Dear Lima users,

We are pleased to announce the release of Lima v1.9

New features

• More conda packages for cameras are now supported:

  andor3, andor, basler, dexela, eiger, frelon, frelon, imxpad, maxipix, marccd, merlin, mythen3, pco, pilatus, pixirad, pointgrey, prosilica, simulator, slsdetector, ueye, v4l2, xh

• Refactoring and optimization of the software buffer classes

• Support added for Numa (non-uniform memory access) memory management

Bug Fixes

• CBF saving format now fits with miniCBF spec for Pilatus detectors
• Video: fixed issue when taking 8/16-bit images and then changing to Accumulation

New cameras

• PCO usb
• Frelon 16
• Zwo

Updated third-party tools and dependencies

• SIP >= 4.19.8
• HDF5 >= 1.10.4
• PyTango >= 9.2.5 (from tango-controls channel)

For developers:

• PyTango camera plugin documentation moved to the camera repo

• Enable log (DebParam) is back in release package

• Added a 'debug' meta-package to install conda package compiled with debugging (-g) option

The conda debug feature is now implemented as follow:

• LIMA_ENABLE_DEBUG (log) is always ON in the conda package and is ON by default in CMake
• DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug with the debug feature
• DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebinfo without the debug feature

Added missing CBF format support

New Features

• Refactor MemBuffer and Allocators (see MmapAllocator and NumaAllocator for instance).
• Add a NUMA variant of the SoftBufferCtrlObj instead of breaking its API with the LIMA_USE_NUMA macro.

Bug fixes

• Fix issues when allocating more HW buffers

New Features

• Build system has been refactored to use CMake, a cross-platform build system (Windows and Linux)
• Building camera either standalone or using Lima as master project
• Better support for C++ developers (with CMake packages)
• Install.(sh|bat) to ease build and installation for CMake averse :-)
• Conda binary packages for processlib, LImA core and some cameras and pytango device server for Linux and Windows platforms
• Support for Python 3
• CI running on ESRF's Gitlab instance
• Documentation improvements and migrated to ReadTheDocs (https://lima1.readthedocs.io)
• Use semantic versionning
• New HDF5 layout, direct chunk and bitshuffle LZ4 / gzip compression support
• New BPM pytango plugin, Beam Position Monitor
• Simulator improvements (new prefetch and read from files modes)

New Camera Plugins

• ZWO camera plugin (thanks to Jens Krueger)
• SlsDetector (PSI Eiger) camera plugin (thanks to Alejandro Homs)
• FLI (Finger Lake Instrument) camera plugin (thanks to Laurent Claustre)
• Lambda (Quantum) camera plugin (thanks to Teresa Nunez)