v3.03

2023-03-20

André Offringa <of…nga@gmail.com>

Version 3.3 is mostly a bugfix release that fixes various little issues. The full list of changes is given below.

New features

Generic improvements

• Add features to implement local Lua RMS thresholding (tested in this paper):
  • Data.__div() (division operator in Lua)
  • aoflagger.norm()
  • aoflagger.sqrt()
• Rfigui now has an option to save data to a numpy array.
• Support LOFAR beam-formed h5 files.
• Use the reordering reading mode by default when the data does not fit in memory.

Bug fixes & refactoring

• Fix for crash when using aoqplot -save due to uninitialized pango.
• Fix crashes with empty quality statistics tables found by Tammo Jan.
• Fix compability issues with newest pylibs.
• Fix various plotting imperfections.
• Fix an exception when a recent file does not exist.
• Fix a cast error in the Python FlagMask.SetBuffer() method that caused it to misbehave.
• Improved a few warnings.
• Replace deprecated math.pow by ^ in Lua scripts.
• Fixes for Mac compilation.
• Format Python files using black.
• Format Lua scripts with StyLua.
• Add documentation for aoquality combine operation.
• Memory estimate for the reader was improved.