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The latest version of Montage is available as a g-zipped tar file:
Montage_v3.0.tar.gz
Montage development is ongoing, though resources to fully test the code are scarce. If you would like to try the current beta version you can download it from the following location:
Montage_v3.2_beta4.tar.gz
[See Change History]
This version contains several bug fixes and some new functionality, but may also have introduced some new bugs. Use at your own risk.
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| Release Version | Release Date | Major Changes |
|---|---|---|
| Montage v3.0 | 1/5/2007 | The emphasis has been on solidifying
Montage use in a distributed Grid environment to
allow the building of large-scale mosaics from
2MASS, SDSS, and DPOSS.
See detailed Change History for a thorough description of updates. New modules include: Core Modules: Utilities:
|
| Montage v2.2 | 7/20/2004 | Makefiles have been updated and the CFITSIO library modified (see docs/ExternalLibraries.txt for details) to allow the use of 64-bit addressing (files larger than 2 GByte) on LINUX platforms. |
| Montage v2.1 | 7/1/2004 | Changes have been made to several modules. The biggest change, however, is the addition of mTANHdr (and associated changed to mProjectPP) which allow the fast reprojection of non-tangent-plane projections if they can be approximated as distorted TAN images. |
| Montage v2.0.4 | 3/16/2004 |
-mAdd no longer allocates the entire output image up front, and so uses even less memory.
-level-only flag has been added to mBgModel. -New module mShrink added to make scaled versions of an image (e.g. image with pixel scale 5.5 times larger than the original) -New modules mRadHit and mRadHitExec added to try and remove "radiation hit" type artifacts from original unprojected images by comparing pixel values to local medians. -New modules mDagTbls and mConcatFit added to aid in GRID computing use of Montage. The first generates a set of tables (lists of images, overlap analysis) for use in setting up a batch processing run. The second combines the output of difference fitting (presumably in this context done via separate threads) into a single table for use by mBgModel. |
| Montage v2.0.3 | 2/4/2004 | mAdd has been updated to better manage memory and a fast reprojection (plane-to-plane) module has been added (mProjectPP). |
| Montage v2.0.2 | 1/13/2004 | Fixed several problems with 'boundaries' library (used by mMakeHdr). Also fixed a realloc() bug in mMakeHdr. |
| Montage v2.0.1 | 11/25/2003 | Fixed background matching (specifically mDiff bug) and made various other minor changes. |
| Montage v2.0 | 9/17/2003 | Status file option added to all modules to support GRID (Montage-G DAG) processing. Fixed a couple of bugs in mProject: FITS reading was being done incorrectly (which caused occassional error conditions) and pixel "handedness" was sometime computed incorrectly for CD matrices. |
| Montage v1.7 | 5/30/03 | Corrected defect reports from testing of version 1.6. |
| Montage v1.6 | 4/24/03 | Added support for DSS projection. Corrected defect reports from testing of version 1.5. |
| Montage v1.5 | 04/01/03 | Improved handling of command line parameters, using the Unix command getopt(). Path handling in mImgtbl modified to use filenames only; paths are fed in via arguments to individual modules. |
| Montage v1.4 | 01/27/03 | Background matching improved. |
| Montage v1.3 | 10/03/02 | Workaround for defect in WCS library affecting cylindrical projections; fix for LINUX defect in svc control library. |
| Montage v1.2 | 9/25/02 | Ported to Linux |
| Montage v1.1-beta | 7/27/02 | Updated pixel overlap to remove repeated (within positional tolerance) points. Otherwise the Girard() calculation gets confused. |
| Montage v1.0 | 7/01/02 | Initial limited release |
