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- SAOImageDS9 Version 4.0 Release Notes</h3>
- <ol>
- <h4> <b>Version 4</b></h4>
- <ol>
- <li><tt>09.13.2004 AST: update to version 3.4-4</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.13.2004 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.7</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.14.2004 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.5.6</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.14.2004 TCLLIB: update to version 1.6.1</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.15.2004 TKTABLE: installed 2.9</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.20.2004 SAOTK: fixed a problem with calculating a
- regions rotational angle with a galactic or ecliptic wcs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.21.2004 SAVEFITS: fixed a problem with the savefits
- xpa
- and command line options.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.21.2004 REGIONS: fixed a problem with updating region
- dialog boxes after a change in event file bin factor.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.23.2004 DSS: if user selects dss2red or dss2blue
- survey,
- force server to eso.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.23.2004 2MASS: add image server.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.01.2004 DSS: fixed a problem with 'Update from
- current
- Frame'.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.12.2004 MAKEFILE: add export-dynamic for linux so
- that
- external shared libs can be loaded.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.21.2004 GUI: fixed a problem if while blinking the
- user
- changes the colorbar via mouse.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.17.2004 IMAGESERVER: fixed incompatibilities between
- DSS
- and 2MASS.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.19.2004 AST: update to version 3.5</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.29.2004 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.2.4</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.30.2004 SAOTK: use NaN.h from Funtools. This corrects
- problems with new architectures.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.03.2004 MAKEFILE: now support gcc 3.4.x</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.15.2004 XPA: fixed a problem with preserve regions
- command.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.15.2004 HTML: fixed several problems with color
- matching
- within htmlwidget.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.16.2004 GUI: fixed a problem with saving text from
- SimpleTextDialog.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.16.2004 WCS: main wcs menu item now sets default
- marker
- coordinate system and skyframe.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.16.2004 COMPASS: create compass now uses current
- marker
- dialog system and skyframe.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.20.2004 POLYGON: fixed a problem with the exclude
- strip
- and rotation.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.20.2004 COMPOSITE: add support for composite region.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.22.2004 TEXT REGION: fixed a problem in which the
- text
- angle did not reflect the native coordinate system.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.29.2004 IMAGESERVER: xpa and command line options are
- now synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: fixed a problem with sexigesmal
- from
- SIMBAD near the equator.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: xpa and command line options are
- now
- synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.31.2005 VECTOR: add support for new VECTOR region.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.08.2005 REGIONS: fix varies errors with definition of
- angles. Position angles are now defined as from first
- positive
- coordinate axis to second positive coordinate axis except in
- the case
- of equatorial wcs, in this case it is defined as from second
- positive
- coordinate axis to first positive coordinate axis.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.16.2005 SCALE: added User menu options to clarify
- current scaling mode.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.17.2005 LINUX64: fixed a problem with generating
- postscript.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.28.2005 MOSAIC: add support for mosaic data cubes.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.01.2005 STD Dialog: fixed several problems with ds9
- not
- remembering the current working directory.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with a memory leak
- when
- rendering regions on the windows platform. We no longer try
- to clip
- against a clip region.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with command
- line options that require the ds9 window to be visible. We
- have to
- process
- all events with 'update' before the windows version of ds9
- is visible.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.03.2005 REGIONS: add support to all regions parsers
- for
- ms windows line terminators</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.03.2005 ANALYSIS: removed extra ';' at the end of all
- regions substitutions.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.16.2005 FITS: increased fits file name size to 1024
- chars.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.17.2005 CATALOGS: are finally implemented!</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.24.2005 WINDOWS: implemented non-windows native
- standard
- dialogs. This allows uses to specify a file extension.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2005 FITY++: fixed a problem with filtering large
- bin
- tables while in mmapincr mode. We now insure that enough
- data is mmap'd
- for filter to build its good array.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2005 PRESERVE: fixed syntax errors with preserve
- regions and pan.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.30.2005 REGIONS: fixed regions parsers to accept a
- regions file without terminator as the last character.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.30.2005 ZOOM: all zooms are now specified in terms of
- x
- and y internally</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.01.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with grid options</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.28.2005 REGIONS: reimplemented
- basemarker,baseellipse,basebox classes.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.28.2005 ZOOM: implemented support for different x and
- y
- zoom.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.29.2005 XPA: update to version 2.1.6</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.29.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b3</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.29.2005 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.9</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.25.2005 REGIONS: update all regions code</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.25.2005 REGIONS: add EPANDA</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.07.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b6</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.13.2005 SCALE: new LOG algorithm
- log10(i/s*1000+1)/log10(1001)
- where 0&lt;i&lt;s</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.13.2005 MAKEFILE: add support for FreeBSD</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.19.2005 FTP: all ftp opens now are in passive mode</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.28.2005 BIN: fixed a problem with -bin factor</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.28.2005 PAGESETUP: pagesetup command line options are
- no
- longer case sensitive</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.12.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0.b7</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.13.2005 REGIONS: new DS9 regions 4.0 format</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.13.2005 REGIONS: add copy,cut,paste,undo xpa and
- command
- line options.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.01.2005 GCC: add support for gcc 4.0. Remove backward
- support for gcc 2.96 or earlier.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.03.2005 REGIONS: panda,epanda,bpanda, only render
- start/stop angles in red/blue when selected.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.04.2005 SMOOTH: add smoothing algorithms
- boxcar,tophat,gaussian</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.15.2005 COLORBAR: add support for printing the
- colorbar</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.15.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b9</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.15.2005 ZLIB: update to version 1.2.3</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.17.2005 GUI: add View menu and prefs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.24.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with ciao pie
- regions.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.24.2005 REGIONS: add invert selection.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.25.2005 GUI: add display image window size.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>08.30.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b6</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.12.2005 IIS: fixed a problem with iis and cursors.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>09.12.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b7</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.15.2005 ARRAY: fixed a problem with loading array
- cubes
- from a file and determining the correct endian.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.24.2005 BIN: if unable to find suitable cols to bin,
- chose the first and second column. This way, if you have
- table, it will
- always load, even if you don't know the column names.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.25.2005 BIN: binning dialog box. if number of columns
- is
- too large to display, wrap the menu.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.27.2005 CONTOUR: complete support for command
- line/xpa
- control of contour features.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.27.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with convert and
- contours of zero length.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.01.2005 FITS: fixed a problem loading very small
- arrays
- mmapincr</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.01.2005 VECTOR: small change to correct issue with
- gcc
- 4.0.1</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.01.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with wcs append/replace.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.02.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with alternative linear
- wcs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.02.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with alternative wcs
- names.
