🔖 Release 2.1.0 (#1065)

## TIAToolbox v2.1.0 (2026-05-19)

### ✨ Major Updates and Feature Improvements

- Python ≥3.11 required
  - Supports up to 3.14 (#1035)
  - Drops support for 3.10 (#1034)
- Zarr v3 Support (#904)
  - New storage APIs (zarr.Array, LocalStore, FsspecStore)
  - Removal of object arrays → rectangular storage via pad_contours
  - Update `FsspecJsonWSIReader` to support Zarr v3 (#1049), thanks to @aacic

### ⚠️ API Changes

- Python requirement updated → >=3.11, \<3.15

### 🐞 Bug Fixes and Other Changes

- Fixed
  - Contour serialization and padding issues (Zarr compatibility) (#904)
  - Invalid Geometry in JSON Outputs (#1057)
- Fix typographical errors in `pre-trained` documentation (#1043, #1062)

### 🛠️ Development-Related Changes

- Use `uv` to set up CI environments, reduces installation time
  - Update instructions for `uv` install
- Use `max_image` for `remove_small_objects` in `scikit-image` usage (#1048)
- Improve `mypy` workflow and typing errors (#1045)

Author: shaneahmed

.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ env:
   REGISTRY: ghcr.io
   IMAGE_NAME: TissueImageAnalytics/tiatoolbox
   image: ghcr.io/tissueimageanalytics/tiatoolbox
-  TOOLBOX_VER: 2.0.1
+  TOOLBOX_VER: 2.1.0
 
 jobs:
   build-and-push-image:

AUTHORS.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 - Abishekraj Vinayagar Gnanasambandam \<@AbishekRajVG>
 - Wenqi Lu \<@wenqi006>
 - Saad Bashir \<@rajasaad>
+- Aakash Madhav Rao \<@mraoaakash>
 - Behnaz Elhaminia \<@behnazelhaminia>
 
 ## Contributors

CITATION.cff

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ authors:
   given-names: "Shan E Ahmed"
   orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1097-1738"
 title: "TIAToolbox as an end-to-end library for advanced tissue image analytics"
-version: 2.0.1  # TIAToolbox version
+version: 2.1.0  # TIAToolbox version
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5802442
 date-released: 2022-10-20
 url: "https://github.com/TissueImageAnalytics/tiatoolbox"

HISTORY.md

@@ -1,5 +1,37 @@
 # History
 
+## TIAToolbox v2.1.0 (2026-05-19)
+
+### ✨ Major Updates and Feature Improvements
+
+- Python ≥3.11 required
+  - Supports up to 3.14 (#1035)
+  - Drops support for 3.10 (#1034)
+- Zarr v3 Support (#904)
+  - New storage APIs (zarr.Array, LocalStore, FsspecStore)
+  - Removal of object arrays → rectangular storage via pad_contours
+  - Update `FsspecJsonWSIReader` to support Zarr v3 (#1049), thanks to @aacic
+
+### ⚠️ API Changes
+
+- Python requirement updated → >=3.11, \<3.15
+
+### 🐞 Bug Fixes and Other Changes
+
+- Fixed
+  - Contour serialization and padding issues (Zarr compatibility) (#904)
+  - Invalid Geometry in JSON Outputs (#1057)
+- Fix typographical errors in `pre-trained` documentation (#1043, #1062)
+
+### 🛠️ Development-Related Changes
+
+- Use `uv` to set up CI environments, reduces installation time
+  - Update instructions for `uv` install
+- Use `max_image` for `remove_small_objects` in `scikit-image` usage (#1048)
+- Improve `mypy` workflow and typing errors (#1045)
+
+______________________________________________________________________
+
 ## TIAToolbox v2.0.1 (2026-03-16)
 
 ### Bug Fixes and Other Changes

pyproject.toml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "TIA-Centre"  # uv does not accept space in name
-version = "2.0.1"
+version = "2.1.0"
 description = "test"
 authors = ["TIA Centre <TIA@warwick.ac.uk>"]
 

setup.py

@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@
     test_suite="tests",
     tests_require=test_requirements,
     url="https://github.com/TissueImageAnalytics/tiatoolbox",
-    version="2.0.1",
+    version="2.1.0",
     zip_safe=False,
 )

tiatoolbox/__init__.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 __author__ = """TIA Centre"""
 __email__ = "TIA@warwick.ac.uk"
-__version__ = "2.0.1"
+__version__ = "2.1.0"
 
 # This will set the tiatoolbox external data
 # default to be the user home folder, should work on both Windows and Unix/Linux