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- SAOImageDS9 Version 6 Release Notes</h3>
- <ol>
- <ol>
- <li><tt>10.20.2009 XPA: moved processing xpa command line
- options to first pass, and init xpa earlier in startup, so
- that vo and web click can be processed along with regular
- command line options. </tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.24.2009 UPDATE: fixed a problem with trying to
- provide support for backward compatibility.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.24.2009 IMGSVR: fixed a problem with trying to
- provide support for backward compatibility</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.24.2009 GUI: sleep command arg is now optional</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.24.2009 MOSAIC: IRAF mosaics are now layed out based
- on the first segment load, like WCS mosaics</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.27.2009 GUI: fixed a problem if you delete all
- frames, some of the load commands (such as -rgbcube) are not
- executed until there is a new frame. Now, if there are no
- frames, the load command will create a new frame if needed</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.28.2009 REGION: Corrected a problem with creating
- templates from a VAR. Uncommented old syntax which has been
- superceeded</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.02.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with 'grid numlab gap2'</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.02.2009 AST: updated to version 5.3-1 </tt></li>
- <li><tt><tt>11.05.2009 TILE: corrected documentation for '-tile
- grid layout', should be column #, row #</tt></tt></li>
- <tt>
- <li><tt>11.05.2009 DATACUBE: fixed a problem with '-wcs
- replace|reset|append'. The result WCS is now applied to
- all slices</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.05.2009 XPA: fixed a problem with 'xpaset wcs
- replace foo.wcs'</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.13.2009 RICE: updated to cfitsio 3210/tt&gt;</tt></li>
- <tt>
- <li><tt>11.16.2009 COMPRESS: fixed a problem with
- compression that extends over a page boundry of 1Gb</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.30.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with exterior
- numerics and zoomed images</tt></li>
- <li><tt>11.30.2009 HELP: combine FAQ and ISSUES pages</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.04.2009 RGB: aux contour overlays are now
- displayed on a per channel basis</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.07.2009 RGB: rgb images with data cubes can now
- set the current slice on a per channel basis</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.07.2009 VO: fixed a problem with xpa keep-alive</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.10.2009 TK: fixed a problem MacOSX X11 standard
- file dialog boxes. Borrowed code from tk8.5 to correct
- the problem when events are added to X11</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.10.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with modal dialogs
- when the user closed the window via the window manager
- and not the OK/CANCEL button</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.10.2009 XPA: update to version 2.1.11</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.14.2009 RGB: fixed a problem with a incorrect WCS
- compass in the panner image</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.15.2009 WCS: Documented the old ALIGN command and
- updated for XPA and SAMP</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.15.2009 GUI: Values accepted for SKYFORMAT
- expanded to 'deg', 'degree', and 'degrees' for command
- line options, XPA, and SAMP</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.17.2009 WCS: added code to test for bad WCS
- alignment issues (mainly from CAR projection, or pole
- problems)</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.17.2009 WCS: added code for WCS alignment for
- CAR. If CAR, getWCScrpix() is taken from center of
- image, and not from CRPIX keywords</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.18.2009 CATALOG: added USNO UCAC3 to the Optical
- list</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.24.2009 DATACUBE: DS9 now supports FITS images up
- to 10 dimensions. Happy Holidays!</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.28.2009 ANALYSIS: fixed problems with $data and
- $url and spaces in the tmp directory path name</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.28.2009 COMM: fixed problems with spaces in file
- names received as argumetns via SAMP and http</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.29.2009 REGION: fixed problems with XPA/SAMP and
- -format/-system/-sky options</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.29.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with hiding the
- current frame</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: at EXIT, close all opened HV windows
- so that tmp files may be deleted</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type
- 'multipart/mixed', a tmp file was not deleted</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type
- 'text/plain', a tmp file was not deleted</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2009 ANALYSIS: add $filedialog(open) and
- $filedialog(save) macros</tt></li>
- <li><tt>12.30.2009 GUI: allow filenames starting with a '-'</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.07.2009 I18N: for X11 port, look for LC_MESSAGES,
- LC_ALL, LANG env vars to set langage in that order</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.07.2009 I18N: update Japanese language
- translation</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.07.2009 CONTOUR: fix muliple problems with
- command line contour options. Each frame will now
- remember contour params between frames</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.08.2009 ANALYSIS: minor changes in output of get
- analysis commands. Now include parameters for web and
- bind commands</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.11.2009 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with the
- orientation of the numerics for vertical colorbar. This
- problem was introduced with AST-5.3</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.11.2009 RGB: fixed a memory leak for RGB frames</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.11.2009 I18N: update Japanese language
