3.0.0.dev5

Version 3.0.0 (in development)

• Cate's implementations of the CCI ODP data store and the local data store
  have been replaced by xcube equivalents which are faster and more
  robust.
• Added a new experimental "Zarr data store" that provides fast
  access to selected CCI datasets in JASMIN object storage.
• Added a Web API function keep_alive that is periodically used by Cate App
  to avoid loosing an open WebSocket connection. (#980)
• Removed functions and parameters that have been deprecated in cate 2.x:
  • Function cate.ops.utility.from_dataframe
  • Function cate.ops.plot.plot_data_frame
  • Parameter crs of function cate.ops.io.read_geo_data_frame
• Fixed bug with user preferences not being saved correctly.
  (#146)
• Internal: the metadata format returned by the WebSocket JSON RPC operation
  get_data_source_meta_info has changed:
  • variables field has been renamed to data_vars;
  • coords field has been added;
  • the variable descriptors in data_vars and coords have
    now dtype and dims fields.
• Fixed environment not building with matplotlib version <3.3.0. (#929)
• Fixed the operation animate_map that stopped working with xarray version 0.18.0.
• Other:
  • The info handler of Cate Web API (at API root "/") now returns
    Cate's core package dependencies.
  • Added a GitHub Actions workflow for running unittests.
  • Changed Dockerfile to install xcube and xcube-cci
    from GitHub releases
  • Added missing progress monitors to some backend methods.