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@SteveGreaves SteveGreaves released this 08 Feb 11:59
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Release Notes - AstroBin Upload Utility v1.4.5

Overview

Version 1.4.5 introduces critical robustness fixes, performance optimizations, and enhanced hardware compatibility to ensure a seamless upload experience for AstroBin users. This release focuses on stability in parameter aggregation and significant speed improvements.

Key Highlights

🚀 Performance & Speed

  • Optimized Execution Engine: Achieved significant speed-ups in header processing and data aggregation through optimized I/O and vectorized Pandas operations, specifically tuned for high-speed RAID 0 storage.

🛠 Critical Fixes

  • Robust Parameter Aggregation: Resolved a crash in aggregate_parameters by implementing a mandatory column injection system. The utility now intelligently populates missing header data (e.g., ROTANTANG) using project defaults.
  • Clean Session Summaries: Fixed a bug where missing equipment data resulted in "nan" strings in the text output. The summary now cleanly omits unavailable hardware fields.
  • Keyword Synchronization: Standardized internal naming conventions (e.g., ROTANTANG vs ROTATANG) to ensure configuration and FITS metadata align perfectly.

✨ New Features & Enhancements

  • Dynamic Hardware Overrides: Added a flexible override system in config.ini to handle varied hardware naming conventions (e.g., SQM mapping).
  • IMAGETYP Normalization: Enhanced logic to handle various capture software naming styles (e.g., "Light Frame") while correctly excluding integrated Master frames.
  • Live Progress Feedback: Added real-time console feedback during intensive LIGHT frame processing.

Installation & Usage

Read the README.md file

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG.md.

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