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<li><tt>07.16.2007 FITSY++: fix a problem with rice compressed
images and multiple tiles.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.17.2007 MOSAIC: fix a problem with bin table extensions
at the end of a mosaic image wcs.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem with loading external
colormaps.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.20.2007 COLORMAP: fixed a problem colormap
menus.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.23.2007 ARCHIVES: new url for skyview.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.23.2007 I18N: add language support for Japanese. (many
thanks to Masahiro Tsujimoto!).</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.23.2007 PIXEL TABLE: xpaget will now return the pixel
table values.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.31.2007 SOLARISx86: now supporting solarisx86.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.15.2007 PIXELTABLE: fixed a minor problem with xpaget
pixeltable.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.15.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.0</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.15.2007 IIS: fixed a problem with frame number greater
than 10.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.15.2007 EXAMINE: changed frame name to
'Frame'.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.02.2007 CATALOGS: updated urls and menu
titles.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.20.2007 PREFS: new prefs dialog box.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.24.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the CDS
query.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.24.2007 CATALOGS: add SDSS DR6.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.24.2007 SKYVIEW: fixed default image size and updated
url.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.24.2007 PROJECTION: install callbacks only after Button
Release.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.25.2007 REGIONS: add xpa/command SHOW and SHOWTEXT
support.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.25.2007 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with load contours
from the command line.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.03.2007 MACOSX: MacOSX Aqua support is now fully
implemented!</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.03.2007 COLORMAP: pass colormap names thru translation
tables</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.03.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.8</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.05.2007 COMPOSITE: add global properties
switch.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.05.2007 LINE: fixed a problem with initial displayed
arrow checkboxes in dialog.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.05.2007 FOV: moved FOV menu to more visible
level</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.10.2007 I18N: add language support for French.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.11.2007 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with the symbol editor
dialog.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>10.15.2007 RELEASE version 5.0</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>10.16.2007 PROJECTION: fixed a problem with the coordinates
of the projection plot.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.17.2007 RICE: fixed a problem with float and double RICE
compression.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.24.2007 RICE: fixed several problems with mosaics, cubes
and RICE compression.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.24.2007 GUI: added support for ds9 beta
versions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.24.2007 PREFS: added OK and Cancel buttons to all
tabs.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.29.2007 CATALOGS: implemented support for new CDS
catalogs search format.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.30.2007 SAOTK: implemented reentrant parsers.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.01.2007 SAOTK: now support any color for markers,
contours, etc.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.02.2007 MACOSX/WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native open
file dialog. If bad file name had been used, (or an extention), an
error would occur.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.07.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.16.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.08.2007 PLOT: fixed a problem with xpa/command line
linear/line tokens to match documentation.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.09.2007 PREFERENCES: fixed a problem with slower ppcs.
use 'update idletasks' instead of 'update' to avoid possible race
condition.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.21.2007 XPA: update to version 2.1.9</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.21.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.1</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.21.2007 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.7.0</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.21.2007 TCLLIBS: update to version 1.10</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.28.2007 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.17 beta.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.28.2007 ANALYSIS: fix a problem with spaces in tmp file
names.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.05.2007 FLEXLEXER.Y: updated version.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.06.2007 GUI: change key binding 'c' to 'r'. It conflicts
with 'copy' on MacOSX and Windows platforms.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.06.2007 REGIONS: fixed a problem with pasteing regions
into an empty frame.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.18.2007 ZIP: fixed a problem with the unix
Makefile.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.18.2007 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.2.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.18.2007 2MASS: limit size to 1024 arcsec.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.21.2007 FITSY++: add support for HCOMPRESS compressed
FITS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.28.2007 FITSY++: add support for GZIP compressed
FITS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.03.2008 FITSY++: add support for PLIO compressed
FITS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.04.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with X11 servers that
return truecolor 32 bit when in fact the visual is truecolor
24bit.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>01.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.1</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>01.17.2008 ANALYSIS: add the directory of any loaded
