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1Changelog
2=========
3
4Release 3.1.0 [2011-08-10]
5
6* additional baseline fitting, e.g. sinusoid, cspline
7* speed ups in various areas
8* plotter metadata display
9* interactive statistics
10* improved packaging
11* matplotlib >= 1.0 support
12* better support for MeasurementSet data
13* more statistics e.g. max/min abcissa
14* row-based flagging
15* apply fft to spectra
16* improved mask handling
17
18Release 3.0.0 [2010-05-06]
19
20* BEWARE: added asap2to3 which converts '.asap' files from version 2 to
21 version 3
22* Ticket #183 Added scantable.get_weather
23* Ticket #181 Added work-around for casacore bug in saving tables with
24 selection
25* Ticket #178 Added opacity_model based on miriad's atmospheric model
26* Ticket #177 Added function skydip to determine opacities.
27* Ticket #172 Fixed non-working scantable.resample
28* Ticket #155 Better output filenames. Ignore non-existsing
29 beams/pols/ifs/scans
30* Ticket #157 numpy >= 1.1 support
31* Ticket #158 fixed plotter.set_font
32* Ticket #160 Aspect ratio of plotter is customisable now
33* Ticket #163 fixed for scantable.set_sourcetype
34* Ticket #164 Upgrade note in wiki FAQ
35* Ticket #165 Handle non-parallactified polarimtery data (if supported in
36 rpfits)
37* Ticket #167 Added running polynomial filter to scantable.smooth
38* Ticket #168 Data exported via scantable.save now contains correct frequency
39 or velocity information
40* Ticket #169 Simplified selection of data
41* Ticket #46 Interactive lag flagging
42* Ticket #170 Provided access to frequency coordinate information via
43 scantable.get_coordinate
44* Added OS X 10.5 Disk image installer
45* Added support for OS X 10.6
46* Interactive plotting annotations via optional argument interactive=True
47* Interactive creation of masks on the plotter - plotter.create_mask
48* Tidy up date range in asapplotter.plotazel/plotpointings
49* support for gcc-4.4
50
51Release 2.3.1 [2009-03-25]
52
53* Ticket #154 Flagged data wasn't hnoured in fitting
54* Ticket #153 plotter.plot_lines fixed for matplotlib >= 0.98
55* Ticket #90 Support integer values for frequencies/errors/intensities
56
57Release 2.3.0 [2009-03-13]
58
59* Ticket #150 fix in casacore for frequency frame conversions
60* Ticket #151 added rc parameter and function set_sourcetype to identify
61 on/off scans
62* Ticket #78/#112 Resolved the issue with random errors occuring under linux
63 for large
64 data files, which corrupted the identifaction of off scans
65* Ticket #149 Fixed the bug causing spectral line search to go into an
66 infinite loop in some rare circumstances
67* Ticket #110 Added export to CLASS readable FITS files
68 scantable.save("myfile.fits", "CLASS")
69* Ticket #142 Fix of the frequency alignment for long observations
70* Ticket #133 allow supression of history in the scantable via rc parameters
71* Ticket #109 source direction for Hobart data
72* Ticket #115 added running median to scantable.(smooth(kernel='rmedian')
73* Ticket #148 opacity correction wasn't applied to TSYS
74* Ticket #135 quotient detection failure for specific source names
75* Ticket #140 NaN values not handled - added scantable.flag_nans to ensure
76 that the NaN are flagged
77* added python iterator access to scantable rows
78* made functions available to directly manipulate spectra
79 scantable.get/set_spectrum
80* upgrade to support ipython >= 0.8.1
81* support gcc-4.3
82* use scons >= 1.1.0
83* update to latest livedata I/O functions
84* add WCS info to the exported text files
85
86
87Release 2.2.0 [2007-05-02]
88
89* fix for losing flags in average_time
90* changed asap_update_data to contact ATNF ftp server directly
91* Documentation updates
92* changed to use casacore instead of aips++
93* auto_quotient uses on/off pair detection by default, 'time' the old mode can also
94 be accessed
95* Ticket #107 added function to shift reference pixel
96* Ticket #106 added function to retrieve integration times
97* Ticket #105 added Parkes K-band gain curve
98* Ticket #102 fixed wrong polarisation type in case of 'circular'
99* Ticket #104/94 fixed segmentation fault for time average if all channels are flagged
100* Ticket #98 AIPSPATH is honoured if set
101* Ticket #101 fixed set_restfreqs not working for IFs not starting at 0
102* Ticket #97 fixed error in opacity calculation
103
104Minor Release 2.1.1 [2006-11-09]
105
106* fix for Ticket #88 - numpy masks
107* better TAB completion for ipython (handles quotes, don't list private members)
108* Fix for Ticket #81 = scanatble.stats output as list
109* ticket #64 - speed up of auto_poly_baseline
110* fix for ticket #89 - export of IF sub-selections
111* fix for Ticket #83 - export to ms2 crashed asap
112* added file suffix support for name.rpf.1 etc.
