Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the release of PixInsight 1.5.7 for Mac OS X.
This is a bugfix and optimization release. Some of the fixed bugs are critical, so we encourage all our users to update their current installations as soon as possible.
This release is for Mac OS X exclusively. All bug fixes and optimizations that are not platform-specific will be included in the next release, due in September, for all supported platforms (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows).
Download AddressesPixInsight 1.5.7 is now available for download from our file servers:
* For commercial users (user name and password required):
http://dist.pixinsight.com/* For users of 30-day trial licenses:
http://pixinsight.com/download/STD/InstallationBefore installing PixInsight 1.5.7, it is advisable to uninstall a previous version. This is the recommended procedure:
Mac OS X 1. Exit all running instances of the PixInsight core application, if any.
2. Delete the previous version of the PixInsight.app application bundle. If you installed it on the standard location, it should be on the /Applications folder.
3. Double click the .zip installation archive for version 1.5.7. This will create a new PixInsight.app application bundle. PixInsight can be executed from any location, but we recommend copying PixInsight.app to the standard /Applications folder. You may want to add it to the Dock as well, if you haven't done so already.
4. If you are a commercial Windows or Linux user, your existing license file works fine on the Mac; you do not need to reactivate your license. Do the following:
4.1 Locate your PixInsight license file. It is the .pixinsight-license file on your personal folder of your Linux or Windows machine.
4.2 Make a duplicate of .pixinsight-license, and rename it to pixinsight-license (that is, the same name but without a starting dot character).
4.3 Copy the pixinsight-license file to your home folder on the Mac. Now you can run PixInsight for Mac OS X with your commercial license.
Bug FixesVersion 1.5.7 fixes all confirmed bugs and regressions as of the date of release, including some critical bugs present on all platforms, as well as some important problems specific to the Mac OS X platform. Please refer to the
Bug Reports board of this forum. These are the most important bugs fixed in this version:
- Lots of small screen drawing problems fixed on Mac OS X. PixInsight's user interface has nearly the same graphical quality and performance in version 1.5.7 for Mac OS X as in the reference implementation for Linux/X11.
- The Zoom In and Zoom Out commands, when applied with the mouse wheel or repeated key presses, had some annoying problems on Mac OS X. All of them are now fixed.
- Fixed some severe performance problems with the Real-Time Preview interface, specific to Mac OS X.
- Fixed a critical memory leak during ImageContainer execution. See the corresponding
bug report for more information. This applies also to the
instance command-line command. This bug has been completely fixed in version 1.5.7. It is a platform-independent issue that will be fixed for all supported platforms in the next version.
- Fixed a critical regression in the CloneStamp tool. See the corresponding
bug report. CloneStamp has also been optimized and works now twice as fast as in previous versions. Of course these fixes and optimizations will be available for all platforms in the next version.
- JavaScript runtime: The ByteArray.toString() method didn't work correctly. It does in version 1.5.7.
- Several keyboard accelerators (e.g. Cmd+O = File>Open) didn't work on the Script Editor window (Mac OS X only). This has been fixed.
- Improved workspace and window decorations on Mac OS X. Explorer windows have now a much more appropriate look&feel on OS X.
New Tools and FeaturesPixInsight 1.5.7 for Mac OS X comes with the new StarGenerator tool, released under GNU GPL v3 license. For more information, see the
announcement of this new tool.
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I hope you'll like it. Have fun!
