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History of software releases

Listed below is the NICER history of the software releases. The software release date corresponds to the date when the software was made public. The version column contains the NICER software version number together with the HEAsoft software version that supports the Hitomi release.
Each software release is typically accompanied by new calibration files. The CALDB release history indicates the software version for the specific CALDB release.

Software release date Description
2024-02-27 NICER ver 12 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.33
2023-07-20 and 2023-08-23 NICER ver 11 and ver11a included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.32 and HEAsoft 6.32.1
2022-11-15 NICER ver 10 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.31
2022-03-14 NICER ver 9 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.30
2021-07-19 , 2021-07-30, 2021-08-05, 2021-09-01 NICER ver 8 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.29 on Jul 19 , 2021.
NICER patches ver 8a, 8b and 8c were distributed on Jul 30, Aug 5 and Sep 1, 2021 and all included in the HEAsoft 6.29c .
2020-04-23 NICER ver 7a included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.27.2
2020-03-31 NICER ver 7 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.27 .
2019-05-21 NICER ver 6 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.26 .
2018-10-23 NICER ver 5 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.25 .
2018-04-23 NICER ver 4 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.24 .
2018-03-07 NICER ver 3 included in the distribution with HEAsoft 6.23 .