Siril:0.99.6

Siril 0.99.6

Release date: September 23, 2020

This release is a big fixes release of the previous version of Siril. It is a beta version of the upcoming 1.0 version. It comes with many improvements of the big refactoring started with the 0.99 branch.

Downloads

This version is a the beta version of Siril 1.0.0. In consequence, we only distribute the packages for the 3 most common platforms (Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux). See the download page.

But as usual, since siril is a free software, it can be build on any OS from source, see the installation page.

What's new in this beta

This beta is mainly a bug fixes release

• Fixed a bug in demosaicing orientation.
  • 0.99.4 version has brought a lot of improvement in the demosaicing feature, but a lot of change as well. A lot of new camera is now handled by this new Siril and the introduction of a new FITS keyword tries to make more standard the way we choose the debayer algorithm orientation. However, a bug was present in the 0.99.4 that leads to choose the wrong debayer orientation for BOTTOM-UP files with odd height.
• Fixed a bug in macOS package where Siril was not multithreated while processing FITS files
• Fixed memory leak in pixel max/min stacking
• Fixed crash when selecting 1 pixel
• Better integration in low resolution screen
• Added embed ICC profile in png and TIFF files
• By default Siril now checks update at startup
• By default Siril now needs "requires" command in Script file
• Refactoring of image display with pan capacity
• Added button + and - for zooming management
• And many other fixes...

What's new in Siril 0.99 branch

• New UI with a single window
• New demosaicing algorithms, RCD is now the default one
• New algorithm to fix the AF square with XTRANS sensor (Kristopher Setnes)
• New support for FITS decompression and compression with Rice/Gzip and HCompress methods (Fabrice Faure)
• New support for quantization and HCompress scale factor settings for FITS compression (Fabrice Faure)
• New functions to extract Ha and Ha/OII from RGB images
• New linear match function
• New link command to create symbolic links
• New convert command to convert all files (and link FITS)
• New preference entries for FITS compression settings (Fabrice Faure)
• New native image format: 32-bit floating point image
• New native sequence format: FITS sequence in a single image
• New UI for sequence image list
• New zoom handing: ctrl+scroll (up and down) is the new way to zoom in and out
• New preview in open dialog
• New language selector in preferences
• New image importer: HEIF format
• New stacking filtering criterion (weighted FWHM). It can exclude more spurious images
• New macOS bundle
• New RL deconvolution tool
• New keyword CTYPE3 for RGB FITS in order to be used by Aladin
• New binary siril-cli to start siril without X server
• New preference entries with darks/biases/flat libraries
• New preliminary Meson support (Florian Benedetti)
• New ROWORDER FITS keyword that should be used by several programm now
• X(Y)BAYEROFF can now be configured in preferences
• Parallelizing conversion and some other functions
• CI file was totally rewritten (Florian Benedetti)
• Config file was moved to more standard path
• Optimization of several algorithms (Ingo Weyrich)
• Background extraction is now available for sequence
• Midtone Transfer Function is now available for sequence
• Fixed code for Big Endian machine (Flössie)
• Fixed bug in SER joining operation when Bayer information was lost
• Fixed a bug of inaccessible directories in MacOS Catalina
• Fixed crash on some OpenCV operation with monochrome images
• Fixed annoying error boxes about missing disk drives on Windows