SAOImage DS9 Version 5.0 Release Notes
Version 5
- 07.16.2007 FITSY++: fix a problem with rice compressed
images and multiple tiles.
- 07.17.2007 MOSAIC: fix a problem with bin table extensions
at the end of a mosaic image wcs.
- 07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with loading external
colormaps.
- 07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem colormap menus.
- 07.23.2007 ARCHIVES: new url for skyview.
- 07.23.2007 LANGUAGE: add language support for Japanese.
(many thanks to Masahiro Tsujimoto!).
- 07.23.2007 PIXEL TABLE: xpaget will now return the pixel
table values.
- 07.31.2007 SOLARISx86: now supporting solarisx86.
- 08.15.2007 PIXELTABLE: fixed a minor problem with xpaget pixeltable.
- 08.15.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.0
- 08.15.2007 IIS: fixed a problem with frame number>10.
- 08.15.2007 EXAMINE: changed frame name to 'Frame'.
- 09.02.2007 CATALOGS: updated urls and menu titles.
- 09.20.2007 PREFS: new prefs dialog box.
- 09.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the CDS query.
- 09.24.2007 CATALOGS: add SDSS DR6.
- 09.24.2007 SKYVIEW: fixed default image size and updated url.
- 09.24.2007 PROJECTION: install callbacks only after Button Release.
- 09.25.2007 REGIONS: add xpa/command SHOW and SHOWTEXT support.
- 09.25.2007 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with load contours from the command line.
- 10.03.2007 MACOSX: MacOSX Aqua support is now fully implemented!
- 10.03.2007 COLORMAP: pass colormap names thru translation tables
- 10.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.8
- 10.05.2007 COMPOSITE: add global properties switch.
- 10.05.2007 LINE: fixed a problem with initial displayed arrow checkboxes in dialog.
- 10.05.2007 FOV: moved FOV menu to more visible level
- 10.10.2007 LANGUAGE: add language support for French.
- 10.11.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the symbol editor dialog.
- 10.15.2007 RELEASE version 5.0
- 10.16.2007 PROJECTION: fixed a problem with the coordinates of the projection plot.
- 10.17.2007 RICE: fixed a problem with float and double RICE compression.
- 10.24.2007 RICE: fixed several problems with mosaics, cubes and RICE compression.
- 10.24.2007 GUI: added support for ds9 beta versions.
- 10.24.2007 PREFS: added OK and Cancel buttons to all tabs.
- 10.29.2007 CATALOGS: implemented support for new CDS catalogs search format.
- 10.30.2007 SAOTK: implemented reentrant parsers.
- 11.01.2007 SAOTK: now support any color for markers, contours, etc.
- 11.02.2007 MACOSX/WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native open file dialog. If bad file name had been used, (or an extention), an error would occur.
- 11.07.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.16.
- 11.08.2007 PLOT: fixed a problem with xpa/command line linear/line tokens to match documentation.
- 11.09.2007 PREFERENCES: fixed a problem with slower ppcs. use 'update idletasks' instead of 'update' to avoid possible race condition.
- 11.21.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.9
- 11.21.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.1
- 11.21.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.7.0
- 11.21.2007 TCLLIBS: update to version 1.10
- 11.28.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.17.
- 11.28.2007 ANALYSIS: fix a problem with spaces in tmp file names.
- 12.05.2007 FLEXLEXER.Y: updated version.
- 12.06.2007 GUI: change key binding 'c' to 'r'. It conflicts with 'copy' on MacOSX and Windows platforms.
- 12.06.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with pasteing regions into an empty frame.
- 12.18.2007 ZIP: fixed a problem with the unix Makefile.
- 12.18.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.2.
- 12.18.2007 2MASS: limit size to 1024 arcsec.
- 12.21.2007 FITSY++: add support for HCOMPRESS compressed FITS.
- 12.28.2007 FITSY++: add support for GZIP compressed FITS.
- 01.03.2008 FITSY++: add support for PLIO compressed FITS.
- 01.04.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with X11 servers that return truecolor 32 bit when in fact the visual is truecolor 24bit.
- 01.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.1