[nmag-announce] update of 0.1 beta release (5734)
Hans Fangohr
Dear Nmag users,
we have released an update of nmag 0.1 beta (5734) at
http://nmag.soton.ac.uk.
* Bug fixes/Improvements/New Features
* Reduced memory requirements by approximately 20% (due to better
compression of sparse matrices)
* Updated code working with hdf5 files to be compatible with pytables
version 1 and 2 (no immediate effect on user if using compile from
source, but allows to link to existing pytables2). By default we
are still using pytables1 (but expect to switch at some point in the
future, which should be transparent to users).
* Change from numpy 1.0.1 to 1.1.0. in compile from source distribution.
* More detailed progress reporting in nmagpp (useful if data files
become large, i.e. a GB and more).
* More detailed progress report in setup phase.
* More detailed progress reporting in hysterises/relax commands.
* Made compile from source work for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
* Introduced unit and regression tests.
* Interface changes
(None)
The debian package and the install-from-source tarball have been
updated. The Knoppix iso image is current from revision 5282 and will
be updated at some point next week (hopefully Monday).
As always, we welcome any feedback and bug reports (by email to
nm...@soton.ac.uk, or in the mailing list nmag-...@lists.soton.ac.uk).
Finally, if you use nmag for work that you publish, could we ask everybody to
be so kind to
(i) cite nmag (see
http://nmag.soton.ac.uk/nmag/current/manual/html/manual.html#how-should-i-cite-nmag)
and
(ii) send us the reference once the paper/proceeding has been published.
This will help in securing future funding for the nmag project, and
thus improve the support and future development that we can provide.
Many thanks,
Hans (on behalf of the nmag team)
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Hans Fangohr
School of Engineering Sciences
University of Southampton
Phone: +44 (0) 238059 8345