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casacore v2.1.0 Release Notes

  • General

    • ✅ Lots of code improvement, optimization and added tests

    Measures

    • 0️⃣ 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)