Incompatibility and slow adoption of new scientific software versions
Researchers and institutions using specialized scientific software (like FreeSurfer in neuroscience) face challenges integrating newer versions into their existing data processing pipelines (e.g., fMRIPrep). This prevents them from leveraging performance improvements and new features, often due to backward incompatibility or the effort required to update dependent tools and reprocess large datasets.
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- GitHub IssuesAug 22, 2026
FreeSurfer 8
### What would you like to see added in fMRIPrep? Do you have plans to upgrade FreeSurfer 7.3.2 to FreeSurfer 8? I'm asking because FreeSurfer 8 looks like an improvement important enough for us to move to FreeSurfer 8 when processing large population imaging datasets. We can hardly run both versions because of the……
- GitHub IssuesAug 22, 2026
Content mismatch: blog article pages with heavy loss — 56 of 235 pages
## Summary Blog **article** pages, part 1 of 2. A full source-vs-migrated audit of all **293 page pairs** found content mismatches on **154 of the 235 blog article pages** (81 are clean). This issue tracks the **56 where a lot is wrong** — five or more distinct mismatches, or a CRITICAL page carrying a stale revision……
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