Release checklist for SCT v6.1

[joshuacwnewton]

The 6.1 release is set for Thursday, October 12th Friday, November 3rd.

I will continually update this issue to track the ongoing state of the tasks needed before 6.1 can be released.

Ready for review

None!

WIP: Needs more work

None!

Approved / Completed

• Update figure in "Other shape metrics" tutorial #4183
  • Merged: Update figure and references for "Other shape metrics" tutorial #4262
• Update documentation for new spinal levels #4247
  • Merged: Update documentation for new spinal levels #4249
• Fix conflict between internal dummy label 99 and user-supplied label 99 #4228
  • Merged: Avoid duplicate orthogonal labels during registration by checking existing labels first #4233
• sct_deepseg output data with suffix "-manual" which is confusing (and wrong) #3278
  • Merged: Update model releases (lumbar_seg, t2star_sc) to fix output suffix (_seg-manual -> _seg) #4235
• Add tutorial for sct_compute_compression function #4158
  • Merged: Add tutorial for sct_compute_compression in documentation #4162
• Remove option -s with new spinal level files #4246
  • Merged: Remove -s functionality and add a deprecation warning #4252
• Update spinal levels based on Frostell et al. paper #4215
  • Main tasks have been done. SCT course changes will be tracked in the course-prep issue.
• Add SCT tutorial about registering lumbar images using 2 labels #4180
  • Needs second-pass review: Add tutorial for lumbar segmentation and registration #4250
• Recent PAM50 changes have caused test failures #4254
  • Needs review: Update PAM50 template links and fix related test errors #4268
• Allow the use of sct_download_data in SCT course
  • Needs review: Add current sct_tutorial_data release as a new course dataset #4271

Release checklist (@joshuacwnewton)

• Manually test PyQT/matplotlib GUIs
• Manually test FSLeyes plugin
• Proofread merged PRs (labels, milestones, titles)
• Update changelog (plus version.txt)
• Creating the release (filling in the release body text)
• Announcing the release

[joshuacwnewton]

SCT v6.1 has been released!