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Lynkeos Changelog

What's new in Lynkeos 2.10

Sep 15, 2014
  • Correction of RAW file opening failure (bug #74)
  • Workaround to open Canon DSLRs movies (bug #75)
  • Correction of the links to the Wiki inside the help (bug #79)

New in Lynkeos 2.9 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • New optimized processing of RAW format dark frames.
  • Correction of bad image refresh since OS X 10.8
  • Correction of bugs in minimum, maximum and sigma clip stacking

New in Lynkeos 2.8 (Jan 6, 2014)

  • Correction of a crash upon launch on OS X 10.9 Maverick (bug #72)
  • Correction of a crash when reverting to the "list" display after stacking, apparently also on OS X 10.9 (bug #71)
  • Correction to prevent a crash when stacking some dark frames (bug #59)

New in Lynkeos 2.6a (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Static linking with lib tiff (bug #66)
  • Adaptation to OS X 10.8 (bugs #58, #64)
  • New analysis algorithm, giving better results (bug #61)
  • More robust selection notification scheme, to avoid crash on infinite loop (bug #56)
  • Search square size is no more constrained to power of two (3440550)
  • FITS, MPEG and AVI file formats are now supported without additional packages.
  • The file format of V0 and V1 is no longer supported.

New in Lynkeos 2.6 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Adaptation to OS X 10.8 (#58, #64)
  • New analysis algorithm, giving better results (#61)
  • More robust selection notification scheme, to avoid crash on infinite loop (#56)
  • Search square size is no more constrained to power of two (3440550)
  • FITS, MPEG and AVI file formats are now supported without additional packages.
  • The file format of V0 and V1 is no longer supported.

New in Lynkeos 2.5 (Apr 12, 2011)

  • Add of stacking variants "sigma clip" and "extrema" (2271899)
  • Add of RAW preference for automatic image rotation, or not.
  • Fix of plugins help display under OS X 10.6 (3268012)

New in Lynkeos 2.4 (Dec 19, 2008)

  • Correction of TIFF display on Intel (2127078)
  • Support for floating point TIFF (2216462),
  • Add of a process toggling on/off in the process stack window (2248076),
  • Implementation of a cache for image processing,
  • Refactoring of process chaining,
  • Fix of a bug in display when switching to/from calibration frames,
  • Better handling of exceptions in threads,
  • Fix of compatibility in reading files older than V2.3,
  • Access to the process window through the "window" menu,
  • Optimization of images refresh,
  • Access to plugins help,
  • Independent zoom factor for list and result modes.

New in Lynkeos 2.3 (Sep 30, 2008)

  • Add of the European Southern Observatory algorithm to the wavelet tool.
  • Parallelization (for multiproc/multicore) and vectorization (for Altivec/SSE) on most of the image processes.
  • Correction of TIFF files reading on Intel.
  • Fix of a memory leak at document closing.
  • Correction of a crash when saving an unprocessed image from a list.
  • Creation of a LynkeosCore framework to allow external processing plugin developement.
  • Correction of a crash when an exception is raised in a processing thread.
  • Delete RAW temporary files at application end.
  • Detect missing RAW files at document opening.
  • Add of a RAW conversion preference pane.
  • Fix of column sizes saving in the document.
  • Delete of useless "red" level and contrast line for monochrome images.
  • It is now possible to tweak the levels and contrast of an image in a list.
  • Fix of bad min and max image pixels values after some operations.
  • Fix of a bad read of quality threshold in pre V2 document files.

New in Lynkeos 2.2 (May 4, 2008)

  • This release add tools to correct the chromatic dispersion and tune the color balance of the resulting image; it also fixes some bugs.

New in Lynkeos 2.1 (Mar 24, 2008)

  • Correction of a stacking issue which made the application crash on some configurations
  • Correction of the image updating during process
  • Update of the RAW file types
  • Watch cursor management correction
  • Correction of some memory leaks
  • Implementation of a cache for movie images which greatly speeds up image updating
  • Grayscale Quicktime movies are no more read as RGB (which now allows to save the result as FITS).

New in Lynkeos 2.0 (Feb 5, 2008)

  • Correction of FITS saving in V2.0
  • Correction of some crashes of the developer release
  • Correction of the creation of image processings inside the process stack window
  • Correction of window closing while processing
  • Implementation of an optional protection against spurious alignment
  • Correction of the "revert" function