Viperleed

**Note** This release if for archival purposes.

TensErLEED v1.6.1 (previously also referred to as v1.61) is the first version of TensErLEED developed and maintained by the ViPErLEED team. Any patches from here on (i.e. after v1.6.1) are licensed under GPLv3 (or later).

**Note:** This release if for archival purposes.

TensErLEED v1.6.0 (previously also referred to as v1.60) is the last version of TensErLEED maintained fully by the Erlangen group, before the start of the ViPErLEED project.

Changes
Enhancement
- Spot Tracker: **More>Create Mask** improved\
Mask creation of the Spot Tracker now uses the (averaged) flat field when available.\
Added code to determine the outer border of the LEED screen (assumed to be elliptical) and to compensate for radial intensity variations of the input for mask creation, if desired. See the help text.

Minor changes
- Spot Tracker bug fix: "Saving..." text next to 'Save' button now gets removed when saving fails (e.g. disk full).
- GPL warranty disclaimer in the help texts.

First public release of the ViPErLEED ImageJ plugins: Spot Tracker, I(V) Curve Editor, and various utilities.

What's Changed
New features
* Log total displacement ranges by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/265
* Add `--force` option to `modify_vacuum` `poscar` utility to allow removal of vacuum by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/271

Bug fixes
* Improve consistency check of phase shifts to tolerate light atoms by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/231
* Detect out-of-memory conditions during TensErLEED `search` by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/239
* Check `mpifort` version by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/269
* Use all hardware threads with Open MPI by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/270
* Fix typo in warning by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/272
* Fix `find_symmertry` utility by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/274

Documentation
* Append rather than overwrite `.bashrc` by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/236
* Intel oneAPI maximum version for `ifort` by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/268

Other changes
Backwards compatibility
* Fix `matplotlib` style in py3.7, other small improvements by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/232
* Fix `subprocess` in py37 by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/233
* `dataclass` utilities by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/241
* Compatibility with NumPy 2.0 by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/244

New features (API, internal)
* Develop timer classes for more compact handling of process execution by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/237
* State recorder by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/243
* More general file parser by amimre in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/266

Code-style and development changes
* Fix old `guilib` tests by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/234
* Refactor `calc.lib.base` by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/245
* Fix TensErLEED-dependent `beamgen` tests by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/282
* Small edits for v0.12.2 by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/283


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/compare/v0.12.1...v0.12.2

What's Changed
- Removed an overly zealous complaint about the `OPTIMIZE` parameter.
- Removed pre-release popup in GUI
- Temporarily deactivated GUI - https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/221 by michele-riva
- Various improvements to the documentation
- Prepare for packaging by michele-riva in https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/228

Code-style changes
- Refactored the main `viperleed` repository to `src` layout for easier packaging and testing - https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/pull/227 by michele-riva

**Notice**:
- The GUI is *deactivated* in this release pending ongoing development. Use the pre-packed version from the [most recent release](https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed-betatest/releases/latest) in the [viperleed-betatest](https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed-betatest) repository

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/viperleed/viperleed/compare/v0.12.0...v0.12.1