[awips2-users] Unidata AWIPS 18.1.1-1 Released

• To: awips2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: [awips2-users] Unidata AWIPS 18.1.1-1 Released
• From: Michael James <mjames@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:36:19 -0600

Unidata AWIPS 18.1.1-1 is released, please upgrade your CAVE clients and
EDEX servers!

AWIPS User Manual - https://unidata.github.io/awips2/
AWIPS Homepage - https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/
Latest Release Notes - https://github.com/Unidata/awips2/releases/
CAVE Changes and Updates

   - Windows CAVE 18.1.1
   https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/awips2/awips-cave-18.1.1-1.msi
      - Requires Python 3.7, Jep (3.8.2), and NumPy (>1.7).
      - $PYTHONHOME must be defined for full functionality using gridslice
      and jep.
      - The MSI installer will attempt to copy the gridslice shared library
      to $PYTHONHOME/Dlls. If the $PYTHONHOME environmental variable is not
      defined, gridslice will not be installed.
      - You can always rerun the installer after defining $PYTHONHOME and
      then check that the file gridslice.pyd is installed in
      $PYTHONHOME/Dlls.
      - Windows CAVE will run without gridslice, but certain bundles which
      use derived parameters, such as isentropic analyses, will not load.
   - New macOS client
   https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/awips2/awips-cave-18.1.1-1.dmg
   - New CentOS 6 and 7 client
   wget https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/awips_install.sh
   chmod 755 awips_install.sh
   ./awips_install.sh --cave
   - New CloudAWIPS release 18.1.1-1
   https://github.com/Unidata/CloudAWIPS/blob/master/README.md
   - GOES-17 ABI sectors TCONUS and TFD
   - Fix CAVE crash when starting GFE for non-activated site.
   - Updates to allow dynamic contributions to the Volume Browser.
   - Search By Name has been added to the Localization Perspective.

EDEX Changes and Updates

   - Fix serialization errors which prevented IPv6 addresses from
   connecting.
   - Derived Parameter functions synced to client CAVE sessions are now
   Python 2 and 3-compliant.
   - Support for variable header length in PNG-compressed McIDAS AREA files
   (UNIWISC)
   - Database reconfiguration (moved from /awips2/data to
   /awips2/database/data, now with 'awipsadmin' ownership).
   - New roles/permissions framework to replace nwsauth from versions
   17.1.1 and before.
   - pqact.conf added Jason-3 altimeter data feed
   - pqact.conf cleanup of removed products and duplicate pattern actions
   - Updates to the Qpid Broker and Localization REST configuration
   including Protected File status.

18.1.1 Development Notes

   - Refactored gridslice.c source code for a Python 3 environment.
   - New viz method IGLMesh for easier extensibility
   - Ability to handle derived parameter cubes at a single point
   - ADE updates for Eclipse 4.6.1
   - Geotools updated to 16.4
   - Cython updated to 0.28.3
   - httpd-pypies updated to 2.4.27
   - python-dateutil updated to 2.7.3
   - qpid-lib updated to 1.38.0
   - werkzeug updated to 0.14.1
   - yajsw updated to 12.09
   - python-awips updated to 18.1.1

Future Development

   - Inclusion of new AWIPS Hazards plugins for decision assistance (new
   product generation tools and hydro configurations to integrate with WarnGen
   and the Hydro perspective).
   - New Space Weather Prediction Center plugins for Geomagnetic Data,
   Solar Imagery, Generic High Cadence Data, and Time Series displays).
   - Unidata now has the source code to build 64-bit Hydro Applications
   (these Hydroapps were supplied as 32-bit binaries in the Vlab source code
   repositories, which were disabled in previous Unidata AWIPS releases).
   - OGC and Data Delivery plugins will be made available in the 18.1.1
   release as an optional add-on to a standard EDEX Data Server installation
   (two additional RPMs).
   - OHD and Hydro Applications will also be made available as optional
   EDEX add-ons in the awips2-edex-dat and awips2-hydroapps RPMs.

To update EDEX on Linux

   - yum groupremove awips2-server -y
   - yum clean all
   - yum groupinstall awips2-server -y

To update CAVE on Linux

   - yum clean all
   - yum groupupdate awips2-cave -y


*Support*

   - See the AWIPS User Manual for download links and installation
   instructions http://unidata.github.io/awips2/
   - Send support requests to Unidata developers at
   support-awips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   - Submit a Github Issue at https://github.com/Unidata/awips2/issues


Michael James
Unidata Program Center
Boulder, CO