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-<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 > 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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+ 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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