- All wcs names are now lower case.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.03.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with contour convert
- after a catalog command.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.03.2005 HELP: altered tk to pass -help to us. For
- -help,
- we now display a brief message and exit and for --help, we
- display the
- reference manual command line options.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.09.2005 CATALOG: fixed a problem with starbase to
- trim
- column names of white spaces.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.09.2005 CATALOG: add user specified RA/DEC column
- option.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.10.2005 CATALOG: speed up catreg for large dbs</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.14.2005 GUI: the meus Cut,Copy,Paste,Clear now works
- for
- all dialog boxes on all platforms.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.16.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rendering
- arrows
- for line,vector,ruler, and compass with width&gt;1.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.16.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to
- remember
- file types.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.17.2005 GUI: remove 'Use Cursors' Misc Option.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.17.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to
- remember
- filters.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.18.2005 COMPOSITE: fixed a problem with loading
- composite regions with properties.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.05.2005 RGB: Fixed a problem with wcs matching rgb
- frames .</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.08.2005 REGIONS: Fixed a problem general comment such
- as
- ## and #.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.08.2005 HELP: reset previous behavior for -help. fv
- uses
- ds9 -help to probe for ds9. Until fv is changed, we need to
- support the
- prior behavior.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.15.2005 X11: Insure that all X11 rendering is
- calculated
- in double precision until the very last, at which, the
- results are
- rounded to the nearest integer. This includes markers,
- contours, grids.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.17.2005 PS: set default resolution to 150, from 72.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.19.2005 GUI: add .ftz and .FTZ to default fits name
- filter.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.19.2005 FREEBSD: added support for freebsd.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.03.2006 FITSY++: fixed an overflow problem with mmap
- very large array files.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated DETECTOR and AMPLIFIER
- coordinate system menu items in menus and removed the
- preferences.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated ZMAX menu items in menus.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.05.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with rotated or
- flipped images and determining image size in ra and dec</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.05.2006 PROJECTION: fixed a problem move and moveto.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.12.2006 COLORBAR: added numerics to colorbar.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.18.2006 GUI: separte controls for min/max and
- low/high.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.24.2006 HISTOGRAM EQU: is now based on low/high, not
- min/max.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.27.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with updating the
- current
- colormap.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.30.2006 PANNER: under truecolor visuals, the panner
- is
- now updated with the colorbar.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.01.2006 TEMPLATE: tweak xmm templates for correct
- boresite.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.03.2006 GUI: fixed Shift-Tab under linux.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.03.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with loading multiple
- files, with -single command line option, followed by Match
- Frame. The
- frames where not realized so the coordinate systems where
- not valid.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.03.2006 MARKERS: added the ability to toggle marker
- text.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>02.08.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b8</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.07.2006 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.12</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.08.2006 CROSSHAIR: fix a typo that caused the
- crosshair
- command-line option to fail.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.27.2006 CATALOG: fixed a problem with finding which
- columns contain RA and DEC.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.27.2006 XPA: fixed a problem with xpaget ds9 width.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.20.2006 DSS: add new survey options for STSCI.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.24.2006 i18n: finished implemenation of
- internationalization and localization code.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2006 SCALE: fixed a problem with RGB frames and
- log/pow scales. Incorrect low/high values were being used to
- calculate
- the scale.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2006 PREFS: the default prefs file is now ds9.prf.
