SAOImageDS9 Version 2.3 Release Notes

Version 2.3b1

  1. 11.04.2002 add multi-language support structure.
  2. 12.02.2002 configure http user agent to 'ds9'. This fixes a problem with www.google.com
  3. 12.02.2002 add Help DS9 Home Page menu Item.
  4. 12.03.2002 Web Display: implemented 'Content-Encoding' and modified 'Mime-Type' to use new proposed FITS Mime-Type RFC.
  5. 12.03.2002 Web Display: when the mime-type is set to 'application/octet-stream', try to parse the url, looking for a valid fits or fits.gz image. If so, load as a fits. If not, save to disk.
  6. 12.03.2002 Web Display: reduced the size of fonts by -2 to more closely match netscape and internet explorer.
  7. 12.03.2002 Web Display: updated Archive menus to use new IRAS web interface.
  8. 12.03.2002 Web Display: add font size argument to HV. Now, web sites can have different default font sizes, based on what looks the best.
  9. 12.10.2002 Fixed a problem with calculating LTMV keywords from alt WCS keywords in the case of WCSNAME='PHYSICAL'
  10. 12.10.2002 Add support for TDMIN and TDMAX FITS bin table keywords.
  11. 12.10.2002 Add 'Delete All Frames' support.
  12. 12.10.2002 only use fits keyword inheritence if INHERIT keyword is present in the header.
  13. 12.11.2002 Fixed a problem with WCS headers and INHERIT, which resulted in duplicate keywords. This made wcssubs very confused.
  14. 12.11.2002 Add 'Delete Selected Regions' to Regions menu.
  15. 12.11.2002 Add confirmation dialog to 'Delete All Regions'.
  16. 12.12.2002 Display Header List dialog is now 40 chars wide.
  17. 12.12.2002 Web Display: add initial coordinates to ADS archive sites
  18. 12.16.2002 Add *.fit and *.fts to fits dialog box templates.
  19. 12.16.2002 Add support for GUI Groups, based on region tags.
  20. 12.17.2002 Add HSV colormap.
  21. 12.18.2002 Fixed a problem with the PANDA Region at zooms other than 1.
  22. 12.19.2002 DS9 version 2.3b1 released to the public.