analysis file to the PATH.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.22.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem introduced with
reentrant parsers. Sexagesimal values between -00 and +00 were
incorrectly parsed as +00.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.23.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem with parsing HMS/DMS
coordinates.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: fixed a problem shift rotate
mode.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: info panel 'Frame' width set to
+4.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: add new goto frame menu.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.24.2008 GUI: add support for move frames.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.24.2008 ANALYSIS: for MacOSX tiger, wrap cmds with shell
and PATH.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.25.2008 CATALOGS: make sure xpa and command line
retrieves are syncronous.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.28.2008 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with loading contour
levels into multiple frames.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.31.2008 WINDOWS: changed how windows come into
focus.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.31.2008 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.17.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.07.2008 GUI: change default directory for standard
dialog to $HOME.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.07.2008 ANALYSIS: add /sw/bin to default path for
MacOSX.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.20.2008 CATALOGS: add support for editing a catalog
table and regions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.20.2008 TEXT: add enable rotation switch for text
regions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.20.2008 GUI: ds9 will now start in the users home
directory for MacOSX Aqua users when invoked from a double click
and the default dialog box is Motif or Windows.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.20.2008 TCL/TK: update to version 8.4.18.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.26.2008 IIS: disable most keystroke and mouse events for
iis frames.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.28.2008 FITSY++: fixed a problem with save fits and
smoothed images.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.29.2008 WCS: fixed a problem with calculating the size
and center of complex fits images in WCS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.05.2008 GUI: backed out change key binding 'c' to 'r'.
It causes untold grief with IRAF.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.10.2008 MACOSX: fixed a problem with printing non
standard colors.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.10.2008 CATALOGS: catalog dialogs are now tied to the
frame. This allows multiple copies of the same catalog, one per
frame.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.12.2008 GRID: added support for PC001001 formated WCS
keywords.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.13.2008 IIS: make sure socket is closed on
exec.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.13.2008 WINDOWS: add support for native
printing.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2008 CROSSHAIR: fix a problem with the line width for
postscript.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2008 MACOSX: restore postscript printing.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2008 WINDOWS: restore postscript printing.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.19.2008 GUI: enhancements with Find/FindNext in text
dialog windows.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.19.2008 GUI: add console support.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.24.2008 REGIONS: apply WCS to fits regions if
present.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.25.2008 PREFS: fixed a problem with Zoom menu
preferences.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.31.2008 GUI: add support for user configured button
bar.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.03.2008 CATALOGS: add support for simbad.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.04.2008 MASKS: fixed a problem with mask color
preference.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.07.2008 IMEXAMINE: added support for key stroke
events.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>04.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.2</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>04.18.2008 REGIONS: added support for centroid.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.21.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with 'c' and
control-c.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.21.2008 IIS: fixed a problem key events. Now all key
events are active until IIS is in cursor mode. At this point all
key events are passed to IRAF except for 'TAB'.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.23.2008 MACOSX: split the binary and archive into two
files, and codesign the binary, so that it will play well with
leopard's new firewall.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.25.2008 FITSY++: fixed a proble with mapincr. If seek_
is at end of file, mmap will not return an error.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.28.2008 GUI: delete all frames resets the frame counter
(broken in 5.2).</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.02.2008 GCC: remove all references to "iostream.h" and
use "iostream" instead.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.02.2008 GCC: support for gcc 4.2.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.02.2008 GUI: fix typo in bin.tcl menus.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.03.2008 FITSY++: changes to processing the header where
ds9 will now work with illegal fits files that contains NULLs
instead of SPACEs.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.03.2008 RICE: implemented compatibility with cfitsio
3.08.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.04.2008 GZIP: implemented compatibility with cfitsio
3.08.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.04.2008 HCOMPRESS: implemented compatibility with
cfitsio 3.08.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.05.2008 IIS: disable scale menu with iis frame (fixed
from version 5.2).</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.05.2008 REGIONS: fixed FITS regions polygon support. Now
determine how many points based on the repeat value of the column,
but check for .</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.06.2008 FITS: for saveimage fits, if non-linear WCS,
don't attempt to save WCS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.06.2008 BLINK: add xpa/command line option -blink
