Aladin beta release is available.

A new Aladin beta release is available. Release number : 5.927

Feel free to install and test it at this address https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/java/AladinBeta.jar

The beta version incorporates new features in test phase for the next official Aladin version.

The stability of these features is not totally guaranteed.

New features and performance improvements:

• VOTable 1.2 support including coordinate system frame support
• Allsky full sky background support
• frame=nn extension for select script command (ex: select frame=10)
• get script command name parameter support (ex: get SkyView(pixels=800)...)
• Undergraduate mode improvements (+%Aladin.profile GLU filter)
• SAMP support
• Catalogue plane transparency
• All coordinate frames supported as inputs
• Jpeg FITS tags support (reading+writing mode)
• Jpeg AVM tags support (reading mode)
• Histogram browser for measurement exploration
• Rotation center movable for FoV
• Arithmetic operation improvements
• "Undo" position list
• Photometry measurement support (by circles or polygons)
• Simbad fast access (faster and larger : large cone search in a few seconds)
• 2 color RGB improvements
• Multilanguage support improvement (Persian, Italian, German, auto-updating)
• Full screen support and preview window support
• Grabbing/zooming outside the image
• Fits RICE compression supported
• Support for FOV IVOA note Major fixed bugs:
• Stretch color map function bug fixed
• Power function ('^') in filters and new column creation - bug fixed
• Vizier Catalog meta-index bug (degrees not supported)
• Huge image bug (width parity bug)
• "char" unit for VOTable output on RA and DEC fields (unit=""h:m:s&quot" parsing error)
• xx = get FOV(xxxx) bug fixed
• ![CDATA[ XML tag bug fixed
• Drag&drop on Linux and from IExplorer now correctly supported
• get local(url_with_=) error fixed
• No stack checkbox activation bug fixed
• VizieR catalog list does no longer hide the first line
• -chart & -nogui parameters again supported
• Metadata tree memory problem by-passed
• xmatch with "no match" parameter works fine again

Do not hesitate to send us any comment, bug report, etc...