Changelog

1.1.3 - October 6, 2025

⚙️ Engineering

  • Pin pygobject to 3.48.2 and numpy to 1.26.4.

  • Revert to using aravis from apt repository.

1.1.2 - August 10, 2025

✨ Improved

  • Bump sdss-basecam to 0.8.2.

1.1.1 - April 1, 2025

🔧 Fixed

  • Fix a regression in setting the correct umask for new images.

1.1.0 - March 18, 2025

🔥 Breaking changes

  • Require Python 3.10+.

✨ Improved

  • Update astropy-iers-data when the Docker container starts.

🔧 Fixed

  • Avoid errors while saving images if the IERS tables are not up to date.

  • Pin pygobject==3.50.0 as 3.52 requires girepository-2.0 which is not provided by Debian Bookworm.

1.0.0 - February 27, 2025

🔥 Breaking changes

  • Removed araviscam dependency and move the camera code to lvmcam.

🔧 Fixed

  • Add camera module to documentation and fix actor commands.

0.5.0 - January 24, 2025

🔧 Fixed

  • Use umask 0022 in the container image.

⚙️ Engineering

  • Use uv for dependency management and update the workflows.

0.4.14 - September 7, 2024

🔧 Fixed

  • Fix additionalProperties: true not having effect.

0.4.13 - July 23, 2024

✨ Improved

  • #66 Ensure group write permissions for new files in Docker container.

🔧 Fixed

  • Fix comment for keyword REFFILE being too long when the keyword is populated by lvmguider.

⚙️ Engineering

  • Format and lint using ruff.

0.4.12 - February 7, 2024

✨ Improved

  • Added ISFSWEEP header keywords to PROC extension.

0.4.11 - February 4, 2024

✨ Improved

  • Added RA, DEC, and FWHM header keywords to PROC extension.

0.4.10 - February 4, 2024

✨ Improved

  • Add PWI axis keywords.

0.4.9 - January 16, 2024

✨ Improved

  • Support Python 3.12.

  • Bump sdss-basecam to 0.8.0.

⚙️ Engineering

  • Update workflow version.

0.4.8 - November 5, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Added AIRMASS header keyword.

0.4.7 - September 14, 2023

🔧 Fixed

  • Prevent PROC extension header WCSMODE default value none from being changed to None.

0.4.6 - September 12, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Added stub of PROC extension to make data model more consistent.

0.4.5 - September 10, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Bumped araviscam to 0.2.4.

0.4.4 - September 6, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Bumped araviscam to 0.2.3 with a potential fix for the cameras getting into read-only mode.

  • Use umask 0002 in Docker image.

0.4.3 - August 31, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Updated sdss-araviscam to 0.2.2.

0.4.2 - August 20, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Added local mean sidereal time header keyword LMST. Note that the value is computed without updated IERS-B tables so it may be slightly off.

  • Reduce the polling of the MoCon.

⚙️ Engineering

  • Do not add skymakercam to docker image.

0.4.1 - August 13, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Upgraded araviscam to 0.2.1 with workarounds for exposures with empty buffers.

0.4.0 - August 11, 2023

🔥 Breaking changes

  • This version drops support for skymakercam. Use the 0.3.x tags if necessary.

✨ Improved

  • #56 Serious rewrite of the codebase with relatively limited changes in behaviour. A lot of code that overrode the default behaviour in basecam has been removed.

  • Added a custom reconnect command that will reconnect both cameras even if they were not present when the actor started.

0.3.5 - July 9, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Use basecam 0.7.2 with CLU 2.1.0. Adds the get-command-model command.

  • Build docker image using python:3.9-bookworm base image. This installs a more recent version of the Aravis libraries and seems to solve several camera communication issues.

  • Fixed East cameras flips.

0.3.1 - March 10, 2023

🏷️ Changed

  • Change image destination to /data/agcam/<SJD>/<CAMERA>_<SEQ_NO>.fits.

