MNE 1.13 is out! Available now on PyPI, conda-forge, and through our standalone installers. Highlights:
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Many improvements to our 3D visualization (Coregistration, Brain plots, and Dipole Fitting GUI), by @payam and @wmvanvliet.
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Many improvements to the figure event system by GSoC contributor @Gnefil (mentored by @wmvanvliet).
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Faster I/O for our EGI reader by GSoC contributor @PragnyaKhandelwal (mentored by @scott-huberty).
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Faster reads for most flavors of Raw files by @bruAristimunha, four new ERP measures by Beliz Sertcan Gökmen, new ICA method JAMICA by Sina Esmaeili, and a new baselining method for time-frequency data by @virvw, all done at our Paris Maintainer Sprint.
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Faster permutation cluster tests by Sharif Haason and Luca Kaemmer.
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Faster visualization of heavily annotated raw data by @frankier.
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Coming soon: run our tutorials in-browser with Jupyterlite! This was our third GSoC project of 2026, led by @natinew77-creator (mentored by @teonbrooks). We’re finalizing it now, will be live in the dev-docs soon; in stable docs with version 1.14 release.
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Required dependency updates: Python ≥ 3.11, matplotlib ≥ 3.9, NumPy ≥ 2.1, SciPy ≥ 1.14
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Optional dependency updates: dipy ≥ 1.9, mne-qt-browser ≥ 0.6, nibabel ≥ 5.2, nilearn ≥ 0.10, numba ≥ 0.60, pyvista ≥ 0.44, scikit-learn ≥ 1.5
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Default Qt bindings are now PySide6 (was PyQt6). To continue using PyQt6, do
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LOTS of other bugfixes and improvements from our record 72 contributors, including 39 first-time contributors!
read the full changelog here. Thanks to everyone who attended our Maintainer Sprint in August: Alejandro Santos Mayo, Beliz Sertcan Gökmen, @bruAristimunha, @CarinaFo, @drammock, @larsoner, Erica Peterson, @BabaSanfour, @LaetitiaG, Marie-Constance Corsi, @wmvanvliet, @maximilien.chaumon, @payam, @raphbrd, @scott-huberty, Sina Esmaeili, @sophie, Sylvain Chevallier, @tsbinns, Valeriia Vyshnevetska, and @virvw. Special thanks to @agramfort for hosting us at Meta’s Paris offices.
Special thanks also to the 39 first-time contributors, including: Amirali Moradniaei, Anton Karpov, Antonio Elias Sánchez Soto, Apoorva Verma, Athish M, Ayushi Satodiya, Baris Talar, Ben Tang, Bhargav Kowshik, Cedric Conday, Daria Agafonova, Deep Kaur, Deepesh Sonar, Famous Raj Bhat, Farzah11, Frankie Robertson, John Griffiths, Jonas Mago, Julien Dubois, Lifeng Qiu Lin, Luca Kaemmer, Marcus Campbell, Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Pavel Popov, Piotr Durka, Samarth D N, Seth Bashford, Sharif Haason, Théo Castillo, Varun Kasyap Pentamaraju, Vincent Gao, Zahra M. Aghajan, and sametseckın.