Starlink Software Collection - "Humu (Altair)" Release

February 8, 2008 - The Joint Astronomy Centre announces a new release of the Starlink Software Collection. Highlights of the "Humu (Altair)" release include:

It is now possible to relocate the release into any directory.
GAIA can now volume render cubes, allowing for improved visualization.
A new KAPPA application called PLUCK allows for the extraction of interpolated WCS co-ordinates that may not correspond to a pixel centre. For instance, a spectrum can be obtained at given equatorial co-ordinates from a spectral cube.
File provenance is now added to output files, allowing one to track the input files through the entire history of the file.

For full release notes on individual packages, see the current release notes.

For the latest news, click here. (updated 2008-05-07)

For a list of errata and patches for the current release, click here. (updated 2008-05-07)

For information on older releases, please visit this page.

Downloading the software

You can download tar files of the software collection for a number of architectures from the download page.

JAC currently runs 32- and 64-bit Linux operationally. Other platforms are supported on a best efforts basis.

Support

The Starlink Project was terminated in June 2005. The Starlink Software Collection is being maintained by the JAC, with support from STFC, for the benefit of our users. Bugs or feature requests reproducible with UKIRT or JCMT data sets should be e-mailed to stardev@jach.hawaii.edu where they will be attended to in priority order.

Non-JAC users are encouraged to report bugs to starlink@jiscmail.ac.uk where they may be attended to on a best-efforts basis by volunteers. To be able to send mail to this list you must be subscribed; please see the subscription instructions. This list is fairly low volume.

Open source developers wishing to send in patches or wanting access to the Subversion repository should email stardev@jiscmail.ac.uk. The Subversion repository can be browsed here and can be checked out for read only access using:

% svn checkout https://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/svn/trunk starbuild

Announcements about Starlink software releases by the Joint Astronomy Centre will be made on the starlink-announce mailing list. To subscribe, visit the starlink-announce webpage.

Licensing

The bulk of the collection is distributed under the GNU Public Licence, and the remainder under the old Starlink Licence.

Refer to the code in individual packages for more information.

News

2008-05-07 - A patch is available for DIPSO for all platforms. If you run a bash shell or variant and have problems running up DIPSO, download the patch.
2008-05-07 - A patch is available for DIPSO on OS X Intel. If you have problems with the "dev xw" command, download the patch.
2008-04-01 - A patch is available for EMS on 32-bit Linux, glibc 2.5. If you have problems sending spectra from GAIA to SPLAT, download the patch.
2008-03-11 - A patch is available for SPLAT on OS X 10.5. If you have problems sending spectra from GAIA to SPLAT, download the patch.
2008-02-22 - A patch is available for ORAC-DR on all platforms. If you are reducing UIST IFU data and find that your cubes only have 13 slices when they should have 14 (or vice versa), download the patch.
2008-02-21 - A patch is available for PHOTOM on 32-bit Linux, glibc 2.5. This fixes a bug in AUTOPHOTOM where you get an error stating "Fortran runtime error: writing more data than the record size (RECL)".
2008-02-13 - A patch is available for SPLAT on Intel OS X. This fixes a bug where you get an error stating "WARNING: Failed to load the Starlink SPLAT-VO JNI library" when trying to load an NDF into SPLAT.
2008-02-11 - A patch is available for ORAC-DR for all platforms. This fixes a bug where automated astrometry fails on the second mosaic for a given ORAC-DR run. This patch is recommended for WFCAM and IRIS2 users.
2008-02-08 - Humu version released.
2007-11-07 - A patch is available for STARJAVA for the OS X PPC platform. This patch provides missing STARJAVA tools such as TOPCAT and TREEVIEW.
2007-10-04 - A patch is available for DAOPHOT for all platforms, fixing a bug where DAOPHOT crashed upon generating a PSF. Download this patch if DAOPHOT crashes with the error "(1X,I5,' has a bad pixel:',F9.1,' at position',A1,2I5)".
2007-09-04 - A patch is available for GAIA on the OS X Intel platform, fixing a bug where GAIA crashed if you selected various menu items. Download this if GAIA crashes with the error "X major ticks can't be -2147483647".
2007-08-22 - Puana version released.
2007-05-21 - A patched version of the Starlink::Extractor Perl module is available for download. Download this if you see errors about the 'crowded' method not being availble.
2007-05-11 - The PPC OS X build is fixed (yet again) and can be downloaded from the download page.
2007-04-18 - An error in automated astrometry using GAIA has been fixed. Download a new Perl module from the hokulei errata page.
2007-03-16 - The PPC OS X build has been fixed and can be downloaded from the download page.
2007-03-14 - For SURF problems ("Command not found"), please download a new shell script for SURF from the hokulei errata page.
2007-03-14 - The PPC OS X build is broken and will be fixed shortly.
2007-03-09 - Two errors in DIPSO on Intel OS X have been patched. A new package can be obtained from the hokulei errata page.
2007-03-05 - The CUPID application released with the Intel OS X release has an incorrect version number. A new package can be obtained from the hokulei errata page.
2007-03-02 - It was pointed out that the Hawai'ian name for Arcturus is actually Hokule'a (or sometimes Hokulei'a). In the interest of accuracy, the star for which this release is named is changed to Capella.
2007-03-01 - Hokulei version released.
2006-09-13 - Version for 64-bit Linux released. See download page for further information.
2006-09-12 - Fix for NDF Perl module on OS X Tiger released. See keoe errata page page for further information.