113
114Release Version 2.1.0 [2006-09-11]
115
116* Processing of Multibeam MX data
117* Line Catalogs for both plotting and setting rest frequencies
118* median averaging
119* support of circular polarisations
120* binaries for fedora (core 3/5), debian, ubuntu, OSX (ppc,intel)
121* text/arrow/line annonations for plotter
122* export of fit parameters to text file
123* disk based scantables for large data sets
124* re-introduced custom quotients
125* fixed major fitter bug
126* fft flagging
127* full support for MOPS data
128
129Release Version 2.0 [2006-04-28]
130
131* Major rework of internal data representation. Now supports IFs with
132 different number of spectral channels. This has minimal effect on the
133 user interface.
134* Creation of a "selector" object used for data selection. Allow slicing of
135 data in beam, IF, polarisation as well as selection via header values
136 (e.g. Tsys). set_cursor is now invalid use set_selection instead.
137* Scantables can be merged
138* scantable.lines() has been removed. Set rest frequencies by value
139 (This will change in 2.1)
140* Multiple data files (e.g. rpf) can be read into a single scantable
141* Polarmetric infrastructure improved to support most observing styles
142 (linear feeds only)
143* ability to convert to/store as Stokes
144* Plotter can now only plot from a single scantable (use merge if necessary)
145* ASCII (text) spectral output changed to be more usable
146* Can change the source position coordinate frame
147* Bug fixes
148* auto_quotient is doing "closest in time reference"
149* option auto-align in velocity when using average_time
150* flagging on a per channel base
151
152
153(Release 1.2.2)
154
155* channel based flagging
156* Added get_elevation, azimuth and parangle
157* Added swap_lineas & invert_phase
158* added allaxes arg to poly_baseline
159* Request: added pager throuput for history and summary
160* Request: Log meesage on auto_quotient()
161* Bug Fix: plotter -set_mode("s","i").
162* Bug fix: plotter -autoscale abcissa limits from all spectra for stacking.
163
164Release Version 1.2.1 [2005-12-06]
165
166* scantable.recalc_azel - recalcualte azimuth and elevation based on
167* pointing Bug fix: plotter - set_layout got overwritten byt plot; row
168 cursor not honoured in _plot_time
169
170
171Release Version 1.2 [2005-11-30]
172
173Code changes
174------------
175* frequency switching: scantable.freq_switch()
176* get a list of sourcenames: scantable.get_sourcename()
177* build quotients from matched _S/_R pairs or 1*_R/n*_S automatically
178* plotting control: plotter.set_colors(), plotter.set_linestyles(),
179 plotter.set_linewidth() all also via .asaprc parameters
180* non-interactive (non-GUI) plotting
181* ASAP Online (Mopra) Monitor web interface (mini pipeline)
182* user control of multi-panel: plotter.set_layout()
183* histogram plotting: part of linestyles
184* plugins: via ~/.asap/userfuncs.py
185* plotter panel control: rcParams['plotter.ganged']
186* usability: reworked the whole asap startup scripts, now all user adjustable
187 through ~/.asap/
188
189Todos/pending
190--------------
191* documentation update: should be finished by 2005-11-25
192* cookbook
193* release 1.2: 2005-11-30
194
195Major non-targets, resulting from requirements/targets
196-----------------------------------------------------
197* asap logging, which can be turned on and off through .asaprc/rcParams
198 (from asapmon)
199* Data container v2 design study and document ( moved from cycle II )
200
201Not Addressed
202-------------
203
204(deferred to cycle II, as described in support document)
205
206* Flexible data selection
207* "Merging of spectra" (concatenating scantables)
208
209* public defect tracking system
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