PST v0.12.0

This release includes required updates to dependencies that are necessary for integrating the PST Voltage Recorder processing mode (AA0.5).

Also included in this release is development effort towards the PST Flow Through processing mode, with some integration with CUDA dependencies, but only an implementation that executes on CPU. This functionality is not considered released for production.

Added

• AT3-724 add Helm templates and documentation for optional Network Attachment Definition configuration
• AT3-727 add initial CHANGLOG.md
• AT3-696 add BDD tests for verifying metadata of output files in DSP flow through mode
• AT3-713 add file writer thread to write DSPSR pipeline data to disk in DSP flow through application manager
• AT3-700 integrate DSPSR LoadToQuantize pipeline with `ska_pst_dsp_ft` application
• AT3-677 integrate DSPSR library with `ska-pst`
• AT3-684 add PBF inversion temporal fidelity notebook
• AT3-699 add missing X-ray connections on BDD tests
• AT3-662 add calculation for BLOCK_HEADER_BYTES and BLOCK_DATA_BYTES to UDPFormat
• AT3-469 add ability to verify consistency of metadata

Changed

• AT3-726 update to latest SKA base Python and Helm dependencies
• AT3-725 improve documentation for integrated deployments using PST
• AT3-678 change DSP flow through manager to handling input and output ringbuffers for DSPSR pipeline
• AT3-665 update SEND to ignore DSP flow through data files
• AT3-660 update scan config generator to use random data
• AT3-592 rename a test scan config for clarity to be a SKA Low config
• AT3-529 update dependencies to the latest SKA base

Deprecated

• None

Removed

• None

Fixed

• AT3-723 fix default value for the shared storage used by dsp
• AT3-718 fix bad CBFPSR assumption in unpackers, data generators and tests
• AT3-712 fix issues found during Topic / Cream / Perentie integration
• AT3-701 fix issue of `ska-pst` being deployed in simulation mode
• AT3-664 fix channel block configuration generated by PST
• AT3-661 fix metadata that SEND is SDP data product dashboard metadata file

Test Evidence

• 32 X-RAY Tests from XTP-19671 PST Test Plan
• four new tests (XTP-34393 , XTP-34397, XTP-34398, XTP-34400)
• revision and expansion of several existing tests (e.g. XTP-22315 and all four tests in XTP-22307).
• Test execution of Release Build for v0.12.0 XTP-53297

Security

• Add artefact signing in https://harbor.skao.int via the I Pipeline Machinery