2.5.0

New features

• DynamicTable can be automatically generated using get_class. Now the HDMF API can read files with extensions
  that contain a DynamicTable without needing to import the extension first. @rly and @bendichter (#536)
• Add HDF5IO.get_namespaces(path=path, file=file) method which returns a dict of namespace name mapped to the
  namespace version (the largest one if there are multiple) for each namespace cached in the given HDF5 file.
  @rly (#527)
• Use HDMF common schema 1.5.0.
  • Add experimental namespace to HDMF common schema. New data types should go in the experimental namespace
    (hdmf-experimental) prior to being added to the core (hdmf-common) namespace. The purpose of this is to provide
    a place to test new data types that may break backward compatibility as they are refined. @ajtritt (#545)
  • ExternalResources was changed to support storing both names and URIs for resources. @mavaylon (#517, #548)
  • The VocabData data type was replaced by EnumData to provide more flexible support for data from a set of
    fixed values.
  • Added AlignedDynamicTable, which defines a DynamicTable that supports storing a collection of sub-tables.
    Each sub-table is itself a DynamicTable that is aligned with the main table by row index. Each sub-table
    defines a sub-category in the main table effectively creating a table with sub-headings to organize columns.
  • See https://hdmf-common-schema.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format_release_notes.html#april-19-2021 for more
    details.
• Add EnumData type for storing data that comes from a fixed set of values. This replaces VocabData i.e.
  VocabData has been removed. VocabData stored vocabulary elements in an attribute, which has a size limit.
  EnumData now stores elements in a separate dataset, referenced by an attribute stored on the EnumData dataset.
  @ajtritt (#537)
• Add AlignedDynamicTable type which defines a DynamicTable that supports storing a collection of subtables.
  Each sub-table is itself a DynamicTable that is aligned with the main table by row index. Each subtable
  defines a sub-category in the main table effectively creating a table with sub-headings to organize columns.
  @oruebel (#551)
• Add tutoral for new AlignedDynamicTable type. @oruebel (#571)
• Equality check for DynamicTable now also checks that the name and description of the table are the same. @rly (#566)

Internal improvements

• Update CI and copyright year. @rly (#523, #524)
• Refactor class generation code. @rly (#533, #535)
• Equality check for DynamicTable returns False if the other object is a DynamicTable instead of raising an error.
  @rly (#566)
• Update ruamel.yaml usage to new API. @rly (#587)
• Remove use of ColoredTestRunner for more readable verbose test output. @rly (#588)

Bug fixes

• Fix CI testing on Python 3.9. @rly (#523)
• Fix certain edge cases where GroupValidator would not validate all of the child groups or datasets
  attached to a GroupBuilder. @dsleiter (#526)
• Fix bug for generating classes from link specs and ignored 'help' fields. @rly (#535)
• Various fixes for dynamic class generation. @rly (#561)
• Fix generation of classes that extends both MultiContainerInterface and another class that extends
  MultiContainerInterface. @rly (#567)
• Fix make clean command for docs to clean up sphinx-gallery tutorial files. @oruebel (#571)
• Make sure we cannot set AlignedDynamicTable as a category on an AlignedDynamicTable. @oruebel (#571)
• Fix included data type resolution between HDMF and custom classes that customize the data_type_inc key. @rly (#503)
• Fix classification of attributes as new/overridden. @rly (#503)