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Neo 0.11.1 release notes
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21st October 2022

.. currentmodule:: neo.io

Bug fixes and improvements in IO modules
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Bug fixes and/or improvements have been made to
:class:`OpenEphysBinaryIO`, :class:`BlackrockIO`, :class:`NWBIO`, :class:`PhyIO`, :class:`NeuralynxIO`


Supported format versions
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:class:`BlackrockIO` now supports file version 3.0


Other changes
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New installation mode

- Neo can now be installed including all optional dependencies via *pip install neo[all]*

Faster import

- Dependency imports have been optimized for faster import of Neo

Epoch durations

- Epoch durations of epochs can now be of type float

See all `pull requests`_ included in this release and the `list of closed issues`_.

Acknowledgements
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Thanks to Andrew Davison, Julia Sprenger, Chadwick Boulay, Alessio Buccino, Elodie Legouée, Samuel Garcia for their contributions to this release.

.. generated with git shortlog --since=2022-09-01 -sne then checking Github for PRs merged since the last release but with commits before then

.. _`list of closed issues`: https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.11.1+is%3Aclosed
.. _`pull requests`: https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+merged%3A%3E2022-09-01+milestone%3A0.11.1