Casal2 24.06

This release contains a bunch of improvements and bug fixes for Casal2.

1. The user manual has been updated for both Age and Length variants.
2. A large number of basic code improvements, error handling and user messages have been updated.
3. Building Casal2 and associated documentation has been fixed.
4. GitHub Actions have been fixed.
5. A new writing your first model tutorial is now available at: https://casal2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
6. Contributor guides, github.io pages etc have all been updated.
7. README has been updated.
8. Broken unit tests and builds on various Linux platforms and compilers have been fixed.
9. Casal2 now supports multiple input configuration files with the -c command like argument
10. Added sqrt transformations to manual
11. Added mortality constant exploitation process
12. Implemented double tag loss
13. Added disease mortaloty as an age model process
14. Added constant difference parameter transformation

Production release 2022-10

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-10-10.

Model output will include "Version: v22.10".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip
Older Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz

Production release 2022-08

Release notes are available on the Casal2 GitHub webpages.

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-08-31.

Model output will include "Version: v22.08 (2022-08-31)".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip
Older Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz

What's Changed

• Length based model 202204 by @Craig44 in #386
• Sim casal2 202206 by @Craig44 in #394
• Age size observation 202206 by @Craig44 in #397
• ADD fishing mortality process, plus improvements 202207 by @Craig44 in #400
• Recruitment ycs syntax change 202208 by @Craig44 in #404

Full Changelog: v21.11...v22.08

Development release 2022-07

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-07-28.

Model output will include "Version: v22.07".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip
Older Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz

What's Changed

• Age size observation 202206 by @Craig44 in #397

Full Changelog: dev.202206...dev.2207

Development release 2022-06

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-06-29.

Model output will include "Version: v22.06".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip
Older Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz

What's Changed

• Sim casal2 202206 by @Craig44 in #394

Full Changelog: dev.202205...dev.202206

Development release 2022-05

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-05-24.

Model output will include "Version: v22.05".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip
Older Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz

What's Changed

• Length based model 202204 by @Craig44 in #386

Full Changelog: dev.202204...dev.202205

Development release 2022-04

THIS SOFTWARE HAS NOT BEEN VALIDATED

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-04-13.

Model output will include "Version: v22.04 (2022-04-13)".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip
Older Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz

Full Changelog: dev.202203...dev.202204

dev.202203

THIS SOFTWARE HAS NOT BEEN VALIDATED.

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-03-17.

Model output will include "Version: v22.03 (2022-03-17)".

Windows files (built on Windows Server 2019): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Linux-build.zip

Full Changelog: dev.202202...dev.202203

Development version as of 2022-02-28

THIS SOFTWARE HAS NOT BEEN VALIDATED.

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2022-02-25.

Model output will include "Version: v22.02 (2022-02-25)".

Windows files: Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Debian/Ubuntu Linux files: Casal2-Linux-build.zip
CentOS Linux files: Casal2.tar.gz

Production version 2021-11

Release notes are available at the Casal2 GitHub webpages.

This version of Casal2 was built from the main development branch on 2021-12-03.

Model output will include "Version: v21.11 (2021-11-24)".

Windows files (built on Windows 2016): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Linux files (built on Ubuntu 20.04): Casal2-Windows-build.zip
Linux files (built on CentOS 7.9): Casal2.tar.gz