Release Notes

Release 1.3 (TBD)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

To SCons:

To documentation:

To APIs:

To the Python package:

To programs:

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

In APIs:

In the Python package:

In programs:

Release 1.2 (2011-07-14)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• swag/anisogath: Angle gathers in wave-equation imaging for transversely isotropic media (Alkhalifah and Fomel)
• jsg/agath: Theory of 3-D angle gathers in wave-equation seismic imaging (Fomel)
• cwp/pept2011MicroearthquakeMonitoring: Micro-earthquake monitoring with sparsely-sampled data (Sava)
• jsg/vc3: Azimuthally anisotropic 3D velocity continuation (Burnett and Fomel)
• milano/taupvel: Velocity-independent tau-p moveout in a horizontally-layered VTI medium (Casasanta and Fomel)
• swag/thetaScan: Traveltime approximations for transversely isotropic media with an inhomogeneous background (Alkhalifah)
• cwp/geo2011WideAzimuthAngleDecomposition: Wide-azimuth angle gathers for wave-equation migration (Sava and Vlad)

To SCons:

• New directory structure: documentation under $RSFROOT/share/doc/madagascar, other supplemental files under $RSFROOT/share/madagascar

To documentation:

• Info from VERSION.txt being printed in man pages for all programs
• Informative message at the end of successful global builds

To APIs:

• Fetch, Movie, and other enhancements in Python API
• Input class (can read int and float pars from stdin) in Python backup API
• Added reading complex-valued data to rsf_read in Matlab API

To the Python package:

• More intuitive interface for rsf.user.ivlad.run()
• Expanded options for rsf.user.ivlad.exe()

To programs:

• sfkdmig2d: 2-D Prestack Kirchhoff depth migration (borrowed from SU)
• wanttitle= option in thplot
• color=w periodic color table in grey and grey3
• sfin accepts data from standard input
• sfmath accepts sign() function
• all= option in sfget
• sfbar: separate program for creating scalebar data
• sflorenz (generate Lorenz attractor)
• sfcat/sfmerge accept order= parameter
• user/xuxin

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

• Fixed missing parameter documentation in stdplot

In APIs:

• Fixed rsf_write to write complex-valued data
• Enabled building of dynamic libraries

In the Python package:

In programs:

• Fixed parameter-setting bug in sfstoltstretch
• Fixed float-to-int truncation bug in sfdd triggered by Intel C Compiler 10
• Fixed large-file-support bug in sfshot2cmp
• Fixed plane#= bug is sfeikonal
• Fixed error message bug in sfsegyheader

In the build system:

• Madagascar now compiling with CC=icc LINKFLAGS=-static-intel

Release 1.1 (2011-01-18)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• rsf/bash: Vladimir Bashkardin's presentation at Houston-2010
• rsf/programming: Jeff Godwin's presentation at Houston-2010
• rsf/usp: Yang Liu's presentation at Houston-2010
• \published{} macro added to all published papers
• sep/fractal: Modeling 3-D anisotropic fractal media (Chemingui)
• sep/banana: Traveltime sensitivity kernels: Banana-doughnuts or just plain bananas? (Rickett)
• swag/eikds: An eikonal based formulation for traveltime perturbation with respect to the source location (Alkhalifah and Fomel)
• cwp/geo2008IsotropicAngleDomainElasticRTM: Isotropic angle-domain elastic reverse-time migration (Yan and Sava)
• jsg/stackadcig: Stacking angle-domain common-image gathers for normalization of illumination (Liu et al.)
• cwp/geo2009VTIModeSeparation: Elastic wave-mode separation for VTI media (Yan and Sava)
• cwp/geo2009TTIModeSeparation: Elastic wave-mode separation for TTI media (Yan and Sava)
• jsg/flat: Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes (Fomel)
• jsg/oc3: OC-seislet: seislet transform construction with differential offset continuation (Liu and Fomel)
• sep/lines: Random lines in a plane (Claerbout)
• hansung/cgg: Conjugate guided gradient (CGG) method for robust inversion and its application to velocity-stack inversion (Ji)
• sep/texture: Texture synthesis and prediction error filtering (Brown)
• Grave directory for papers that are no longer reproducible

To SCons:

• Upgraded to scons-2.0.1

To documentation:

• Update to vplot man pages
• This file (NEWS.txt)

To APIs:

• New, improved Java API: Cleaner, independent from Mines JTK. Not compatible with the old API

To the Python package:

• rsf.user.ivlad: chk_file_r, getppout, get1st functions
• rsf.user.m8rex: WrongPath exception class
• rsf.user.sf: attr function
• rsf.version: info about the software version

To programs:

• tkMadagascar (sfgui and sfbrowser)
• sflmo (frequency-domain LMO)
• sfcp - added functionality to act as a filter
• sftaupmo - added functionality for effective/interval velocities
• sfktmig (prestack time migration
• sfrotate - added functionality for negative rotations
• sfmedian (median on the first axis)
• sfregr (linear regression)
• sfsvd (SVD using scipy)
• sfthreedcube (3D display using mayavi2)
• sfiphase -added complex option
• sfsensitivity (traveltime sensitivity kernels)
• sfcltft (complex local time-frequency transform)
• sfclpf (complex local prediction filter)
• sfiwarp2 (inverse 2-D warping)
• many new programs in user/lcasasan
• user/jun

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

• Cross-platform (Linux/Mac) solution in book/jsg/flat/*/SConstruct
• Fixed program links in book/bei/fdm and book/bei/ft1
• Fixed program links in book/gee/ajt and book/gee/hlx
• High-resolution figures in book/gee/hlx

In documentation:

• Update of html/txt/spec documentation and man pages triggered by changes in programs or examples through dependence on use.py
• Show y and n for boolean parameters in F90 programs, instead of .true./.false.
• Show y and n for boolean params in some Python programs instead of True/False (fix for some cases in which existing mechanism did not work)

In APIs:

• Appropriate flags for compilation on OpenSolaris
• Fixed memory leak in getpar.c
• Fixed memory leak in llist.c
• Improved accuracy of triangle smoothing
• Updated numpy interface in m8r.i

In the Python package:

• In rsf.user.ivlad (function ndims)
• In rsf.user.ooio (init of class RSFheader)
• CUDA configuration moved to configure.py

In programs:

• sfbandpass
• sfzcp
• sfstretch - proper handling of half-offset
• sfslant and sfvelcon - proper antialiasing

Release 1.0 (2010-07-23)

No release notes for 1.0 or before

About this document

This document is found both as a wiki page at http://m8r.info/wiki/Release_Notes , and under source version control (SVN) at https://rsf.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rsf/trunk/NEWS.txt . The SVN version is the definitive one. Before a release, the content of the latest section of the wiki page and that of the corresponding part of NEWS.txt should be reconciled.