3.4.0

General

Major modernization of Arrays, bringing it more in line with C++11 (#1012)
Use std::regex (#1072)
Remove many warnings (#1024, #1036, #1062)
Use FFTW as default FFT provider (#1029, #1047, #1049)
UVFITS improvements (#1033, #1040, #1064, #1066, #1067)
Support for 64-bit row numbers.

3.3.0

General

Replace implementation of complex trig functions by std:: (#1010)
Fix bug SciMath / StatsFramework where parameters were passed incorrectly (#984)

Tables

Pass sorting algorithm optio nthrough to table iterator (#992)
Support for ADIOS2 (#1006)
Add .casarc option to disable table locking (#1002)

Measurement Set / UVFits

Fix antenna swapping in MSConcat (#977)
Merge PROCESSOR table in MSConcat (#1004)
Fix antenna positions in importing old VLA UVFITS (#1005)

Images

More efficient WCS batch coordinate lookups (#932)

3.2.1

Increment the SO version, otherwise identical to 3.2 (#981)

3.2

General

Remove some unused functionality (#854, #947)
Prevent setting OpenMP num_threads to zero (#962)

Tables

Fix locking issue with IncrementalStorageManager (#970, #974)
Various improvements to TaQL
Various ADIOS2 improvements (#943, #966)

Measures

Update hardcoded URLs for fetching measures data (#975)

FITS

Correctly convert Nasmyth mount types (#946, #954)

3.1.2

Bump version in version.h (since in 3.1.1 it was still at '3.1.0')

3.1.1

General

Only use DataManager.get/putSlice if possible (#901)
User docker for Linux build on Travis for CI (#856)
improve unicode support (#853)
Changed MadfmFunc so that it inherits from ArrayFunctorBase (#905)
Fix memory leak in TableProxy::getColumnDescription (#900)
Allow colon and fix recursive bison parsing (#894)
ObjectID's hash function behavior fix (#897)
Add a public getter for the mask array to LCRegionFixed (#895)
Replace STL-like containers by their STL counterparts (#890)

Python support

Boost 1.67 Python components require a Python version suffix (#844)
Handle numpy Unicode arrays (#912)
Fix memory leak when converting Python unicode to casa string (#910)
Possible leak bug (#908)
Always use TpInt64 for PyLong (#916)
Improve CMake FindPython (#922)

Build system

Travis macOS fails on Python3 OSX build system (#778)
Switch travis to docker /xenial (#847)

3.1

General

Removed many warnings issued by newer compiler versions (#798, #809, #819, #820, #866, #883)
Further improved thread-safety (#817, #869, #877, #886)
Added variance and standard deviation of complex numbers (#851)

Tables

Improved parallel storage manager based on ADIOS2
Support of Int64 table columns (#859)
Added O_DIRECT support when using MultiFile (#885)
TaQL improvements (#813, #851, #867)
Small CTDS fixes (#840, #868)

Measurement Set

Small improvements (#858, #864, #872)
Better handling of FITS-IDI data bit sampling (#836)

Images

Support for non-chunked HDF5 data sets (#879, #880)
Fixed count overflow on very large images (#849)

3.0

General

Building with C++11 is now required
Improved thread-safety of statics (#775)
Improve statistics code (#785, #776, #662, #663)

Tables

Avoid growing the size of tables when overwriting data (#768)
TaQL support for radial velocity, earth magnetic field and Doppler (#750)
Added performance tests for tables (#658)

Measurement Set

Improvements to MSConcat (#779, #701)
Better handling of FITS-IDI flag history (#748)

Images

Better support for double precision images (#752, #751)

Other

A full list of changes can be found on the issue tracker.