- The following directories are now searched in order: ./ ~
- /usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2006 INITALIZATION: the default initalization file
- is
- now ds9.ini. The following directories are now searched in
- order: ./ ~
- /usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.31.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with several dialog
- boxes
- with the Paste menu option. If the clipboard was empty, an
- error was
- generated.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.3.2006 FITS HEADER: fixed a problem displaying
- datacube
- headers.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.3.2006 PROJECTION REGION: Projection region plots can
- now be accessed via XPA PLOT</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.5.2006 MACOSX: fix a problem with the macosx startup
- scripts to allow path names with a space.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.7.2006 WCS: fix a problem WCS menu and images without
- a
- wcs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.10.2006 GRID: fixed a problem with GLACTIC wcs, AST,
- WCSSUBS, and defined LATPOLE/LONPOLE keywords.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>04.15.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b9</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.18.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with filter editor
- menu.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.18.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with searching for
- other catalogs</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.24.2006 TEMP: DS9 will now look for environment vars
- TEMP and TMP first for location of temp directory.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.28.2006 PREFS: Fixed a problem with writing invalid
- preferences.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.28.2006 PS: Fixed a problem with printing Grayscale
- and
- pure white values. They were being rounded off to 254, not
- 255.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.28.2006 PREFS: prefs are now written to a users home
- directory if available (including windows) and hidden.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.02.2006 GCC: now compiles properly under gcc 4.1</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.08.2006 SCALE: more checks for illegal low/high
- values
- for log/pow scales</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.10.2006 BIN: fix an issue with calculated
- width/height.
- No matter the bin factor, or the dimensions of the data,
- always have at
- least an 1x1 image.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.11.2006 DARWIN: compile under 10.4.x with no
- OSSPINLOCKLOCK, which is not available under 10.3.x</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.16.2006 CROSSHAIR: fixed a problem with xpa/cmd
- option
- crosshair.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.16.2006 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with loading
- analysis
- files with bindings at startup with one frame.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.22.2006 WCSSUBS: Update to version 3.6.4</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.25.2006 ANALYSIS: add $xcen and $ycen macros.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.25.2006 ANALYSIS: add $vo_method macro.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.05.2006 FITSY++: fixed a problem with incorrectly
- detecting the beginning sequence of gz stream.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.12.2006 HV/XPA: Implemented 'xpaset' mime support.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.14.2006 FITS: Fixed a problem with displaying the
- header
- of a file in which there was an extention name in the
- primary header.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.21.2006 GUI: Fixed a problem -single and -blink
- command
- line optons.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.21.2006 REGIONS: Check for valid image loaded before
- processing load regions commands.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.21.2006 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with mosaicimage
- wfpc2
- and display header.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.23.2006 HV: Implemented file caching.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.23.2006 HV: Implemented image caching.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.26.2006 HV: Implemented multiple mime processing.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.29.2006 TCLLIB: update to version 1.8</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.11.2006 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.5</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.11.2006 WCSSUBS: fix a problem with naxis&gt;2</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.12.2006 NAME SERVER: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.12.2006 IMAGE SERVER: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.13.2006 CATALOGS: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.13.2006 REGIONS: fixed a problem with cut/copy/paste
- regions dialog.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.25.2006 PREFS: preferences are automatically saved.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.25.2006 FITSY++: fixed a problem with large RGB
- arrays
- and streams.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.31.2006 RGB: add support for invert RGB colormap.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.31.2006 FIRST: add support for VLA FIRST image
- server.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.01.2006 HTTP: add timeout options to all geturl
- calls.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.02.2006 CATALOGS: add suppport for SDSS.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.07.2006 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with cancel geturl
- tasks.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.14.2006 TKTABLE: fixed configure files for darwin
- intel.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.14.2006 TKIMG: fixed configure files for darwin
- intel.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.14.2006 AST: apply patch to plot.c at line 23207</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.17.2006 BIN: fixed a problem with binning 3D and
- integer cols.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.17.2006 BIN: fixed a problem with binning 3D and
- updating the bin dialog box.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.17.2006 SCALE: changed AUTO to sample only for
- mosaics. </tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.30.2006 CATALOG: fixed a problem with filtering and
- column names to leading or trailing spaces. </tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.31.2006 CATALOG: add support for CSV catalog files
- with/wo header. </tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.06.2006 EPANDA: Fixed problems with rendering start
- and
- stop angles.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.08.2006 BPANDA: Fixed problems with rendering start
- and
- stop angles.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.11.2006 TEMPLATES: When creating templates, they were
- placed in the upper right corner of the frame. This has been
- changed to
- the center of the frame.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.11.2006 TEMPLATES: When templates where created via
- the
- gui, the screen was not refreshed properly. This has been
- corrected.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.12.2006 FITSY++: Fixed a problem with hist() and
- column
- values of 0, which was used as the default value.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.13.2006 COMPOSITE: Add complement angle.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.15.2006 CPANDA,EPANDA,BPANDA: fixed a conflict with
- funtools. Stop/start angles will alway increase in value.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.18.2006 MOSAIC IMAGE NEXT: removed support.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>10.01.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b10</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.01.2006 I18N: Add Portuguese support.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>10.01.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b10.1</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.01.2006 FITS: external support for bzip2.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.01.2006 REGIONS: fixed a problem with clipping
- regions
- in tile mode.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.03.2006 HV: add support for HTTP-EQUIV HTML Meta
- keyword.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.03.2006 PANDA: fixed a problem with zero length
- radius
- and printing.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.10.2006 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.6</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.13.2006 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.13</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.13.2006 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b22</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.13.2006 TCLLIB: update to version 1.9</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.23.2006 LANGUAGE: add support for following languages
