spheral-notify — Notifications of changes in Spheral useful to developers and users.

[Owen, M. <ow...@ll...>]

Release notes for 2.0.8.

A number of minor fixes and third party updates.  There are two major changes folks may notice in this release:

1.  The biggest change here from a users perspective is that the default restart file format has been changed from gzipped ASCII files to silo.  If you have older restart files you would like to use again this can be accomplished by explicitly requesting the old restart file format when building the Spheral controller in your script:

from GzipFileIO import GzipFileIO
control = SpheralController(...
                            restartFileConstructor = GzipFileIO,
                            ...)

2.  There is a new build system in Spheral now that builds all object files and targets in a separate directory.  If you are building Spheral it's worth taking a look at the updated build documentation in the source under doc/.