Published February 25, 2026 | Version v6.0.0
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ejeschke/ginga: Ginga v6.0.0

  • 1. Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 2. Aperio Software
  • 3. Caltech/IPAC
  • 4. HeidelbergCement
  • 5. Academia Sinica
  • 6. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • 7. UCO
  • 8. AppDynamics
  • 9. National Institute for Standards and Technology
  • 10. Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics @aipescience
  • 11. STScI
  • 12. SETI Institute & LMSAL (@LM-SAL)
  • 13. Minnesota State University Moorhead
  • 14. W. M. Keck Observatory
  • 15. University of Maryland
  • 16. U of Maryland
  • 17. AURA/Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Description

Whats New

  • Added ability to add icons to Ginga-wrapped Button widgets

  • Refactored Pan and Header plugins to use new parent/child plugin implementation

  • Fixed an issue with setting filters in Gtk based FileDialogs

  • Refactoring of the Control module of the reference viewer to separate viewer logic from the workspace and plugin management

  • You can now set the start attribute for a local plugin in the plugin spec and it will start when a new channel is created

  • New ability to have more than one instance of a global plugin (if enabled) and more than one instance of a local plugin per channel (if enabled)

    • local plugins with this enabled: Pick, Cuts, Histogram, Ruler, Drawing, PlotTable. Check use of "ident" attribute in the plugin code and setting singeton=False in the plugin spec
  • Added a background to Crosshair text for better readability

  • Refactored cursor readout to allow for more flexible ways to override the default. You can now register a function to the 'pixel-info' callback on a canvas, and return the information to show in the readout.

  • Fixed an issue where there was an unintended fill in drawing a Bezier curve with the Qt backend

  • Improvements to plugins to use the new the plot viewer (event callback API is changed, thus bump to new major version), but should be backward compatible aside from event callbacks

  • Fix to handling of pan/scroll with touchpads in Qt6

Files

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Software: https://github.com/ejeschke/ginga/tree/v6.0.0 (URL)

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