The following new minor releases were made on 17 July 2009:

• TOPCAT v2.7-2
• STILTS v2.0-4
• STIL v3.4-2

These releases contain minor enhancements, updates and bug fixes. Detailed information about the changes can be found at:

• http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/sun253/versions.html
• http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/sun256/versions.html
• http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/sun252/history.html

The UK’s AstroGrid project within which TOPCAT, STILTS and STIL have been supported, developed and maintained for the last three years has been terminated, and applications to fund a follow-on project for UK Virtual Observatory work have been unsuccessful. Attempts will be made to seek some other arrangement under which support for this software can continue, but as things stand it is likely that the author will no longer be available to work on it from around November 2009.  The same applies to JSAMP. See http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/future.html for more details.