Hi everyone, Although I'm sure it's mostly dropped off everyone's radar, the yt-1.5 release will happen in the next few days; even though the community is small, and it's a niche thing, I want to put a stamp on SOMEthing and say, hey, this is Sort Of Done. This is also a good reason to email the lists and bring up that the docs have been rewritten and that development is still ongoing -- and it also is a good time to start doing the reorganization and cruft cleaning the source tree so desperately needs. I'm leaning toward releasing Friday if possible, Tuesday if not. The docs have been almost completely rewritten, there's a whole new cookbook there and online, lots of bugs have been fixed, the docstrings are ready, and we're now shipping Stephen's parallel HOP (v1.0) and Britton's lightcone and halo profiling extensions. The docs now also have comments, the methods section of my thesis, and better narrative documentation with better structure for the API documentation. I'm sending this email out to show the release announcement and the new docs and get feedback/comments from everyone before they go out. I'd prefer if you didn't leave comments on the site just yet, because the URLs are still in flux, and instead either reply to this message or email me privately. I am going to spend a little bit of time tomorrow also adding in more cross-references to the methods section, which should be peppered throughout. The new docs can be found here: http://yt.enzotools.org/newdoc (pdf, 172 pages, several artifacts&problems: http://yt.enzotools.org/yt_manual.pdf ) and the release announcement is here: -- yt Version 1.5 Release Announcement We're proud to announce the release of yt version 1.5, an analysis and visualization toolkit for Adaptive Mesh Refinement data. yt features native support for Enzo (http://lca.ucsd.edu/projects/enzo/) data, providing a natural and intuitive way to address physical regions in space as well as processed data. Version 1.5 features many new improvements, most prominently that of the addition of parallel computing abilities and generalization for multiple AMR data formats. Additional improvements include: * Fully rewritten documentation, featuring a new cookbook with downloadable recipes and commenting facilities * Fully parallel slices, projections, cutting planes, profiles, quantities * Parallel HOP halo finder * Friends-of-friends halo finder * Object storage and serialization * Major performance improvements to the clump finder (factor of five) * Generalized domain sizes * Generalized field info containers * Dark Matter-only simulation support * 1D and 2D simulation support * Better IO for HDF5 sets * Support for the Orion AMR code * Spherical re-gridding of data * Automated halo profiler and imager * Limited non-axially aligned projection support ("disk stacking") * Light cone generator * Callback interface improved * Several new plot overlay callbacks * New data objects -- ortho and non-ortho rays, limited ray-tracing * Fixed resolution buffers * Spectral integrator for CLOUDY data * Substantially better interactive interface * Performance improvements *everywhere* * Command-line interface to *many* common tasks * Isolated plot handling, independent of PlotCollections Installation instructions, documentation, recipes, mailing list info and assorted other items can be found at the website, http://yt.enzotools.org/. This release is the product of a year of work by the development team, and we are very proud of the results and happy with what we have to offer. Thanks very much! Sincerely, The yt development team: Matthew Turk Britton Smith Jeff Oishi Stephen Skory Sam Skillman Devin Silvia John Wise David Collins -- Thoughts on either the announcement or the documentation, or, heck, even the yt-1.5 codebase? (branches/yt-1.5) Thanks! -Matt