December 11th, 2003: Joint VITESS and McStas Training Course and
Workshop at ISIS
Thanks to an initiative by Dickon Champion,
ISIS and our colleagues from VITESS, a Joint VITESS
and McStas workshop and training course is beeing organised at
ISIS on the 5th-6th February
2004.
Read more at the workshop website.
December 11th, 2003: Next McStas version early in 2004
The team is preparing release of
the next McStas version (e.g. mcstas-1.8) early in 2004, hopefully
in january.
More information regarding bugfixes and new features will be
announced later here and on the mailing list.
June 3rd-4th: mcstas-1.7 tutorial at the ILL
On the 3rd and 4th of june, two McStas tutorials were held at the
ILL. Emmanuel Farhi arranged the tutorial. Participants were ILL
McStas users and Peter Willendrup from Risø.
The users had a lot of 'hands on' experience with the package, and also
gave very good feedback to the McStas team. A number of bugs were
found, which will be fixed in the oncomming update release.
May 22nd: mcstas-1.7 'known problems' page
As always, a newly released piece of software has minor problems
and things to know. Check the
known problems page for more info. In case you find problems
apart from those listed, please report to McStas mailinglist or the McStas responsible.
May 20th: Release of mcstas-1.7!
Here it is! The new version, mcstas-1.7 is out. Get it from download.
Here is a few picks from the list of improvements:
- New language extensions, %include, SHARE %{ %} + ...
- Inter-simulation saving using kill -USR2
- No reqirement for PGPLOT, pgperl, PDL, flex, bison
- Simpler installation
- New graphical backends based on Matlab and Scilab
- 3D visualisation of data and instruments
- Improved support for Windows systems (Windows 2000 tested)
- Better integration of documentation tools
Consult the tested platforms
page to check where McStas 1.7 has been built and tested. Submit your
platform and experiences to mcstas@risoe.dk.
Enjoy!
The McStas team
(Please note that the website is not fully up to date with the new
version. Please refer to the documentation provided in the
distribution packages.)
April 14th: Estimated release date of mcstas-1.7.
At the
Prague SCANS
meeting, the developers agreed to release the new version
approximately mid may 2003! You may have a look at the slides from our
SCANS presentation (links below) to get a glimpse of new features in
the tools... The only stuff we need to do before release is
- "Burn in test" - the development release fully functional but
still has beta status
- Doc update. The manual needs an overhaul.
The staus page has been updated accordingly.
April 14th: McStas developers participate in SCANS meeting.
On April 11th, Peter Willendrup and Emmanuel Farhi gave a talk on
McStas at a meeting in the SCANS
network. The slides are available in
html and pdf format.
Previous news items: 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999,1998.