nipy · effigies · Feb 27, 2026 · Feb 27, 2026 · Feb 27, 2026 · Feb 27, 2026
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Christopher J. Markiewicz <markiewicz@stanford.edu>
 Christopher J. Markiewicz <markiewicz@stanford.edu> <effigies@gmail.com>
 Christopher J. Markiewicz <markiewicz@stanford.edu> <effigies@bu.edu>
 Cindee Madison <cindee@berkeley.edu>
+Clorindo Notte <clorindo.notte@univr.it>
 Demian Wassermann <demian@bwh.harvard.edu> <demian.wassermann@inria.fr>
 Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos <dimitri.papadopoulos@cea.fr> <DimitriPapadopoulos@users.noreply.github.com>
 Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos <dimitri.papadopoulos@cea.fr> <3234522+DimitriPapadopoulos@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ Oscar Esteban <code@oscaresteban.es>
 Paul McCarthy <pauldmccarthy@gmail.com> <pauld.mccarthy@gmail.com>
 Paul McCarthy <pauldmccarthy@gmail.com> <manifest-rules@git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk>
 Reinder Vos de Wael <reinder.vosdewael@gmail.com> <reinder.vosdewael@childmind.org>
+Rémi Gau <remi_gau@hotmail.com>
 Roberto Guidotti <robbenson18@gmail.com>
 Roberto Guidotti <robbenson18@gmail.com> <guidotr1@cs-087.org.aalto.fi>
 Satrajit Ghosh <satra@mit.edu> <satrajit.ghosh@gmail.com>

diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,38 +1,38 @@
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   "creators": [
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-      "name": "Brett, Matthew",
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-    },
     {
       "affiliation": "Stanford University",
       "name": "Markiewicz, Christopher J.",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-6533-164X"
     },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK",
+      "name": "Brett, Matthew",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-5500-2546"
+    },
     {
       "affiliation": "Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany",
       "name": "Hanke, Michael",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-6398-6370"
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     {
-      "affiliation": "Microsoft Research, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada",
-      "name": "C\u00f4t\u00e9, Marc-Alexandre",
+      "affiliation": "Microsoft Research, Montréal, Québec, Canada",
+      "name": "Côté, Marc-Alexandre",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-5147-7859"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "UC San Diego",
       "name": "Cipollini, Ben",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-7782-0790"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "McCarthy, Paul"
+    },
     {
       "affiliation": "CEA",
       "name": "Papadopoulos Orfanos, Dimitri",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-1242-8990"
     },
-    {
-      "name": "McCarthy, Paul"
-    },
     {
       "affiliation": "MIT",
       "name": "Jarecka, Dorota",
@@ -117,17 +117,17 @@
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "Human Neuroscience Platform, Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland",
-      "name": "Mathieu Scheltienne",
+      "name": "Scheltienne, Mathieu",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-8316-7436"
     },
     {
       "name": "Madison, Cindee"
     },
     {
-      "name": "S\u00f3lon, Anibal"
+      "name": "Sólon, Anibal"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Morency, F\u00e9lix C."
+      "name": "Morency, Félix C."
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "MIT",
@@ -153,16 +153,21 @@
       "orcid": "0000-0002-5263-5070"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CNRS LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay",
+      "affiliation": "CNRS LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay",
       "name": "Gramfort, Alexandre",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-9791-4404"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Lepp\u00e4kangas, Jaakko"
+      "name": "Leppäkangas, Jaakko"
     },
     {
       "name": "van den Bosch, Jasper J.F."
     },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School",
+      "name": "Legarreta, Jon Haitz",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-9661-1396"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Vincent, Robert D."
     },
@@ -177,11 +182,6 @@
     {
       "name": "Van, Andrew"
     },
-    {
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-      "name": "Legarreta, Jon Haitz",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-9661-1396"
-    },
     {
       "affiliation": "Google",
       "name": "Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J.",
@@ -230,21 +230,28 @@
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "University College London",
-      "name": "P\u00e9rez-Garc\u00eda, Fernando",
+      "name": "Pérez-García, Fernando",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-9090-3024"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Becq, Guillaume"
+      "affiliation": "CRNS, France",
+      "name": "Becq, Guillaume",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-2134-1803"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Dock\u00e8s, J\u00e9r\u00f4me"
+      "name": "Dockès, Jérôme"
     },
     {
       "name": "Oosterhof, Nikolaas N."
     },
     {
       "name": "Amirbekian, Bago"
     },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Tohoku University",
+      "name": "Thyreau, Benjamin",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-6748-8192"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Christian, Horea"
     },
@@ -265,6 +272,11 @@
     {
       "name": "St-Jean, Samuel"
     },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, UK",
+      "name": "Daniel, Alex",
+      "orcid": "0000-0003-2353-3283"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Panfilov, Egor",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-2500-6375"
@@ -278,7 +290,7 @@
       "orcid": "0000-0003-1076-5122"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, CA",
+      "affiliation": "Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, CA",
       "name": "Newton, Joshua",
       "orcid": "0009-0005-6963-3812"
     },
@@ -290,6 +302,10 @@
       "name": "Waller, Lea",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-3239-6957"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Ayala, Leonardo",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-3574-2085"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Hinds, Oliver P."
     },
@@ -332,14 +348,17 @@
       "name": "Moreno, Miguel Estevan"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Hrn\u010diar, Tom\u00e1\u0161"
+      "name": "Hrnčiar, Tomáš"
     },
     {
       "name": "Haenel, Valentin"
     },
     {
       "name": "Schwartz, Yannick"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Beasley, Benjamin A."
+    },
     {
       "affiliation": "Hospital for Sick Children",
       "name": "Darwin, Benjamin C"
@@ -352,6 +371,9 @@
     {
       "name": "Gauthier, Carl"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Notte, Clorindo"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Solovey, Igor"
     },
@@ -363,11 +385,14 @@
     {
       "name": "Palasubramaniam, Jath"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Cluce, Jon"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Lecher, Justin"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "TIB \u2013 Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany",
+      "affiliation": "TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany",
       "name": "Leinweber, Katrin",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-5135-5758"
     },
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       "name": "Raktivan, Konstantinos"
     },
     {
-      "name": "Cal\u00e1bkov\u00e1, Mark\u00e9ta"
+      "name": "Calábková, Markéta"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg, Erlangen, Germany",
+      "affiliation": "Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany",
       "name": "Fischer, Peter",
       "orcid": "0000-0003-3242-9867"
     },
     {
       "name": "Gervais, Philippe"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "Gau, Rémi",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-1535-9767"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Gadde, Syam"
     },
@@ -402,10 +431,6 @@
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       "name": "freec84"
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diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,73 @@ Eric Larson (EL), Demian Wassermann, Stephan Gerhard and Ross Markello (RM).
 
 References like "pr/298" refer to github pull request numbers.
 
