TOPCAT release and support status warning

[Mark Taylor]

This message announces:

   1. New minor releases of TOPCAT, STILTS and STIL
   2. Update about probable withdrawal of software support and development

1. Release:
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   The following new minor releases were made on 17 July 2009:

      TOPCAT  v2.7-2    http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
      STILTS  v2.0-4    http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
      STIL    v3.4-2    http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/

   These releases contain minor enhancements, updates and bugfixes.
   Detailed information about the changes can be found at:

      http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/sun253/versions.html
      http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/sun256/versions.html
      http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/sun252/history.html

2. Support status:
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   The UK's AstroGrid project within which TOPCAT, STILTS and STIL have
   been supported, developed and maintained for the last three years
   has been terminated, and applications to fund a follow-on project
   for UK Virtual Observatory work have been unsuccessful.
   Attempts will be made to seek some other arrangement under which
   support for this software can continue, but as things stand it is
   likely that the author will no longer be available to work on it
   from around November 2009.  The same applies to JSAMP.

   See http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/future.html for more
   details.

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +43-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/