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