interval.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.06.2008 REGIONS: add for DASH property.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.11.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem with the 'delete all'
button.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.16.2008 XPA: if CHECKDNS fails, set XPA_METHOD to local
and initialize.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.21.2008 PROJECTION: minor change to ensure that we step
over the grid in 1 pixel values.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.24.2008 IIS: add support for all 16 IIS
colors.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.25.2008 BINNING: fixed a problem with smooth and 3d
binning.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.04.2008 FITSY++: fixed a problem with BSCALE/BZERO and
float/double data types.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.11.2008 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with catalogs
retrieved via a cds search. The id returned would fail during
evaluation in creating a valid header.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.11.2008 CATALOGS: add CMC to catalog menu.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.11.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with the initial directory
for the standard dialog when loading from the command
line.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.14.2008 VECTOR: vast improvements in
optimization.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.19.2008 GUI: catch a failure to initialize window system
(a problem with X11) and exit nice.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.19.2008 MACOSX: fixed the window tab problem for Aqua
port.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.19.2008 MACOSX: fixed canvas background
issues.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.20.2008 GUI: Add buttons to vertical layout.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.10.2008 XPA: fixed a problem with blink interval <
1.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.12.2008 PREFS: add 'Preserve During Load' for scale,
pan, and regions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.12.2008 CONTOUR: add dash line option.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.17.2008 PANNER: check to see if we are at
pole.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.17.2008 CATALOGS: add copy from row(s).</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.17.2008 REGIONS: look for new FITS POLYGON termination
conditions</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.22.2008 COLORBAR: removed truecolor colorbar options.
Always paint the entire image.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.25.2008 BINNING: automatically look for x,y then ra,dec,
before settling for columns 1 and 2.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.25.2008 IMEXAM: added 'any' event (returns with a mouse
event or key event).</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.02.2008 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with size format for
SIMBAD and NED. Degrees and ArcSecs were incorrectly
calculated.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.03.2008 CATALOGS: Add support for CXC catalog.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.08.2008 MACOSX: add MacOSX X11 10.5 firewall
port.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.10.2008 FOV: add sao/binospec.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>10.15.2008 RELEASE version 5.3</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>10.17.2008 CATALOGS: removed support for Chandra Source
Catalog at request of Ian Evans of CXC.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.22.2008 MASKS: add support for mask
transparency.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.24.2008 MASKS: add new mask properties.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.28.2008 GRID: add grid title support.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>10.31.2008 RELEASE version 5.4</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>10.31.2008 GRID: full grid support for command line and
xpa.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.04.2008 FITSY: fixed a problem with header keywords that
start with 'END'.</tt></li>
<li><tt>11.13.2008 FITSY: fixed a problem when there was a failure
to correctly parse iraf or wcs keywords.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.02.2008 FITS: for saveimage fits, fixed a problem with
LTMV,DTMV, and WCS coordinates. They were off by 1 pixel in
x.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.02.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with panning via click and
drag.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.04.2008 MPEG: changed makefiles to compile tkmpeg code
without optiminzation. -O created invalid code for MacOSX (and
possible others)</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.04.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem when creating a default
panda region via a mouse click.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.05.2008 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a problem with printing frames
that have no image loaded.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.05.2008 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with using the arrow
keys in catalog dialogs.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.10.2008 REGIONS: fixed a problem elongated rotated
ellipses.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.10.2008 MACOSX: fixed several problems with processing
AppleEvents OpenDocument and PrintDocument. DS9 now supports
opendoc and printdoc while currently running.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.12.2008 IIS: re-enabled mouse events while in cursor
mode.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.12.2008 IIS: trap arrow keys while in cursor mode, do
not pass to IRAF, instead warp cursor.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.15.2008 SMOOTH: ignore NAN in smoothing
convolution.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.16.2008 GUI: fixed a problem with 'get fits size' to
make it behave in the regions of poles.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.29.2008 IIS: try to decode OBJECT from
iisMessageCmd.</tt></li>
<li><tt>12.29.2008 IIS: if frame is in cursor mode (via the imexam
task), RESET FRAME, will attempt to clean up.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.05.2009 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.2.2</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.05.2009 WCSSUBS: update to version 3.7.6</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.05.2009 GUI: add support for loading FITS multiple
extension as multiple frames.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.05.2009 EXAMINE: fixed many problems. Will work not work
with data loaded via stdin or xpa fits.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.15.2009 SMOOOTH: fixed a problem with BZERO and BSCALE.
