This is a VOTE in order to release version 4.0 of the Rugged library.
Version 4.0 is a major release.
Highlights in the 4.0 release are:
- Updated dependencies to Orekit 13.0.3 (and Hipparchus 4.0.1 )
- Made Rugged able to deal with seamless DEM tiles (no overlapping constraints).
- Fixed Duvenhage algorithm for coupled time light correction and non nadir view.
- Fixed light time correction in atmospheric refraction computation.
- Created a tutorial about how to initialize a tile updater with a real DEM.
- Updated link to Malcolm D Shuster's paper about Attitude Representations in documentation.
- Updated several URLs and mails in documentation (static site, Readme).
The release candidate can be found on the GitLab repository as tag 4.0-RC1 in the release-4.0 branch :
The release notes can be read here:
Maven artifacts are available here
The votes will be tallied in 120 hours for now, on 2025-07-09T13:00:00Z (this is UTC time)