.. _version_5.11_updates: Version 5.11 Updates //////////////////// Version 5.11.1 ============== * Externally `released `__\  on 2021-04-27 * Became metview/new at ECMWF on 2021-04-27 (Linux desktops, ecgate, lxc, lxop) - **At ECMWF:** - Installed **2021-04-27** - Built with **Magics** `4.6.0 `__ - Built with **ecCodes** `2.21.0 `__ - Built with **ODC** version **1.3.0** - Includes version `1.7.1 `__ of the Python interface - Includes MetZoom beta 0.9.1 **MARS:** - fixed issue where MARS client could not retrieve observation data from the rdb (fix in mars-client code) **Macro/Python:** - derivatives: error in second derivative finite backward difference computation affecting the functions :func:`second_derivative_x`, :func:`second_derivative_y`, :func:`laplacian` **Plotting:** - improvements in the animated GIF export dialogue, plus support for spaces in output filenames **Grib Examiner:** - fixed a crash when duplicating a key profile - fixed issue where the namespace dump could be empty **WMS Client:** - fixed issue when switching between interactive and plain mode **Packaging:** - fixed issue where two ECMWF config files were not packaged in the source tarball (not required outside ECMWF) **MetZoom:** - fixed issue where MetZoom did not accept a relative path to data when started from command line - fixed crash when sorting in animation sidebar - fixed crash when viewing layer metadata in sidebar Version 5.11.0 ============== * Externally `released `__\  on 2021-03-24 * Became metview/new at ECMWF on 2021-03-24 (Linux desktops, ecgate, lxc, lxop) - **At ECMWF:** - Installed **2021-03-24** - Built with **Magics** `4.6.0 `__ - Built with **ecCodes** `2.21.0 `__ - Built with **ODC** version **1.3.0** - Includes version `1.7.0 `__ of the Python interface **MetZoom:** - The internal installation of Metview 5.11.0 at ECMWF contains a beta release of the new data exploration app MetZoom, which can be invoked by selecting a data icon in Metview and selecting MetZoom from the context menu (on the desktop systems only at the moment) - MetZoom is not yet available outside ECMWF and is considered a beta release, so feedback is welcome! - A getting started guide is here: `MetZoom Documentation `__ .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image1.png :width: 5.20833in :height: 3.20513in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image2.png :width: 3.75in :height: 3.58601in   .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image3.png :width: 2.08333in :height: 4.55in      .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image4.png :width: 5.20833in :height: 4.38011in    **Plotting:** - the Export dialogue now has **Animated GIF** as an option. Note that this requires the 'convert' command from ImageMagick to be available on your system - the Export dialogue now defaults to the directory from where it was invoked - the Export dialogue now remembers the Current/All/Range frame selection - added new parameter axis_title_position to the :ref:`Axis Plotting ` icon / :func:`maxis` function. This applies to vertical axes and takes a number as a percentage as its value, with small values resulting in the axis title being closer to the axis and large values moving the title further from the axis - see the `Metview Python Release Notes `__ for version **1.7.0** to see the new animation control in Jupyter! - fixed issue where named area 'Europe' could not be used from the :ref:`Geographical View ` icon - fixed issue where overlay by date was selected in the :ref:`Geographical View ` .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image5.png :width: 5.08333in :height: 2.60417in .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image6.png :width: 3.6875in :height: 2.60417in **Geopoints:** - internal refactoring, resulting in performance improvements for most operations - large test cases are between 2 and 4 times as fast as before - if an NCOLS-format geopoints contains a column called 'elevation', it is now considered a coordinate column rather than a value column; this means that a computation performed on such a geopoints will not act on the elevation column, and visualisation will ignore it. This benefits data from the STVL. **BUFR:** - the BUFR Examiner now allows subset navigation from subset value list in info sidebar - in the BUFR Examiner, the flag table value bits are now shown correctly in the details sidebar **ODB:** - fixes in odc to alleviate issue of accumulated file handles when opening multiple ODB files **Macro/Python:** - added function :func:`absolute_vorticity` to compute absolute vorticity from relative vorticity GRIB data - added function random_vector(num) to return a vector of num random numbers between 0 and 1 **Misc:** - fixed issue where occasionally dragging and dropping icons into a Python script produced Macro code instead of Python code - fixed Qt issue when running on Big Sur version of macOS - do not show warning message on startup if xdpyinfo does not exist - cleanup of error/warning messages that still referred to GRIB_API rather than ecCodes **New Gallery Examples:** - the following examples (Python only) were added to the `Gallery `__: .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image7.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image8.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image9.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image10.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image11.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image12.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image13.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image14.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image15.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image16.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image17.png :width: 2.76042in :height: 2.60417in   .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image18.png :width: 2.85417in :height: 2.60417in .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image19.png :width: 2.85417in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image20.png :width: 2.85417in :height: 2.60417in    .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image21.png :width: 2.85417in :height: 2.60417in .. image:: /_static/release/version_5.11_updates/image22.png :width: 2.85417in :height: 2.60417in