Release notes
**Association generator software and rules have been updated to:**
- fix unnecessarily large memory footprint for large pools
- prevent level 2 and 3 associations for NIRCam TSGRISM exposures on the NRCBLONG (NRCB5) detector
- add valid optical paths for NRS_LAMP exposures, in order to generate or exclude associations for specific lamp, disperser, and detector combinations
**Updates to the Level-1b set_telescope_pointing script to:**
- add the "fgsid" option
**Updates to Level-2a processing for all exposure modes include:**
- enable the use of NIRCam "frame zero" data to estimate slopes for pixels that are saturated in all groups
- reduce memory usage in the dark_current step and improved memory performance of the entire pipeline
- bug fix in "ramp_fitting" for handling CR hits that occur in the first good group after flagged first frames
- fixed the handling of segmented data products in the MIRI "reset" step
- updated the "saturation" step to flag neighbors of saturated pixels, to account for charge spilling
**Updates to Level-2b imaging (calwebb_image2) processing include:*
- corrections to the computation of the CRPIXn keyword values
- fixes to the parsing of the FILTEROFFSET reference file used in the "assign_wcs" step
**Updates to Level-2b spectroscopic (calwebb_spec2) processing include:**
- a fix for spectral tearing in MIRI MRS IFU cubes
- the implementation of the IDT-supplied algorithm for NIRISS SOSS 1-D spectral extraction
- addition of the "background" step parameter "wfss_mmag_extract", which is used to limit the list of sources used in the computations
- updated the IFU "cube_build" step to use "drizzle" weighting by default, rather than "EMSM"
**Updates to the Level-3 imaging (calwebb_image3) processing include:**
- changes to some of the default parameter values for the "tweakreg" step, to eliminate errors encountered for some commissioning observations
**Updates to the Level-3 spectroscopic (calwebb_spec3) processing include:**
- the implementation of the IDT-supplied algorithm for NIRISS SOSS 1-D spectral extraction