Gwyddion / News: Recent posts

We are happy to announce the publication of an Engineering Research Express paper Self-consistent autocorrelation for finite-area bias correction in roughness measurement which attemps to give a simple practical solution to the problem of finite-area bias in roughness measurement. The methods are not available in Gwyddion yet, but should appear in the next version.

Version 2.66 “Pasta” was released. It is mainly a bugfix release with a number of file format support improvements and new SMM calibration. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

Version 2.65 “Arithmetic Amends” was released. It is mainly a bugfix release with a couple of smaller improvements. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

Version 2.64 “Delayed Drifter” was released. It brings the second large batch of new volume and XYZ data processing modules as well as support for several new file formats and greatly improved support for existing ones. It also adds the XKCD Painbow false colour gradient. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

We are happy to announce the publication of a Hardware X paper Scanning Probe Microscopy controller with advanced sampling support which gives an overview of Gwyscope. It is a low-cost open DSP controller for SPM focusing on demonstrating adaptive scanning, general XYZ data acquisition and statistical data processing at the controller level. More information about Gwyscope can be found at the project's website gwyscope.net.

Version 2.63 “Voluntarily Volatile” was released. Beside the usual file format support and other improvements it brings mainly a bunch of new volume data processing modules. And more are to come. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

Version 1.6 of libgwyfile was released. It fixed a bug in handling of "segments" item in GwyLawn

We are happy to announce the publication of a Measurement Science and Technology paper Demystifying data evaluation in the measurement of periodic structures which revisits data evaluation methods for the measurement of period/pitch of periodic structures such as gratings. A 1D grating evaluation module based on this work is under development and present in recent nightly builds.

Updated gwydump MS Windows executables were published, replacing the ancient ones no longer working with the libraries packaged with Gwyddion. Both 32bit and 64bit executables are now available.

Version 2.62 “Getting there” was released. It is mainly continues with module code clean-up, but brings also a number of file format support and other improvements and bugfixes, as well as a couple of new curve map modules. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

The size of equations in the user guide was corrected and they should again display reasonably sized instead of tiny.

A new version of the sample standalone module was released: threshold-example-2.6. It was rewritten to use GwyParams for parameter handling. It now requires Gwyddion 2.59, but it is a lot shorter and contains basically no explicit GTK+ code. The comments were also improved. It should be a better base for writing a Gwyddion module if compatibility with older versions is not required.

Version 2.61 “Fermentation” was released. It is mainly a bugfix release, with a number of smaller improvements and corrections of problems which appeared in the two previous versions. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

The Gwyddion project received the SourceForge ‘Open Source Excellence’ award.

Version 1.5 of libgwyfile was released. The library was updated to support data types added to Gwyddion in the last couple of years.

Version 2.60 “Lawnmower League” was released. It brings a new data type, curve maps, which are sets of curves defined in each image pixel. There are also a bunch of new graph modules and the usual file format improvements. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

Along with data analysis, Gwyddion also offers a number of modules for generation of artificial SPM data (and patterns in general, see GIMP plug-in replacements). If you want to know how artificial data can be used in SPM, you can read our recent review in which we summarised the methods and applications.

Version 2.59 “Definition Diet” was released. The biggest change was invisible, a major cleanup of module parameter handling. However it was accompanied with many small improvements in dozens of modules. See the detailed news for the complete list of changes.

We switched TeX equations in the on-line user guide from PNG to SVG. They now look cleaner, scale nicely with the page, etc. All non-ancient web browsers should have reasonable SVG support – but please report if equations do not display correctly for you.

Version 2.58 “Plainly Planar” was released. It mainly fixes masked plane levelling, broken in 2.57. However, it includes a few other improvements, for instance in Renishaw support, a new perspective correction function and a new Japanese translation. See the detailed news for the full list of changes.

Version 2.57 “Professing Profiles” was released. Again, there are a bunch of improvements in file format support, but also new profile extraction and comparison functions, data classification using neural networks and more. See the detailed news for the full list of changes.

Several new functions added to Gwyddion in the last two releases implement ideas described in our recent papers. Image terrace fitting and Graph terrace fitting implement algorithms described in the Si step evaluation paper. The new Correlation length tool was a repeatedly requested feature. However, it also helps with checking if image dimensions are sufficiently larger than the autocorrelation length for roughness measurement – as discussed in a couple of papers, one more technical and one more high-level.

To get working Gwyddion packages in Ubuntu you can use the Gwyddion-SPM PPA instead of the broken distro packages (bug 1882441). The PPA also provides more current versions of Gwyddion.

Gwyddion package in Ubuntu 20.04 (possibly other versions?) is broken, failing to load any modules at startup due to linking issue. See bug 1882441 in Launchpad. At present there is no known workaround aside for compilation from source code (as dscribed in the bug report).

Version 2.56 “Semiscale” was released. The main improvements are in file format support, but there is also a new tool for autocorrelation length estimation and the usual bunch of bugfixes and smaller improvements. See the detailed news which contain the complete list of changes.