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3.0.0-alpha (07 Feb 2024)
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* Merge leakage with master by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/19
* Update container definition files by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/20
* Update docker installation instructions by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/21
* Generate atmosphere independently by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/22
* Minor updates to docs by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/23
* Port to python 3
* Generate reproducible stochastic atmospheric corruptions independently from other corruptions
* Merge focalpy38 with master by @iniyannatarajan

2.7.1 (2021)
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* Update how plotting modules handle non-existent arrays
* New tropospheric turbulence module

2.7 (2021)
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* Package MeqSilhouette
* Update singularity recipe and Dockerfile
* Update casa data while building images
* Update documentation

2.6.2 (2021)
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* Extensive updates to documentation
* Singularity containerisation
* Add option to run with Jupyter notebook
* Add license
* Update ms plotting module
* Ensure uncorrupted vis are copied to MODEL_DATA always

2.6.1 (2021)
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* Improve output path handling
* Synchronize sample input files and default input settings
* Update documentation

2.6 (2021)
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* Implement frequency-dependent polarization leakage and remove time dependence
* Improve error handling for memory errors
* Chunk data to fit in memory
* Add paper-friendly plots

2.5 (2020)
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* Generate real and imaginary parts of orthogonal polarization feeds independently for time-varying antenna gains and polarization leakage
* Generate interpolated bandpass gains independently for orthogonal polarization feeds
* Clean up input files

2.4 (2020)
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* Handle frequency-dependent source models
* Verify existence of bandpass gains table
* Add new bandpass plotting capability
* Implement time-varying complex antenna gains
* Remove deprecated functions

2.3 (2020)
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* Streamline random seed initialization
* Handle potential rounding errors in antenna pointing offsets
* Add sky noise to visibility weight estimation
* Include CASA time offset correction

2.0 (2019)
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* Depend mainly on WSClean for forward modelling (MeqTrees only for txt sky models)
* Full polarimetric simulations
* Simulate time-variable sources
* Add complex bandpass gains
* Add instrumental polarization and parallactic angle rotation (write visibilities in both antenna and sky frames)
* Improve pointing error module
* Improve tropospheric corruption and thermal noise modules
* Add plotting modules
* Remove scattering screen
* Refactor code for seamless integration within pipelines such as SYMBA

1.0 (2016)
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* Tropospheric corruptions
* Basic pointing error module
* ISM scattering