CDAT 8.2.1

The CDAT Team is happy to announce that CDAT 8.2.1 is officially released!

This release contains important bug fixes and updates. We encourage all of you to update.

Major changes in CDAT v8.2.1

• Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 now fully supported
• Python 2 is now deprecated
• Improved and updated documentation
• All CDAT repositories' build process updated to use conda-forge pinning
• Dependency updates for compatibility with latest versions
• Major bug fixes and improvements to CDMS
• CDMS is built with libnetcdf nompi variant.
• No more anonymous logging. Prompts asking to allow anonymous logging removed.
• VCDAT no longer part of CDAT build, and is released separately. VCDAT will contain CDAT in its distribution.
• More changes!

Releases Notes from Github Repos for Milestone: 8.2.1

cdat_info

Closed Issues

enhancement

• ****: need to turn off logging (#38, #40, #41)
• ****: Need mecanism to track cdat packages installed and othe rprovenance (#5)

Merged Pull Requests

• #39: Try new conda recipes

Known Bugs

No known issues!

cdms

Closed Issues

bug

• ****: AttributeError with cdscan (#399)

pending-release

• ****: Attempt to import numpy.ma.rank failing with numpy 1.18.1 (#389)
• ****: Problems with reading "big" arrays (>8.1Gb) (#389)
• ****: While importing cdms2 error pops up: ImportError: cannot import name 'rank'
• ****: Problems with udunits in CDAT82

Merged Pull Requests

• #387: replaced numpy.rank() with numpy.ndim(), adding test_setdimattribute*

Known Bugs

No known issues!

vcs

Closed Issues

bug

• ****: vcs 3D rotating globe animation not working properly
• ****: an update triggers continents back on (#398)
• ****: transparency does not work for text
• ****: text disappear in png with bg=False
• ****: vector linewidth not working
• ****: createprojection fails if 'polar' template is chosen
• ****: manageElements.py setLineAttributes doesn't work
• ****: vcs cannot go back into interact mode

duplicate

• ****: wind barb support
• ****: dv3d plotting ad changing attributes breaks dv3d

enhancement

• ****: 1D plot do not seem to show time/level if available
• ****: Developments with documentation

fixed in a branch

• ****: Automatic xticlabels2 and yticlabels2 don't work

invalid

• ****: Plots sometimes render text twice
• ****: bg=True freaks out on OSMesa builds
• ****: Make VCS color palettes easier to edit/add
• ****: Several marker problems/differences in 2.1.0 (compared to 1.5.1)
• ****: x/yaxisconvert not respected anymore.
• ****: Bring back x.colormapgui() (and add color related resources on the web/wiki)?
• ****: after first plot you cannot switch between bg or fg

Merged Pull Requests

• #406: Rtd again
• #411: Projected isofill bounds
• #417: Extra dims slider
• #445: Run tests with variants and fix flake8 failures
• #446: Add makefile

Known Bugs

Other

• axisconvert seems to force datawc to be in converted units
• Canvas plot with ratio="autot" results in interaction errors

cdutil

Closed Issues

Merged Pull Requests

• #27: Migrate to circle ci

Known Bugs

No known issues!

genutil

Closed Issues

bug

• ****: Error in genutils.statistics.percentiles (#36, #40)

Merged Pull Requests

• #28: doesn't dump file unless asked, reads good var in assert func and sav

Known Bugs

No known issues!

dv3d

Closed Issues

Merged Pull Requests

• #26: Pin mesalib libnetcdf nompi
• #27: Use makefile n matrix

Known Bugs

No known issues!

vcsaddons

Closed Issues

Merged Pull Requests

• #40: new baseline for newer vtk
• #43: Pin mesalib, add running tests with nompi and opempi libnetcdf, flix flake8
• #46: Use makefile n matrix

Known Bugs

No known issues!

wk

Closed Issues

Merged Pull Requests

• #13: add running tests with nompi, openmpi and mpich libnetcdf
• #14: add Makefile and use circleci 2.1 matrix

Known Bugs

No known issues!