| 1 | Changelog |
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| 2 | ========= |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | Release 4.2.0 [2012-07-02] |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | * #291: add set_sourcename |
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| 7 | * #293: rework history to allow access to large history |
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| 8 | * #293:method to drop_history |
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| 9 | * #291: add some more info to freq_align log |
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| 10 | * #289: added ability to set Tsys, both for scalar and vector values |
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| 11 | * #288: implemented dropping of xpols as scantable.drop_xpol() |
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| 12 | * optimisation of baselining functions for scantable. |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | Release 4.1.0 [2012-10-10] |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | * reworked build system to work as 'normal' python package |
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| 17 | * Ticket #257 fixed bug in average_time introduced in 4.0 |
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| 18 | * experimental merging of IFs |
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| 19 | * speed ups |
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| 20 | * work with to ipython>=0.11 |
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| 21 | * Ticket #269 fixed regression of reference scan detection for Hobart data |
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| 22 | * work under OS X 10.7/10.8 |
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| 23 | * fixed logging control through rcParams |
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| 24 | * fix for frequency_alignment |
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| 25 | * Ticket #264 silence skydip. |
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| 26 | * Ticket #265 fix summary for multiple IF chains |
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| 27 | * Ticket #280 fix SDFITS frequency frame output |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | Release 4.0.0 [2011-10-05] |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | * Ticket #251 fixed scantable.scale broken behaviour when selection was set |
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| 32 | * Ticket #250 fixed average_time's change in behaviour |
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| 33 | * Ticket #249 fixed backwards compatibility with existing scantable |
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| 34 | * speed up of scantable.summary which has changed the |
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| 35 | output of the summary information |
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| 36 | * various changes to MS export |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | Release 3.1.0 [2011-08-10] |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | * additional baseline fitting, e.g. sinusoid, cspline |
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| 41 | * speed ups in various areas |
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| 42 | * plotter metadata display |
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| 43 | * interactive statistics |
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| 44 | * improved packaging |
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| 45 | * matplotlib >= 1.0 support |
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| 46 | * better support for MeasurementSet data |
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| 47 | * more statistics e.g. max/min abcissa |
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| 48 | * row-based flagging |
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| 49 | * apply fft to spectra |
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| 50 | * improved mask handling |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | Release 3.0.0 [2010-05-06] |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | * BEWARE: added asap2to3 which converts '.asap' files from version 2 to |
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| 55 | version 3 |
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| 56 | * Ticket #183 Added scantable.get_weather |
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| 57 | * Ticket #181 Added work-around for casacore bug in saving tables with |
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| 58 | selection |
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| 59 | * Ticket #178 Added opacity_model based on miriad's atmospheric model |
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| 60 | * Ticket #177 Added function skydip to determine opacities. |
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| 61 | * Ticket #172 Fixed non-working scantable.resample |
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| 62 | * Ticket #155 Better output filenames. Ignore non-existsing |
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| 63 | beams/pols/ifs/scans |
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| 64 | * Ticket #157 numpy >= 1.1 support |
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| 65 | * Ticket #158 fixed plotter.set_font |
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| 66 | * Ticket #160 Aspect ratio of plotter is customisable now |
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| 67 | * Ticket #163 fixed for scantable.set_sourcetype |
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| 68 | * Ticket #164 Upgrade note in wiki FAQ |
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| 69 | * Ticket #165 Handle non-parallactified polarimtery data (if supported in |
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| 70 | rpfits) |
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| 71 | * Ticket #167 Added running polynomial filter to scantable.smooth |
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| 72 | * Ticket #168 Data exported via scantable.save now contains correct frequency |
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| 73 | or velocity information |
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| 74 | * Ticket #169 Simplified selection of data |
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| 75 | * Ticket #46 Interactive lag flagging |
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| 76 | * Ticket #170 Provided access to frequency coordinate information via |
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| 77 | scantable.get_coordinate |
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| 78 | * Added OS X 10.5 Disk image installer |
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| 79 | * Added support for OS X 10.6 |
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| 80 | * Interactive plotting annotations via optional argument interactive=True |
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| 81 | * Interactive creation of masks on the plotter - plotter.create_mask |
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| 82 | * Tidy up date range in asapplotter.plotazel/plotpointings |
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| 83 | * support for gcc-4.4 |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | Release 2.3.1 [2009-03-25] |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | * Ticket #154 Flagged data wasn't hnoured in fitting |
