TOPCAT release

[Mark Taylor]

Dear colleagues,

there is a new release of TOPCAT and friends:

   TOPCAT v4.10-3
   STILTS v3.5-2
   STIL   v4.3-2

Some headline points:

  - Parquet:
     - Parquet I/O handlers now use the VOParquet convention to
       read/write extended metadata in a bundled VOTable
     - New parquet diagnostic tools in STILTS parqlint and parqlook

  - MOC:
     - MOC support now upgraded to MOC 2.0 (can read MOC 2.0 files)
     - New STILTS command mocshape generates FITS/ASCII MOCs from
       a list of points, circles, polygons, STC-S descriptions etc

  - Plotting:
     - New shading modes PAux/PWeighted allow multiple colour maps
       in a single plot

  - CDF:
     - CDF input handler can now recognise multiple tables per file
     - Significant performance improvements reading CDF files

as well as a bunch of other enhancements, bugfixes and performance
improvements.

More detail and change logs available as usual:

   http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
   http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
   http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/

Any questions/complaints/feedback, please get back to me.

Thanks!

Mark

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Mark Taylor  Astronomical Programmer  Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk          https://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/mbt/