- fr,es,de,it,pt,ru,da.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.23.2006 HTTP: increase timeout to 3 minutes.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.24.2006 GUI: add view colorbar numerics support.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.31.2006 CATALOGS: add full symbol support via
- xpa/command line.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.31.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the optional
- catalog name as a parameter.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.31.2006 GUI: multi column frame and active frame
- menu.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.31.2006 GUI: multi column catalog col name menus.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.02.2006 XPA: add xpaget ds9 fits bitpix.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.06.2006 GUI: add confirmation option preference.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.28.2006 REGIONS: add xpa/command line option get
- info.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.28.2006 REGIONS: fits regions file: first look for
- extension [REGIONS], then attempt to load the first
- extension.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.29.2006 FITS: fixed a overflow problem with very very
- large fits images &gt; 8Gb in size.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.06.2006 RGB: fixed a problem with aligning very large
- images.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.07.2006 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with wcs mosaicsa and
- very large images.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.09.2006 FITS: removed a kludge for defining the wcs
- tangent point that only affected AIR and AZP projections.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.12.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with default vertical
- layout. The default size is now consistent with other
- options.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.13.2006 SAVEAS: fixed a problem with PHYSICAL and WCS
- coordinates. They were 1 pixel off.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.13.2006 CPANDA/EPANDA: fixed a problem with render
- and printing with an image flipped.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.20.2006 RGB: NaN are now ignored when building an RGB
- image.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.22.2006 GUI: Increased default X size so that buttons
- do not cause automatic resizing.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.08.2007 PREFS: fixed a problem with frame parser and
- LoadPrefs so that a preferences file from version b9 will
- correctly parse.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.23.2007 FITS: Added additional checks for valid
- format and values for DATASEC, DETSEC, and DETSIZE keywords.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with redirect.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.24.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem measuring WCS
- lengths across wcs mosacis and RGB images.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.25.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rotated text
- regions.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.30.2007 DSS: Split DSS server into three servers.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.31.2007 GUI: add binning buffersize 8192 and
- binfactor 256.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>02.01.2007 RELEASE version 4.0b11</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.02.2007 CATALOGS: add cols.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.02.2007 VO: default url is now
- http://cxc.harvard.edu/chandraed/list.txt.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.07.2007 PREFERENCES: if ds9 detects a newer prefs
- file, it will not be processed.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.09.2007 SKYVIEW: added support for HEASARC's skyview
- image cutout service.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.09.2007 GUI: dropped the 'b' for beta, afterall, ds9
- is always beta!<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.13.2007 CATALOGS: new non-modal search catalogs
- support.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.13.2007 CATALOGS: add show/hide support.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.15.2007 FIRST: fixed a problem with xpa first.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.15.2007 2MASS: fixed a problem with xpa 2mass.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.06.2007 MASK: add support for fits masks.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.06.2007 MOSAIC: remove support for 'fast mosaic'
- mode.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.06.2007 SCALE: added support for zscale parameter
- prefs.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.20.2007 FITSY++: add support for compressed FITS.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.27.2007 WCS: fixed support for alt wcs for bin
- tables.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2007 REGIONS: add support for user specified point
- sizes<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.02.2007 GRID: fixed a problem with TNX projection.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.03.2007 FITSY++: split code supporting FITS ASCII
- tables and FITS Binary Tables.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.03.2007 FITSY++: removed code supporting FITS Binary
- Tables substring arrays.<br>
- </tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.03.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.8</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.03.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b30</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.7b2</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.06.2007 FITSY++: add support for RICE compressed
- FITS.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.06.2007 SMOOTH: now implemented on a per channel
- basis for RGB.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.10.2007 WCSSUBS: backed out of wcscon.c to version
- 3.6.6 due to a bug in prec.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.12.2007 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with iis and iraf.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>04.15.2007 RELEASE version 4.12</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.16.2007 FITSIMAGE: fixed an bug with setting file
- names after a reset.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.26.2007 ESO-DSS: support new survey names.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.10.2007 NSVR: fixed a problem with xpa/command line
- name lookup.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.10.2007 NSVR: fixed a problem redirection.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.11.2007 TCL: realize ds9 before executing any
- external tcl source.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.11.2007 CATALOGS: for csv files, ignore any comment
- lines.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.21.2007 MOSAICS: fixed several problems with
- constructing mosaics from both IRAF and WCS keywords.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.21.2007 IRAF MOSAICS: the image size is now defined
- by the actual data (just as with WCS) and not the DETSIZE
- keyword.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.30.2007 GRID: fixed a problem with plain font style
- that resulted in always using system and not the selected
- font.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.31.2007 ELLIPSE PANDA: fixed a problem incorrect
- postscript code.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.08.2007 GUI: fixed a problem with the Display Fits
- Header button.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.13.2007 FITS: add fits header command and xpa point.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.30.2007 RULER: fixed a problem with displaying the
- length text.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>07.15.2007 RELEASE version 4.13</b></tt></li>
- </ol>
- </ol>
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+<h3><img alt="" src="../sun.gif" width="100" height="98" align=
+"middle"> SAOImageDS9 Version 4.0 Release Notes</h3>
+<div style="margin-left: 2em">
+<h4><b>Version 4</b></h4>
+<ol>
+<li><tt>09.13.2004 AST: update to version 3.4-4</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.13.2004 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.7</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.14.2004 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.5.6</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.14.2004 TCLLIB: update to version 1.6.1</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.15.2004 TKTABLE: installed 2.9</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.20.2004 SAOTK: fixed a problem with calculating a
+regions rotational angle with a galactic or ecliptic wcs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.21.2004 SAVEFITS: fixed a problem with the savefits xpa
+and command line options.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.21.2004 REGIONS: fixed a problem with updating region
+dialog boxes after a change in event file bin factor.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.23.2004 DSS: if user selects dss2red or dss2blue survey,
+force server to eso.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.23.2004 2MASS: add image server.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.01.2004 DSS: fixed a problem with 'Update from current
+Frame'.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.12.2004 MAKEFILE: add export-dynamic for linux so that
