-
Current release v4.1
+ Current release v5.0-stable
-
The current release is v4.1 (a maintenance release based on v4.0 to address core library update and critical bugs), released on 23rd of January 2024.
- v4.0 was released on 12th of September 2023, with the following features:
+
The current release is v5.0, released on 29th of July 2025, with the following feature highlights:
- - Interactive PV preview
- - Enhanced PV generator
- - Initial support of workspace (save and restore)
- - Initial support of workspace sharing (carta-controller only; experimental)
- - Enhanced image fitting capabilities
- - Image annotation
- - Visualization of a rotated cube (no image analytics)
- - Support beam info for AIPS-generated cubes
- - Support animation playback with matched images in multi-panel view
- - A new dialog for angular distance measurement
- - Show/hide and lock all regions
- - Auto-scrolling the selected region into the region list view
- - Mirroring cursor markers on spatially matched images
- - Cursor info with dual spectral convention in the spectral profiler
- - Pan and zoom images with manual inputs
- - Switch directory path with manual input
- - Custom range and number of bins in the histogram calculation
+ - Channel map view (raster only)
+ - Multi-color image blending
+ - HiPS2FITS online image query
+ - Dynamic layout
+ - Image coordinate and flexible offset coordinate
+ - PV generator with a polyline region
+ - New design of the in-app help and user manual
+ - Enable the copy function in the cursor info widget
+ - Support flux density calculations with various pixel units in the statistics widget
+ - Support automatic generation of initial values for multiple Gaussian image fitting
+ - Support sorting the spectral line table
+ - support changing the depth order of floating widget and dialog on select
+ - A button for deleting all regions
+ - Support setting a custom rest frequency for the moment maps
+ - Support wavelength^2 as a new spectral convention
+ - Support plotting catalog sources with a size in image pixel and in angular units
+ - Bug fix
+ - Performance improvement
+ - Codebase maintenance library update
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-
Next release v5-beta / v5-stable
+ Next release v6-beta
-
The next stable release will be v5.0-stable (Q2 2025) with the following major new features
+
The next beta release will be v6.0-beta with the following major features
- - Multi-color image blending
- - Channel map view (raster only)
- - HiPS2FITS image query
- - Dynamic layout
- - Image coordinate grid / flexiable offset coordinate grid
- - Position-velocity map generation along a polyline
- - New design of the in-app help
+ - Full support of channel map view
+ - Volumetric (pseudo 3D) rendering
+ - Full support of workspace
+ - Full support of workspace sharing (carta-controller only)
+ - Collaboration tools (carta-controller only)
+ - Initial support for time-domain astronomy tools
+ - Initial support of the Python scripting interface
+ - VO services
-
See the detailed changelogs of v5-beta for the full list.
-
-
-
@@ -459,27 +455,14 @@
-
Future releases v6+
+ Future releases v7+
This is a non-exclusive list of features we would like to add in subsequent
releases, but they are not 100% decided upon yet and depend on feedback from users,
resourcing etc.:
- - Time-domain astronomy tools
- - Full support of workspace
- - Full support of workspace sharing (carta-controller only)
- - Collaboration tools (carta-controller only)
- - Full support of channel map view
- - Volumetric (pseudo 3D) rendering
- - Profile, histogram, and image fitting tools
- - VO service (image and catalog)
- - New moment image generator
- - Region spectral profiler performance boost
- - Image source finder
- - Spectral line query enhancement
- - Catalog visualization enhancement
- - Python scripting interface (long-term effort)
+ - TBD
@@ -506,14 +489,12 @@
Future releases v6+
INSTALLATION
Obtaining CARTA
-
v4.1
+
v5.0
Supported operating systems:
- - Ubuntu Linux: 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), and 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
- for amd64 and aarch64 architectures.
- - Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7, 8 and 9 for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
- - macOS: 11 (Big Sur), 12 (Monterey), and 13 (Ventura)
- for Intel and Apple Silicon architectures.
+ - Ubuntu Linux: 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) for amd64 and aarch64 architectures.
+ - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or equivalent community distributions): 8 and 9 for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
+ - macOS: 14 (Sonoma), and 15 (Sequoia) for Intel and Apple Silicon architectures. Earlier versions may work but are not tested.