Starlink Software Collection - Kapuahi Release Notes

Highlights

General

New Applications

Changes to Applications

CONVERT

CUPID

GAIA

KAPPA

ORAC-DR

See http://www.oracdr.org/oracdr/ChangeLog

SMURF

TOPCAT

New Libraries

PAL

The PAL library is a re-implementation of the Fortran SLA library in C. It uses the SOFA library wherever possible and has a GPL licence. We now use the PAL library in SMURF, AST and most of the perl interfaces. Fortran SLA is used by Fortran applications.

THR

SOFA

We now ship a copy of the thirdparty SOFA astrometry library. Kapuahi comes with version 2012-03-01.

Changes to Libraries

AST

SLA