Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools remains v9r9.
Again, the most important difference from v9r8p3 is in how gtdiffrsp manages the diffuse response columns. If you have invested time in calculating diffuse responses already, you may want to hold 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: No news about the reprocessing of the FT2 files to remake them with the updated format. At this point they will not be produced until after the New Year.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
No news. From the LATEST builds, it looks like plotting options for model counts spectra are being enhanced in pyLikelihood.
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
Masa reports that he is continuing to update the user-level documentation for the tools.
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
Last week source associations and populations in the 3-month source list were discussed.