v6.1.1

Updates

• Update facetselfcal to address more model issues
• Clean UV cache to try and reclaim some space
• Other miscellaneous cleanup

Intel: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.1_sandybridge_sandybridge.sif
AMD: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.1_znver2_znver2.sif

v6.1.0

*Updates

• Latest facetselfcal to address the scalarphasediff issue.
• Update EveryBeam to f2a27530
• Update WSClean to v3.7

Intel: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.0_sandybridge_sandybridge.sif
AMD: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.0_znver2_znver2.sif

v6.1.0-rc2

Updates

• Add katbeam
• Add lofar-vlbi-plot
• Can run ddf-pipeline again
• Consolidate versioning into a single file
• Update AOFlagger to 9a47b8c8
• Update casacore to 5b671c5
• Update DP3 to e2be55be
• Update EveryBeam to 3ebf4f50
• Update IDG to 9c9236d3
• Update facetselfcal for sisco compatibility
• Update WSClean to 2934da1e

AMD: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.0-rc2_znver2_znver2.sif
Intel: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.0-rc2_sandybridge_sandybridge.sif

v6.1.0-rc1

Base container is now Fedora 42. This ships with Python 3.13, but a venv with 3.12 is created to not be too disruptive and breaking yet.

Updates

• Add cmcrameri
• Add spherical-geometry
• Install PyBDSF from PyPI
• Remove deprecated create_ms_list.py in favour of flocs-run
• Remove difmap
• Remove RMextract in favour of Spinifex
• Update to Fedora 42
• Update AOCL to 5.1.0
• Update AOFlager to 72af2187
• Update Boost to 1.89.0
• Update casacore to 18673cd
• Update CUDA to 13
• Update DP3 to f09808e7
• Update EveryBeam to 8384f294
• Update WSClean to eb97ba84
• Manually install Boost to maintain Python 3.12 compatibility.
• Runners are moved to their own repository at https://github.com/FLOCSoft/flocs-runners and are now included as a git submodule.

Bugfixes

• Fix polconv module being grabbed from lofar_helpers instead of facetselfcal

AMD Zen 2: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.0-rc1_znver2_znver2.sif
Intel: https://public.spider.surfsara.nl/project/lofarvwf/fsweijen/containers/flocs_v6.1.0-rc1_sandybridge_sandybridge.sif

v6.0.0

Massively overhauls the runners for a better user experience. Overgrown Bash scripts moved to an installable Python package flocs_runners for more power and flexibility. Toil 9 or later is required if you want to run pipelines with Toil.

Updates

• Runner functionality is now obtained by installing the repository via pip
• Running pipelines, including config generation, is now handled solely by flocs-run
• Both cwltool and Toil are supported as CWL runners. Specify through --runner [cwl|toil]
• Pipelines can run locally or use a Slurm scheduler. Specify through --scheduler [singleMachine|slurm]
• flocs-run will handle job submission for Slurm. For cwltool this means the whole run is submitted as a job. For Toil, it will start Toil in "Slurm mode" on the node you launch from.
• casacore, DP3 and WSClean are updated to support the new SISCO storage manager for model data compression.
• Update casacore to 450a568
• Update DP3 to d630dddf
• Update EveryBeam to 452a3974
• Update WSClean to 8bb992d8

Deprecations

• create_ms_list.py is now deprecated and will be removed in the next minor release. Use the --config-only options of flocs-run to generate only a JSON file and not run the pipeline.

v6.0.0-alpha

Alpha release for early testing of the new runners. No stability guarantees, use at your own risk.

v5.7.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed LINC_DATA_ROOT string formatting in a few places.
• Fix default RFI flagging strategy in LINC input generation
• Fix get_RM boolean parsing
• Fix ddf_solsdir argument type
• Fix LOSOTO_VERSION not being used

v5.7.0

Changes

• Switch to UV for Python management

Updates

• Add Spinifiex
• Add astroNNomy
• Update AOFlagger to ae522544
• Update casacore to 8e2648a
• Update DP3 to rap-1044-combine-flag-and-data-transfer
• Update EveryBeam to c180e429
• Update IDG to a5675159
• Update WSClean to 8c11e6cb

Bugfixes

• Put VLBI-cwl bin path first in VLBI runners

v5.6.0

Updates

• Add scikit-fuzzy
• Enable DP3 metadata compression by default.
• Update create_ms_list.py to support LINC full resolution input for delay calibration through --skip-setup.
• Update create_ms_list.py to output raw LINC calibrator solutions.
• Update create_ms_list.py to automatically generate LINC's .versions file.
• Update casacore -> v3.7.1
• Update DP3 -> c7fe69da
• Update WSClean -> df9a4fd2

v5.5.1

Updates

• Update losoto to e4ed09a
• Update DP3 f475bc30 ->6320b6cf
• Update EveryBeam 59c755a6 -> v0.6.2
• Update WSClean c1e4fcb2 -> df9a4fd2

Bugfixes

• Fix default value for demix_sources in create_ms_list.py.
• Fix #247
• Revert 458b1d0, adafefe, e1273c5 and 97da310 due to performance regressions.