[sofia] Release of SoFiA 1.0
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From: <Paolo.Serra_at_email.protected>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:59:44 +0000
Dear colleague,
The SoFiA team is pleased to announce the release of SoFiA 1.0, the latest stable version of the Source Finding Application, now available at https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/releases/tag/v1.0.0 .
This is the eighth stable release of SoFiA. It introduces several new features and comes with a large number of improvements and bug fixes. As SoFiA is now feature-complete with respect to the original plan, the major version number has been incremented from 0 to 1.
The most notable changes include improvements in how source reliability is determined, the introduction of several new source parameters for extended galaxies, the possibility to write the source catalogue in SQL format, and the option toconfigure certain aspects of the graphical user interface. Numerous bug fixes across almost the entire set of SoFiA modules have reduced the frequency of crashes and led to a much more stable pipeline.
Please note that due to a few changes in parameter names and default values, parameter files created with SoFiA 0.x are no longer compatible with SoFiA 1.x (and vice versa). Attempting to run an older parameter file in SoFiA 1.0.0 may result in the pipeline aborting the source finding run with error messages. In such cases we recommend to create a fresh parameter file from scratch.
New features
* Generation of IAU-compliant source names (ff938fd<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/ff938fdefe6f91c32bcf37297fd78d39f9107ab2>).
* Introduction of GUI configuration options (cd25117<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/cd2511702ce4704ce62c575c8f84169eab8377ed>).
* Kernel sizes for the reliability calculation module are now calculated from either the covariance matrix or the variance matrix rather than just the parameter ranges (b5ba490<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/b5ba49097842447b3bd6a49fe8801142becfa773>).
* Reliability calculation can now be done in a user-specified parameter space of arbitrary dimension (865183c<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/865183cea2cd2d5e5ee74162dc3a3417fa5b760b>).
* Calculation of the position angle of the kinematical major axis of sources (0140cda<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/0140cdad7933e5e4468e9d08a49af6e499363fe0>).
* Fitting of ellipse to > 3σ pixels of source with equal weighting of each pixel (2d17afc<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/2d17afce7670d8363c5e45a6c13f8180296b02a7>).
* Output catalogue in SQL format for insertion into SQL databases (1b58871<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1b58871a5989a956e29fbe3e021e625089aef615>).
Bug-fixes
* Fixed bug in mask optimisation module caused by wrong (old) parameter names (56ba723<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/56ba72304a33eafee8b8334cd78dd04cc57f6645>).
* Fixed bug in merging of XML output catalogues (4bb1dab<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/4bb1dab23f841770c933b118acb4254a71c078b1>).
* Fixed bug in moment map generation (a0ccca2<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/a0ccca222adfca736699fdd2d537699a1823a112>).
* Fixed several issues with sub-cube handling (a1ac26d<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/a1ac26d16a4499b820b2b0d176684d14c7ac8f44>, d84cf77<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/d84cf7779e16f967374a00e606fe3e503b12e69a>, 3aae921<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/3aae9214ea02eded8f1c368d668bf9f60c96267d>, 9182804<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/9182804b99babcd1c122cdbafb6925a8e1c731a6>, 1fa9a95<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1fa9a9573794f22d023e172c818c3ec6328f8f09>).
* Fixed an incompatibility issue with the latest versions (≥ 2.0) of the GSL (9339f81<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/9339f81f57fae00f02f199c3012c870628aa60a9>).
* Fixed a bug that caused the internal rms calculation to crash on noise-free data cubes (2d71237<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/2d712370a746be9f924f3e5bb5eec77469cc329b>).
* Fixed a bug in the WCS calculation module caused by the speed of light not being defined (d7b62a7<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/d7b62a74b2000703c8c6aab11b6dbba2ec26584e>).
* Fixed a bug that resulted in output cubelets to be masked (a0ccca2<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/a0ccca222adfca736699fdd2d537699a1823a112>).
* Fixed a bug that caused the 2D-1D wavelet filter to work incorrectly (b31e313<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/b31e31388fa3a4f88e1b9fd14f574980c443ca45>).
* Fixed a bug that caused the reliability calculation to crash when non-existing source parameters were specified (06c8b6b<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/06c8b6b76750300be2fe8cf7cae76e7ab0b6b19f>).
Other changes
* The SoFiA version number is now written to the output catalogue (1ef29ec<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1ef29ecb5ea157a975dacb763519d8da3d5b0c95>).
* The user can now choose to compile SoFiA without the GUI (c29b3be<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/c29b3beb7f994c1aab2b7b195ad7c5dfc74a59e1>).
* Various updates and improvements of the linker module (72891ff<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/72891ff0bf31035332c15e4151786442ffb0be61>, 72b6d15<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/72b6d15d0294537d9285bebf3f8f315c1bace278>, ff1eb80<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/ff1eb802d1286f21c0ab2f77b92fc27163ce7e51>).
* Input masks can now be either the size of the full input data cube or the size of the selected sub-cube (1fa9a95<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1fa9a9573794f22d023e172c818c3ec6328f8f09>).
