21.0.0rc0 (September 2, 2021) ============================= The first release candidate for a new major version of fMRIPrep! Changes: * DOC: Update sample report (#2519) * DOC: Refactor README and citing information (#2474) * DOC: Point documentation at *SDCFlows* and remove SDC section (#2470)\ * DOC: Transfer duplicated documentation to www.nipreps.org (#2469) * DOC: Better explanation on how spike regressors are generated (#2465) * DOC: Clarify that ``res-2`` entity does not mean 2mm (#2466) * DOC: adds --mem metavar (#2378) * DOC: skull stripping is forced by default (#2345) * ENH: Add flag for STC reference time and set in all cases (#2520) * ENH: Use ``BIDSLayoutIndexer`` and do not index unnecessary modalities (#2494) * ENH: Allow users to download templateflow templates to directory (#2482) * ENH: Detect 3D & too-short BOLD series, warn and skip run's workflow building (#2461) * ENH: Modernize Dockerfile (#2409) (#2270) * ENH: Leverage SDCFlows 2.x API (#2392) * FIX: Avoid eager imports from *NiWorkflows* causing API breaks (#2495) * FIX: Split aCompCor into aCompCor, cCompCor, wCompCor (#2523) * FIX: Avoid unnecessary connections based on branching logic (#2508) * FIX: Permit missing TR to show PyBIDS error at workflow construction time (#2513) * FIX: Simplify STC logic for too short BOLD series (#2489) * FIX: Catch FreeSurfer error related to FIPS being enabled (#2490) * FIX: ``DerivativesDataSink`` nondeterministic checksums fixed with ``niworkflows=~1.3.4`` (#2458) * FIX: Address dependency incompatibilities by pinning specific packages (#2463) * FIX: Unprotected import of ``sentry_sdk``, which is not a dependency (#2460) * FIX: Clarify phase encoding direction, rather than axis (#2302) * MAINT: Relicense +20.3.x - BSD-3-Clause -> Apache License 2.0 (#2325) * MAINT: Add missing OASIS30 WM/BS probsegs (#2471) * MAINT: Update BIDS validator to 1.8.0 (#2443) * MAINT: Address the problems of a sloppy merge (#2468) * MAINT: Containers - remove ``/root/.npm`` (#2464) * MAINT: Remove traces of Xenial base (#2459) * MAINT: Revise CircleCI's cache tags to avoid mixups between builds (#2457) * MAINT: Back port CircleCI configuration from dev branch (#2456) * MAINT: Increase minimum tedana version (#2366) * MAINT: Docker hub has disabled password authentication (#2448) * MAINT: Add Lea Waller to ``contributors.json`` (#2304) * MAINT: Move away from nearly deprecated images (#2295) * MAINT: Migrate from poldracklab to nipreps orgs (#2290) * MAINT: Ease CI packaging tests (#2472)