Release Notes - CASA - Version Alpha

Bug

[CAS-4] - documentation is wrong
[CAS-6] - SOURCE table entries are not concatenated properly
[CAS-7] - table browser is confused by the SOURCE table
[CAS-15] - newsimulator.predict fails with model image
[CAS-40] - Can not clean (mosaic) images in Galactic Coordinates
[CAS-48] - ms.uvlf mode='subtract' created continuum image, not line image
[CAS-51] - af.quack docs don't appear to be correct
[CAS-54] - Predict from a model image - not working
[CAS-61] - pointer deallocation failure
[CAS-74] - jbrowser crashes sometimes when trying to display subtables
[CAS-75] - image.coordmeasures crashes with core dump
[CAS-76] - default value of [-1] throws exception
[CAS-77] - coordsys.getconversiontype not catching exception properly--crashes instead
[CAS-78] - ia.imagefromfits fails with default values
[CAS-79] - ia.putchunk crashes ipython
[CAS-84] - MS Selection dissallows '+' and '-' characters
[CAS-86] - Tasks are not usable in scripts
[CAS-88] - Measures doframe bug
[CAS-89] - plotoptions seem to reset setdata selection
[CAS-92] - rg.box() problem
[CAS-98] - coordsys.setincrement
[CAS-100] - Variant::getVectorString return the wrong length vector of string in some cases of list of list of strings
[CAS-104] - accum -- filed on behalf of Chris. Wilson
[CAS-107] - exportuvfits seems confused about its default arguments
[CAS-108] - Componentlist concatenation problem
[CAS-112] - plotcal has segmentation fault if table not specified
[CAS-114] - plotcal selection error
[CAS-127] - uvrange behavior in plotxy
[CAS-131] - Flags in viewer are not seen by other tasks
[CAS-132] - uvcontsub will crash CASA if run on a split data (i.e., no scratch columns)
[CAS-138] - flagdata task - unflag=True doesn't unflag
[CAS-166] - Bad imaging defaults
[CAS-179] - plotcal use of Mark Regions/Locate causes coredump
[CAS-2] - Imager sometimes when writing MS/HISTORY
[CAS-22] - ipython "^" doesn't behave as cookbook says - bug in ipython or casa?
[CAS-23] - Could not make savescript example work in Cookbook p22
[CAS-90] - MSPlot thows SEVER exception
[CAS-97] - Tableplot makes a new window after each save
[CAS-101] - Beta release issue...our distribution of pylab/matplotlib crashes unless its kernel 2.6.9
[CAS-103] - Phase only self cal is less convergent than amp and phase one
[CAS-117] - can't do clark clean
[CAS-128] - ploxy does not plot correct number of channels
[CAS-155] - browsetable crashes

Improvement

[CAS-5] - nx and ny should not have to be even for single dish imaging
[CAS-28] - Need "markersize" in plotoptions.
[CAS-99] - variant::toString-- request that in the case of vector of string not to put [ ] characters
[CAS-111] - return taskname with inp
[CAS-116] - plotxy should plot all baselines when iterating over antenna
[CAS-150] - plotxy documentation doesn't talk about using ESC button
[CAS-156] - tasklist formatting is bad
[CAS-158] - clean aborts with odd message if field is not specified
[CAS-161] - viewer - can't load images due to lock
[CAS-164] - plotxy/plotcal interaction - unintentional overplots
[CAS-173] - CASA prompt interface - down arrow to get to blank prompt
[CAS-181] - importvla - import multiple files shows as red in inp command
[CAS-198] - gaincal error messages causes concern
[CAS-204] - importvla overwrites existing ms
[CAS-207] - importvla error message for incorrect archive file name needs improvement
[CAS-18] - TablePlot need some new methods
[CAS-118] - muilti-scale clean should be not be an algorithm selection in task clean

New Feature

[CAS-32] - qtviewer should load FITS images
[CAS-42] - Implement interactive clean in casapy
[CAS-43] - Need ability to normalize gains when doing amplitude self-calibration
[CAS-83] - MSSelection needs to return index selected from parsed syntax
[CAS-115] - Suggestions