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v0.13.0 (201?-??-??)

  • Upgrade CFITSIO library to v3.45.

v0.12.0 (2018-09-18)

  • Drop support for Julia 0.5.
  • Column names in FITS files are now case sensitive by default. Functions read(hdu, colname) and Libcfitsio.fits_get_colnum have a new optional keyword, case_sensitive, which is true by default.

v0.11.0 (2017-09-28)

  • Drop support for Julia 0.4.
  • Methods now accept String and, for strings written to the FITS file, an error is raised for non-ASCII strings.
  • New write_key() function for writing to an HDU header.
  • Homebrew.jl used for libcfitsio dependency on OS X.
  • Remove extra newline from show output.
  • Fix some deprecation warnings on Julia 0.7.
  • Inline docstrings and HTML documentation generated with Documenter.jl.

v0.10.0 (2017-06-13)

  • Add FITS(::Vector{UInt8}) constructor: support for memory-backed files.
  • Add support for FITS("file.fits") do f; ...; end, which automatically closes the file at the end of the block.
  • Add Libcfitsio functions: fits_read_key_str, fits_read_key_lng, fits_read_keys_lng, fits_write_date low-level functions.
  • Error message from opening a file now includes file name.

v0.9.0 (2017-01-24)

  • Fix deprecation warnings on Julia 0.6.
  • Drop support for Julia 0.3.

v0.8.4 (2016-08-09)

  • Fix deprecation warnings on v0.5

v0.8.3 (2016-05-04)

  • Remove BUNIT from reserved header keywords

v0.8.2 (2016-02-29)

  • enable precompilation

v0.8.1 (2015-09-30)

  • Fix deprecation warnings on v0.4

v0.8.0 (2015-07-03)

New features

  • Windows support (32-bit & 64-bit), thanks to help from Tony Kelman (requires master of BinDeps)
  • New method read_header(hdu, ASCIIString) returns entire header as a single string.
  • bump cfitsio version from 3.360 to 3.370

Bug fixes

  • fix show() for an empty FITS file.
  • fix several issues with Clong on 64-bit Windows.

v0.7.0 (2015-05-31)

New Features & Improvements

  • Read and write variable length columns in binary tables.
  • Iterate over HDUs in a file with for hdu in f; ...; end
  • Improved show() methods give more and better information for FITS and HDU types.
  • Write name and version of HDU when creating a new HDU with name and ver keywords.
  • New function FITSIO.libcfitsio_version() (unexported) returns CFITSIO library version.

Deprecations

  • Libcfitsio.fits_read_num_rowsll deprecated. Use Libcfitsio.fits_read_num_rows.

v0.6.0 (2015-05-06)

New Features

  • Read and write table extensions (both ASCII and binary) in high-level API.

Breaking changes

The low-level API functions (starting with fits_*) have been moved to the Libcfitsio sumodule. If you are using these functions, simply add

using FITSIO.Libcfitsio

in place of, or in addition to, using FITSIO.

Deprecations

  • readkey renamed to read_key
  • readheader renamed to read_header
  • getcomment renamed to get_comment
  • setcomment! renamed to set_comment!
  • hdu[i:j, :] replaced by read(hdu, i:j, :) for reading subsets of image extensions.

In the low-level interface (now in Libcfitsio):

  • fits_get_col_repeat deprecated. Use fits_get_coltype, which returns the column typecode in addition to width and repeat values.

  • Methods of fits_read_col and fits_write_col specifying the type explicitly are deprecated because the type is redundant. Simply remove the explicit type argument.

Internal

  • Cleanup and correction of type specifications (e.g., Cint in place of Int32, ASCIIString in place of String)