====== Release notes and instructions LOFAR Offline release 2.14.2 ======

==== Administration ====

Release Date: Dec 7th 2015

SVN tags:
  * https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/tags/LOFAR-Release-2_14_2/
  * https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/branches/LOFAR-Release-2_14/ 

==== Instructions ====

No instructions needed for this release.

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

=== PyBDSM ===

  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8832|#8832]] - PyBDSM fails if new islands are found in PI image

=== AWImager === 

  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8412|#8412]] - AWImager and AWImager2 now compile with wcslib >= 5.0
  * Various improvements to AWImager2 (not installed by default)

=== BBS ===

  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8828|#8828]] - BBS can now solve for a separate TEC for x and y (for investigations, default remains unchanged)

=== DPPP ===

  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8761|#8761]] - SmartDemix broken if freqstep != demixfreqstep
  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8374|#8374]] - GainCal does not normalize phase of first station to 0 anymore
  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8399|#8399]] - When combining subbands, DPPP now checks whether the result is regular in frequency

=== Pipeline Framework ===

  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8835|#8835]] - Make pipeline node scripts identifiable
  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/8763|#8763]] - Bugfix: startPython now contains pipeline logs
  * [[https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/4421|#4421]] - Change location of pipeline log files (to ''/opt/lofar/var/log/'')