[netcdfgroup] Release Candidate for netCDF-C 4.6.2 now available.

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Release Candidate for netCDF-C 4.6.2 now available.
• From: Ward Fisher <wfisher@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:50:39 -0600

Hello all,

The Unidata netCDF team is happy to announce the first release candidate
for netCDF-C v4.6.2. If no new bugs or issues are reported we expect to
have the full release within the next week or so. This is primarily, but
not completely, a maintenance and bug fix release, although there are a
number of under-the-hood enhancements. Fortran and C++ interface releases
will follow. Thank you to all of our many contributors, and of particular
note, thanks to Ed Hartnett for a number of HPC-related improvements.
Fortran and C++ interface releases will follow.

Resources:

   - Download source:
   https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases/tag/v4.6.2-rc1
   - Documentation: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc
   - Windows binaries download:
   https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc/winbin.html

Please feel free to contact us with any bug reports or questions!

Thank you very much all, have a great day,

-Ward

Ward Fisher
Unidata
Software Engineer - NetCDF Team Lead

The changes from the previous version include (but are not limited to):

   - [Enhancement] Create a new version of _NCProperties provenance
   attribute. This version (version 2) supports arbitrary key-value pairs. It
   is the default when new files are created. Version 1 continues to be
   accepted.
   - [Enhancement] Allow user to set http read buffersize for DAP2 and DAP4
   using the tag HTTP.READ.BUFFERSIZE in the .daprc file.
   - [Enhancement] Allow user to set http keepalive for DAP2 and DAP4 using
   the tag HTTP.KEEPALIVE in the .daprc file (see the OPeNDAP documentation
   for details).
   - [Enhancement] Support DAP4 remote tests using a new remote test server
   locatedon the Unidata JetStream project.
   - [Enhancement] Improved the performance of the nc_get/put_vars
   operations by using the equivalent slab capabilities of hdf5. Result is a
   significant speedup of these operations. See GitHub #1001
   <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1001> for more information.
   - [Enhancement] Expanded the capabilities of NC_INMEMORY to support
   writing and accessing the final modified memory. See GitHub #879
   <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/879> for more information.
   - [Enhancement] Made CDF5 support enabled by default. See Github #931
   <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/931> for more information.
   - [Bug Fix] Corrected a number of memory issues identified in
ncgen. See GitHub
   #558 for more information <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/558>.

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