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Gnuastro 0.2 released

Item posted by Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi> on Mon 03 Oct 2016 01:27:11 PM UTC.

I am pleased to announce the second release of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro).

Gnuastro is a collection of programs and library functions for astronomical data manipulation and analysis. The programs are run directory on the command-line, enabling easy and efficient operationS (combined with other installed programs) in shell scripts or Makefiles. The libraries are also usable in C and C++ programs.

The main changes in this version can be seen in the NEWS file which is also distributed with this announcement in footnote 1 (below). The most notable new features are:



Here are the compressed sources:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuastro/gnuastro-0.2.tar.gz   (4.0MB)
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuastro/gnuastro-0.2.tar.lz   (2.7MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures, see footnote 2 (below):
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuastro/gnuastro-0.2.tar.gz.sig
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuastro/gnuastro-0.2.tar.lz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnuastro
or
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
(Note that mirrors will need some time to synchronize with the main server)

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums of the tarballs.

175ee211b20d6a667a7186f564b5cc79  gnuastro-0.2.tar.gz
2f68cead777e4a6d38d1bccb7c200362  gnuastro-0.2.tar.lz
703918a2f180e3c448c66fc6e8180f40a15bb460  gnuastro-0.2.tar.gz
fbfd3eccf0fc15f49cb25b30ffa5dc95a74d30fc  gnuastro-0.2.tar.lz

Mosè Giordano and Vladimir Markelov contributed to the code in this release. I am also very grateful to Alan Lefor, Yahya Sefidbakht, and Mohammad-reza Khellat for their many patient tests during development along with useful comments and suggestions.

Gnuastro 0.2 tarball was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Texinfo 6.1
  Autoconf 2.69
  Automake 1.15
  Libtool 2.4.6
  Help2man 1.47.3
  Gnulib v0.1-898-ge63f5eb
  Autoconf Archives v2016.09.16-8-g8a6b028
Note that these are not installation dependencies, for those, please see
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Dependencies.html

Cheers,
Mohammad Akhlaghi

--
Postdoctoral research fellow
CRAL (Lyon Observatory), France.





Footnote 1


Noteworthy changes in release 0.2 (library 0.0.0) (2016-10-03) [stable]

Bug fixes





New programs or headers





New features











Changes in behavior










Footnote 2

Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this (similar for `tar.lz' files):


gpg --verify gnuastro-0.2.tar.gz.sig


If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:


gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 16A8A4B2AEC42AFF


and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

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