- translation</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.11.2009 MACOSX: fixed a problem with non-native
- standard file dialog boxes and error messages</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.12.2009 AST: fixed a memory leak with colorbar
- grid.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.13.2009 PLOT: fixed a rare problem when the user
- closes a plot while in the middle of a zoom.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.13.2009 IRAF: fixed a problem for mosaic iraf
- images are loaded and the bounding box is incorrectly
- calculated.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>01.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.0</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.27.2010 XPA: fixed a problem with reporting
- errors during an XPA operation. The correct error
- message is now passed to XPA.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.27.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with reporting
- errors during an SAMP operation. The correct error
- message is now passed to SAMP.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.27.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with catch and
- XPA/SAMP. Errors are now reset when needed so as not to
- invoke an XPA/SAMP ERROR message.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>01.27.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.12</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.02.2010 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with manually
- entered contours values.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add numerics equal distance
- option.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add colorbar size option.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: move colorbar parameters from
- view menu to colorbar menu.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.18.2010 MACOSX: fixed a problem where pcc was
- always being installed. Now, first look for FILTER_CC
- (valid for X11 users only). Next, see if /usr/bin/gcc
- exists. Finally, install pcc if needed, and set to use
- it.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.25.2010 SCALE: fixed numerous problems with LOG
- and POW scales. Previously, the exp value of the log
- ratio was based on the dynamic range of the data. It is
- now specified by the user. This solves a number of
- issues with data which contains negative values. (see
- new documenation on scale equations).</tt></li>
- <li><tt>02.25.2010 CATALOG: CSC is now loaded as a VOTABLE
- by default.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.02.2010 CATALOG: add support for SkyBot catalog
- server.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.03.2010 MACOSX: printing, reduce image by 5% so
- colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.03.2010 WINDOWS: printing, reduce image by 5% so
- colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.03.2010 HV: fixed a problem with MouseWheel
- scrolling under X11.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.04.2010 ZOOM: added support for mouse wheel zoom.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.04.2010 HV: added support for Find and FindNext.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.10.2010 POSTSCRIPT: if colorbar and colorbar
- numerics are visible, reduce image by 5% so colorbar end
- tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.10.2010 PRINT: add psprint xpa/command/samp
- command for postscript printing on MacOSX and Windows.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.10.2010 GRID: add support for custom numeric
- formats.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.17.2010 BIN: add support for Match Bin.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.23.2010 FITS: add a check tor binary tables with
- no rows or cols.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native
- printing and bitmaps that were not aligned upon a word
- boundary.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with rendering
- circle point and box circle point.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.26.2010 HV: fixed a rather nasty bug. If a HV
- window is open when prefs are saved, the next time ds9
- is started, upon exist it tried to close an non-existent
- window, and went into a loop.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>03.29.2010 SAMP: add support for table.load.fits
- events.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.13.2010 BACKUP: add support for backup and
- restore.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.14.2010 GUI: ensure all temp files in /tmp have
- unique names which will not conflict with other
- programs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.14.2010 RGB: corrected inconsistant behavior. The
- creation of a RGB frame will not alter the single/tile
- setting.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.16.2010 TK: fixed a problem with some tk lib
- scripts not sourced at startup and if -cd is executed,
- ds9 is unable to locate the scripts.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.16.2010 CIAO: removed any conjuction operators
- (which are not supported).</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.16.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a rather nasty memory bug
- which was invoked when the colorbar was re-configured.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.23.2010 BACKUP: backup save sets can be saved
- into on a repeat basis.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.26.2010 SCALE: fixed a problem with segv and
- Scale Dialog box.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.26.2010 GUI: fixed a problem matching frames
- while in single mode.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>04.29.2010 GUI: add cycle windows key shortcut.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.04.2010 WINDOWS: new windows installation
- procedure.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.06.2010 CATALOG: add IAU location code in
- preferences (for Skybot).</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.10.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with projection
- region when one or both end points are off the image.