These keywords are reset to default values if present in the
smoothed image, since the scaling has already been
applied.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.15.2009 FILTER: fixed an issue when unable to build a
valid filter. Previously, it would exit() the program. Now, it will
issue an error message and continue.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.16.2009 MACOSX: if using the X11 port of MacOSX,
increase the size of the window to make room for the size tab,
similar for Aqua.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.16.2009 SAVEAS: PNG now saves without GAMMA.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.20.2009 GUI: Rearrange Frame menu and Region menu. They
had grown too long and some window managers were having
difficulties.</tt></li>
<li><tt>01.21.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem rendering Bezier
curves.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>01.23.2009 RELEASE version 5.5</b></tt></li>
<li><tt><b>01.28.2009 RELEASE version 5.5.1</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>01.28.2009 GUI: fixed a problem in that the last file name
loaded is incorrectly set if there are command line options that
follow the file name.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.02.2009 CATALOGS: updated urls for cds
mirrors.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.03.2009 CATALOGS: cleaned up tsv code. Will read comma
and tab separted values, and will write tab separated values.
Assumes first row is cols header unless first and second cols are
numbers, then assumes ra, dec, in fk5 degrees.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.04.2009 PSEUDOCOLOR: fixed a problem with the frame not
remembering its current colormap bias and contrast setting when
toggling between frames.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.10.2009 BLT: fixed a problem zoombox under Aqua. XOR
draws are now disabled.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.11.2009 CIAO: The ciao regions parser will now accept
compound region descriptions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.12.2009 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with command line/xpa
dashed line parameter. Processing the -contour command is now a lot
more robust in determining missing parameters.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.16.2009 HISTOGRAM EQU: fixed a problem with clipping low
= clipping high (usually as a result of ZSCALE).</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.19.2009 FITSY++: fixed a problem specifying an extension
number of 0 with a multiple extension file with no primary image.
It now properly fails to load.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.19.2009 GUI: FITS multiple extension multiple frame will
now load a primary image if present.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.19.2009 GUI: compressed FITS multiple extension multiple
frame will now load properly.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.19.2009 GUI: FITS multiple extension multiple frame will
ignore any bin table extensions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.19.2009 BLT: add support for MacOSX native
printing.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.19.2009 PLOT: native printing now fully supported for
MacOSX and Windows.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.24.2009 SAMP: add support for VO Simple Application
Messaging Protocol (SAMP). Will process image.load.fits and
table.load.votable events.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.25.2009 FITSY++: fixed a problem with saving a slice of
a cube. The header had invalid keywords.</tt></li>
<li><tt>02.27.2009 CATALOGS: support VOTable format.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.02.2009 MacOSX: support for the MacOSX X11 Leopard 10.5
non-firewall version has been discontinued.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.02.2009 MacOSX: fixed a problem with plot y axis titles
offset.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.02.2009 MacOSX: fixed a problem fork/exec and version
10.5 New version of tclMacNotify.c now used.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.09.2009 FUNTOOLS: updated to version 1.4.3.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.10.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem with listing irregular
panda, ellipse panda, and box panda in ds9/funtools format. The
conjunction has been removed.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.12.2009 GUI: If in tile mode, with only one frame, and
tile mode is set to manual, tile anyway (don't drop into single
mode).</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.12.2009 CATALOGS: speed up rendering of catalogs for
simple symbol filters.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.12.2009 REGIONS: support wildcards in
filename.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.12.2009 REGIONS: add support for load into all
frames.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.17.2009 GUI: Name server support now utilizies CDS
Sesame.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.17.2009 SKYVIEW: fixed a problem processing the survey
query.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2009 HV: add support for cookies.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2009 ARCHIVES: add support for NVO Montage.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem calculating the WCS
angle of a flipped WCS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.18.2009 HV: add support for mime-type text/xml for
votable.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.19.2009 CATALOGS: CDS now uses VOTABLE.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.24.2009 CATALOGS: SIMBAD now uses VOTABLE.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.24.2009 CATALOGS: NED now uses VOTABLE.</tt></li>
<li><tt>03.24.2009 CATALOGS: add preferences to download in VOTABLE