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| 88 | * Ticket #153 plotter.plot_lines fixed for matplotlib >= 0.98 |
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| 89 | * Ticket #90 Support integer values for frequencies/errors/intensities |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | Release 2.3.0 [2009-03-13] |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | * Ticket #150 fix in casacore for frequency frame conversions |
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| 94 | * Ticket #151 added rc parameter and function set_sourcetype to identify |
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| 95 | on/off scans |
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| 96 | * Ticket #78/#112 Resolved the issue with random errors occuring under linux |
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| 97 | for large |
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| 98 | data files, which corrupted the identifaction of off scans |
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| 99 | * Ticket #149 Fixed the bug causing spectral line search to go into an |
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| 100 | infinite loop in some rare circumstances |
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| 101 | * Ticket #110 Added export to CLASS readable FITS files |
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| 102 | scantable.save("myfile.fits", "CLASS") |
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| 103 | * Ticket #142 Fix of the frequency alignment for long observations |
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| 104 | * Ticket #133 allow supression of history in the scantable via rc parameters |
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| 105 | * Ticket #109 source direction for Hobart data |
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| 106 | * Ticket #115 added running median to scantable.(smooth(kernel='rmedian') |
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| 107 | * Ticket #148 opacity correction wasn't applied to TSYS |
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| 108 | * Ticket #135 quotient detection failure for specific source names |
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| 109 | * Ticket #140 NaN values not handled - added scantable.flag_nans to ensure |
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| 110 | that the NaN are flagged |
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| 111 | * added python iterator access to scantable rows |
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| 112 | * made functions available to directly manipulate spectra |
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| 113 | scantable.get/set_spectrum |
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| 114 | * upgrade to support ipython >= 0.8.1 |
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| 115 | * support gcc-4.3 |
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| 116 | * use scons >= 1.1.0 |
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| 117 | * update to latest livedata I/O functions |
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| 118 | * add WCS info to the exported text files |
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| 119 | |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | Release 2.2.0 [2007-05-02] |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | * fix for losing flags in average_time |
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| 124 | * changed asap_update_data to contact ATNF ftp server directly |
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| 125 | * Documentation updates |
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| 126 | * changed to use casacore instead of aips++ |
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| 127 | * auto_quotient uses on/off pair detection by default, 'time' the old mode can also |
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| 128 | be accessed |
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| 129 | * Ticket #107 added function to shift reference pixel |
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| 130 | * Ticket #106 added function to retrieve integration times |
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| 131 | * Ticket #105 added Parkes K-band gain curve |
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| 132 | * Ticket #102 fixed wrong polarisation type in case of 'circular' |
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| 133 | * Ticket #104/94 fixed segmentation fault for time average if all channels are flagged |
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| 134 | * Ticket #98 AIPSPATH is honoured if set |
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| 135 | * Ticket #101 fixed set_restfreqs not working for IFs not starting at 0 |
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| 136 | * Ticket #97 fixed error in opacity calculation |
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| 137 | |
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| 138 | Minor Release 2.1.1 [2006-11-09] |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | * fix for Ticket #88 - numpy masks |
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| 141 | * better TAB completion for ipython (handles quotes, don't list private members) |
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| 142 | * Fix for Ticket #81 = scanatble.stats output as list |
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| 143 | * ticket #64 - speed up of auto_poly_baseline |
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| 144 | * fix for ticket #89 - export of IF sub-selections |
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| 145 | * fix for Ticket #83 - export to ms2 crashed asap |
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| 146 | * added file suffix support for name.rpf.1 etc. |
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| 147 | |
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| 148 | Release Version 2.1.0 [2006-09-11] |
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| 149 | |
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| 150 | * Processing of Multibeam MX data |
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| 151 | * Line Catalogs for both plotting and setting rest frequencies |
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| 152 | * median averaging |
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| 153 | * support of circular polarisations |
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| 154 | * binaries for fedora (core 3/5), debian, ubuntu, OSX (ppc,intel) |
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| 155 | * text/arrow/line annonations for plotter |
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| 156 | * export of fit parameters to text file |
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| 157 | * disk based scantables for large data sets |
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| 158 | * re-introduced custom quotients |
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| 159 | * fixed major fitter bug |
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| 160 | * fft flagging |
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| 161 | * full support for MOPS data |
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| 162 | |
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| 163 | Release Version 2.0 [2006-04-28] |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | * Major rework of internal data representation. Now supports IFs with |
