NEWS

CDI NEWS
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Version 1.5.6 (27 July 2012):

   New features:
     * netCDF: added support for environment variable NC_CHUNKSIZEHINT
     * GRIB2: added support for level type HYBRID_HALF
     * GRIB2: added support for grib_api key stepType with TSTEP_<type> in vlistDefVar()
   Fixed bugs:
     * wrong netCDF output for unscaled uint8, int8, int16, int32 variables (bug introduced in 1.5.5)

Version 1.5.5 (15 May 2012):

   New features:
     * Added single precision support: streamWriteVarF, streamWriteVarSliceF
     * Added support for ZAXIS_DEPTH_BELOW_LAND units "mm",  "cm", "dm" and "m"

Version 1.5.4 (30 January 2012):

   New features:
     * Added support for GRIB2 packing type grid_ieee
     * Added support for GRIB2 level type 150

Version 1.5.3 (17 October 2011):

   New features:
     * Added support for level type ZAXIS_TOA, ZAXIS_SEA_BOTTOM, ZAXIS_ATMOSPHERE
   Fixed bugs:
     * deflate compression with netCDF4 doesn't work

Version 1.5.2 (22 August 2011):

   New features:
     * Added flexible XYZ dimension ordering for netCDF
     * Added support for grid type GRID_FOURIER (fourier coefficients)
     * Added interface function zaxisInqVct to read the VCT

Version 1.5.1 (12 July 2011):

   New features:
     * Added support for FILETYPE_NC4C (netcdf4 classic)

Version 1.5.0 (15 March 2011):

   New features: 
     * GRIB2 support via ECMWF GRIB_API
     * Added support for netCDF level bounds

Version 1.4.7 (3 January 2011):

   New features:
     * improved support for netCDF output from WRF model

Version 1.4.6 (17 September 2010):

   New features:
     * GRIB1: use packing only for non constant fields
     * Added support for attribute type int16 and float32
     * use libtool 2.2.10 for compiling + linking

Version 1.4.5.1 (5 July 2010):

   New features:
      * Added support for grid mask
      * GRIB1 decode: Correct ZeroShiftError of simple packed spherical harmonics

Version 1.4.5 (6 June 2010):

   Fixed bugs:
      * stream_history: added NC4 support
      * gridGenYvals: bug fix for nlat > 4096

Version 1.4.4 (29 April 2010):

   New features:
      * MAX_STREAMS: changed fixed size of 4096 to dynamic range of 1024 - 65536
      * added support for GRIB1 time units 3hours and 6hours
      * added support for non integer time units MONTH
      * vlistMerge: added support to merge levels

   Fixed bugs:
      * gauaw: bug fix for allocation of zfnlat for odd number of nlat
      * cgribexDefTime: bug fix for GRIB1 time range 3 and 10