Release notes LOFAR Offline release 2.12.0

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)

• #8211 - Improve speed of PyBDSM wavelet module
• #8152 - Fix hanging pydsm test on CEP3

• #7963 - 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
• #7963 - Add multithreaded Predict step to DPPP
• #8210 - ApplyCal can now corrupt for effects
• #7812 - Prepare for linking against external AOFlagger (step newaoflagger)
• #7778 - New DPPP step applybeam to apply the beam model
• GainCal now uses the new Predict and ApplyBeam step, it can apply the beam model to a model data column

For questions, contact Tammo Jan Dijkema/Ger van Diepen/Bas van der Tol.