- All gaps (mosaic) or off image (non-mosaic) have a value
- of 0 and NaNs are ignored.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.12.2010 VOTable: add support for FIEDref and
- PARAMref elements.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>05.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.1</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.18.2010 WINDOWS: change windows installation
- procedure back to allow user to specify destination
- directory.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.18.2010 SAMP: fixed an issue with DS9 being
- confused as to if it is currently connected and the need
- to shutdown SAMP at exit.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>05.18.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.1</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.19.2010 BACKUP: fixed several major problems.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.19.2010 PSEUDOCOLOR: fixed a typo.</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>05.19.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.2</b></tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.20.2010 MACOSX: always install pcc if gcc not
- available. We don't want old versions of pcc around
- after upgrades of the OS.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.28.2010 PLOT: added statistics window for plots.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.28.2010 PLOT: fixed some problems with menus and
- clear data.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>05.28.2010 NAMESERVER: add get option to return
- coords directly to calling proc.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.17.2010 CHECKDNS: update chechdns to add support
- for actually connect.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.17.2010 VO: use checkdns to look for active
- server. If none found, used hard coded list.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.21.2010 ZOOM TO FIT: center image exactly, do not
- round to nearest whole pixel.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.21.2010 BACKUP: don't save prefs(version) var. We
- want the current preference file version, not the save
- set version.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.21.2010 GUI: ds9 will now look for its auxiliary
- file using the current name of the executable.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>06.30.2010 WCS: add WCS Edit dialog.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.01.2010 XPA: add frame has command.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.01.2010 SAMP: add frame has command.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.09.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with updating the
- connect meun item after a manual disconnect.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.09.2010 SAMP: added support for SAMP_HUB env var.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.13.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with a bad
- default -size param. This problem only showed up with a
- pseudocolor8 visual.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for internal
- error message facility. Any fatal internal error event
- will trigger an GUI error message, hopefully leaving the
- user the option to save data and to exit gracefully.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for trapping the
- SIGBUS signal and routing it to the internal error
- message facilty. This usually occurs when a data file
- has been overwritten or a shared memory segment is no
- longer available.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>07.27.2010 PLOT: save font info when save
- configuration.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.04.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with the close
- button on EPANDA and BPANDA dialog boxes.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.05.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem when the image
- is all one value.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.10.2010 GUI: add Frame Match Image, Physical,
- Detector, Amplifier buttons.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier prefs for XPA,
- SAMP, and the command line.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier color option.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.17.2010 GRID: fixed a problem with init colors.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.17.2010 GRID: now supports colors in form
- #ffffff.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.18.2010 CONTOURS: fixed an issue when loading aux
- contours which do not end with a linefeed.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when printing
- colorbar from the command line. The numerics are now
- updated before printing.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when rendering
- numerics. Numerics are now properly positioned,
- regardless of colorbar orientation or font.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.25.2010 GRID: fixed a number of issues when
- rendering grid numerics. Numerics are now properly
- positioned, regardless of orientation or font.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.27.2010 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a rather nastsy
- prolblem with the level 2 postscript driver (Ascii85
- filter) in which, sometimes, the last line of the image
- would not be written.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.30.2010 POSTSCRIPT: add new postscript level 3
- driver, which uses Flate and Ascii85 filters.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.31.2010 COLORBAR: add support for user specified
- number of tickmarks to be displayed.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>08.31.2010 CATALOG: The user can now invoke a blank
- catalog tool via the command line, xpa, or samp.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.01.2010 TCL/TK: upate to version 8.5.8.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.01.2010 CATALOG: add font properties to display
- symbol database.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.07.2010 CATALOG: now supports image/physical
- coordinate systems.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.21.2010 CONTOUR: copy/paste contours no longer
- requires equatorial sky param.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.21.2010 REGION: copy/paste contours no longer
- requires equatorial sky param.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.21.2010 SAVEAS: add optional params for jpeg,
- mpeg and tiff command line options.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.22.2010 FOV: update Chandra Templates.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.22.2010 GUI: add open and close support for XPA,
- SAMP, and command line, for all dialogs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.28.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with generating
- colorbar values when no frame is available.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.30.2010 HV: fixed a problem with multiple
- cookies, which created a bad header.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.30.2010 VO: fixed a problem with 'xpaget ds9 vo
- connect'. Now returns only the current connections, not
- all possible connections.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.30.2010 REGION: added check for no frame and no
- image loaded for xpaset regions via stdin.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>09.30.2010 ANALYSIS: add 'task #|name' command.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.01.2010 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem when an
- analysis file was loaded after an image had been loaded.
