Release notes LOFAR Offline release 2.12.0

Release Date: Sep. 7th 2015

SVN tags:

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