SPLASH v2.9.0 released

[Daniel Price]

Dear SPLASH users,

I am happy to announce the release of SPLASH v2.9.0. This is a major release, highly recommended for all users.

Download it from: http://users.monash.edu.au/~dprice/splash/download.html
Or if you have a git copy: cd splash; git pull; make withgiza SYSTEM=gfortran

New features are:

* general header quantities are read and available in function parser
* more robust label detection and parsing during ascii data read
* splash to grid works in non-cartesian geometries
* added flared and log-flared coordinate systems
* Doppler shift colour bar
* can customise line style and colour when plotting multiple exact solutions
* seg faults fixed
* better plot tiling decisions
* disappearing arrows bug fix
* Rafikov disc-planet exact solution added
* atan2 implemented in function parser
* various multigrain phantom read fixes (incl. seg faults)
* exact rendering implemented in 2D (thanks to Maya Petkova)
* libsplash implemented for use as Python splash backend
* various minor changes and bug fixes

For Mac users, you can also update splash via homebrew:

brew tap danieljprice/all
brew install splash

The Macports version will be updated shortly.

Happy splash-ing,

Daniel

Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA)
School of Physics and Astronomy
10 College Walk, Clayton Campus,
Monash University, VIC 3800
Australia
http://users.monash.edu.au/~dprice/