v2025.5.4

What's Changed

• Update file_io.py by @zhouzq-thu in #1228
• Add lazy initialization for normals (#1231) by @CorpsSansOrganes in #1232
• Fix broken example links in add_legend_box() documentation by @CorpsSansOrganes in #1241
• Use specialized reader for OME-TIFF files. by @anntzer in #1242
• Fix trivial typo. by @anntzer in #1247
• Fix: update implementation of Box with bounds input to internally set X/Y/Z lengths by @dbotwinick in #1250
• fix: several example urls fixed by @CorpsSansOrganes in #1253

• general code cleanup with pylint.
• add utils.compute_hessian()
• fix issue #1224 for cells coloring in jupyter notebook for k3d
• add support for STEP files format (needs opencascade lib) #1222
• fix nan case in scalarbar3d()
• add .rename() method to set any object name.
• fix bug #1230 in line.find_index_at_position() by @natabma
• Add lazy initialization for normals (#1231) by @CorpsSansOrganes
• add chemistry module to represent molecules and proteins
• fix to Box class by @dbotwinick

Soft-breaking Changes

Changes that may break existing code whose fixing is trivial:

Hard-breaking Changes

Changes that will break existing code and need active thinking and some work to adapt

• None

New/Revised Examples

examples/pyplot/plot_fxy0.py
examples/volumetric/image_editor.py
examples/other/pysr_regression.py
examples/other/chemistry1.py
tests/issues/issue_1230.py

New Contributors

• @CorpsSansOrganes made their first contribution in #1232
• @anntzer made their first contribution in #1242
• @dbotwinick made their first contribution in #1250

Full Changelog: v2025.5.3...v2025.5.4