On behalf of the SoFiA team,
Paolo Serra
Received on 2016-07-15 20:59:45
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:59:44 +0000
Dear colleague,
The SoFiA team is pleased to announce the release of SoFiA 1.0, the latest stable version of the Source Finding Application, now available at https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/releases/tag/v1.0.0 .
This is the eighth stable release of SoFiA. It introduces several new features and comes with a large number of improvements and bug fixes. As SoFiA is now feature-complete with respect to the original plan, the major version number has been incremented from 0 to 1.
The most notable changes include improvements in how source reliability is determined, the introduction of several new source parameters for extended galaxies, the possibility to write the source catalogue in SQL format, and the option toconfigure certain aspects of the graphical user interface. Numerous bug fixes across almost the entire set of SoFiA modules have reduced the frequency of crashes and led to a much more stable pipeline.
Please note that due to a few changes in parameter names and default values, parameter files created with SoFiA 0.x are no longer compatible with SoFiA 1.x (and vice versa). Attempting to run an older parameter file in SoFiA 1.0.0 may result in the pipeline aborting the source finding run with error messages. In such cases we recommend to create a fresh parameter file from scratch.
New features
* Generation of IAU-compliant source names (ff938fd<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/ff938fdefe6f91c32bcf37297fd78d39f9107ab2>).
* Introduction of GUI configuration options (cd25117<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/cd2511702ce4704ce62c575c8f84169eab8377ed>).
* Kernel sizes for the reliability calculation module are now calculated from either the covariance matrix or the variance matrix rather than just the parameter ranges (b5ba490<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/b5ba49097842447b3bd6a49fe8801142becfa773>).
* Reliability calculation can now be done in a user-specified parameter space of arbitrary dimension (865183c<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/865183cea2cd2d5e5ee74162dc3a3417fa5b760b>).
* Calculation of the position angle of the kinematical major axis of sources (0140cda<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/0140cdad7933e5e4468e9d08a49af6e499363fe0>).
* Fitting of ellipse to > 3σ pixels of source with equal weighting of each pixel (2d17afc<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/2d17afce7670d8363c5e45a6c13f8180296b02a7>).
* Output catalogue in SQL format for insertion into SQL databases (1b58871<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1b58871a5989a956e29fbe3e021e625089aef615>).
Bug-fixes
* Fixed bug in mask optimisation module caused by wrong (old) parameter names (56ba723<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/56ba72304a33eafee8b8334cd78dd04cc57f6645>).
* Fixed bug in merging of XML output catalogues (4bb1dab<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/4bb1dab23f841770c933b118acb4254a71c078b1>).
* Fixed bug in moment map generation (a0ccca2<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/a0ccca222adfca736699fdd2d537699a1823a112>).
* Fixed several issues with sub-cube handling (a1ac26d<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/a1ac26d16a4499b820b2b0d176684d14c7ac8f44>, d84cf77<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/d84cf7779e16f967374a00e606fe3e503b12e69a>, 3aae921<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/3aae9214ea02eded8f1c368d668bf9f60c96267d>, 9182804<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/9182804b99babcd1c122cdbafb6925a8e1c731a6>, 1fa9a95<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1fa9a9573794f22d023e172c818c3ec6328f8f09>).
* Fixed an incompatibility issue with the latest versions (≥ 2.0) of the GSL (9339f81<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/9339f81f57fae00f02f199c3012c870628aa60a9>).
* Fixed a bug that caused the internal rms calculation to crash on noise-free data cubes (2d71237<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/2d712370a746be9f924f3e5bb5eec77469cc329b>).
* Fixed a bug in the WCS calculation module caused by the speed of light not being defined (d7b62a7<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/d7b62a74b2000703c8c6aab11b6dbba2ec26584e>).
* Fixed a bug that resulted in output cubelets to be masked (a0ccca2<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/a0ccca222adfca736699fdd2d537699a1823a112>).
* Fixed a bug that caused the 2D-1D wavelet filter to work incorrectly (b31e313<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/b31e31388fa3a4f88e1b9fd14f574980c443ca45>).
* Fixed a bug that caused the reliability calculation to crash when non-existing source parameters were specified (06c8b6b<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/06c8b6b76750300be2fe8cf7cae76e7ab0b6b19f>).
Other changes
* The SoFiA version number is now written to the output catalogue (1ef29ec<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1ef29ecb5ea157a975dacb763519d8da3d5b0c95>).
* The user can now choose to compile SoFiA without the GUI (c29b3be<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/c29b3beb7f994c1aab2b7b195ad7c5dfc74a59e1>).
* Various updates and improvements of the linker module (72891ff<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/72891ff0bf31035332c15e4151786442ffb0be61>, 72b6d15<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/72b6d15d0294537d9285bebf3f8f315c1bace278>, ff1eb80<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/ff1eb802d1286f21c0ab2f77b92fc27163ce7e51>).
* Input masks can now be either the size of the full input data cube or the size of the selected sub-cube (1fa9a95<https://github.com/SoFiA-Admin/SoFiA/commit/1fa9a9573794f22d023e172c818c3ec6328f8f09>).
On behalf of the SoFiA team,
Paolo Serra
Received on 2016-07-15 20:59:45