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