- Them menu was not properly updated to reflect the
- template for each menu item.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.05.2010 CUBE: fixed a problem in which sometimes
- changing the current slice whould hang.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.05.2010 CUBE: add support for WCS in cube dialog.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.07.2010 CENTROID: add support centroid params
- xpa/command line.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.07.2010 CENTROID: fix some problems with an
- offset of .5 pixels.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.07.2010 SMOOTH: new frames inherit current smooth
- params.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.07.2010 RGB: fixed a problem when the first image
- load has a flipped wcs.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.08.2010 REGION: add CIRCLE3D region.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.11.2010 BACKUP: fixed a problem with smoothed
- images and contours.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.14.2010 HELP: fixed a problem with finding the
- help files if the CD command has changed the default
- directory.</tt></li>
- <li><tt>10.14.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.13</tt></li>
- <li><tt><b>10.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.2</b></tt></li>
- </tt></tt>
- </ol>
- <tt><tt>
- </tt></tt>
- </ol>
- <tt><tt>
- </tt></tt>
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+<h3><img alt="" src="../sun.gif" width="100" height="98" align=
+"middle"> SAOImageDS9 Version 6 Release Notes</h3>
+<div style="margin-left: 2em">
+<ol>
+<li><tt>10.20.2009 XPA: moved processing xpa command line options
+to first pass, and init xpa earlier in startup, so that vo and web
+click can be processed along with regular command line
+options.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.24.2009 UPDATE: fixed a problem with trying to provide
+support for backward compatibility.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.24.2009 IMGSVR: fixed a problem with trying to provide
+support for backward compatibility</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.24.2009 GUI: sleep command arg is now optional</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.24.2009 MOSAIC: IRAF mosaics are now layed out based on
+the first segment load, like WCS mosaics</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.27.2009 GUI: fixed a problem if you delete all frames,
+some of the load commands (such as -rgbcube) are not executed until
+there is a new frame. Now, if there are no frames, the load command
+will create a new frame if needed</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.28.2009 REGION: Corrected a problem with creating
+templates from a VAR. Uncommented old syntax which has been
+superceeded</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.02.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with 'grid numlab
+gap2'</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.02.2009 AST: updated to version 5.3-1</tt></li>
+<li><tt><tt>11.05.2009 TILE: corrected documentation for '-tile
+grid layout', should be column #, row #</tt></tt></li>
+<li><tt><tt>11.05.2009 DATACUBE: fixed a problem with '-wcs
+replace|reset|append'. The result WCS is now applied to all
+slices</tt></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.05.2009 XPA: fixed a problem with 'xpaset wcs replace
+foo.wcs'</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.13.2009 RICE: updated to cfitsio 3210/tt&gt;</tt></li>
+<li><tt><tt>11.16.2009 COMPRESS: fixed a problem with compression
+that extends over a page boundry of 1Gb</tt></tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.30.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with exterior numerics and
+zoomed images</tt></li>
+<li><tt>11.30.2009 HELP: combine FAQ and ISSUES pages</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.04.2009 RGB: aux contour overlays are now displayed on a
+per channel basis</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.07.2009 RGB: rgb images with data cubes can now set the
+current slice on a per channel basis</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.07.2009 VO: fixed a problem with xpa
+keep-alive</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.10.2009 TK: fixed a problem MacOSX X11 standard file
+dialog boxes. Borrowed code from tk8.5 to correct the problem when
+events are added to X11</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.10.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with modal dialogs when the
+user closed the window via the window manager and not the OK/CANCEL
+button</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.10.2009 XPA: update to version 2.1.11</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.14.2009 RGB: fixed a problem with a incorrect WCS
+compass in the panner image</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.15.2009 WCS: Documented the old ALIGN command and
+updated for XPA and SAMP</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.15.2009 GUI: Values accepted for SKYFORMAT expanded to
+'deg', 'degree', and 'degrees' for command line options, XPA, and
