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The GammaLib version 0.9.0 has been released.

• Add energy dispersion to CTA module
• Add pointing table support to CTA module
• Add event filtering for binned analysis
• Add +=, -=, *= and /= operators to GSkymap
• Add integration status tracking to GIntegral
• Add GCTAExposure and GCTAMeanPsf classes
• Add ts and tscalc attributes to GModel and use them in models
• Add manipulation methods to GCTAResponseTable
• Add read(), write() and save() methods to GCTAPsf2D and GCTAPsfKing
• Add classname() method to all classes
• Add utc() methods to GTime class
• Add hierachical element access methods to GXml and GXmlNode
• Add table creation and saving methods to GCsv class
• Add predefined entity support to XML module
• Read/write altitude and azimuth attributes of CTA data
• Refactor CTA response class, add GCTAResponseCube class
• Improve CTA response computation for extended models
• Implement CTA stacked analysis
• Optimize CTA binned and stacked analysis
• LM optimizer now allows logL decreases up to 1.0
• Load events only when needed into GCTAObservation
• Implement full automatic typecasting in Python module
• Fill DETX and DETY values in GCTAResponseIrf::mc
• Rename GCTAModelBackground to GCTAModelCubeBackground
• Rename GCTAModelInstBackground to GCTAModelIrfBackground
• Rename GIntegral::romb() to GIntegral::romberg()
• Correctly take into account logfile name change in Python
• Correctly use DETX/DETY in radians in GCTAInstDir
• Introduce class codes to avoid dynamic type casting
• Remove error computation from optimization
• Add GOptimize::errors() method for error computation
• Add support for user and save CTA energy thresholds
• Several bug corrections

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The third ctools coding sprint will take place at MPIK, Heidelberg (Germany) in the week 7-11 July 2014. For more information, please check the page https://cta-redmine.irap.omp.eu/projects/ctools/wiki/Third_coding_sprint.

ctools-00-06-01 was just released.

This is a bug fix release. The following bug fixes are included:

• Added missing hyphens in pfiles synchronisation section (#1091)
• Add configuration test script (#1091)
• Correctly filter instrument and id attributes in ctobssim
• Use reworked GCaldb for calibration data access (#1116)

ctools-00-07-01 requires GammaLib-00-08-01.

The GammaLib version 0.8.1 has been released.

This is a bug fix release that includes the following changes:

• Added missing hyphens in pfiles synchronisation section (#1091)
• Add configuration test script (#1091)
• GModelSky, GCTAModelBackground and GCTAModelRadialAcceptance write id attribute into XML file (#1092)
• Add GChatter typedef to Python interface
• GAMMALIB_CALDB takes precedence over CALDB environment variable (#1094)
• Added vo module and GVOClient class to Python interface
• Track results of Python unit tests (#1119)
• Clean-up calibration database interface (#1102)
• Correct 2D PSF Monte-Carlo simulations (#1128)
• Correct deadtime computation for CTA non point source response (#1133)

The second ctools/gammalib code sprint will take place from the 27th to the 31st of January of 2014 at DESY (Zeuthen, Germany). Please have a look at https://cta-redmine.irap.omp.eu/projects/ctools/wiki/Second_coding_sprint for more information.

The ctools package version 0.7.0 has been released.

• Adapt to GammaLib-00-08-00 interface
• ctobssim now only simulates events within ROI and supports all kinds of data space models; time slice durations are determined based on source flux
• ctbin now implements LIN and FILE binning algorithms
• ctbin, ctskymap and ctmodel now generate maps with increasing longitude to the left
• Update parameter files if necessary

ctools-00-07-00 requires GammaLib-00-08-00.

The GammaLib version 0.8.0 has been released.

The release includes the following changes:

• Major review of public interfaces of all classes
• Reorganize sky models
• Introduce GContainer interface class
• Add Virtual Observatory support
• Introduce GUrl classes for transparent URL handling
• Make use of GUrl class in XML I/O
• Optimize computations
• Introduce gammalib namespace for constants and functions
• GModelSpatialDiffuseCube reads ENERGIES extension
• Add sky region handling
• Add on/off analysis support for CTA
• Add xspec interface support
• Rework registry classes to remove memory leaks on termination
• Add support for variable-length FITS columns
• Generalise GSkyPixel to 1D and 2D pixelisations
• Added King profile PSF for CTA
• Reorganise GOptimizerPars class and add GOptimizerPar class
• Put likelihood computation in GObservation class
• Add broken power law spectral model
• Add Gaussian spectral model
• Update parameter files if necessary
• Implement exact sky map pixel solid angle computation
• Rename the following classes:
  • GWcs ⇒ GSkyProjection
  • GWcslib ⇒ GWcs
  • GWcsHPX ⇒ GHealpix
  • GPar ⇒ GApplicationPar
  • GPars ⇒ GApplicationPars

ctools-00-06-00 was just released.

The release includes the following changes:

• Add ctmodel tool
• Add usepnt parameter to ctselect
• Adapt to GammaLib-00-07-00 interface
• Correct ctobssim usage of seed value

ctools-00-06-00 requires GammaLib-00-07-00.

GammaLib-00-07-00 was just released.

The release includes the following changes:

• Add base module for interface classes
• Introduce GBase from which almost all classes derive
• Add dependency tracking for Python interface
• Add COMPTEL instrument interface
• Open FITS image using the equivalent data type
• Refactor CTA response classes
• Define new instrument response interface
• Add GSource class
• File locking failures do no longer throw exceptions
• Optimize GNodeArray computations and add unit tests
• Add handling of undefined and NaN values to GPar class
• Add GPhotons photon container class
• Implement mc(), flux() and eflux() for all spectral models
• Rework GTime interface and introduce GTimeReference class
• Add GModelSpectralLogParabola spectral model