Release Notes for the March 2012 Scisoft 7.7 Collection

Please consult http://www.eso.org/scisoft/Scisoft-contents.html
for a complete list of the contents.

** This release of Scisoft is only for Linux Fedora Core 11 **

Items not mentioned here are unchanged from Scisoft 7.5.

All updated items replace the previous versions.

The Scisoft Team, March 2012 (scihelp@eso.org)

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This collection is now released on DVD rather than CD.
The DVD contains a compressed tar file of the whole collection
as well as RPMs of component parts.

It is also available for download, as a compressed tar version or
in the form of the RPM files, from the ESO ftp host:

ftp://ftp.eso.org/scisoft/

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.7 and Scisoft 7.6  -------------------------
Updated IDL to 8.1
Updated FFTW to 3.3
Updated LAPACK to 3.4.0
Updated ATLAS to 3.8.4
Updated SExtractor to 2.8.6
Updated MissFITS to 2.4.0
Updated STIFF to 2.1.3
Updated SWarp to 2.19.1
Updated Gildas to apr11h
Updated Miriad to 4.2.3
Updated IRAF to 2.15
Updated Python to 2.7.2
Updated iPython to 0.11
Updated Numpy to 1.6.1
Updated Scipy to 0.10.0
Updated Pmw to 1.3.2
Updated STScI_python to 2.12
Updated Gnuplot to 4.4.4
Updated Gnuplotpy to 1.8
Updated Biggles to 1.6.6
Updated PyGame to 1.9.1
Updated CFITSIO to 3.28
Updated XPA to 2.1.13
Updated Midas to 12FEBpl1.1
Updated GSL to 1.15
Updated Tiny Tim to 7.4
Updated WCSTools to 3.8.4
Updated SkyCat to 3.1.2
Updated Cloudy to c10.00
Updated Plotutils to 2.6
Updated ScientificPython to 2.8
Updated Matplotlib to 1.1.0
Updated Astron to Nov2011
Updated QFitsView to 3.0
Updated DPUser to 3.0
Updated Fitsverify to 4.16
Updated wcslib to 4.8.3
Updated Graphviz to 2.28.0
Updated Gemini to 1.11
Updated Difmap to 2.4l
Removed Psyco
Removed RV
Removed ifocas
Replaced minicrush by Crush 2.10-1
Added CASA 3.3.0
Added Theli 2.5.0

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.6 and Scisoft 7.5  -------------------------

Updated stecf to 2.0 beta
Updated MIDAS to 10SEPpl1.1
Updated ds9 to 6.2
Updated Gaia to 4.4.1
Updated Matplotlib to 1.0.0
Updated STSDAS/TABLES to 3.13
Updated STScI_python to 2.11
Updated cdsclient to 3.6

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.5 and Scisoft 7.4  -------------------------
Updated rvsao to 2.7.8
Updated Midas to 09SEPpl1.2                                                                                                                                                                       
Updated FFTW to 3.2.2
Updated CFITSIO to 3.24
Updated ds9 to 6.0
Updated Fpack to 1.4.1
Updated WCSTools to 3.8.1
Updated Java to 1.6.0
Updated SCAMP to 1.7.0
Updated SWarp to 2.17.6
Updated WeightWatcher to 1.8.10
Updated STSDAS/TABLES to 3.12
Updated STScI_python to 2.10
Updated IDL astron
Updated BoA to 2010-06-24
Updated Minicrush to 1.05-3
Added Eye 1.4.1
Added MissFITS 2.2.11
Added SkyMaker 3.3.3
Added STIFF 2.1.2
Added Stuff 1.19

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.4 and Scisoft 7.3  -------------------------

Updated STSDAS/TABLES to 3.11
Updated STScI_python to 2.9
Updated MIDAS to 09SEPpl1.0
Updated Matplotlib to 0.99
Updated ATLAS to  3.8.3
Updated Numpy to 1.3.0
Updated Gildas to may09d
Updated Scipy to 0.7.1
Updated ggobi to 2.1.8
Updated FV to 5.3
Updated IDL to 7.1
Updated VirGo to 1.4.4
Added plplot 5.9.4

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.3 and Scisoft 7.2  -------------------------

Updated Python to 2.5.4
Updated ipython to 0.9.1
Updated STSDAS/TABLES to 3.9
Updated STScI_python to 2.7
Updated matplotlib to 0.98.5.2
Updated cfitsio to 3100
Updated Miriad
Fixed JAVA setup bug, related to PATH variable use.
Renamed kshell to kshell-karma to prevent conflict
Added healpy Python package
Added fpack and funpack

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.2 and Scisoft 7.1  -------------------------

Updated IRAF
Updated wxpython
Added fitscut
Added visivo
Added graphviz 2.20.2
Updated Scamp to 1.4.6
Updated tinytim to 7.0
Updated matplotlib to 0.98.1
Updated numpy to 1.1.0
Updated gnuplot to 4.2.3
Updated rvsao to 2.6.5
Updated dpuser
Updated qfitsview
Updated asciidata
Updated IRAF
Updated IDL astron
Updated minicrush
Updated Gaia

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.1 and Scisoft 7.0  -------------------------

Updated IRAF to 2.14
Updated rvsao to 2.6.1
Updated MIDAS to 08FEBpl1.1
Updated IDL astron to Jan 2008 version
Updated Difmap to 2.4j
Updated fv to 5.1
Updated ds9 to 5.2
Updated gnuplot to 4.2.2
Updated wcstools to 3.7.2
Updated tables/stsdas to 3.8
Updated stsci_python to 2.6
Updated asciidata to 1.1
Now provide double and float version of supermongo
Renamed convert and histogram to convert-karma and histogram-karma
Renamed imhead to imhead-wcstools to prevent conflict with miriad
wcstools' includes are now in include/libwcs
Added funtools
Added VirGO
Added minicrush
Added BoA
Added wcslib 4.3

-- Changes between Scisoft 7.0 and Scisoft 6.1  -------------------------

Updated stsdas/tables to 3.6

Updated eclipse to 5.0

Updated ESO-Midas to 07FebPl1.0

Updated IDL to 6.3

Updated Gildas to Jul2007a

Updated Difmap to 2.4i

Updated SAOImage to 1.35.1

Updated DS9 to 4.0b11

Updated XPA to 2.1.7b2

Updated fv to 4.4

Updated gnuplot to 4.2

Updated ggobi to 2.1.4

Updated STSciPython to 2.5

Updated gsl to 1.9

Updated dislin to 9.1

Updated cfitsio to 3.0.60

Updated lapack to 3.1.1

Updated fftw to 3.1.2

Updated plotutils to 2.5

Updated wcstools to 3.6.8

Updated Terapix Software tools

Updated Xephem to 3.7.2

Updated Matplotlib to 0.90.0

Updated Asciidata to 1.0

Update STSDAS/TABLES to 3.7

Added Miriad 3.1 software suite

Added Karma 1.7 software suite

Added NumPy 1.0.3

Added Java JRE and JDK 1.5.0.11

Added Jpype 0.5.2.2

Added VOTools
    Aladin 4.0
    VOspec 2.5
    VOplot 1.4
    Plastic 2006.3.rc3
    Specview 2.12.2
    Splat 3.7-0 
    Stilts 1.3

Added ECL

Added DAOPhot

Added QFitsView

Added DPUser

Added Gaia

Added Fitsverify

Added g95

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