+external shared libs can be loaded.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.21.2004 GUI: fixed a problem if while blinking the user
+changes the colorbar via mouse.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.17.2004 IMAGESERVER: fixed incompatibilities between DSS
+and 2MASS.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.19.2004 AST: update to version 3.5</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.29.2004 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.2.4</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.30.2004 SAOTK: use NaN.h from Funtools. This corrects
+problems with new architectures.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.03.2004 MAKEFILE: now support gcc 3.4.x</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.15.2004 XPA: fixed a problem with preserve regions
+command.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.15.2004 HTML: fixed several problems with color matching
+within htmlwidget.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.16.2004 GUI: fixed a problem with saving text from
+SimpleTextDialog.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.16.2004 WCS: main wcs menu item now sets default marker
+coordinate system and skyframe.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.16.2004 COMPASS: create compass now uses current marker
+dialog system and skyframe.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.20.2004 POLYGON: fixed a problem with the exclude strip
+and rotation.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.20.2004 COMPOSITE: add support for composite
+region.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.22.2004 TEXT REGION: fixed a problem in which the text
+angle did not reflect the native coordinate system.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.29.2004 IMAGESERVER: xpa and command line options are
+now synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: fixed a problem with sexigesmal from
+SIMBAD near the equator.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: xpa and command line options are now
+synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.31.2005 VECTOR: add support for new VECTOR
+region.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.08.2005 REGIONS: fix varies errors with definition of
+angles. Position angles are now defined as from first positive
+coordinate axis to second positive coordinate axis except in the
+case of equatorial wcs, in this case it is defined as from second
+positive coordinate axis to first positive coordinate
+axis.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.16.2005 SCALE: added User menu options to clarify
+current scaling mode.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.17.2005 LINUX64: fixed a problem with generating
+postscript.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.28.2005 MOSAIC: add support for mosaic data
+cubes.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.01.2005 STD Dialog: fixed several problems with ds9 not
+remembering the current working directory.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with a memory leak when
+rendering regions on the windows platform. We no longer try to clip
+against a clip region.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with command line
+options that require the ds9 window to be visible. We have to
+process all events with 'update' before the windows version of ds9
+is visible.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.03.2005 REGIONS: add support to all regions parsers for
+ms windows line terminators</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.03.2005 ANALYSIS: removed extra ';' at the end of all
+regions substitutions.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.16.2005 FITS: increased fits file name size to 1024
+chars.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.17.2005 CATALOGS: are finally implemented!</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.24.2005 WINDOWS: implemented non-windows native standard
+dialogs. This allows uses to specify a file extension.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2005 FITY++: fixed a problem with filtering large bin
+tables while in mmapincr mode. We now insure that enough data is
+mmap'd for filter to build its good array.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2005 PRESERVE: fixed syntax errors with preserve
+regions and pan.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.30.2005 REGIONS: fixed regions parsers to accept a
+regions file without terminator as the last character.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.30.2005 ZOOM: all zooms are now specified in terms of x
+and y internally</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.01.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with grid
+options</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.28.2005 REGIONS: reimplemented
+basemarker,baseellipse,basebox classes.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.28.2005 ZOOM: implemented support for different x and y
+zoom.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.29.2005 XPA: update to version 2.1.6</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.29.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b3</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.29.2005 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.9</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.25.2005 REGIONS: update all regions code</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.25.2005 REGIONS: add EPANDA</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.07.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b6</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.13.2005 SCALE: new LOG algorithm
+log10(i/s*1000+1)/log10(1001) where 0&lt;i&lt;s</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.13.2005 MAKEFILE: add support for FreeBSD</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.19.2005 FTP: all ftp opens now are in passive
+mode</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.28.2005 BIN: fixed a problem with -bin factor</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.28.2005 PAGESETUP: pagesetup command line options are no
+longer case sensitive</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.12.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0.b7</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.13.2005 REGIONS: new DS9 regions 4.0 format</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.13.2005 REGIONS: add copy,cut,paste,undo xpa and command
+line options.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.01.2005 GCC: add support for gcc 4.0. Remove backward
+support for gcc 2.96 or earlier.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.03.2005 REGIONS: panda,epanda,bpanda, only render
+start/stop angles in red/blue when selected.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.04.2005 SMOOTH: add smoothing algorithms
+boxcar,tophat,gaussian</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.15.2005 COLORBAR: add support for printing the
+colorbar</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.15.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b9</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.15.2005 ZLIB: update to version 1.2.3</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.17.2005 GUI: add View menu and prefs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.24.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with ciao pie
+regions.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.24.2005 REGIONS: add invert selection.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.25.2005 GUI: add display image window size.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>08.30.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b6</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.12.2005 IIS: fixed a problem with iis and
+cursors.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>09.12.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b7</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.15.2005 ARRAY: fixed a problem with loading array cubes
+from a file and determining the correct endian.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.24.2005 BIN: if unable to find suitable cols to bin,
+chose the first and second column. This way, if you have table, it
+will always load, even if you don't know the column
+names.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.25.2005 BIN: binning dialog box. if number of columns is
+too large to display, wrap the menu.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.27.2005 CONTOUR: complete support for command line/xpa
+control of contour features.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.27.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with convert and
+contours of zero length.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.01.2005 FITS: fixed a problem loading very small arrays
+mmapincr</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.01.2005 VECTOR: small change to correct issue with gcc
+4.0.1</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.01.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with wcs
+append/replace.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.02.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with alternative linear
+wcs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.02.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with alternative wcs names.
