Copyright (C) 2002-2011 S[&]T, The Netherlands.

                VISAN 3.8.0 Release Notes

VISAN is a Visualisation and Analysis application that was designed to be a
front-end for BEAT, but is general enough to be appropriate for a much wider
range of applications. VISAN provides a full Python command line interface that
allows you to read and inspect instrument product data via BEAT, manipulate the
data, and create advanced 2D Plots and Worldplots.

The currently supported platforms are Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7), Linux, and
Mac OS X (10.5 PPC/Intel, 10.6/10.7 Intel). You can find binary installers for
these platforms on the BEAT website (see below). There is also a source package
available that can be used to build VISAN on any of the supported platforms.

Important
=========

Before you install this version of VISAN, please uninstall any previous versions
you might have. If you do not perform a clean installation, but try to install
this version of VISAN over a previous installation, you might experience
problems starting VISAN.

Highlights
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This release provides the following main changes to VISAN:

* Updated BEAT to version 6.6.0.

* There are now a binary installers of VISAN for 64-bit Windows and Linux.

* Small bug fixes.

For a more detailed overview of the changes in this release check the CHANGES
document that comes with the VISAN package.

Installation
============

For installation instructions please read the INSTALL file that can be
downloaded from the website. For the Linux binary distribution and the general
source distribution the file is also included in your downloaded package.

More Information
================

There are several files located in the main directory of your VISAN
installation that provide more information:

  CHANGES  -  An overview of the changes made for VISAN for each release.
  COPYING  -  Contains the Software License for VISAN.
  FAQ      -  Provides a list of frequently asked questions and answers to
              these questions. This file also provides a list of currently
              known issues for VISAN.
  LICENSES -  Contains the Software Licenses of all third party packages that
              are included with VISAN.
  README   -  This file.

Download
========

You can download VISAN from the BEAT webpage:

  http://www.stcorp.nl/beat/download

We hope you will enjoy this release of VISAN. As always, we encourage you to
give feedback on any issues you encounter with VISAN (or BEAT); also, if you
are missing certain functionality, be sure to let us know at beat@stcorp.nl.

BEAT & VISAN Developers
S[&]T, The Netherlands