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Metview 5 will benefit from the new features of Magics 3,  plus interesting features such as a new interactive layer management, per-colour transparency and FLEXPART support, among others. 

See the Magics and Metview latest news for a more detailed list of changes.

CodesUI first stable release

CodesUI is an interactive graphical application built on ecCodes to inspect GRIB and BUFR messages, that has now reached the first public release.

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The default versions for other third party software and libraries have historically diverged in the different platforms at the centre. We will take this opportunity to converge our defaults to the same versions across all those platforms, so we can offer a more consistent environment and user experience. Amongst the affected packages we can find popular tools and libraries like Python, R,  cdo or netCDF 4. See below for the complete list.

How to use the new versions for testing BEFORE the update

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PackageDefault versionRelease notesDownload page
BeforeAfter
EMOSLIB4.5.24.5.5History of EMOSLIB changesEMOSLIB Releases
GRIB-API1.24.01.26.1

Latest news

GRIB-API Releases

Please see the Release notes for full details of the changes implemented in each package.

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PackageNext defaultNotes
boost1.61.0http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_61_0.html
cdo1.8.2

With Grib, netcdf 4, hdf5 and Magics support

https://code.zmaw.de/news/349

cmake3.10.2https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/release/3.10.html
forge18.1.3https://developer.arm.com/products/software-development-tools/hpc/downloads/download-arm-forge
gdal2.1.1https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.1-News
geos3.5.0https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/browser/tags/3.6.0/NEWS
git2.16.2https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation/RelNotes
gsl2.2.1http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/tree/NEWS
hdf4.2.12https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF/releases/HDF4.2.12/src/hdf-4.2.12-RELEASE.txt
hdf51.8.17https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/ReleaseFiles/hdf5-1.8.17-RELEASE.txt
intel17.0.3https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-parallel-studio-xe-2017-update-3-readme
nag24

A number of  a number of routines in the "G05 – 
Random Number Generators" chapter have been withdrawn.

https://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/fl/nagdoc_fl24/html/GENINT/replace.html

ncl6.4.0http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/prev_releases.shtml
nco4.6.7http://nco.sourceforge.net/ANNOUNCE
netcdf44.4.1http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/netcdf-4-4-1
proj44.9.2https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/blob/4.9.2/ChangeLog
python2.7.12-01

More up-to-date extra python modules

MKL used for linear algebra in numpy and scipy

https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.12/Misc/NEWS

python33.6.5-01https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html
R3.3.1

More up-to-date extra R packages

MKL used for all linear algebra operations

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html

udunits2.2.17https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/changelog/udunits/2.2.17/log.htmlforge18.1.3https://developer.arm.com/products/software-development-tools/hpc/downloads/download-arm-forge