source: branches/alma/doc/CHANGELOG@ 3055

Last change on this file since 3055 was 1757, checked in by Kana Sugimoto, 14 years ago

New Development: Yes

JIRA Issue: Yes (CAS-2211)

Ready for Test: Yes

Interface Changes: Yes

What Interface Changed: ASAP 3.0.0 interface changes

Test Programs:

Put in Release Notes: Yes

Module(s): all the CASA sd tools and tasks are affected.

Description: Merged ATNF-ASAP 3.0.0 developments to CASA (alma) branch.

Note you also need to update casa/code/atnf.


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1Changelog
2=========
3
4Release 3.0.0 [2010-05-06]
5
6* BEWARE: added asap2to3 which converts '.asap' files from version 2 to
7 version 3
8* Ticket #183 Added scantable.get_weather
9* Ticket #181 Added work-around for casacore bug in saving tables with
10 selection
11* Ticket #178 Added opacity_model based on miriad's atmospheric model
12* Ticket #177 Added function skydip to determine opacities.
13* Ticket #172 Fixed non-working scantable.resample
14* Ticket #155 Better output filenames. Ignore non-existsing
15 beams/pols/ifs/scans
16* Ticket #157 numpy >= 1.1 support
17* Ticket #158 fixed plotter.set_font
18* Ticket #160 Aspect ratio of plotter is customisable now
19* Ticket #163 fixed for scantable.set_sourcetype
20* Ticket #164 Upgrade note in wiki FAQ
21* Ticket #165 Handle non-parallactified polarimtery data (if supported in
22 rpfits)
23* Ticket #167 Added running polynomial filter to scantable.smooth
24* Ticket #168 Data exported via scantable.save now contains correct frequency
25 or velocity information
26* Ticket #169 Simplified selection of data
27* Ticket #46 Interactive lag flagging
28* Ticket #170 Provided access to frequency coordinate information via
29 scantable.get_coordinate
30* Added OS X 10.5 Disk image installer
31* Added support for OS X 10.6
32* Interactive plotting annotations via optional argument interactive=True
33* Interactive creation of masks on the plotter - plotter.create_mask
34* Tidy up date range in asapplotter.plotazel/plotpointings
35* support for gcc-4.4
36
37Release 2.3.1 [2009-03-25]
38
39* Ticket #154 Flagged data wasn't hnoured in fitting
40* Ticket #153 plotter.plot_lines fixed for matplotlib >= 0.98
41* Ticket #90 Support integer values for frequencies/errors/intensities
42
43Release 2.3.0 [2009-03-13]
44
45* Ticket #150 fix in casacore for frequency frame conversions
46* Ticket #151 added rc parameter and function set_sourcetype to identify
47 on/off scans
48* Ticket #78/#112 Resolved the issue with random errors occuring under linux
49 for large
50 data files, which corrupted the identifaction of off scans
51* Ticket #149 Fixed the bug causing spectral line search to go into an
52 infinite loop in some rare circumstances
53* Ticket #110 Added export to CLASS readable FITS files
54 scantable.save("myfile.fits", "CLASS")
55* Ticket #142 Fix of the frequency alignment for long observations
56* Ticket #133 allow supression of history in the scantable via rc parameters
57* Ticket #109 source direction for Hobart data
58* Ticket #115 added running median to scantable.(smooth(kernel='rmedian')
59* Ticket #148 opacity correction wasn't applied to TSYS
60* Ticket #135 quotient detection failure for specific source names
61* Ticket #140 NaN values not handled - added scantable.flag_nans to ensure
62 that the NaN are flagged
63* added python iterator access to scantable rows
64* made functions available to directly manipulate spectra
65 scantable.get/set_spectrum
66* upgrade to support ipython >= 0.8.1
67* support gcc-4.3
68* use scons >= 1.1.0
69* update to latest livedata I/O functions
70* add WCS info to the exported text files
71
72
73Release 2.2.0 [2007-05-02]
74
75* fix for losing flags in average_time
76* changed asap_update_data to contact ATNF ftp server directly
77* Documentation updates
78* changed to use casacore instead of aips++
79* auto_quotient uses on/off pair detection by default, 'time' the old mode can also
80 be accessed
81* Ticket #107 added function to shift reference pixel
82* Ticket #106 added function to retrieve integration times
83* Ticket #105 added Parkes K-band gain curve
84* Ticket #102 fixed wrong polarisation type in case of 'circular'
85* Ticket #104/94 fixed segmentation fault for time average if all channels are flagged
86* Ticket #98 AIPSPATH is honoured if set