2.4.1

General

This release fixes a bug where TableIterator would skip a row

2.4.0

General

Bug fixes and improvements
This version can be used to compile CASA 5.0
Improved error checking when parsing dates/times (#619)
Statistics: allow data provider to specify number of threads (#645)

MS

Disable caching of MS main table columns (#597)
Properly copy the SIGMA_SPECTRUM column, if present (#599)
Implement getTimesForSpws (#600)

FITS and FITS-IDI

Implement digital corrections for DiFX/VLBA (#602)
Several improvements for WEIGHTS when reading FITS-IDI (#590, #608)
Parallactic angle calculation for Nasmyth mounts (#627)
Modernised matrix syntax in FITS files now follows standard 3.0 (#606)

2.3.0

General

Bug fixes and improvements
Improved installation documentation in README
Add an option to use Ccache (-DUseCcache) (#549)
Add some statistics functionality (#569)

Python

Make some of the TableProxy functionality publicly available (#559)
Make version checking from python (or plain C) possible (#583)

TaQL

Fix transpose in TaQL (#563)
Added functions delay and uvwapp to mscal (#562)

FITS

MSFitsOutput now writes ant diams (#536)
Improvements to FITS-IDI conversion (#538, #590, #579)

2.2.0

General

Lots of bug fixes and improvements
Tests are not built by default anymore, use -DBUILD_TESTING=True to build them
Building with C++11 is now default, use -DCXX11=False if you do not have a recent compiler (#533)
Added JSON support (#506)

TaQL

Major improvements in TaQL, such as masked arrays, new commands ALTER TABLE, SHOW TABLE, HELP (#388)

Images

ImageConcat and ImageExpr now use JSON export (#517)

2.1.0

General

Lots of code improvement, optimization and added tests

Measures

The default search path for measures data is now smaller. The path can be set at cmake time by specifying -DDATA_DIR=/path/to/data. This path can contain %CASAROOT% which is expanded at run time, to support relocatable installations. The measures path can also still be set in .casarc. (#277)
Inserted fix to leap second handling problem (#290)
Various coordinate performance improvements (#258)

Tables

Renamed showtable to showtableinfo (#320)
Added several TaQL functions (#229)

MS

Improve testing of MSSummary (#330)
Many improvements for the MS related functions (#318, #291, #228, #208, ...)
Fix multithreaded MS creation (#298)

Python

Build python bindings by default (not for CASA build)
Add experimental Python3 support. Read the README for instructions (#280)
Changed behavior from 2.0.3: Use PYTHON2_* configuration options to set your python2 interpreter. (#280)

2.0.3

General

Merge of CASA work into casacore, CASA should compile with casacore now
Under-the-hood optimizations, like using allocator features (#132)
Building with gcc 5 is now possible (#166)
Compatibility with more versions of wcslib and cfitsio
SOFA is now an external dependency (#105)

Tables

Arrays can now sometimes be reshaped while keeping allocated memory (#113)

MS

Selection of baselines with a regexp between stations is now possible (#99)
Several new methods to MSMetaData (#138)

Bug fixes

Fix a bug which caused an error with LOFAR measurement sets with the LOFAR tool msoverview (#140)
Fix a bug where TaQL would not write output when an expression was used (#184)

2.0.2

This version was not released

2.0.1

changes since 2.0.0

Bug fixes

Does not build if checkout root folder is not named casacore (#79)

2.0.0

changes since 1.7.0

General

Fixed all build problems for GCC and clang on various platforms (up to OS-X 10.10)
Fixed all valgrind issues found in test programs
Made the statics in all of casacore thread-safe. Similar to libstdc++ the user is responsible for thread-safety when using casacore ojbects.
Added casacore/ to the #include path of all header files
Changed namespace from casa to casacore (but still #defined as casa for time being)
Split Tables, MeasurementSets and Lattices into smaller parts
The 3 changes above give rise to backward incompatibilities. Scripts in casacore/changescripts (notably updateall) can be used to fix client code.

Tables

Added GROUPBY/HAVING/aggregation function to TaQL
Optimized TaQL's IN operator (linear time for integer sets)
Added table tracing (class TableTrace)
Fixed TiledStMan issue where BucketCache was not shrinked
Added MultiFile option to combine table files in a single one

Components

This module has been removed (too CASA specific)

Images

Added support for beam per frequency channel and Stokes
Added persistency for ImageExpr and ImageCocat objects

Python

Moved converters from pyrap to casacore/Python