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[0.6.2] - 2018-09-27

One week between releases is a lot better than 9 months! ;) Some small but important changes mark this release including faster testing times on local machines. Also a quick release to remove some of the CloudSQL features (but see the shiny new Cloud Functions over in the panoptes-network repo!).

Fixed

  • Cameras
    • Use unit_id for sequence and image ids. Important for processing consistency [#613].
  • State Machine

Changed

  • Camera
    • Remove camera creation from Observatory [#612].
    • Smarter event waiting [#625].
    • More cleanup, especially path names and pretty images [#610, #613, #614, #620].
  • Mount
  • Testing
    • Caching some of the build dirs [#611].
    • Only use Mongo DB type during local testing - Local testing with 1/3rd the wait! [#616].
  • Google Cloud [#599]
    • Storage improvements [#601].

Added

  • Misc
    • CountdownTimer utility [#625].

Removed

  • Google Cloud [#599]
    • Reverted some of the CloudSQL connectivity [#652]
  • Cameras
    • Remove spline smoothing focus [#621].

[0.6.1] - 2018-09-20

Lots of changes in this release. In particular we've pushed through a lot of changes (especially with the help of @jamessynge) to make the development process a lot smoother. This has in turn contribute to the quality of the codebase.

Too long between releases but even more exciting improvements to come! Next up is tackling the events notification system, which will let us start having some vastly improved UI features.

Below is a list of some of the changes.

Thanks to first-time contributors: @jermainegug @jeremylan as well as contributions from many folks over at https://github.com/AstroHuntsman/huntsman-pocs.

Fixed

  • Cameras
    • Fix for DATE-OBS fits header [#589].
    • Better property settings for DSLRs [#589].
    • Pretty image improvements [#589].
    • Autofocus improvements for SBIG/Focuser [#535].
    • Primary camera updates [#614, 620].
    • Many bug fixes [#457, #589].
  • State Machine
    • Many fixes [#509, #518].

Changed

  • Mount
    • POCS Shell: Hitting Ctrl-c will complete movement through states [#590].
    • Pointing updates, including auto_correct [#580].
    • Tracking mode updates (fixes for Northern Hemisphere only!) [#549].
    • Serial interaction improvements [#388, #403].
    • Shutdown improvements [#407, #421].
  • Dome
    • Changes from May Huntsman commissioning run [#535]
  • Messaging
    • Better and consistent topic terminology [#593, #605].
    • Anticipation of coming events.
  • Misc
    • Default to rereading the fields file for targets [#488].
    • Timelapse updates [#523, #591].

Added

  • Cameras
    • Basic scripts for bias and dark frames.
    • Add support for Optec FocusLynx based focus controllers [#512].
    • Pretty images from FITS files. Thanks @jermainegug! [#538].
  • Testing
    • pyflakes testing support for bug squashing! :bettle: [#596].
    • pycodestyle for better code! [#594].
    • Threads instead of process [#468].
    • Fix coverage & Travis config for concurrency [#566].
  • Google Cloud [#599]
    • Added instructions for authentication [#600].
    • Add a pan_id to units for GCE interaction[#595].
    • Adding Google CloudDB interaction [#602].
  • Sensors
    • Much work on arduinos and sensors [#422].
  • Misc
    • Startup scripts for easier setup [#475].
    • Install scripts for Ubuntu 18.04 [#585].
    • New database type: mongo, file, memory [#414].
    • Twitter! Slack! Social median interactions. Hooray! Thanks @jeremylan! [#522]

[0.6.0] - 2017-12-30

Changed

  • Enforce 100 character limit for code 159.
  • Using root-relative module imports 252.
  • Observatory is now a parameter for a POCS instance 195.
  • Better handling of simulator types 200.
  • Log improvements:
    • Separate files for each level and new naming scheme 165.
    • Reduced log format 254.
    • Better reusing of logger 192.
  • Single shared MongoClient connection 228.
  • Improvements to build process 176, 166.
  • State machine location more flexible 209, 219
  • Testing improvments 249.
  • Updates to many wiki pages.
  • Misc bug fixes and improvements.

Added

  • Merge PEAS into POCS 169.
  • Merge PACE into POCS 167.
  • Support added for testing of serial devices 164, 180.
  • Basic dome support 231, 248.
  • Polar alignment helper functions moved from PIAA 265.

Removed

  • Remove threading support from rs232.SerialData 148.

[0.5.1] - 2017-12-02

Added

  • First real release!
  • Working POCS features:
    • mount (iOptron)
    • cameras (DSLR, SBIG)
    • focuer (Birger)
    • scheduler (simple)
  • Relies on separate repositories PEAS and PACE
  • Automated testing with travis-ci.org
  • Code coverage via codecov.io
  • Basic install scripts