+5.4.0 (Monday 2 March 2026)
+===========================
+
+New feature release in the 5.4.x series.
+
+This release requires a minimum Python of 3.10 and NumPy 1.25, and has been
+tested up to Python 3.14 and NumPy 2.4.
+
+New features
+------------
+* Add mode parameter to :func:`nibabel.processing.conform` (pr/1396) (Clorindo Notte,
+  reviewed by CM)
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+* Label image axes consistently in cases of extreme obliquity (pr/1450) (Leonardo Ayala,
+  reviewed by CM)
+* Use :mod:`compression.zstd` or ``backports.zstd`` in preference to ``pyzstd``
+  (pr/1444) (PM, reviewed by CM)
+* Support PAR/REC files generated by Philips R11 consoles (pr/1430)
+  (Alex Daniel, reviewed by CM)
+* Add stub file for top-level nibabel module, improving support in code analyzers
+  (pr/1436) (Jon Cluce, reviewed by CM)
+* Use informative error message for missing file attribute in
+  :class:`~nibabel.streamlines.tck.TCKFile` header (pr/1422)
+  (Jon Haitz Legarreta Gorroño, reviewed by CM)
+* Support ``ushort`` datatypes in MGH/MGZ files (pr/1415) (Benjamin Thyreau,
+  reviewed by CM)
+* Simplify :func:`nibabel.cmdline.utils.table2string` implementation (pr/1403) (CM)
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+* Fix type-checking errors in :func:`nibabel.volumeutils.rec2dict` (pr/1424)
+  (Jon Haitz Legarreta Gorroño, reviewed by CM)
+* Adapt to functools.partial becoming a method descriptor in Python 3.14
+  (pr/1391) (Benjamin Beasley, reviewed by CM)
+
+Maintenance
+-----------
+* Split pre-release tests into cron job (pr/1466) (CM, reviewed by Remi Gau)
+* Adapt to numpy 2.5 deprecation of setting :attr:`~numpy.ndarray.shape` attributes
+  (pr/1452) (CM)
+* Document and test support for :class:`os.PathLike` objects in streamlines APIs
+  (pr/1435) (Jon Haitz Legarreta Gorroño, reviewed by CM)
+* Drop CI tests on Intel Macs (pr/1439) (Dimitri Papadopoulos, reviewed by CM)
+* Update license metadata using SPDX expression (pr/1425) (Dimitri Papadopoulos, reviewed by CM)
+* Test on Python 3.14, us locking tox runners (pr/1431, pr/1447) (CM)
+* Update style checker (ruff) and address new complaints (pr/1405, pr/1406, pr/1433) (CM,
+  Dimitri Papadopoulos)
+* Add broad testing for Python 3.13 (pr/1381) (CM)
+* Build docs on PRs with ReadTheDocs to permit quick inspection. (pr/1398) (CM)
+
+API changes and deprecations
+----------------------------
+* Drop support for Python 3.9, Numpy < 1.15 (pr/1448) (CM)
+
+5.3.3 (Friday 5 December 2025)
+==============================
+
+Bug-fix release in the 5.3.x series.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+* Fix frame order for single-frame DICOM files (pr/1387) (Brendan Moloney, reviewed by CM)
+* Replace :class:`dict` literal with :class:`set` in test. (pr/1382) (CM)
+
+
 5.3.2 (Wednesday 23 October 2024)
 =================================
 

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ NOSETESTS = $(PYTHON) $(shell which nosetests)
 #
 
 PYVER := $(shell $(PYTHON) -V 2>&1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2,2 | cut -d '.' -f 1,2)
-DISTUTILS_PLATFORM := \
-	$(shell \
-		$(PYTHON) -c "import distutils.util; print(distutils.util.get_platform())")
 
 # Helpers for version handling.
 # Note: can't be ':='-ed since location of invocation might vary
@@ -243,10 +240,8 @@ sdist-venv: clean
 	. venv/bin/activate && cd venv/tmp/nibabel* && python setup.py install
 	unset PYTHONPATH && . venv/bin/activate && cd venv && pytest --doctest-modules --doctest-plus --pyargs nibabel
 
-source-release: distclean
-	$(PYTHON) -m compileall .
-	make distclean
-	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip
+source-release:
+	uv build --sdist
 
 venv-tests:
 	# I use this for python2.5 because the sdist-tests target doesn't work

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -15,12 +15,9 @@
       .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/nibabel.svg
          :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nibabel/
          :alt: PyPI - Python Version
-      .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-blue-blue.svg
-         :target: https://blue.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
-         :alt: code style: blue
-      .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/imports-isort-1674b1
-         :target: https://pycqa.github.io/isort/
-         :alt: imports: isort
+      .. image:: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json
+         :target: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
+         :alt: Ruff
       .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/pre--commit-enabled-brightgreen?logo=pre-commit&logoColor=white
          :target: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit
          :alt: pre-commit