TOPCAT/STILTS release

[Mark Taylor]

Dear TOPCAT users,

this is to announce the following releases:

   TOPCAT v3.8      http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
   STILTS v2.3      http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
   STIL   v3.0-1    http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/

The headline item is TAP support: a TAP load dialogue in TOPCAT
(see the Load Window or VO menu) and new commands tapquery and tapresume
in STILTS.  TAP is the VO Table Access Protocol, and allows you to
perform SQL-like queries on remote databases.

The other main noticeable change is that TOPCAT now starts a SAMP hub
by default on startup, so you don't need to perform any explicit 
actions to start using SAMP.

There are a number of other more minor enhancements and bug fixes,
see here for details:

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

Best wishes,

Mark

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/