87* Ticket #101 fixed set_restfreqs not working for IFs not starting at 0
88* Ticket #97 fixed error in opacity calculation
89
90Minor Release 2.1.1 [2006-11-09]
91
92* fix for Ticket #88 - numpy masks
93* better TAB completion for ipython (handles quotes, don't list private members)
94* Fix for Ticket #81 = scanatble.stats output as list
95* ticket #64 - speed up of auto_poly_baseline
96* fix for ticket #89 - export of IF sub-selections
97* fix for Ticket #83 - export to ms2 crashed asap
98* added file suffix support for name.rpf.1 etc.
99
100Release Version 2.1.0 [2006-09-11]
101
102* Processing of Multibeam MX data
103* Line Catalogs for both plotting and setting rest frequencies
104* median averaging
105* support of circular polarisations
106* binaries for fedora (core 3/5), debian, ubuntu, OSX (ppc,intel)
107* text/arrow/line annonations for plotter
108* export of fit parameters to text file
109* disk based scantables for large data sets
110* re-introduced custom quotients
111* fixed major fitter bug
112* fft flagging
113* full support for MOPS data
114
115Release Version 2.0 [2006-04-28]
116
117* Major rework of internal data representation. Now supports IFs with
118 different number of spectral channels. This has minimal effect on the
119 user interface.
120* Creation of a "selector" object used for data selection. Allow slicing of
121 data in beam, IF, polarisation as well as selection via header values
122 (e.g. Tsys). set_cursor is now invalid use set_selection instead.
123* Scantables can be merged
124* scantable.lines() has been removed. Set rest frequencies by value
125 (This will change in 2.1)
126* Multiple data files (e.g. rpf) can be read into a single scantable
127* Polarmetric infrastructure improved to support most observing styles
128 (linear feeds only)
129* ability to convert to/store as Stokes
130* Plotter can now only plot from a single scantable (use merge if necessary)
131* ASCII (text) spectral output changed to be more usable
132* Can change the source position coordinate frame
133* Bug fixes
134* auto_quotient is doing "closest in time reference"
135* option auto-align in velocity when using average_time
136* flagging on a per channel base
137
138
139(Release 1.2.2)
140
141* channel based flagging
142* Added get_elevation, azimuth and parangle
143* Added swap_lineas & invert_phase
144* added allaxes arg to poly_baseline
145* Request: added pager throuput for history and summary
146* Request: Log meesage on auto_quotient()
147* Bug Fix: plotter -set_mode("s","i").
148* Bug fix: plotter -autoscale abcissa limits from all spectra for stacking.
149
150Release Version 1.2.1 [2005-12-06]
151
152* scantable.recalc_azel - recalcualte azimuth and elevation based on
153* pointing Bug fix: plotter - set_layout got overwritten byt plot; row
154 cursor not honoured in _plot_time
155
156
157Release Version 1.2 [2005-11-30]
158
159Code changes
160------------
161* frequency switching: scantable.freq_switch()
162* get a list of sourcenames: scantable.get_sourcename()
163* build quotients from matched _S/_R pairs or 1*_R/n*_S automatically
164* plotting control: plotter.set_colors(), plotter.set_linestyles(),
165 plotter.set_linewidth() all also via .asaprc parameters
166* non-interactive (non-GUI) plotting
167* ASAP Online (Mopra) Monitor web interface (mini pipeline)
168* user control of multi-panel: plotter.set_layout()
169* histogram plotting: part of linestyles
170* plugins: via ~/.asap/userfuncs.py
171* plotter panel control: rcParams['plotter.ganged']
172* usability: reworked the whole asap startup scripts, now all user adjustable
173 through ~/.asap/
174
175Todos/pending
176--------------
177* documentation update: should be finished by 2005-11-25
178* cookbook
179* release 1.2: 2005-11-30
180
181Major non-targets, resulting from requirements/targets
182-----------------------------------------------------
183* asap logging, which can be turned on and off through .asaprc/rcParams
184 (from asapmon)
185* Data container v2 design study and document ( moved from cycle II )
186
187Not Addressed
188-------------
189
190(deferred to cycle II, as described in support document)
191
192* Flexible data selection
193* "Merging of spectra" (concatenating scantables)
194
195* public defect tracking system
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