Release Notes for v5.6.11

• Fix for partial groups for CMOS reads that resulted in seg faults

Release Notes for v5.6.10

• Extended dome light SED more into IR

Release Notes for v5.6.9

• Handled saturated pixels on first CMOS read

Release Notes for v5.6.8

• Improvements to CR filtering for CMOS reads, and file transfer issue fix for some read sequences

Release Notes for v5.6.7

• Improvements to CMOS-style reads to allow for up-the-ramp-style readouts and more flexibility in read sequences (JRP)

Release Notes for v5.6.6

• More adjustments to bright star optimization for space-based telescopes (JRP)

Release Notes for v5.6.5

• Made JWST sensors have CMOS-style blooming (JRP)

Release Notes for v5.6.4

• Adjustments to various buffers for bright star optimizations (JRP)

• Smaller wavelength region for NirCam (JRP)

• Coarser dynamic optimization (JRP)

• Error in coating calculation for mirrors with no coating (JRP)

• Error in dynamic optimization early in initialization (JRP)

Release Notes for v5.6.3

• Slight adjustment for JWST deformations. (JRP)

Release Notes for v5.6.2

• Fixed rare segmentation fault with particles and suppressed warning for space-based telescopes. (JRP/EE)

Release Notes for v5.6.1

• Cleanup of some debug statements

Release Notes for v5.6

• Significant optimization to memory & compute to improve overall performance and speed (JRP)

• Improvements to various numerical internal functions (JRP)

• Overall improvements to software engineering and standard (GS & JRP)

• Various improvements to thread management (JRP)

• Added astronomical boilermaker telescope (DM & JRP)

• Fixes for GUI (GS)

• Implementation of several Celestron amateur telescopes (GS)

• Automatic calculation of E&M transmission/reflection for non-coating surfaces (JRP)

• Added many generic telescopes to experiment with aperture sizes from 1 cm to 1 m (JRP)

• Added the ability to adjust readout to enable drift scanning (JRP & DV)

• Added the ability to turn off rotation tracking to allow drift scanning (JRP & DV)

• Added the option to use the WCS automatically to set rotation/scale of input FITS images in catalogs (AD)

• Full global artificial light background (JRP)

• Updates to the exact chip position for JWST LW (EE & JM)

• Python notebook (in tools) for galaxy morphologies (JM)