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
