IDL 8.7.2 Release Notes

See the following sections:

• System Requirements
• New Routines and Features
• Backward-Compatibility Issues
• Fixed Issues
• Known Problems

 

System Requirements

Please see Platform Support for ENVI 5.5.2 and IDL 8.7.2.

 

New Features and Updates

This section lists the new and updated features in IDL 8.7.2.

WIDGET_BROWSER

The new WIDGET_BROWSER function enables you to create a web browser widget. The browser supports a wide variety of content, such as HTML5, JavaScript, video, and WebGL. With WIDGET_BROWSER, you can also:

• Create multiple browsers within the same widget application.
• Load a page from either a local HTML file or a web URL from the Internet.
• Send data back and forth and receive notifications from the browser.

FILLPLOT

The new FILLPLOT function enables you to draw a pair of plot lines with the area between the lines filled in. You can create plots with both symmetric and asymmetric fill areas.

IMSL Documentation Added

The complete set of IMSL routines have been added to IDL Help. Previously, all IMSL documentation was available only via PDF. The IMSL topics can be found in the IDL Help TOC under Routines (alphabetical) > Routines: I > IMSL Advanced Math and Statistics, and Routines (by topic).

Library Updates

• The IDL Python bridge has now supports Python 3.6.7
• Switch from Oracle JRE to Zulu OpenJDK JRE
• The JRE library has been updated to version 1.8.0_192
• The libCurl library has been updated to version 7.62.0
• The OpenSSL library within cURL has been updated to version 1.1.0j
• The Xerces library has been updated to version 3.2.2

 

Backward-Compatibility Issues

None

 

Fixed Issues

IDL-70212	IDL crashed trying to use the python IDL bridge with Anaconda 4.5.4 with Python 3.6.5.
IDL-70215	TaskEngine occasionally deadlocked on shutdown.
IDL-70237	PACKAGE_FOLDER failed when calling IPM, /INSTALL.
IDL-70314	NCDF_ATTPUT called with an empty string attribute value generated an invalid HDF5 file.

 

Known Problems

IDL-70263	MAKE_RT fails on Mac due to permissions on activate.
IDL-70264	REGRESS ignores MEASURE_ERRORS if weights provided as 2D array.
IDL-70294	NCDF_PUT fails if variable is input as a structure.