Announcement of the 25MAY ESO-MIDAS Release

ESO-MIDAS Home Page The 25MAY release of ESO-MIDAS has been released on 21 May 2025 and the latest patch 25MAYpl1.1 is available on the ESO HTTPS server since June 20, 2025.
Below you find the following information concerning this release:

What's new or upgraded in MIDAS 25MAY?

Only code fixes and updates for help files have been incorporated into this Midas release.
Here we list the more important ones:

  • Bug fix in package PEPSYS file plot.for

  • Fixes for gcc >= 10 in distributions like Debian and Ubuntu

Platform availability

MIDAS 25MAY has been installed and verified on the following platforms:

  • Intel/Linux Fedora 34

  • Intel 64/Mac OSX 10.15



In our ftp area, the source version valid for all platforms mentioned above is available.

Source distribution

25MAYpl1.1 is available only as source code.

For a proper installation of MIDAS sources follow the procedure of the installation document provided in PDF format ( installunix.pdf )

ESO-MIDAS is a copyright protected software product of ESO, and provides general tools for image processing and data reduction.
ESO-MIDAS is available under the GNU General Public License.
This means that the ESO-MIDAS system is available free of charge and can be freely redistributed on certain conditions.

Technical Support

Direct technical support for ESO-MIDAS has ceased middle of April 2012.

Instead, users who have problems or questions concerning ESO-MIDAS running on their systems should to use the moderated "midas-users" mailing list for obtaining feedback and solutions to their questions from other users.

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