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