This is V1.21 (April 17, 2001). New features include: - Bug fix: SWarp crashed while making the background model on large input images with weights. - A few fixes in the documentation. /*- Previous notes for V1.20 (March 15, 2001) */ - COMBINE_TYPE WEIGHTED now allowed even if WEIGHT_TYPE is NONE. - More accurate computation of weights in COMBINE_TYPE MEDIAN mode. /*- Previous notes for V1.18 (March 11, 2001) */ - This is the first public release!! - Weight-maps are now taken into account with all COMBINE_TYPEs. - ``Astrometric'' flux-rescaling. - Too many bug fixes to list. /*- Previous notes for V1.14 (January 14, 2001) */ - Probably the last pre-public release! - First release of documentation (English not checked, though). - Support for galactic and equatorial coordinates. - Both automatic and manual oversampling. - chi2 co-addition mode. - Fixes in automatic astrometric centering/scaling routines. /*- Previous notes for V1.11 (September 5, 2000) */ - Bug fixed in the PV parameter decoding /*- Previous notes for V1.10 (September 4, 2000) */ - Fatal bug due to bad framing fixed. - Automatic sizing now works around alpha = 0 - More detailed output FITS header. - Slightly more detailed display /*- Previous notes for V1.8 (August 2, 2000) */ - Photometric fluctuation bug fixed, - resampling bug in RESAMPLING_TYPE LANCZOS_4 fixed. /*- Previous notes for V1.7 (August 25, 2000) */ - Astrometry flipping bug fix. - Fix of the random crashes at the last line. Please report all bugs to sextractor@iap.fr or bertin@iap.fr. Thanks! Emmanuel Bertin.