SAOImage DS9 Version 5.0 Release Notes

    Version 5

    1. 07.16.2007 FITSY++: fix a problem with rice compressed images and multiple tiles.
    2. 07.17.2007 MOSAIC: fix a problem with bin table extensions at the end of a mosaic image wcs.
    3. 07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with loading external colormaps.
    4. 07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem colormap menus.
    5. 07.23.2007 ARCHIVES: new url for skyview.
    6. 07.23.2007 LANGUAGE: add language support for Japanese. (many thanks to Masahiro Tsujimoto!).
    7. 07.23.2007 PIXEL TABLE: xpaget will now return the pixel table values.
    8. 07.31.2007 SOLARISx86: now supporting solarisx86.
    9. 08.15.2007 PIXELTABLE: fixed a minor problem with xpaget pixeltable.
    10. 08.15.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.0
    11. 08.15.2007 IIS: fixed a problem with frame number>10.
    12. 08.15.2007 EXAMINE: changed frame name to 'Frame'.
    13. 09.02.2007 CATALOGS: updated urls and menu titles.
    14. 09.20.2007 PREFS: new prefs dialog box.
    15. 09.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the CDS query.
    16. 09.24.2007 CATALOGS: add SDSS DR6.
    17. 09.24.2007 SKYVIEW: fixed default image size and updated url.
    18. 09.24.2007 PROJECTION: install callbacks only after Button Release.
    19. 09.25.2007 REGIONS: add xpa/command SHOW and SHOWTEXT support.
    20. 09.25.2007 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with load contours from the command line.
    21. 10.03.2007 MACOSX: MacOSX Aqua support is now fully implemented!
    22. 10.03.2007 COLORMAP: pass colormap names thru translation tables
    23. 10.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.8
    24. 10.05.2007 COMPOSITE: add global properties switch.
    25. 10.05.2007 LINE: fixed a problem with initial displayed arrow checkboxes in dialog.
    26. 10.05.2007 FOV: moved FOV menu to more visible level
    27. 10.10.2007 LANGUAGE: add language support for French.
    28. 10.11.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the symbol editor dialog.
    29. 10.15.2007 RELEASE version 5.0
    30. 10.16.2007 PROJECTION: fixed a problem with the coordinates of the projection plot.
    31. 10.17.2007 RICE: fixed a problem with float and double RICE compression.
    32. 10.24.2007 RICE: fixed several problems with mosaics, cubes and RICE compression.
    33. 10.24.2007 GUI: added support for ds9 beta versions.
    34. 10.24.2007 PREFS: added OK and Cancel buttons to all tabs.
    35. 10.29.2007 CATALOGS: implemented support for new CDS catalogs search format.
    36. 10.30.2007 SAOTK: implemented reentrant parsers.
    37. 11.01.2007 SAOTK: now support any color for markers, contours, etc.
    38. 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.
    39. 11.07.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.16.
    40. 11.08.2007 PLOT: fixed a problem with xpa/command line linear/line tokens to match documentation.
    41. 11.09.2007 PREFERENCES: fixed a problem with slower ppcs. use 'update idletasks' instead of 'update' to avoid possible race condition.
    42. 11.21.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.9
    43. 11.21.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.1
    44. 11.21.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.7.0
    45. 11.21.2007 TCLLIBS: update to version 1.10
    46. 11.28.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.17.
    47. 11.28.2007 ANALYSIS: fix a problem with spaces in tmp file names.
    48. 12.05.2007 FLEXLEXER.Y: updated version.
    49. 12.06.2007 GUI: change key binding 'c' to 'r'. It conflicts with 'copy' on MacOSX and Windows platforms.
    50. 12.06.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with pasteing regions into an empty frame.
    51. 12.18.2007 ZIP: fixed a problem with the unix Makefile.
    52. 12.18.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.2.
    53. 12.18.2007 2MASS: limit size to 1024 arcsec.
    54. 12.21.2007 FITSY++: add support for HCOMPRESS compressed FITS.
    55. 12.28.2007 FITSY++: add support for GZIP compressed FITS.
    56. 01.03.2008 FITSY++: add support for PLIO compressed FITS.
    57. 01.04.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with X11 servers that return truecolor 32 bit when in fact the visual is truecolor 24bit.
    58. 01.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.1