History of Changes (beta phase)

Version 0.16.0 Beta (June 2016)

New Features/Improvements

[ECC-280] - Provide feature to build the definition files and samples into the library
For further details see Memory based access to definition/sample files
[ECC-274] - BUFR tables version 26 to be added to ecCodes
[ECC-276] - Change BUFR shortNames to avoid clashes in different classes
[ECC-267] - rename BufrTemplate to bufrTemplate
[ECC-269] - Provide equivalent of the C function codes_get_string_array in Fortran interface
[ECC-257] - Debugging: print filename and line number of triggered IF statement
[ECC-258] - Add support for Météo-France field name translation
[ECC-250] - bufr header documentation incorrect
[ECC-253] - Add tests for converting GRIB packingType to PNG
[ECC-277] - F90 Examples: replace 'double precision' with 'real(8)'
[ECC-263] - Add functions for setting definitions and samples paths

Bug Fixes

[ECC-143] - Error in BUFRDC & eccodes BUFR Table D Version 16
[ECC-210] - ecCodes Segmentation fault with DWD BUFR-encoded synop data
[ECC-233] - Stray comma character in BUFR json dump
[ECC-252] - grib_count_in_file() function does not support multi-field GRIB messages
[ECC-254] - grib_handle_new_from_message should take const data pointer
[ECC-255] - Parameters 186/187 (Low/Medium cloud cover) have incorrect WMO GRIB1 codings
[ECC-256] - Wrong decoding of nested delayed replication
[ECC-259] - numberOfValues not correctly set when using second order packing with missing values
[ECC-265] - totalLength of edition 3 BUFR not changed on reshape
[ECC-270] - Wrongly decoded associated field in TAMDAR data
[ECC-271] - National and WMO station number elements in BUFR SYNOP data use the same key

New Features/Improvements

[ECC-218] - Implement BUFR edition change 3 to 4
[ECC-181] - Implement set of key with search by rank
[ECC-196] - Update the bufr_read_temp example
[ECC-183] - Implement key BufrTemplate
[ECC-203] - Remove the function grib_context_new
[ECC-214] - BUFR tables version 25
[ECC-219] - BUFR extracting subsets
[ECC-207] - Make read only delayedDescriptorReplicationFactor and expandedDelayedDescriptorReplicationFactor
[ECC-208] - Create messages with more than 1 replication when setting unexpandedDescriptors
[ECC-194] - Change the misleading "grib1" prefix for filenames in the definitions/mars directory

Bug Fixes

[ECC-197] - Problem in decoding missing repetition blocks in nested repetitions
[ECC-225] - Key edition in BUFR and good default for internationalDataSubCategory
[ECC-204] - Python bindings: make numpy a requirement (drop support for python arrays)
[ECC-206] - Support the GRIB-API environment variable names
[ECC-213] - Adding section 2 in BUFR produces broken message
[ECC-220] - Problem decoding some BUFR bitmap elements
[ECC-223] - Problem decoding wind profiler associated fields

New Features/Improvements

[ECC-128] - Implement encoding of unexpandedDescriptors
[ECC-133] - Decode and re-encode a BUFR message
[ECC-150] - Implement codes_set for elements in BUFR data section
[ECC-158] - Change internal representation and encoding of strings in BUFR
[ECC-162] - bufr_filter is printing double precision values with %g. Not enough in some cases.
[ECC-171] - Make users aware of the change of CODES_MISSING_LONG
[ECC-185] - Implement the concept for bufrTemplate
[ECC-186] - Put content in the BUFRTemplate.def file
[ECC-187] - Document bufrTemplate key on the wiki
[ECC-53] - Make bufr subsets accessible in the API
[ECC-84] - Fix spelling errors in BUFR key names
[ECC-141] - Return an array of strings after decoding similar to BUFRDC
[ECC-149] - Setting unexpandedDescriptors without changing data section
[ECC-109] - Example for Tropical cyclones
[ECC-138] - Examples for bufr_filter have disappeared
[ECC-148] - New test for bufr_compare
[ECC-169] - wiki changes for 0.12.0 release
[ECC-175] - Create separate confluence page for tools examples
[ECC-176] - Update bufr tables in confluence for 0.12.0 release
[ECC-184] - Create python example to read CSV and encode BUFR
[ECC-188] - PEP8ify Python examples

Bug Fixes

[ECC-126] - eccodes can't decode E-AMDAR data from GTS
[ECC-129] - allocating before calling codes_get in fortran does not work
[ECC-134] - Case-sensitivity of codetable keys
[ECC-135] - Test fails when floating point exceptions are enabled
[ECC-137] - Change syntax of keys for access by rank
[ECC-140] - Search by condition does not work in some situations
[ECC-144] - Performance: ecCodes should be as fast as grib api
[ECC-147] - keys_iterator does not iterate on BUFR data keys
[ECC-152] - Crash: Calling python codes_set_array() instead of codes_set_double_array()
[ECC-154] - Python module installs as "grib_api/gribapi.py" instead of "gribapi/__init__.py".
[ECC-155] - Crash: calling codes_dump from Fortran
[ECC-156] - CMake: Does not find Jasper (Ubuntu)
[ECC-160] - ecCodes 0.11.0 and FM35_BUFR sounding data
[ECC-163] - Valgrind error: running the test bufr_filter.sh
[ECC-167] - codes_get_X does not search by condition and rank
[ECC-170] - CODES_MISSING_DOUBLE and CODES_MISSING_LONG not in fortran
[ECC-172] - attributes not working in search by condition
[ECC-177] - Valgrind error in search_from_accessors_list: Invalid read
[ECC-180] - Test failure with cray intel compiler: bufr_subset.sh

New Features/Improvements

Bug Fixes