v1.2.8

Updates from winter 2023-2024

-added polcal_new function with gradients to speed up D-term calibratoin
-fixed an issue with assigning the MJD when reading certain dates
-fixed deprecation issues in rex

v1.2.7

fixed bug in unpack_bl
verified figure display now works properly in matplotlib version > 3.7

v1.2.6

• added functionality for Stokes V imaging
• added self-cal functionality for separate R & L gains
• added a new tutorial jupyter notebook
• improved space VLBI data generation, replacing pyephem with skyfield
• fixed many docstrings
• fixed bugs in display for latest matplotlib vresion
• fixed bugs in caltable

v1.2.5

• multifrequency synthesis helper functions
• added analytic gradients for self-calibration
• added butterworth filter for image smoothing

v1.2.4

-updates to multifrequency synthesis
-better documentation for starwarps

v1.2.3

-Added geometric modeling library
-Fixed bugs in fits & uvfits I/O

v1.2.2

Updates from May-December 2020
-- added correlated-in-time gains to synthetic data
-- added (back) simultaneous Stokes I and polarimetric imaging
-- standardized synthetic data options for movie and image
-- fixed several bugs in multifrequency imaging
-- fixed bugs in dynamical closures
-- fixed bugs in load_uvfits for VLA data sets
-- fixed bugs in saving uvfits

v1.2.1

Minor bug fixes and documentation updates from v1.2
Ready for first PyPi release

v1.2.0

updates from late 2019/early 2020
-- added multifrequency imaging
-- added new movie utils for seamless imaging/plotting/ synthetic data generation
-- better synthetic data generation, with finer control over gains & d-terms
-- streamlined and linted code throughout.
-- many bug fixes

v1.1.1

A few bug fixes to ensure python3 compatibility
modified save_uvfits to read and load stokes IQUV basis .uvfits files.