release_notes_v21.12.00

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a segmentation fault due to unloaded libcufile (#158) @gigony
• Build with NumPy 1.17 (#148) @jakirkham

📖 Documentation

• Add Jupyter notebook for SVS Support (#147) @gigony
• Update change log for v21.10.01 (#142) @gigony
• update docs theme to pydata-sphinx-theme (#138) @quasiben
• Update Github links in README.md through script (#132) @gigony
• Fix GDS link in Jupyter notebook (#131) @gigony
• Update notebook for the interoperability with DALI (#127) @gigony

🚀 New Features

• Support Aperio SVS with CPU LZW and jpeg2k decoder (#141) @gigony

🛠️ Improvements

• Fix Changelog Merge Conflicts for branch-21.12 (#156) @ajschmidt8
• Add cucim.kit.cumed plugin with skeleton (#129) @gigony
• Update initial cpp unittests (#128) @gigony
• Optimize zoom out implementation with separate padding kernel (#125) @chirayuG-nvidia
• Do not force install linux-64 version of openslide-python (#124) @Ethyling