LOFAR_SKSP 4.3.1

Updates

• Add bces, bilby, nmmn, numdifftools and pymultinest
• Add nomacs image viewer
• Add LINC concatenation averageing options to create_mslist.py
• Clean up lofar-vlbi runner
• Update python-casacore to 3.5.2

LOFAR_SKSP 4.3.0

Updates

• Add RM-Tools
• Add shadeMS
• Update AOCL to version 4
• Update create_mslist.py to include all LINC settings.
• Update DP3 to 161559ff
• Update EveryBeam to 22cd113b (support for MeerKAT beam)
• Update OpenBLAS to v0.3.22
• Update Toil to 5.10
• Update WSClean to 1c1c1d73 (support for MeerKAT beam)

Fixes

• Added missing MKL library path.
• Clean up LINC runners.
• Fix ddf-pipeline boostrap crash.

LOFAR_SKSP 4.2.2

Fixes

• Downgrade IPython to 8.10 to avoid a bug in interactive mode.

LOFAR_SKSP 4.2.1

Updates

• Deprecate generic container in favour of sandybridge container since AMD now has a specific container and 12 year old hardware seems a reasonable bottom line.

Fixes

• Fix LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Intel oneAPI MKL.

LOFAR_SKSP 4.2.0

Updates

• Actually update Intel MKL 2020 to Intel oneAPI MKL 2023.
• Add rclone.
• Add swarp.
• Freeze IDG to f4a3a96c.
• Update WSClean to test-dd-psf-with-faceting to support feathering and direction-dependent psfs.

Fixes

• Fix for threading in DP3's constrained solves.
• Closes #57
• Closes #58

LOFAR_SKSP 4.1.0

Major changes

• Container base updated to Fedora 36
• Separate recipe for AMD builds using the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL) added.

Updates

• Add EveryStamp Python package.
• Add SAGEcal's libdirac for the LBFGS solver (used in e.g LINC's demixing).
• Add swarp.
• Freeze ddf-pipeline to 37070a9
• Update DP3 to 5dab4c43
• Include debugging tools gdb, valgrind and perf controlled by the DEBUG environment variable.
• Include debug symbols if DEBUG is true.
• Update DS9 to 8.5b1.
• Update EveryBeam to 6c7c1fed.
• Update HDF5 to 1.12.1.
• Update Intel MKL to Intel oneAPI MKL.
• Update OpenBLAS to v0.3.22.
• Update WSClean to 65172baf.

Changes

• Build IDG in Release mode instead of Debug.
• Build NumPy manually to link against custom OpenBLAS.
• Build OpenBLAS manually for 128 threads to resolve OpenBLAS threading warnings and crashes.

LOFAR_SKSP 4.0.2

Skips over internal 4.0.1 release
Updates

• Downgrade AstroPy to <5.1
• Downgrade NumPy to <1.23
• Add emcee
• Add loess
• Add lotss-query
• Add rtree
• Add seaborn
• Add various killMS-related paths to PATH and PYTHONPATH
• Update DP3 to v5.3 @ 6cc948e9
• Update EveryBeam to 0.5.0 @ e1c96866
• Update WSClean to v3.2 @ b1acf502

Fixes

• Fixes some odd PROMPT_COMMAND errors when building with recent apptainer versions.

Changes

LOFAR_SKSP 3.5

Updates

• Polconv module now included

Fixes

• DP3 PYTHONPATH now set correctly

LOFAR_SKSP 4.0

First release supporting CWL and Python3. The genericpipeline framework is no longer included nor supported in this or newer versions.

Updates

• cwltool and toil now included.
• EveryBeam Python bindings are now included.
• Montage removed for now due to build issues.
• Update ddf-pipeline to d0eeb4d.
• Update DDFacet to v0.7.1.
• Update DP3 to v5.3.
• Update killMS to v3.1.0
• Update RMextract to f161b0a.

Changes

• Based on Fedora 34
• Python 2 venv no longer included.
• Python 3 is at 3.9.13

LOFAR_SKSP 3.4

Last version to support genericpipeline. Next major release (4.0) will drop it in favour of LINC and will move to CWL.

Updates

• Update DP3 to v5.2.
• Update IDG to 40414aa5.
• Update WSClean to 42c8201e
• DP3 and WSClean now use -DPORTABLE=True on generic builds.

Fixes

• Adapt DDFacet Slurm-related patch for latest container.

Changes

• Merge non-ddf and ddf recipes into a single recipe.