Python-casacore

General
- Bug fixes and improvements
- This version can be used to compile CASA 5.0
- Improved error checking when parsing dates/times (619)
- Statistics: allow data provider to specify number of threads (645)

MS
- Disable caching of MS main table columns (597)
- Properly copy the `SIGMA_SPECTRUM` column, if present (599)
- Implement getTimesForSpws (600)

FITS and FITS-IDI
- Implement digital corrections for DiFX/VLBA (602)
- Several improvements for WEIGHTS when reading FITS-IDI (590, 608)
- Parallactic angle calculation for Nasmyth mounts (627)
- Modernised matrix syntax in FITS files now follows standard 3.0 (606)

General
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Improved installation documentation in README
- Add an option to use Ccache (`-DUseCcache`) (549)
- Add some statistics functionality (569)

Python
- Make some of the TableProxy functionality publicly available (559)
- Make version checking from python (or plain C) possible (583)

TaQL
- Fix transpose in TaQL (563)
- Added functions `delay` and `uvwapp` to `mscal` (562)

FITS
- MSFitsOutput now writes ant diams (536)
- Improvements to FITS-IDI conversion (538, 590, 579)

General
- Lots of bug fixes and improvements
- Tests are not built by default anymore, use `-DBUILD_TESTING=True`
to build them
- Building with C++11 is now default, use `-DCXX11=False` if you do
not have a recent compiler (533)
- Added JSON support (506)

TaQL
- Major improvements in TaQL, such as masked arrays, new commands
`ALTER TABLE`, `SHOW TABLE`, `HELP` (388)

Images
- ImageConcat and ImageExpr now use JSON export (517)

General
- Lots of code improvement, optimization and added tests

Measures
- The default search path for measures data is now smaller. The path can
be set at cmake time by specifying `-DDATA_DIR=/path/to/data`. This path
can contain `%CASAROOT%` which is expanded at run time, to support
relocatable installations. The measures path can also still be set in
`.casarc`. (277)
- Inserted fix to leap second handling problem (290)
- Various coordinate performance improvements (258)

Tables
- Renamed showtable to showtableinfo (320)
- Added several TaQL functions (229)

MS
- Improve testing of MSSummary (330)
- Many improvements for the MS related functions (318, 291, 228, 208, ...)
- Fix multithreaded MS creation (298)

Python
- Build python bindings by default (not for CASA build)
- Add experimental Python3 support. Read the README for instructions (280)
- Changed behavior from 2.0.3: Use PYTHON2_* configuration options to set
your python2 interpreter. (280)

General
- Merge of CASA work into casacore, CASA should compile with casacore now
- Under-the-hood optimizations, like using allocator features (132)
- Building with gcc 5 is now possible (166)
- Compatibility with more versions of wcslib and cfitsio
- SOFA is now an external dependency (105)

Tables
- Arrays can now sometimes be reshaped while keeping allocated memory (113)

MS
- Selection of baselines with a regexp between stations is now possible (99)
- Several new methods to MSMetaData (138)

Bug fixes
- Fix a bug which caused an error with LOFAR measurement sets with
the LOFAR tool msoverview (140)
- Fix a bug where TaQL would not write output when an expression was
used (184)

This version was not released