CrystFEL 0.12.0 released

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Hi everyone,

In case you haven’t heard already, CrystFEL version 0.12.0 has been released!

This version adds enforcement of lattice type restrictions (e.g. 90° cell angles) during indexing, which substantially improves the accuracy and stability of detector geometry refinement with align_detector/Millepede. There have been many other improvements and bug fixes across the suite, including two new indexing algorithms, “smallcell” and the GPU-based “ffbidx”.

Please read the release notes for a summary of the most important changes: https://gitlab.desy.de/thomas.white/crystfel/-/blob/0.12.0/relnotes-0.12.0.md. Or, for a more comprehensive list of improvements, refer to the change log: https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/changes.html

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For those installing on Mac OS, you need to know that the Homebrew formula was moved to a private tap not long after the 0.12.0 release. This means that the instructions in the 0.12.0 tarball don’t work, but the new way is a bit easier:

$ brew tap desy/crystfel https://gitlab.desy.de/thomas.white/homebrew-crystfel
$ brew install crystfel

You can also use brew install --HEAD crystfel to get the cutting-edge version, with regular updates.

The instructions in the INSTALL.md file in the Git repository are up to date: INSTALL.md · master · Thomas White / CrystFEL · GitLab