REL: 2.5.2

Author: effigies

Changelog

@@ -25,11 +25,18 @@ Eric Larson (EL), Demian Wassermann, and Stephan Gerhard.
 
 References like "pr/298" refer to github pull request numbers.
 
-2.5.2 (To Be Determined)
-========================
+2.5.2 (Wednesday 8 April 2020)
+==============================
+
+Bug-fix release in the 2.5.x series. This is an extended-support series,
+providing bug fixes for Python 2.7 and 3.4.
 
-This and all future releases in 2.5.x series will be incompatible with Python
-3.9.
+This and all future releases in the 2.5.x series will be incompatible with
+Python 3.9. The last compatible series of numpy and scipy are 1.16.x and
+1.2.x, respectively.
+
+If you are able to upgrade to Python 3, it is recommended to upgrade to
+NiBabel 3.
 
 Bug fixes
 ---------
@@ -38,6 +45,11 @@ Bug fixes
 * Re-import externals/netcdf.py from scipy to resolve numpy deprecation
   (pr/821) (CM)
 
+Maintenance
+-----------
+* Set maximum numpy to 1.16.x, maximum scipy to 1.2.x (pr/901) (CM)
+
+
 2.5.1 (Monday 23 September 2019)
 ================================
 
@@ -304,7 +316,7 @@ Maintenance
 * Use SSH address to use key-based auth (pr/587) (CM, reviewed by MB)
 * Fix doctests for numpy 1.14 array printing (pr/591) (MB, reviewed by CM)
 * Refactor for pydicom 1.0 API changes (pr/599) (MB, reviewed by CM)
-* Increase test coverage, remove unreachable code (pr/602) (CM, reviewed by 
+* Increase test coverage, remove unreachable code (pr/602) (CM, reviewed by
   Yaroslav Halchenko, MB)
 * Move ``nib-ls`` and other programs to a new cmdline module (pr/601, pr/615)
   (Chris Cheng, reviewed by MB, Yaroslav Halchenko)

doc/source/conf.py

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'NiBabel'
-copyright = u'2006-2019, %(maintainer)s <%(author_email)s>' % metadata
+copyright = u'2006-2020, %(maintainer)s <%(author_email)s>' % metadata
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the

nibabel-data/nitest-dicom

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 _version_major = 2
 _version_minor = 5
 _version_micro = 2
-_version_extra = 'dev'
-# _version_extra = ''
+# _version_extra = 'dev'
+_version_extra = ''
 
 # Format expected by setup.py and doc/source/conf.py: string of form "X.Y.Z"
 __version__ = "%s.%s.%s%s" % (_version_major,