Starlink Software Collection — 2021A Release Notes
Highlights
The new HDS-V5 data format (which uses HDF5) is now available. In this release the default will be to write all files as HDS-V4, unless the environmental variable HDS_VERSION is set to 5. This is described in Jenness 2015 2015A&C....12..221 . We are planning to make this file format the default starting with our next release, so we would please request any issues or comments be sent on to us: either on the Starlink users' mailing list, the Starlink developers' mailing list, or sent directly to EAO with the helpdesk AT eaobservatory.org email address.
- Perl updated to Version 5.32.0.
Changes to Applications
CUPID (ascl:1311.007)
GAIA (ascl:1403.024)
KAPPA (ascl:1403.022)
- A new program "COMPLEX" was added to manipulate complex NDFs, e.g. to extract the real and imaginary parts, compute the modulus and argument or to combine these parts into a new complex NDF.
ORAC-DR (ascl:1310.001)
POLPACK (ascl:1405.014)
SMURF (ascl:1310.007)
SOURCEPLOT
The included JCMT source catalog has been updated. TO-DO
SPLAT (ascl:1402.007)
STILTS (ascl:1105.001)
TOPCAT (ascl:1101.010)
- Updated to Version ????.
Changes to Libraries
ARY
AST (ascl:1404.016)
GRP
HDS
PCS
STIL
- Updated to Version ????.
CFITSIO
Miscellaneous Changes
Changes to Cookbooks and Guides
- SC/20
- SC/21
- SC/22
Known issues
- There is a known threading problem that prevents the Java application Treeview from working on HDS Version 5 (HDF5) files.