0.3.0 - March 10, 2023

✨ Improved

  • Move lvmtel to its own repo.

  • Linting and some code cleaning.

  • Update Dockerfile to deploy at LCO.

0.2.4 - January 24, 2022

✨ Improved

0.2.3 - December 23, 2021

✨ Improved

  • Add Docker

0.2.2 - December 13, 2021

✨ Improved

  • Issue #49 (Add support for virtual cameras)

    • Delete -t, -i option in connect command.

    • Add camtype.yaml in python/lvmcam/etc for selecting between real(araviscam) and virtual(skymakercam) camera.

    • Put type property in cameras.yaml

0.2.1 - December 12, 2021

✨ Improved

  • Issue #44 (Add actor command for extra fits header parameters)

    • Add -h or --header option similar to archon

0.2.0 - December 3, 2021

🚀 New & ✨ Improved

  • Issue #41 (Use the basecam.Actor)

    • LvmcamBaseActor(BaseActor) -> LvmcamBaseActor(BaseCameraActor)

  • Issue #42 (Use basecam.Imagenamer)

    • Remove --filepath or -p option in expose command.

    • Put path property in cameras.yaml.

    • Change how to make image name.

  • Issue #43 (Use basecam fits compression through model)

    • Remove fpack in source code.

    • Change lists of -c option to same lists in astropy’s CompImageHDU.

  • Issue #44 (Add actor command for extra fits header parameters)

    • Add -eh or --extraheader option for making extra fits header.

    • Put extrahdr property in cameras.yaml

  • Issue #45 (Return of expose)

    • Put PATH=path_dict in command.finish() instead of command.info()

  • Issue #46 (Indexing for expose testshot mode)

    • Fix it by using basecam.Imagenamer(#42)

  • Issue #47 (File saving of multiple images)

    • Remove make_file function and Write images to disk immediately.

0.1.4 - November 15, 2021

✨ Improved

  • Add -c option in expose command to compress fits file. For more detail, visit fpack & funpack.

0.1.3 - November 2, 2021

✨ Improved

  • Change log when -v option is provided.

0.1.2 - November 1, 2021

✨ Improved

0.1.1 - October 25, 2021

🚀 New

  • Restore returned values of actor commands similar to before 0.1.0 version.

    • Add JSON schema

✨ Improved

  • Change unit testing code so that JSONActor is not used.

0.1.0 - October 11, 2021

🚀 New

  • Change returned values of actor commands because of update of sdss-clu 1.3.0

✨ Improved

  • Code Refactoring

0.0.5 - October 5, 2021

✨ Improved

  • First unit testing

  • Delete unnecessary directories and files(filr/*, comutest/) in python/lvmcam/

0.0.4 - September 29, 2021

🚀 New

  • Reflect update of sdss/araviscam on Sep 28, 2021.

    • Add properties such as pixsize and pixcal in cameras.yaml

    • Add headers such as CRPIX1, CRPIX2, CUNIT1, CUNIT2, CTYPE1, CTYPE2, CRVAL1, CRVAL2, CD1_1, CD2_2, CD1_2, and CD2_1.

    • Add options in lvmcam expose such as -r, -d, -K. This options are respectively RA J2000 (deg), Dec J2000 (deg), and K-mirror angle (deg).

  • Rename versions.

0.0.3 - September 24, 2021

🔧 Fixed

  • Fix errors that occurs when lvmcam start runs without --debug option.

0.0.2 - September 13, 2021

🚀 New

  • Add options for test.

    • lvmcam connect --test: add virtual camera

    • expose --testshot EXPTIME NUM CAMNAME: Test shot

0.0.1 - September 6, 2021

🚀 New

  • Initial version of lvmcam.

  • Basic features.

    • Show status of cameras.

    • Connect/Disconnect cameras.

    • Take exposure pictures by using custom parameters.

    • Save fits files and return absolute file paths in list type.