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If you have invested time in calculating diffuse responses already, you probably don't may want to update to v9r9 until you are finished with those analyses. The old diffuse response columns will not be recognized by the new version, although they won't cause any hard eitherhold-off on updating to v9r9, at least for running gtdiffrsp. Aside from gtdiffrsp, the new versions of tools will read the old format FT1 files, but the new gtdiffrsp cannot add columns old format FT1 files.
Data products: Still no news about the reprocessing of the FT2 files to remake them with the updated format.
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