====== Release notes LOFAR Offline release 2.12.0 ======

==== Administration ====

Release Date: Sep. 7th 2015

SVN tags:
  * https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/tags/LOFAR-Release-2_12_0/
  * https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/branches/LOFAR-Release-2_12/ (rev. 32421)

==== Release notes/changelogs ====

== PyBDSM ==
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8211|#8211]] - Improve speed of PyBDSM wavelet module
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8152|#8152]] - Fix hanging pydsm test on CEP3

== DPPP ==

   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/7778|#7778]] - New DPPP step ''applybeam'' to apply the beam model
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/7812|#7812]] - Prepare for linking against external AOFlagger (step ''newaoflagger'')
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/7963|#7963]] - Add multithreaded ''Predict'' step to DPPP and Refactoring of DPPP simulation code (used in demix etc.)
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8119|#8119]] - Fix bug in baseline selection, selecting '[CR]S*&' now works properly in filter, demixer and preflagger
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8142|#8142]] - Fix NDPPP StationAdder: visibilities are now correctly weighted. Also weighted UVW coordinates are now computed.
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8157|#8157]] - Fix NDPPP filter step after a StationAdder step. The new station is now added to the MS immediately after every step.
   * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8210|#8210]] - ApplyCal can now corrupt for effects
   * GainCal now uses the new Predict and ApplyBeam step, it can apply the beam model to a model data column

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