new version of Chianti released (trac #343)

reported by: @CloudyLex

They have a new version with changed format. It will be easier to expand our stout database than have to deal with these changes.

From: Giulio Del Zanna <gd232@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: CHIANTI v.8 released
Date: 15 September 2015 15:35:29 BST
To: chianti <chianti@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: <chianti@googlegroups.com>

Dear Colleague,

We would like to announce the release of Version 8.0 of the CHIANTI
database for astrophysical spectroscopy. 
It includes several new entries and revises the atomic data for 
many ions. In addition, the method for computing the
 differential emission measure  has been changed.
The details can be found in the paper, accepted for publication
in A&A and available on:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07631

CHIANTI can be accessed as a stand-alone by downloading the tar files at our web pages: 

www.chiantidatabase.org

For  users that mirror Solarsoft daily, the CHIANTI package should
have been automatically updated.

Note:
----

a new version of ChiantiPy (http://chiantipy.sourceforge.net//),
compatible with V 8, will be released. 

Important note:
---------------

for various reasons, it has been necessary to modify the format
of the elvlc and splups files.
 The elvlc files have been restructured  but retain the same name, 
while the splups files have been significantly revised and are now renamed
as "scups" files. For  both the updated elvlc and new scups files, an
ascii fixed text width format has been retained.
We have modified the CHIANTI software to read these new files, but all 
the main software is left unchanged. 

The new database and IDL programs are  incompatible with the 
previous CHIANTI versions and vice-versa. 

best regards,

Giulio Del Zanna for 
the CHIANTI consortium

Migrated from https://www.nublado.org/ticket/343

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