+SAMP</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.17.2009 WCS: added code to test for bad WCS alignment
+issues (mainly from CAR projection, or pole problems)</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.17.2009 WCS: added code for WCS alignment for CAR. If
+CAR, getWCScrpix() is taken from center of image, and not from
+CRPIX keywords</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.18.2009 CATALOG: added USNO UCAC3 to the Optical
+list</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.24.2009 DATACUBE: DS9 now supports FITS images up to 10
+dimensions. Happy Holidays!</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.28.2009 ANALYSIS: fixed problems with $data and $url and
+spaces in the tmp directory path name</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.28.2009 COMM: fixed problems with spaces in file names
+received as argumetns via SAMP and http</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.29.2009 REGION: fixed problems with XPA/SAMP and
+-format/-system/-sky options</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.29.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with hiding the current
+frame</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: at EXIT, close all opened HV windows so that
+tmp files may be deleted</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type
+'multipart/mixed', a tmp file was not deleted</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type 'text/plain',
+a tmp file was not deleted</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2009 ANALYSIS: add $filedialog(open) and
+$filedialog(save) macros</tt></li>
+<li><tt>12.30.2009 GUI: allow filenames starting with a
+'-'</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.07.2009 I18N: for X11 port, look for LC_MESSAGES,
+LC_ALL, LANG env vars to set langage in that order</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.07.2009 I18N: update Japanese language
+translation</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.07.2009 CONTOUR: fix muliple problems with command line
+contour options. Each frame will now remember contour params
+between frames</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.08.2009 ANALYSIS: minor changes in output of get
+analysis commands. Now include parameters for web and bind
+commands</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.11.2009 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with the orientation
+of the numerics for vertical colorbar. This problem was introduced
+with AST-5.3</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.11.2009 RGB: fixed a memory leak for RGB
+frames</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.11.2009 I18N: update Japanese language
+translation</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.11.2009 MACOSX: fixed a problem with non-native standard
+file dialog boxes and error messages</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.12.2009 AST: fixed a memory leak with colorbar
+grid.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.13.2009 PLOT: fixed a rare problem when the user closes
+a plot while in the middle of a zoom.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.13.2009 IRAF: fixed a problem for mosaic iraf images are
+loaded and the bounding box is incorrectly calculated.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>01.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.0</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.27.2010 XPA: fixed a problem with reporting errors
+during an XPA operation. The correct error message is now passed to
+XPA.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.27.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with reporting errors
+during an SAMP operation. The correct error message is now passed
+to SAMP.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.27.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with catch and XPA/SAMP.
+Errors are now reset when needed so as not to invoke an XPA/SAMP
+ERROR message.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>01.27.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.12</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.02.2010 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with manually entered
+contours values.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add numerics equal distance
+option.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add colorbar size option.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.12.2010 COLORBAR: move colorbar parameters from view
+menu to colorbar menu.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.18.2010 MACOSX: fixed a problem where pcc was always
+being installed. Now, first look for FILTER_CC (valid for X11 users
+only). Next, see if /usr/bin/gcc exists. Finally, install pcc if
+needed, and set to use it.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.25.2010 SCALE: fixed numerous problems with LOG and POW
+scales. Previously, the exp value of the log ratio was based on the
+dynamic range of the data. It is now specified by the user. This
+solves a number of issues with data which contains negative values.