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| 166 | different number of spectral channels. This has minimal effect on the |
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| 167 | user interface. |
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| 168 | * Creation of a "selector" object used for data selection. Allow slicing of |
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| 169 | data in beam, IF, polarisation as well as selection via header values |
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| 170 | (e.g. Tsys). set_cursor is now invalid use set_selection instead. |
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| 171 | * Scantables can be merged |
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| 172 | * scantable.lines() has been removed. Set rest frequencies by value |
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| 173 | (This will change in 2.1) |
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| 174 | * Multiple data files (e.g. rpf) can be read into a single scantable |
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| 175 | * Polarmetric infrastructure improved to support most observing styles |
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| 176 | (linear feeds only) |
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| 177 | * ability to convert to/store as Stokes |
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| 178 | * Plotter can now only plot from a single scantable (use merge if necessary) |
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| 179 | * ASCII (text) spectral output changed to be more usable |
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| 180 | * Can change the source position coordinate frame |
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| 181 | * Bug fixes |
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| 182 | * auto_quotient is doing "closest in time reference" |
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| 183 | * option auto-align in velocity when using average_time |
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| 184 | * flagging on a per channel base |
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| 185 | |
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| 186 | |
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| 187 | (Release 1.2.2) |
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| 188 | |
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| 189 | * channel based flagging |
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| 190 | * Added get_elevation, azimuth and parangle |
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| 191 | * Added swap_lineas & invert_phase |
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| 192 | * added allaxes arg to poly_baseline |
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| 193 | * Request: added pager throuput for history and summary |
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| 194 | * Request: Log meesage on auto_quotient() |
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| 195 | * Bug Fix: plotter -set_mode("s","i"). |
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| 196 | * Bug fix: plotter -autoscale abcissa limits from all spectra for stacking. |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | Release Version 1.2.1 [2005-12-06] |
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| 199 | |
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| 200 | * scantable.recalc_azel - recalcualte azimuth and elevation based on |
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| 201 | * pointing Bug fix: plotter - set_layout got overwritten byt plot; row |
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| 202 | cursor not honoured in _plot_time |
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| 203 | |
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| 204 | |
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| 205 | Release Version 1.2 [2005-11-30] |
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| 206 | |
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| 207 | Code changes |
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| 208 | ------------ |
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| 209 | * frequency switching: scantable.freq_switch() |
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| 210 | * get a list of sourcenames: scantable.get_sourcename() |
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| 211 | * build quotients from matched _S/_R pairs or 1*_R/n*_S automatically |
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| 212 | * plotting control: plotter.set_colors(), plotter.set_linestyles(), |
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| 213 | plotter.set_linewidth() all also via .asaprc parameters |
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| 214 | * non-interactive (non-GUI) plotting |
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| 215 | * ASAP Online (Mopra) Monitor web interface (mini pipeline) |
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| 216 | * user control of multi-panel: plotter.set_layout() |
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| 217 | * histogram plotting: part of linestyles |
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| 218 | * plugins: via ~/.asap/userfuncs.py |
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| 219 | * plotter panel control: rcParams['plotter.ganged'] |
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| 220 | * usability: reworked the whole asap startup scripts, now all user adjustable |
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| 221 | through ~/.asap/ |
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| 222 | |
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| 223 | Todos/pending |
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| 224 | -------------- |
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| 225 | * documentation update: should be finished by 2005-11-25 |
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| 226 | * cookbook |
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| 227 | * release 1.2: 2005-11-30 |
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| 228 | |
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| 229 | Major non-targets, resulting from requirements/targets |
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| 230 | ----------------------------------------------------- |
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| 231 | * asap logging, which can be turned on and off through .asaprc/rcParams |
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| 232 | (from asapmon) |
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| 233 | * Data container v2 design study and document ( moved from cycle II ) |
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| 234 | |
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| 235 | Not Addressed |
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| 236 | ------------- |
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| 237 | |
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| 238 | (deferred to cycle II, as described in support document) |
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| 239 | |
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| 240 | * Flexible data selection |
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| 241 | * "Merging of spectra" (concatenating scantables) |
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| 242 | |
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| 243 | * public defect tracking system |
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