+All wcs names are now lower case.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.03.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with contour convert
+after a catalog command.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.03.2005 HELP: altered tk to pass -help to us. For -help,
+we now display a brief message and exit and for --help, we display
+the reference manual command line options.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.09.2005 CATALOG: fixed a problem with starbase to trim
+column names of white spaces.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.09.2005 CATALOG: add user specified RA/DEC column
+option.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.10.2005 CATALOG: speed up catreg for large dbs</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.14.2005 GUI: the meus Cut,Copy,Paste,Clear now works for
+all dialog boxes on all platforms.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.16.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rendering arrows
+for line,vector,ruler, and compass with width&gt;1.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.16.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to remember
+file types.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.17.2005 GUI: remove 'Use Cursors' Misc Option.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.17.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to remember
+filters.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.18.2005 COMPOSITE: fixed a problem with loading
+composite regions with properties.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.05.2005 RGB: Fixed a problem with wcs matching rgb
+frames .</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.08.2005 REGIONS: Fixed a problem general comment such as
+## and #.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.08.2005 HELP: reset previous behavior for -help. fv uses
+ds9 -help to probe for ds9. Until fv is changed, we need to support
+the prior behavior.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.15.2005 X11: Insure that all X11 rendering is calculated
+in double precision until the very last, at which, the results are
+rounded to the nearest integer. This includes markers, contours,
+grids.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.17.2005 PS: set default resolution to 150, from
+72.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.19.2005 GUI: add .ftz and .FTZ to default fits name
+filter.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.19.2005 FREEBSD: added support for freebsd.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.03.2006 FITSY++: fixed an overflow problem with mmap
+very large array files.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated DETECTOR and AMPLIFIER
+coordinate system menu items in menus and removed the
+preferences.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated ZMAX menu items in
+menus.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.05.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with rotated or
+flipped images and determining image size in ra and dec</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.05.2006 PROJECTION: fixed a problem move and
+moveto.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.12.2006 COLORBAR: added numerics to colorbar.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.18.2006 GUI: separte controls for min/max and
+low/high.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.24.2006 HISTOGRAM EQU: is now based on low/high, not
+min/max.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.27.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with updating the current
+colormap.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.30.2006 PANNER: under truecolor visuals, the panner is
+now updated with the colorbar.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.01.2006 TEMPLATE: tweak xmm templates for correct
+boresite.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.03.2006 GUI: fixed Shift-Tab under linux.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.03.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with loading multiple
+files, with -single command line option, followed by Match Frame.
+The frames where not realized so the coordinate systems where not
+valid.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.03.2006 MARKERS: added the ability to toggle marker
+text.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>02.08.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b8</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.07.2006 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.12</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.08.2006 CROSSHAIR: fix a typo that caused the crosshair
+command-line option to fail.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.27.2006 CATALOG: fixed a problem with finding which
+columns contain RA and DEC.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.27.2006 XPA: fixed a problem with xpaget ds9
+width.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.20.2006 DSS: add new survey options for STSCI.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.24.2006 i18n: finished implemenation of
+internationalization and localization code.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2006 SCALE: fixed a problem with RGB frames and
+log/pow scales. Incorrect low/high values were being used to
+calculate the scale.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2006 PREFS: the default prefs file is now ds9.prf.