if available.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.01.2009 GUI: when you delete a frame, the current frame
is reset to the previous frame, not the first frame.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.06.2009 RULER: use preferences default distance
system.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.06.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with open other
url.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.09.2009 PROJECTION: properly calculate width when
rebinning.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>04.15.2009 RELEASE version 5.6</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>04.16.2009 REGIONS: fixed a rather nasty bug which caused a
segv when switching between modes after copy a region from a
frame.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>04.16.2009 RELEASE version 5.6.1</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>04.17.2009 SAMP: use xmlrpc url method in POST
header.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.17.2009 CATALOGS: fixed a typo in the default SDSSR5
query.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.20.2009 HV: fixed a problem with parsing query linked to
a button.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>04.20.2009 RELEASE version 5.6.2</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>04.22.2009 PREFS: updated the default name server
menu.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.24.2009 FIRST: removed a debug statement which was left
in.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.27.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem loading a fits file
with specified extension.</tt></li>
<li><tt>04.28.2009 HV: fixed again a problem with parsing url
within a link with a query which contains a '?'.</tt></li>
<li><tt><b>04.30.2009 RELEASE version 5.6.3</b></tt></li>
<li><tt>05.01.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem creating a text region
with arcsec or arcmin char.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.01.2009 NAMESRVR: fixed a problem with simbad cfa
sexagesimal.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.01.2009 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with quoting a VOTABLE
FIELD DESCRIPTION string.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.01.2009 CATALOGS: add column parameters in header
output.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.04.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with select row
list.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.04.2009 REGIONS: add list to xpa and command line
regions option.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.21.2009 NVSS: add NVSS Image server back.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.26.2009 NAMESRVR: set default name server to
cds.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.26.2009 CATALOGS: set default catalog erver to
cds.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.26.2009 SAMP: fixed a proble with quoting filenames and
urls for xml.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.26.2009 CATALOGS: will now try to determine the RA and
DEC cols via the UCD if available.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.26.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with standard dialog boxes
and MacOSX Aqua and Windows. The dialogbox would sometimes fail to
rise to top.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.27.2009 GUI: WCS menu correctly updates print coordinate
parameters.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.27.2009 REGIONS: autocentroid now works for move, edit,
and rotate.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.27.2009 CATALOGS: CDS Search now retrieves search
options from cds.</tt></li>
<li><tt>05.27.2009 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with FILTER and
VOTable. The votable cols params were not being properly transfered
to the new filtered table.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.10.2009 REGIONS: DS9 regions syntax now supported in
VOTable format.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.11.2009 CATALOGS: "No Items Found" is now displayed on
status line and not as a model dialog.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.11.2009 REGIONS: fixed problem with dashed lines with
rotated ellipses.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.11.2009 GUI: fixed problem with standard file dialog
boxes. Now, command line options and xpa command DOES NOT CHANGE
the current directory. Only the use of the dialog box will reset
the current directory.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.11.2009 SAMP: don't send empty catalogs.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.11.2009 CATALOGS: don't write empty catalogs.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.11.2009 FILTER: fixed a problem with parsing filters on
the command line that contain quotes.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.16.2009 SAMP: the samp port number is now automatically
determined at connection time.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.17.2009 CATALOGS: for VOTables, change id to
ID.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.17.2009 CATALOGS: Add ID param to CXC catalog.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.17.2009 SAMP: send unique catalog table-id for each
catalog so tha multiple copies of ds9 with the same catalog loaded
don't walk all over each other when connected to a hub.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.18.2009 REGIONS: Update info box, graphs, and pixel
table when draging in pointer and catalog mode.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.18.2009 GUI: clean up code which enables/disables WCS
menus based on current frame.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.19.2009 HV: add support for arrow keys and mouse
