- This version only supports python3.
- File information now includes whether a file can be read and decoded.
The
readable()method on stream readers also includes whether the data in a file can be decoded. [#316]
- Empty GUPPI headers can now be created without having to pass in
verify=False. This is needed for astropy 3.2, which initializes an empty header in its revamped.fromstringmethod. [#314]
- VDIF multichannel headers and payloads are now forced to have power-of-two bits per sample. [#315]
- Bits per complete sample for VDIF payloads are now calculated correctly also for non power-of-two bits per sample. [#315]
- VDIF and Mark 5B readers and writers now support 1 bit per sample. [#277, #278]
- VDIF reader will now properly ignore corrupt last frames. [#273]
- Mark5B reader more robust against headers not being parsed correctly
in
Mark5BFileReader.find_header. [#275] - All stream readers now have a proper
dtypeattribute, not a correspondingnp.float32ornp.complex64. [#280] - GUPPI stream readers no longer emit warnings on not quite FITS compliant headers. [#283]
- Added release procedure to the documentation. [#268]
- Expanded support for acccessing sequences of files to VLBI format openers and baseband.open. Enabled baseband.guppi.open to open file sequences using string templates like with baseband.dada.open. [#254]
- Created baseband.helpers.sequentialfile.FileNameSequencer, a general-purpose filename sequencer that can be passed to any format opener. [#253]
- Moved the Getting Started section to :ref:`"Using Baseband" <using_baseband>`, and created a new quickstart tutorial under :ref:`Getting Started <getting_started>` to better assist new users. [#260]
- Ensure
gsbtimes can be decoded with astropy-dev (which is to become astropy 3.1). [#249] - Fixed rounding error when encoding 4-bit data using baseband.vlbi_base.encoding.encode_4bit_base. [#250]
- Added GUPPI/PUPPI to the list of file formats used by baseband.open and baseband.file_info. [#251]
- Added a new baseband.file_info function, which can be used to inspect data files. [#200]
- Added a general file opener, baseband.open which for a set of formats will check whether the file is of that format, and then load it using the corresponding module. [#198]
- Allow users to pass a
verifykeyword to file openers reading streams. [#233] - Added support for the GUPPI format. [#212]
- Enabled baseband.dada.open to read streams where the last frame has an incomplete payload. [#228]
- In analogy with Mark 5B, VDIF header time getting and setting now requires a frame rate rather than a sample rate. [#217, #218]
- DADA and GUPPI now support passing either a
start_timeoroffset(in addition totime) to set the start time in the header. [#240]
- The baseband.data module with sample data files now has an explicit entry in the documentation. [#198]
- Increased speed of VLBI stream reading by changing the way header sync patterns are stored, and removing redundant verification steps. VDIF sequential decode is now 5 - 10% faster (depending on the number of threads). [#241]
- Fixed a bug in baseband.dada.open where passing a
squeezesetting is ignored when also passing header keywords in 'ws' mode. [#211] - Raise an exception rather than return incorrect times for Mark 5B files in which the fractional seconds are not set. [#216]
- Fixed broken links and typos in the documentation. [#211]
- Initial release.