ISIS 8.0.0 Public Release is now available

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How to install or update to 8.0.0

Installation instructions of ISIS can be found in the README on our github page .

If you already have a version of ISIS 4.0.0 or later installed in an anaconda environment, you can update to 8.0.0 by activating your existing isis conda environment and running conda update isis .

Changes for 8.0.0

Changed

• Updated download location for Dawn source files to include updated pck from HAMO Dawn mosaic #4001
• Pinned cspice version to 67 #5083
• Changed the rsync related commands in the ISIS SPICE Web Service document to downloadIsisData command
• Updated Geos from version 3.7 to 3.9 #3627
• Updated Ale to version 0.9.1 #5209
• Changed buildCondaRelease.py numpy version from 1.23 to 1.22 to resolve spiceinit warning messages #5224

Added

• Instructions on setting channel_priority=flexible for isis environment manually during installation #5158
• Added additional filters to downloadIsisData to reduce download of extraneous kernels #5143

Deprecated

Removed

• edrget application #4665

Fixed

• Updated README.md to remove remaining references to downloading data from discontinued rsync server #5152
• Fixed users not being able to modify planetographic projections in qmos
• Modified spice::readValue to add check for numValuesRead to stop reading garbase values #4928

Notes

The following operating systems are supported for this release:

• Ubuntu 18.04
• macOS 12.6

(Other Linux/macOS variants may be able to run this release, but are not officially supported.)

If you find a problem with this release, please create an issue on our github issues page