+The following directories are now searched in order: ./ ~
+/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2006 INITALIZATION: the default initalization file is
+now ds9.ini. The following directories are now searched in order:
+./ ~ /usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.31.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with several dialog boxes
+with the Paste menu option. If the clipboard was empty, an error
+was generated.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.3.2006 FITS HEADER: fixed a problem displaying datacube
+headers.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.3.2006 PROJECTION REGION: Projection region plots can
+now be accessed via XPA PLOT</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.5.2006 MACOSX: fix a problem with the macosx startup
+scripts to allow path names with a space.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.7.2006 WCS: fix a problem WCS menu and images without a
+wcs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.10.2006 GRID: fixed a problem with GLACTIC wcs, AST,
+WCSSUBS, and defined LATPOLE/LONPOLE keywords.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>04.15.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b9</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.18.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with filter editor
+menu.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.18.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with searching for
+other catalogs</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.24.2006 TEMP: DS9 will now look for environment vars
+TEMP and TMP first for location of temp directory.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.28.2006 PREFS: Fixed a problem with writing invalid
+preferences.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.28.2006 PS: Fixed a problem with printing Grayscale and
+pure white values. They were being rounded off to 254, not
+255.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.28.2006 PREFS: prefs are now written to a users home
+directory if available (including windows) and hidden.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.02.2006 GCC: now compiles properly under gcc
+4.1</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.08.2006 SCALE: more checks for illegal low/high values
+for log/pow scales</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.10.2006 BIN: fix an issue with calculated width/height.
+No matter the bin factor, or the dimensions of the data, always
+have at least an 1x1 image.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.11.2006 DARWIN: compile under 10.4.x with no
+OSSPINLOCKLOCK, which is not available under 10.3.x</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.16.2006 CROSSHAIR: fixed a problem with xpa/cmd option
+crosshair.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.16.2006 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with loading analysis
+files with bindings at startup with one frame.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.22.2006 WCSSUBS: Update to version 3.6.4</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.25.2006 ANALYSIS: add $xcen and $ycen macros.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.25.2006 ANALYSIS: add $vo_method macro.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.05.2006 FITSY++: fixed a problem with incorrectly
+detecting the beginning sequence of gz stream.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.12.2006 HV/XPA: Implemented 'xpaset' mime
+support.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.14.2006 FITS: Fixed a problem with displaying the header
+of a file in which there was an extention name in the primary
+header.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.21.2006 GUI: Fixed a problem -single and -blink command
+line optons.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.21.2006 REGIONS: Check for valid image loaded before
+processing load regions commands.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.21.2006 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with mosaicimage wfpc2
+and display header.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.23.2006 HV: Implemented file caching.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.23.2006 HV: Implemented image caching.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.26.2006 HV: Implemented multiple mime
+processing.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.29.2006 TCLLIB: update to version 1.8</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.11.2006 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.5</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.11.2006 WCSSUBS: fix a problem with naxis&gt;2</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.12.2006 NAME SERVER: support for HTTP
+redirection</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.12.2006 IMAGE SERVER: support for HTTP
+redirection</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.13.2006 CATALOGS: support for HTTP redirection</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.13.2006 REGIONS: fixed a problem with cut/copy/paste
+regions dialog.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.25.2006 PREFS: preferences are automatically
+saved.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.25.2006 FITSY++: fixed a problem with large RGB arrays
+and streams.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.31.2006 RGB: add support for invert RGB
+colormap.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.31.2006 FIRST: add support for VLA FIRST image
+server.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.01.2006 HTTP: add timeout options to all geturl
+calls.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.02.2006 CATALOGS: add suppport for SDSS.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.07.2006 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with cancel geturl
+tasks.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.14.2006 TKTABLE: fixed configure files for darwin
+intel.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.14.2006 TKIMG: fixed configure files for darwin
+intel.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.14.2006 AST: apply patch to plot.c at line
+23207</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.17.2006 BIN: fixed a problem with binning 3D and integer
+cols.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.17.2006 BIN: fixed a problem with binning 3D and
+updating the bin dialog box.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.17.2006 SCALE: changed AUTO to sample only for
+mosaics.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.30.2006 CATALOG: fixed a problem with filtering and
+column names to leading or trailing spaces.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.31.2006 CATALOG: add support for CSV catalog files
+with/wo header.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.06.2006 EPANDA: Fixed problems with rendering start and
+stop angles.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.08.2006 BPANDA: Fixed problems with rendering start and
+stop angles.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.11.2006 TEMPLATES: When creating templates, they were
+placed in the upper right corner of the frame. This has been
+changed to the center of the frame.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.11.2006 TEMPLATES: When templates where created via the
+gui, the screen was not refreshed properly. This has been
+corrected.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.12.2006 FITSY++: Fixed a problem with hist() and column
+values of 0, which was used as the default value.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.13.2006 COMPOSITE: Add complement angle.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.15.2006 CPANDA,EPANDA,BPANDA: fixed a conflict with
+funtools. Stop/start angles will alway increase in value.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.18.2006 MOSAIC IMAGE NEXT: removed support.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>10.01.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b10</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.01.2006 I18N: Add Portuguese support.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>10.01.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b10.1</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.01.2006 FITS: external support for bzip2.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.01.2006 REGIONS: fixed a problem with clipping regions
+in tile mode.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.03.2006 HV: add support for HTTP-EQUIV HTML Meta
