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Release History for the WFCAM Science Archive

This page records the history of WSA survey releases. Note that bug fixes will first be announced on the WSA_Announce email distribution list - contact Mike Read (mar@roe.ac.uk) to subscribe to that - and then subsequently recorded in the release-specific pages linked below, while general issues and bugs are noted under Known Issues.

• June 1st 2023: UKIRT Hemishere Survey - UHSDR2 public release
• February 1st 2022: UKIRT Hemishere Survey - UHSDR2 proprietary release
• May 19th 2019: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 11 (DR11). See the DR11 release pages for details.
• August 1st 2018: UKIRT Hemishere Survey - UHSDR1 world public release
• August 1st 2017: UKIRT Hemishere Survey - UHSDR1
• August 2nd 2016: GPS now public in UKIDSSDR10PLUS
• June 29th 2016: Initial DR11 release, UDS data only (UKIDSSDR11PLUSUDSONLY).
  See the DR11 release pages for details.
• January 2015: GPS added to DR10, proprietary access.
• November 13th 2014: World public release of UKIDSS DR10 (no GPS in DR9).
• April 14th 2014: GPS now public in UKIDSSDR8PLUS
• August 8th 2013: World public release of UKIDSS DR9 (no GPS in DR9).
• January 14th 2013: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 10 (DR10).
  See the DR10 release pages for details.
• April 25th 2012: World public release of UKIDSS DR8+ (excluding GPS).
• April 20th 2012: GPS included in UKIDSS DR7 for public access
• February 17th 2012: GPS included in UKIDSS DR8.
  
• October 25th 2011: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 9 (DR9).
  See the DR9 release pages for details.
• September 2nd 2011: World public release of UKIDSS DR7+ (excluding GPS and UDS).
• April 28th 2011: World public release of UKIDSS DR6+ (excluding GPS and UDS).
• March 16th 2011: GPS and UDS included in UKIDSS DR5 for public access
• November 16th 2010: World public release of UKIDSS DR5+ (excluding GPS and UDS).
• October 19th 2010: UDS included in UKIDSS DR8.
  
• September 3rd 2010: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 8 (DR8).
  See the DR8 release pages for details.
• April 27th 2010:GPS included in UKIDSS DR4 for public access
• February 25th 2010: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 7 (DR7).
  See the DR7 release pages for details.
• February 2nd 2010: World public release of UKIDSS DR4+ (excluding GPS).
• January 8th 2010: GPS included in UKIDSS DR6.
• October 13th 2009: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 6 (DR6).
  See the DR6 release pages for details.
• August 28th 2009: GPS and UDS included in UKIDSS DR5.
• June 24th 2009:WORLD public release of the UKIDSS Science verification dataset (following user community request). The database name appearing in interface drop-down menus is UKIDSSSV. PLEASE NOTE: these data are based on preliminary survey procedures and pipeline calibration procedures: caveat emptor!
• June 5th 2009: WORLD public release of the UKIDSS DR3.
• April 6th 2009: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 5 (DR5).
  See the DR5 release pages for details.
• October 20th 2008: GPS included in UKIDSS DR4.
• September 5th 2008: WORLD public release of the UKIDSS DR2.
• July 1st 2008: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 4 (DR4).
  See the DR4 release pages for details.
• January 9th 2008: WORLD public release of the UKIDSS DR1.
• December 5th 2007: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 3 (DR3).
  See the DR3 release pages for details.
• August 10th 2007: WORLD public release of the UKIDSS EDR.
• March 1st 2007: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 2 (DR2).
  See the DR2 release pages for details.
• July 25th 2006: UKIDSSDR1 database released; UKIDSSDR1 is a subset of UKIDSSDR1plus
• July 21st 2006: UKIDSS DATA RELEASE 1 (DR1). The UKIDSSDR1PLUS database has been released. This is a superset of the UKIDSSDR1 database (which will follow shortly) and includes additional data with incomplete filter coverage. For more information, see the paper by Warren et al.; see also the DR1 release pages for details.
• February 10th 2006: EARLY DATA RELEASE: FIRST ESO-WIDE RELEASE OF UKIDSS SURVEY DATA. Two databases, the Early Data Release (EDR) and a superset that includes additional data with incomplete filter coverage (EDRPLUS) have been released. For more information, see the paper by Dye et al.. Known issues and bugs of EDR/EDR+ are noted here.