Changes to source repository structure

We have changed the layout of the source repositories for JAITools and Jiffle at GitHub.

The releases archive branch has been renamed to stable to cater for work on bug fixes and performance improvements relative to the most recently released version.

If you have a local clone, next time you do a fetch or pull you will get the new branch stable. Your local copy of the old releases will now be stale and can be removed with:

    git remote prune origin

For more details about the new structure and work-flow, see this JAITools issue.

JAITools version 1.3.1 released

The JAITools project is happy to announce the release of version 1.3.1 which is now available from Maven Central.

This is a maintenance version with some important bug fixes and improvements including:

• The RangeLookupTable class, used by the RangeLookup operation, can now be safely used by concurrent threads and is more efficient when working with a large number of lookup items.
• The DiskMemImageGraphics class, used in conjunction with the JAITools tiled image class DiskMemImage, now handles clipping and transforms in an equivalent manner to standard Java AWT classes (thanks to Ákos Maróy for his work on this).
• A new ImageDataType enum has been added to make it easier to associate data types identified by DataBuffer constants with Number classes.

For more details of the changes in this release, browse the issue tracker and source repository at GitHub. You can also browse the javadocs at jaitools.org.

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JAITools and Jiffle go to GitHub

After moving the JAITools and Jiffle sources from Subversion to Git a while ago, we have now gone further down the well-trodden, cool cats road and transferred the source repositories for both projects from Google Code to GitHub. The main reason is to take advantage of GitHub's pull request facility and make it a lot easier for people (ie. you) to contribute to the projects.

Both projects will stick to the simple repository structure that we have been using at Google Code, with two permanent branches:

master for development (which we try to keep buildable)
releases which we branch off master for each formal release.

Additional feature branches may sometimes be present but will always be temporary (ie. eventually merged into master or discarded).

To get the code:

    git git://github.com/mbedward/jaitools.git
    git git://github.com/mbedward/jiffle.git

All issues from the Google Code tracker have been transferred to the GitHub tracker (minus any attached files).

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