+keyword.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.03.2006 PANDA: fixed a problem with zero length radius
+and printing.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.10.2006 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.6</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.13.2006 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.13</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.13.2006 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b22</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.13.2006 TCLLIB: update to version 1.9</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.23.2006 LANGUAGE: add support for following languages
+fr,es,de,it,pt,ru,da.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.23.2006 HTTP: increase timeout to 3 minutes.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.24.2006 GUI: add view colorbar numerics
+support.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.31.2006 CATALOGS: add full symbol support via
+xpa/command line.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.31.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the optional
+catalog name as a parameter.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.31.2006 GUI: multi column frame and active frame
+menu.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.31.2006 GUI: multi column catalog col name
+menus.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.02.2006 XPA: add xpaget ds9 fits bitpix.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.06.2006 GUI: add confirmation option
+preference.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.28.2006 REGIONS: add xpa/command line option get
+info.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.28.2006 REGIONS: fits regions file: first look for
+extension [REGIONS], then attempt to load the first
+extension.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.29.2006 FITS: fixed a overflow problem with very very
+large fits images &gt; 8Gb in size.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.06.2006 RGB: fixed a problem with aligning very large
+images.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.07.2006 MOSAIC: fixed a problem with wcs mosaicsa and
+very large images.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.09.2006 FITS: removed a kludge for defining the wcs
+tangent point that only affected AIR and AZP
+projections.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.12.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with default vertical
+layout. The default size is now consistent with other
+options.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.13.2006 SAVEAS: fixed a problem with PHYSICAL and WCS
+coordinates. They were 1 pixel off.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.13.2006 CPANDA/EPANDA: fixed a problem with render and
+printing with an image flipped.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.20.2006 RGB: NaN are now ignored when building an RGB
+image.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.22.2006 GUI: Increased default X size so that buttons do
+not cause automatic resizing.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.08.2007 PREFS: fixed a problem with frame parser and
+LoadPrefs so that a preferences file from version b9 will correctly
+parse.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.23.2007 FITS: Added additional checks for valid format
+and values for DATASEC, DETSEC, and DETSIZE keywords.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with
+redirect.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.24.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem measuring WCS lengths
+across wcs mosacis and RGB images.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.25.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rotated text
+regions.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.30.2007 DSS: Split DSS server into three
+servers.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.31.2007 GUI: add binning buffersize 8192 and binfactor
+256.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>02.01.2007 RELEASE version 4.0b11</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.02.2007 CATALOGS: add cols.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.02.2007 VO: default url is now
+http://cxc.harvard.edu/chandraed/list.txt.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.07.2007 PREFERENCES: if ds9 detects a newer prefs file,
+it will not be processed.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.09.2007 SKYVIEW: added support for HEASARC's skyview
+image cutout service.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.09.2007 GUI: dropped the 'b' for beta, afterall, ds9 is
+always beta!<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.13.2007 CATALOGS: new non-modal search catalogs
+support.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.13.2007 CATALOGS: add show/hide support.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.15.2007 FIRST: fixed a problem with xpa
+first.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.15.2007 2MASS: fixed a problem with xpa
+2mass.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.06.2007 MASK: add support for fits masks.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.06.2007 MOSAIC: remove support for 'fast mosaic'
+mode.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.06.2007 SCALE: added support for zscale parameter
+prefs.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.20.2007 FITSY++: add support for compressed
+FITS.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.27.2007 WCS: fixed support for alt wcs for bin
+tables.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2007 REGIONS: add support for user specified point
+sizes<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.02.2007 GRID: fixed a problem with TNX
+projection.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.03.2007 FITSY++: split code supporting FITS ASCII tables
+and FITS Binary Tables.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.03.2007 FITSY++: removed code supporting FITS Binary
+Tables substring arrays.<br></tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.03.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.6.8</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.03.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.3.0b30</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.7b2</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.06.2007 FITSY++: add support for RICE compressed
+FITS.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.06.2007 SMOOTH: now implemented on a per channel basis
+for RGB.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.10.2007 WCSSUBS: backed out of wcscon.c to version 3.6.6
+due to a bug in prec.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.12.2007 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with iis and
+iraf.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>04.15.2007 RELEASE version 4.12</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.16.2007 FITSIMAGE: fixed an bug with setting file names
+after a reset.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.26.2007 ESO-DSS: support new survey names.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.10.2007 NSVR: fixed a problem with xpa/command line name
+lookup.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.10.2007 NSVR: fixed a problem redirection.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.11.2007 TCL: realize ds9 before executing any external
+tcl source.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.11.2007 CATALOGS: for csv files, ignore any comment
+lines.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.21.2007 MOSAICS: fixed several problems with
+constructing mosaics from both IRAF and WCS keywords.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.21.2007 IRAF MOSAICS: the image size is now defined by
+the actual data (just as with WCS) and not the DETSIZE
+keyword.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.30.2007 GRID: fixed a problem with plain font style that
+resulted in always using system and not the selected
+font.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.31.2007 ELLIPSE PANDA: fixed a problem incorrect
+postscript code.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.08.2007 GUI: fixed a problem with the Display Fits
+Header button.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.13.2007 FITS: add fits header command and xpa
+point.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.30.2007 RULER: fixed a problem with displaying the
+length text.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>07.15.2007 RELEASE version 4.13</b></tt></li>
+</ol>
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