10.2. PyMoDAQ 5.2 (5.2.0-5.2.12)

PyMoDAQ 5.2.0 was released on 2026-06-12, followed by twelve bug-fix releases until 2026-10-06. Pull requests (#NNN) refer to the PyMoDAQ repository.

10.2.1. Highlights 

5.2 is a large UI and architecture release: a new configurator to select and apply sets of settings (which became the State Manager), a rework of the managers framework, a widget synchronizer, Material icons, a common shared UI (menus and toolbars) for the Dashboard and the extensions, new Overshoot and Scan managers, scripting capabilities, and many data-saving improvements.

10.2.2. Major new features 

10.2.2.1. Configurator and managers 

New configurator extension, then preset configurator and configurator loaded from a preset file: #748, #773, #948. It was renamed State Manager in the UI: #1012
Refactoring of the managers framework (ManagerBase): #753. New modules manager: #929, with a rationalization of the origin/name of the data produced by viewers and actuators: #955
New Overshoot manager: #938
Scan manager: #1028, #1033 (removed again in 5.2.6 because it was “not mature enough”: #1089, and brought back in 5.3.0)

10.2.2.2. Common UI framework 

Widget synchronizer keeping widgets and parameters in sync: #804, #819, #825
Common window encapsulating the common menus and toolbars (SharedUI): #837, #862, #986, #1009, #1017, #1062
Qt Material icons, many new, flipped and colored icons, switch on checked state: #811, #865-#867, #887, #889, #919, #953
Dashboard UX rework and dashboard loader reusable by other applications: #805, #862, #888
Compact dock manager: #920; search in control module settings: #841; dark/light style switch and style proxy for checkboxes in dark themes: #802, #1007
Action LED and updated viewer0D: #926, #916
Launcher for PyMoDAQ: #1014

10.2.2.3. Control modules and scans 

DAQ_Move refactorization and actuator UI configuration: #870, #829
DAQ_Scan update: #881, #1034, #1036, #1038
Control module factorization and resource manager utilities: #996, #1047
Save and display the settings of all modules in the h5 file: #1020
Data names and origins: #955, #1038; split_as_dte to split a data object into several ones: #900

10.2.2.4. Configuration 

Config is a singleton: #775. New GlobalConfig to manipulate all configurations: #890, with a config_changed signal: #913
Configuration to parameter XML conversion: #912; cleaning of config paths: #972

10.2.2.5. Data saving 

Single-Write-Multiple-Read (SWMR) data saving: #906; options when calling the DataSaver: #852; access to the h5 backend from the DataSaver: #914
Conversion to xarray: #934; H5Saver parameters generated according to the save type: #966

10.2.2.6. Scripting 

Scripting capabilities in PyMoDAQ: #923, with a Python editor: #1018

10.2.2.7. Install and environment 

Python 3.9 no longer supported, Python 3.13 added: #794; installation on Python 3.14: #1032
Monorepo documentation and install-packages.py options: #767, #783, #785; tables < 3.10 security dependency removed: #897

10.2.3. Bug fixes (5.2.1-5.2.12)

5.2.1-5.2.2: epsilon units used in value comparisons, h5py with enlargeable data: #1067, #1068, #1069
5.2.3-5.2.4: h5py hotfix, splash screen removal in DAQ_Scan, module saving: #1070, #1072, #1078, #1080
5.2.5: tabular scan save and load: #1085
5.2.6: scan manager removed: #1089
5.2.7: averaging, colors, double logger entry, dashboard startup visibility, PID, shared UI kept alive with the H5Browser: #1092, #1097, #1087, #1111, #1123, #1134, #1137, #1142
5.2.8: parameter tree header resize, DAQ_type/detector_type backward compatibility, delta epsilon in comparisons: #1145, #1136, #1158
5.2.9: more file filters when opening files, errors in the savers: #1165, #1167
5.2.10: display errors in 0D data scans: #1183
5.2.11: relative UI: #1185
5.2.12: icons, scan timeout option and other backports from the development branch (#1061, #1093, #1105), LECO communication refactoring, stale items kept in ItemSelect (ROI output silently empty): #1182, #1247