July 2019 software release

This release brings many exciting changes! Metview brings a number of improvements to its user interface, including improved inline help in the Code Editor and a new way to drop icons. In addition to many improvements to the Macro/Python functions, we also added the much-requested feature to allow the plotting of user-supplied shapefiles as part of the background. If you dig around the documentation, you'll also find some new pages such as the Icon Reference and the Data Types landing pages and 8 new Gallery examples, all designed to make Metview's capabilities more accessible.

ecCodes introduces a new Python 3 interface, available on PyPi (pip3 install eccodes-python). This is the way to install the Python 3 bindings; legacy Python 2 support is still available through the bindings that are built as part of the ecCodes binary package.
Also ecCodes now incorporates the contribution from Météo-France to support limited area model fields for AROME and ALADIN.

Metview can now plot a user-supplied shapefile in a geographic plot

Please note that we have upgraded the minimum CMake version requirement to 3.6.

Metview is built at ECMWF with all the versions of our libraries listed in the table below, and all are included in the July 2019 Metview Bundle. All these packages use the same build system based on CMake - simplifying and harmonising the installation experience. The versions are available on all ECMWF computer systems as "new" versions. If you encounter any issues please feel free to send feedback to Software.Support@ecmwf.int.