+(see new documenation on scale equations).</tt></li>
+<li><tt>02.25.2010 CATALOG: CSC is now loaded as a VOTABLE by
+default.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.02.2010 CATALOG: add support for SkyBot catalog
+server.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.03.2010 MACOSX: printing, reduce image by 5% so colorbar
+end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.03.2010 WINDOWS: printing, reduce image by 5% so
+colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.03.2010 HV: fixed a problem with MouseWheel scrolling
+under X11.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.04.2010 ZOOM: added support for mouse wheel
+zoom.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.04.2010 HV: added support for Find and
+FindNext.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.10.2010 POSTSCRIPT: if colorbar and colorbar numerics
+are visible, reduce image by 5% so colorbar end tick numerics are
+not cutoff.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.10.2010 PRINT: add psprint xpa/command/samp command for
+postscript printing on MacOSX and Windows.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.10.2010 GRID: add support for custom numeric
+formats.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.17.2010 BIN: add support for Match Bin.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.23.2010 FITS: add a check tor binary tables with no rows
+or cols.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native printing
+and bitmaps that were not aligned upon a word boundary.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with rendering circle
+point and box circle point.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.26.2010 HV: fixed a rather nasty bug. If a HV window is
+open when prefs are saved, the next time ds9 is started, upon exist
+it tried to close an non-existent window, and went into a
+loop.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>03.29.2010 SAMP: add support for table.load.fits
+events.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.13.2010 BACKUP: add support for backup and
+restore.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.14.2010 GUI: ensure all temp files in /tmp have unique
+names which will not conflict with other programs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.14.2010 RGB: corrected inconsistant behavior. The
+creation of a RGB frame will not alter the single/tile
+setting.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.16.2010 TK: fixed a problem with some tk lib scripts not
+sourced at startup and if -cd is executed, ds9 is unable to locate
+the scripts.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.16.2010 CIAO: removed any conjuction operators (which
+are not supported).</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.16.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a rather nasty memory bug which
+was invoked when the colorbar was re-configured.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.23.2010 BACKUP: backup save sets can be saved into on a
+repeat basis.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.26.2010 SCALE: fixed a problem with segv and Scale
+Dialog box.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.26.2010 GUI: fixed a problem matching frames while in
+single mode.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>04.29.2010 GUI: add cycle windows key shortcut.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.04.2010 WINDOWS: new windows installation
+procedure.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.06.2010 CATALOG: add IAU location code in preferences
+(for Skybot).</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.10.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with projection region
+when one or both end points are off the image. All gaps (mosaic) or
+off image (non-mosaic) have a value of 0 and NaNs are
+ignored.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.12.2010 VOTable: add support for FIEDref and PARAMref
+elements.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>05.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.1</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.18.2010 WINDOWS: change windows installation procedure
+back to allow user to specify destination directory.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.18.2010 SAMP: fixed an issue with DS9 being confused as
+to if it is currently connected and the need to shutdown SAMP at
+exit.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>05.18.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.1</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.19.2010 BACKUP: fixed several major problems.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.19.2010 PSEUDOCOLOR: fixed a typo.</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>05.19.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.2</b></tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.20.2010 MACOSX: always install pcc if gcc not available.
