Release notes and field guides for the Verbinal apps — native clients for the CANFAR Science Portal and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.
The largest Mac release since the Cube Viewer. Cutouts by CADC or on your Mac, marks on images and cubes, spectra that open as spectra, Remote Compute — and an AI assistant you allow session by session, that says why for every change and keeps a log. Plus what two full test passes found, from SIP distortion to every CFHT .fz frame.
Two releases, two days apart. Cutouts — a few megabytes of a 1.6 GB tile, cut by CADC or on your own computer — on top of 1.4.0's marks on images and cubes, figure export, Remote Compute, and an assistant that can see the viewers. Plus the coordinates that measuring against Linux found wrong by up to 90 arcseconds.
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Notifications in the Portal were a side effect of polling, so the interval was the delay — a finished job announced up to 45 seconds late, and one that started and finished between two polls never announced at all. Plus an images list you can search by project, a registry search for images the platform does not publish, and a first release for Arch and Omarchy.
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AUR registration is closed, and it turns out not to matter: a pacman repository is a directory of packages and an index over HTTPS. Three commands to install Verbinal on Arch or Omarchy, no compiling, and an honest account of the two build failures that only appeared in a real Arch container.
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Verbinal for Linux is a native GTK 4 desktop for CANFAR and the CADC, written in Rust — with check-off Workflows, an AI assistant over MCP, an OpenGL 3D Cube Viewer, and a native Jupyter notebook. A tour of what it does at 1.3.7, and an honest account of what five releases in nine days changed.
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Verbinal comes to Windows as a native WinUI 3 desktop for CANFAR and the CADC. Version 1.3.0 adds check-off Workflows, an AI assistant that can drive the app, a Direct3D 3D Cube Viewer, and a native Jupyter notebook with a local kernel — search to publication figure, without leaving the desktop.
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Verbinal for macOS 1.3.0 adds the Cube Viewer — a native, GPU-accelerated 3D viewer for FITS spectral cubes. Orbit a cube in Volume mode, measure it with WCS and click-to-probe spectra in Slice mode, and export a publication-ready figure — all in one native window on your Mac.
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Verbinal for macOS now bridges to your own Claude Desktop or Claude Code over the Model Context Protocol — so you can run a whole CANFAR research session from a single train of thought, approving the moves that matter. A look at the new AI assistant integration, the control model behind it, and an end-to-end research workflow.
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