wheel.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.19.2009 HV: add support for copy key shortcut.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.19.2009 HV: add support for Return key shortcut for
Submit.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.25.2009 GUI: update crosshair, infobox, pixeltable when
changing current slice in crosshair mode.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.25.2009 REGIONS: fixed a problem with create/load/save
regions with mosaic. The WCS of the first mosaic segment loaded is
used for all regions.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.30.2009 REGIONS: removed listwcs option for ds9
format.</tt></li>
<li><tt>06.30.2009 IIS: disabled annoying 'port/addr already in
use' error message.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.06.2009 BINNING: add update button to bin
dialog.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.06.2009 HV: add enhancements to allow complete control
over a web browser window.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.06.2009 VO: add enhancements to allow complete control
over the vo dialog.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.09.2009 XPA: 'page setup' has been renamed
pagesetup.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.15.2009 HV: support for sync http added.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.15.2009 VO: support for sync http added.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.15.2009 ANALYSIS: support for sync http added.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.15.2009 ANALYSIS: analysis tasks invoked via xpa or
command line are now run in blocking (sync) mode.</tt></li>
<li><tt>07.16.2009 XPA: added optional param to xpaget array to
specify the endianness.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.05.2009 XPA: add sleep command.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.05.2009 GUI: add sleep command line option.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.10.2009 GUI: fixed command line option
commands.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.10.2009 CATALOGS: for CDS catalogs, ignore the UCD at
first and look for _RAJ2000 and _DEJ2000, then the UCD, then a list
of common names.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.11.2009 GUI: update Magnifier in Pan mode and key
arrows.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.12.2009 WINDOWS: Add support for wildcard filename
expansion if invoked from DOS shell.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.12.2009 REGIONS: Add support for load template at ra dec
skyframe.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.20.2009 MOSAIC: default for loading mosaics is now WCS
not IRAF.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.25.2009 SAMP: implemented full XPA capabilities via
SAMP.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.25.2009 I18N: make changes to fitsy++ lexer to allow
non-single byte chars in filenames and paths.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.26.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with parsing the
hub.xmlrup.url.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.26.2009 XPA: update to version 2.1.10.</tt></li>
<li><tt>08.27.2009 FUNTOOLS: update to version 1.4.4.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.01.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with extra key value pairs
in message.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.01.2009 CATALOGS: add default samp command.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.01.2009 CATALOGS: removed modal dialog info box calls.
Messages are now updated in the status windows.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.01.2009 GUI: added new level of menu updates that are
only executed when a frame is create or deleted and not everytime
there is a change of state.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.03.2009 WINDOWS: disable menu updates during blinking
because windows redraws the menu window each time the configuration
is changed.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.03.2009 SOLARIS: removed support for Solaris<9.0. DS9
now requires libxml2 be supported by the OS.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.03.2009 GUI: added signal handling for non-windows. We
now trap SIGINT and clean up before exiting.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.08.2009 I18N: fixed a problem with spaces in
filename.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.08.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem using a hub that uses the
Apache xmlrpc library.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.10.2009 SAMP: fixed a problem with invalid ds9.get
commands.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.10.2009 GUI: cmap xpa, samp, and command line option is
now much more tolerant to capitalization and spellings.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.10.2009 WINDOWS: tcc is now used for the bin filter
compiler. cygwin is no longer required.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.21.2009 MACOSX: ports to Tiger (10.4), Leopard (10.5),
and Snow Leopard (10.6) are now built under 10.6</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.22.2009 MACOSX: fixed a problem with snowleopard. For
32bit visuals, the alpha channel is set to 0xff, not 0.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.28.2009 XPA: add XPA connect/disconnect menu
options.</tt></li>
<li><tt>09.29.2009 RGB: fixed a problem with displaying images with
NAN.</tt></li>
<li><tt>10.02.2009 MACOSX: pcc is now used for the bin filter
compiler of i386 platforms if XCode is not
installed./tt></tt></li>
<li><tt>10.09.2009 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem with analysis plot
command to maintain backward compatibility./tt></tt></li>
<li><tt>10.12.2009 SMOOTH: fixed a problem that smooth is reset
when no image is loaded. /tt></tt></li>
<li><tt><b>10.15.2009 RELEASE version 5.7</b></tt></li>
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