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Last modified: 7 November 2022

URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/ciao_4.8_release.html

CIAO 4.8 Release Notes


CIAO 4.8 is distributed for the following platforms:

CIAO is no longer available for 32bit Linux operating systems or for older 64bit Linux machines (CentOS 5 era). CIAO is also no longer available for older versions of OSX (notably 10.6 and 10.7). CIAO 4.7 is still available for users who are unable to upgrade. More details on the Platform Support page.

Notable changes and improvements in CIAO 4.8:



How CALDB 4.7.2 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.7.2 Release Notes (release 31 May 2016)

ACIS graded CC-mode


How CALDB 4.7.1 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.7.1 Release Notes (release 25 March 2016)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data


How CALDB 4.7.0 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.7.0 Release Notes (release 15 December 2015)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data

HRC Imaging Data


Installation

Users should be aware of these installation items before installing CIAO 4.8. Additional problems which are seen less frequently are listed on the Installation & Smoke Tests bug page.

Supported Platforms

Updates to the ciao-install Installation Script

Remove old parameter files

IPython Settings


Tools

axbary

acis_process_events

arfcorr

dmcopy

dmellipse

dmextract

dmhistory

dmimgcalc

dmimgfilt

dmimglasso

dmimgpm

dmsort

mkwarf

modelflux

colden

dates

reproject_aspect

reproject_events

skyfov

tg_resolve_events

wavdetect

wcs_match

wcs_update


Parameter Files

A summary of parameter files changes is provided in this section. Refer to the Tools and Analysis Scripts sections of these release notes for complete details.

We recommend deleting all the old parameter files or renaming the parameter-file directory before running any new version of CIAO to avoid conflicts. More information is available in the FAQ.

arfcorr

acis_process_events

dmellipse

reproject_aspect

tg_resolve_events


ChIPS

TrueType Font Support

Internal Cleanup


Sherpa

Sherpa has migrated from an internally developed library and wrapper script to an external community development project hosted on GitHub. The project has its own release schedule and versioning scheme which may not specifically coincide with the CIAO release schedule.

XSpec

Statistics

Documentation

IPython

PEP8

Pull Requests

The following section lists the changes made to the 4.8.0 release branch of Sherpa on GitHub, and includes links to the changes that were made ("pull requests") and the Sherpa GitHub issue tracker (both pull requests and issues use the same numbering scheme).

Graphical User Interfaces

There are no changes to prism, peg, nor to taskmonitor in this release.

Analysis Scripts

Several scripts have had internal updates to account for changes in this version of Python, NumPy, and various CIAO modules. Also included in this list are new scripts added to the contributed package after the release of CIAO 4.7.

chandra_repro

install_marx

add_grating_orders

add_grating_spectra

readout_bkg

install_marx

download_obsid_caldb

detilt

dewiggle

symmetrize

splitobs

gti_align

multi_chip_gti


Python Modules

A new module, ciao_version, has been added. It is autogenerated to automatically set the major, minor version numbers. The micro version number is seeded but may be updated by individual modules. CIAO python modules and code import this module and use it to set the __version__ variable.

crates

pixlib


Libraries

datamodel

psf

region


Environment

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Package Versions

Compiler versions


Documentation