STSDAS v3.3.1 Patch Full Release Notes

Changes in PyRAF support:

  None

Changes to Applications:

  Package stsdas.hst_calib.stis:


    calstis/cs6/: Fixed a typo in the newtrace module.  Added a test
        for the number of input points in the background polynomial fit;
        if it is less than the degree of the polynomial to be fitted,
        background smoothing is turned off.

    calstis/cs7/:  Binning in the cross-dispersion direction is now
        included when applying the correction for slit tilt.  The
        scaling factor for binning was removed from the correction for
        tilt angle.  A data initialization bug was fixed in the
        getabsphot module.

   calstis/lib/:  In the strtor module, characters beyond the end
        of the string could be read and converted to floating point
        values because of an indexing error.  Several changes were
        made to fix this.  The variable ipx was also renamed to ip0 to make it
        clearer that it was the beginning of a substring.

    mkfringeflat.cl: The algorithm for calculating the extraction width
        was changed so that mkfringeflat works correctly for subarray
        data.

  Package stsdas.analysis.dither:

    The MultiDrizzle and PyDrizzle tasks were significantly updated for
    this release.  The release notes describing these changes can be found
    in:
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python/release_notes

    All references to hidden tasks based on DQPars module were removed from
    the Dither package.

    Parameter file changes:

      MultiDrizzle --
        1.  Added:   'wt_scl' parameter in single and final drizzle steps.
        2.  Removed: 'bits' parameter.
        3.  Added:   'driz_sep_bits' and 'final_bits' parameters. 
        4.  Modified: Default value for 'runfile' was changed to ''.  
        5.  Modified: default for 'input' was modified to explicitly use
            a wild-card.  The default is now "*flt.fits" instead of "flt.fits".

      PyDrizzle
        1.  Removed: 'bits' parameter.
        2.  Added: 'bits_single' and 'bits_final' to replace 'bits'.

    Help file updates for MultiDrizzle:

      The MultiDrizzle help file was updated to reflect the changes
      in this release.  These are documented in the stsci_python
      release notes at
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python/release_notes
    
    Code changes:

    The initialization code in routines 'doblot.f', 'bieval.f',
    'ioutil.f', and 'drutil.f' was modified so that the code would
    compile under Tru64 without error.

    A bug in cleanBlank that prevented the successful input of float
    or integer values for optional parameters was fixed in the STSDAS
    interface to MultiDrizzle.
    
    The version ID was updated for Callable drizzle to Version 0.6 for the
    callable drizzle and blot routines.

    A bug was fixed in the 'traxy','wtraxy','tranback', and 'wtranback'
    code to check for out of bounds pixels prior to calling 'drival'.
    This avoids crashes when a GEOIM image has been specified.