Hello everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of PySurfer version 0.5.

PySurfer is a Python library for making beautiful and reproducible visualizations of Freesurfer data.

Changes in this version include

- The statistical overlay functions can now use a wider variety of colormaps, with any matplotlib colormap (including the "_r" reversed versions) accepted.

- Surface normals are used when rendering the cortex for a smoother visualization.

- Changed the default colormap for some functions to more perceptually appropriate options.

- Added control over the width of label and annotation borders.

- Added 2D grids of images when saving a montage.

Additionally, we have substantially improved the docs with a new example gallery and an updated installation guide describing how to get over some hurdles that can be encountered on OSX.

To install or upgrade, just run:

pip install -U pysurfer

We hope you find it useful. As always, contributions, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome on our github page.

- PySurfer Devs