Survex 1.4.16 released

[Philip Schuchardt]

I've bumped the cavewhere/cmake build branch to the new version! Thanks
Olly for all your hard work.

This version of survex will be bundled with the next CaveWhere release!

https://github.com/Cavewhere/survex/tree/cmake

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> Survex 1.4.16 is now available:
>
> https://survex.com/download.html
>
> Here's the full NEWS file entry for this release:
>
> Changes in 1.4.16 (2025-02-21):
>
> * aven: Improve "Colour by Survey".  Surveys whose names only differ in the
>   final character tended to get visually similar colours (often
>   indistinguishable), but now should get very different colours.  Reported
> by
>   Eric C. Landgraf and Patrick Warren.
>
> * aven: Add "Find" item to right-click menu on survey tree which triggers a
>   search for the survey or station that was right-clicked on which
> highlights
>   with a yellow blob on each station, like double-clicking used to before
>   1.2.36.  Requested by Patrick Warren.
>
> * cavern: Fix calculation of convergence which could incorrectly give zero
>   with some PROJ versions < 9.3.0.  Unclear exactly which versions are
>   affected, but seen with PROJ 8.2 and can't affect PROJ >= 9.3.0.
> Reported by
>   Eric C. Landgraf.
>
> * cavern: Report approximate true grid convergence range which provides a
> way
>   to assess if the representative location(s) specified by `*declination
> auto`
>   are suitable.  Fixes #141, reported by Eric C. Landgraf
>
> * cavern: Support Compass 'C' shot flag.  In Compass this causes flagged
> legs
>   to not be subject to loop closure.  Survex now sets the SDs of such legs
> to
>   1mm, so flagged legs can still move slightly during loop closure.
> Previously
>   Survex ignore this flag entirely.
>
> * Document Microsoft Windows version requirements.
>
> * Enable SSE2 by default on 32-bit x86.  Intel CPUs without SSE2 were
>   discontinued ~18 years ago so it seems very unlikely anyone is actually
> still
>   using one for Survex.  We keep hitting testcase failures due to excess
>   precision from 387 FP instructions, and the time spent adjusting
> testcases to
>   avoid these would be better spent on new features, etc.
>
> * Tighten up charset name parsing a little.
>
> * Merge updates to Russian translation from Vasily Vl. Suhachev.
>
> * Various minor improvements to documentation.
>
> * Various minor improvements to test coverage.
>
> Here are SHA256 checksums should you want to verify the integrity of the
> files:
>
> 92245795dd05c17536ccf80c3d247f29049da1914b4ef77d63f9fdeff60995c0
> survex-1.4.16.tar.gz
> 8c7d84a5c8b314d50b957f5fac740c2531a55f189aea199cb602de7986b72379
> survex-microsoft-windows-1.4.16.exe
>
> There are also detached GPG signatures in the download directory:
> https://survex.com/software/1.4.16/
>
> There are "release notes" on the wiki, which I'll try to keep updated
> with any issues found, so take a look there for the latest information:
>
> https://trac.survex.com/wiki/ReleaseNotes/1.4.16
>
> Please report any issues you find which are not covered in the release
> notes to the bug tracker: https://trac.survex.com/
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
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