+We don't want old versions of pcc around after upgrades of the
+OS.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.28.2010 PLOT: added statistics window for
+plots.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.28.2010 PLOT: fixed some problems with menus and clear
+data.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>05.28.2010 NAMESERVER: add get option to return coords
+directly to calling proc.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.17.2010 CHECKDNS: update chechdns to add support for
+actually connect.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.17.2010 VO: use checkdns to look for active server. If
+none found, used hard coded list.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.21.2010 ZOOM TO FIT: center image exactly, do not round
+to nearest whole pixel.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.21.2010 BACKUP: don't save prefs(version) var. We want
+the current preference file version, not the save set
+version.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.21.2010 GUI: ds9 will now look for its auxiliary file
+using the current name of the executable.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>06.30.2010 WCS: add WCS Edit dialog.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.01.2010 XPA: add frame has command.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.01.2010 SAMP: add frame has command.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.09.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with updating the connect
+meun item after a manual disconnect.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.09.2010 SAMP: added support for SAMP_HUB env
+var.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.13.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with a bad default
+-size param. This problem only showed up with a pseudocolor8
+visual.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for internal error
+message facility. Any fatal internal error event will trigger an
+GUI error message, hopefully leaving the user the option to save
+data and to exit gracefully.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for trapping the SIGBUS
+signal and routing it to the internal error message facilty. This
+usually occurs when a data file has been overwritten or a shared
+memory segment is no longer available.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>07.27.2010 PLOT: save font info when save
+configuration.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.04.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with the close button on
+EPANDA and BPANDA dialog boxes.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.05.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem when the image is all
+one value.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.10.2010 GUI: add Frame Match Image, Physical, Detector,
+Amplifier buttons.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier prefs for XPA, SAMP,
+and the command line.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier color option.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.17.2010 GRID: fixed a problem with init
+colors.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.17.2010 GRID: now supports colors in form
+#ffffff.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.18.2010 CONTOURS: fixed an issue when loading aux
+contours which do not end with a linefeed.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when printing colorbar
+from the command line. The numerics are now updated before
+printing.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when rendering
+numerics. Numerics are now properly positioned, regardless of
+colorbar orientation or font.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.25.2010 GRID: fixed a number of issues when rendering
+grid numerics. Numerics are now properly positioned, regardless of
+orientation or font.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.27.2010 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a rather nastsy prolblem with
+the level 2 postscript driver (Ascii85 filter) in which, sometimes,
+the last line of the image would not be written.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.30.2010 POSTSCRIPT: add new postscript level 3 driver,
+which uses Flate and Ascii85 filters.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.31.2010 COLORBAR: add support for user specified number
+of tickmarks to be displayed.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>08.31.2010 CATALOG: The user can now invoke a blank catalog
+tool via the command line, xpa, or samp.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.01.2010 TCL/TK: upate to version 8.5.8.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.01.2010 CATALOG: add font properties to display symbol
+database.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.07.2010 CATALOG: now supports image/physical coordinate
+systems.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.21.2010 CONTOUR: copy/paste contours no longer requires
+equatorial sky param.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.21.2010 REGION: copy/paste contours no longer requires
+equatorial sky param.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.21.2010 SAVEAS: add optional params for jpeg, mpeg and
+tiff command line options.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.22.2010 FOV: update Chandra Templates.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.22.2010 GUI: add open and close support for XPA, SAMP,
+and command line, for all dialogs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.28.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with generating
+colorbar values when no frame is available.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.30.2010 HV: fixed a problem with multiple cookies, which
+created a bad header.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.30.2010 VO: fixed a problem with 'xpaget ds9 vo
+connect'. Now returns only the current connections, not all
+possible connections.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.30.2010 REGION: added check for no frame and no image
+loaded for xpaset regions via stdin.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>09.30.2010 ANALYSIS: add 'task #|name' command.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.01.2010 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem when an analysis file
+was loaded after an image had been loaded. Them menu was not
+properly updated to reflect the template for each menu
+item.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.05.2010 CUBE: fixed a problem in which sometimes
+changing the current slice whould hang.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.05.2010 CUBE: add support for WCS in cube
+dialog.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.07.2010 CENTROID: add support centroid params
+xpa/command line.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.07.2010 CENTROID: fix some problems with an offset of .5
+pixels.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.07.2010 SMOOTH: new frames inherit current smooth
+params.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.07.2010 RGB: fixed a problem when the first image load
+has a flipped wcs.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.08.2010 REGION: add CIRCLE3D region.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.11.2010 BACKUP: fixed a problem with smoothed images and
+contours.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.14.2010 HELP: fixed a problem with finding the help
+files if the CD command has changed the default
+directory.</tt></li>
+<li><tt>10.14.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.13</tt></li>
+<li><tt><b>10.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.2</b></tt></li>
+</ol>
+</div>
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