[Difx-users] Plans for DiFX 2.9 release and 2025 workshop {External} {External}

[Frederic Jaron]

Hi Adam,

I'd be interested in joining the DiFX users meeting, but I won't attend 
in person in this location. Online would be an interesting option.

Cheers,
Frederic

On 8/26/25 03:14, Adam Deller via Difx-users wrote:
> Hi DiFX users,
>
> It has been quite some time since the last release but we are now very 
> close to finalising and releasing DiFX 2.9.0. Shaoguang Guo is 
> presently visiting me at Swinburne and we are putting in an effort 
> over this week to finalise all the change logs, harmonising the 2.9 
> alpha branch with main, and plan to tag the release as soon as that is 
> done (in the next week or so). To the best of our knowledge all 
> relevant testing has been completed, so if anyone is still running 
> tests on the 2.9.0a branch and wants to hold the release until that is 
> completed, please let me know.  Going forward we will try to return to 
> a ~6 monthly update cycle, as it was quite a long time between major 
> releases this time around.
>
> I will be starting a few discussions on the DiFX github repo related 
> to benchmarking and release processes, so please follow the repo at 
> https://github.com/difx/difx if you want to stay up to date with those 
> discussions. One of those will be regarding benchmarking, as there is 
> renewed interest in having some up-to-date performance benchmarks of 
> single-server performance to compare recent CPU models.
>
> The other question for the user group regards a workshop for 2025. At 
> this point, although we'd explored some options, no location or date 
> had been set for a DiFX users and developers meeting, and 2025 is 
> rapidly running out of road! Shaoguang has raised the possibility of 
> hosting a meeting in Shanghai in November 2025 - *can I please ask 
> that you respond if you are 1) interested and likely able to attend 
> this location and time, or 2) interested in attending a 
> users/developers workshop but would be unable to make that location or 
> time.*
>
> Thanks, and stay tuned for a 2.9.0 release announcement soon!
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
>
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