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