChangeLog in distribution
	* Fix compilation on the Mac OS (patch by K-Michael Aye)
	* Fix compilation warnings on gcc

Version 0.6.3 2011-02-17
	* Improve ``mahotas.stretch()`` function
	* Fix corner case in surf (when determinant was zero)
	* ``threshold`` argument in mahotas.surf
	* imreadfromblob() & imsavetoblob() functions
	* ``max_points`` argument for mahotas.surf.interest_points()
	* Add ``mahotas.labeled.borders`` function

Version 0.6.2 2010-12-20
	* Fix memory leak in _surf
	* More robust searching for freeimage
	* More functions in mahotas.surf() to retrieve intermediate results
	* Improve compilation on Windows (patches by Christoph Gohlke)

Version 0.6.1 2010-12-13
	* Release the GIL in morphological functions
	* Convolution
	* just_filter option in edge.sobel()
	* mahotas.labeled functions
	* SURF local features

Version 0.6 2010-11-22
	* Improve Local Binary patterns (faster and better interface)
	* Much faster erode() (10x faster)
	* Faster dilate() (2x faster)
	* TAS for 3D images
	* Haralick for 3D images
	* Fix mahotas.imread for RGBA images

Version 0.5.3 2010-10-29
	* Implement mahotas.thin() in C++ for speed
	* Add np.uint64 support to fullhistogram()
	* Drop GIL when possible
	* Add imresize() wrapper around ndimage.zoom

Version 0.5.2 2010-09-13
	* support Python2.5

Version 0.5.1 2010-09-13
	* freeimage dependency made optional
	* bbox() for N>2 dimensions
	* documentation work

Version 0.5 2010-09-09
	* Distance transform 
	* bwperim()
	* freeimage interface
	* zernike moment computation
