On Friday, March 28, 2014 the Unidata Program Center (UPC)
updated the demonstration THREDDS Data Server (TDS) running on
thredds.ucar.edu to version 4.5 of the TDS software. After
encountering some issues with the updated version, including
problems with community members' IDV bundles not loading as
expected from thredds.ucar.edu, UPC staff reverted the
demonstration server to version 4.3 on April 1st.
UPC staff had became aware that TDS version 4.3 running on
thredds.ucar.edu was not keeping some dataset indices up to
date automatically. This situation required manual
intervention by UPC staff to keep the indices updated, which, coupled
with changes in UPC security procedures following the
intrusion on February 20, 2014, increased the urgency of
releasing a new TDS version that fixed the problem. After internal testing
convinced us that TDS version 4.5 was functioning properly,
we followed the normal procedure of updating UPC
servers (specifically thredds.ucar.edu) before
releasing the package to other sites. This staged release process
normally allows us to find and fix "real world" issues that
are not caught by internal testing.
