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A number of bug fixes and performance improvements have been introduced on the different versions to become default. Here are some of the most relevant new features:
- ecCodes, the heart of GRIB and BUFR handling, brings its usual support for new GRIB parameters along with numerous fixes for extra stability. There are performance improvements for decoding/encoding GRIB data in a multi-threaded program as well as new options for the grib_ls and grib_dump tools.
- Metview, ECMWF's interactive and batch software for manipulation and plotting of data, brings several new Macro/Python functions, including
ml_to_hl(), which converts GRIB data from model levels to height above ground or sea level. Also in this release is an improved inline Help sidebar in the Code Editor. - CodesUI, the standalone combination of Metview's GRIB and BUFR examiners, added new tab called Descriptors to show all the expanded descriptors (metadata only) of the given message.
- Magics, ECMWF's plotting library, adds some smaller fixes.
How to use the new versions for testing BEFORE the update
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This table summarises the changes in the version of the different packages:
| Package | Default version | Release notes | Download page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | |||
| CodesUI | 1.2.4 | 1.2.7 | CodesUI - Releases | |
| ecCodes | 2.12.5 | 2.14. | ||
| 0 | Latest news | ecCodes Releases | ||
| ecFlow | 4.12.0 | 4.17.0 | ecFlow Releases |
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| Magics | 4.0.3 | 4.2.0 | Latest News | Magics Releases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metview | 5.5.4 | 5.7. |
| 2 | Metview Releases Metview Bundle | |||
| ODB API | 0.18.1 | 0.19.1 | Change history | ODB API Releases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODB | 1.0.8 | 1.0.11 | - | - |
Please see the Release notes for full details of the changes implemented in each package.
| Note |
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ecCodes is now the official ECMWF encoder and decoder for GRIB and BUFR formats. It supersedes superseded GRIB-API, for the GRIB format, and EMOSLIB, for the BUFR. If you still use any of those, we encourage you to migrate to ecCodes. EMOSLIB is, in fact, no longer updated. The standalone BUFRDC package is also installed to to help in the migration. |
| Package | Default version | |
|---|---|---|
| Before | After | |
| BUFRDC | 4.6.1 | 4.6.3 |