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10th May 2013:
v2.2.2 released.

21st Feb 2013:
v2.2.1 released.

Nov 16th 2012:
v2.2.0 released.

Aug 31st 2012:
v2.1.1 released.

May 16th 2012:
v2.1.0 released.

Aug 29th 2011:
v2.0 beta released.

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Current Status

The current release is 2.2.2 (10th May 2013) (click to see downloadable files). For a brief description of new features see the version history in the userguide. For a complete list of changes since previous versions see the change log.

Documentation (user guide):

The SPLASH userguide may be downloaded as a pdf, or by browsing the html version.

There is also a paper describing the basic algorithms implemented in SPLASH, which should be cited whenever you use SPLASH for scientific purposes (cite as Price, 2007, Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust., 24, 159-173).

Latest News

16th May 2013: Leave a comment!

PASA, the journal in which the paper describing SPLASH is published, has just switched publishers to Cambridge University Press. The cool thing about this is that there is now the ability to comment on articles that are, or were, published in PASA. Thus, to encourage the use of this rather experimental feature in Astronomy journals, I would like to invite splash users to leave a comment/feedback regarding splash on the splash paper.

10th May 2013: v2.2.2 released (full release notes here).

This is a minor (but highly recommended) release:

Get it from the download page.

26th April 2013: giza repositories have moved!

Due to an upgrade to the sourceforge platform, the address of the giza repository has moved. This means that if you have a svn copy of splash you will need to check out a fresh copy of giza from the new repository:

cd splash
rm -r giza
svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/giza/code giza
make clean
make

21st Feb 2013: v2.2.1 released (full release notes here).

This is a minor (but highly recommended) release:

Get it from the download page.

16th Nov 2012: v2.2.0 released (full release notes here).

This is a major release, containing some substantial new features:

Get it from the download page.

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Frequently Asked Questions:

Some answers to frequently asked questions (including troubleshooting related to installation problems) are given here.