ChangeLog

2012-06-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for grib_api key stepType  [request: Drte Liermann]
	* changed TIME_CONSTANT and TIME_VARIABLE to TSTEP_CONSTANT and TSTEP_XXX
	* renamed vlistInqVarTime() vlistInqVarTsteptype()

2012-06-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_gribapi: added support for level type HYBRID_HALF	[request: Drte Liermann]

2012-05-18  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf::cdfDefUnstructured: fixed memory bug [ICON - Bug #2398]

2012-05-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.5.5 released
	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.5.2

2012-05-02 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdi.h: added vlistDefVarTime() [request: Florian Prill]

2012-05-02 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_gribapi: bug fix for validation date and time

2012-04-27 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf::define_all_grids: changed scale_add() parameter from x to y (bug fix)

2012-04-26 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for ZAXIS_DEPTH_BELOW_LAND units "mm",  "cm", "dm" and "m"

2012-03-24 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added single precision support: streamWriteVarF, streamWriteVarSliceF

2012-02-15 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf::cdfDefDatatype: bug fix for DATATYPE_UINT8

2012-02-02 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf::cdfDefCurvilinear: bug fix for CLM s,u,v grids [report: Hans-Jrgen Panitz]

2012-01-30 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.5.4 released

2011-12-27 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for GRIB2 packing type grid_ieee

2011-12-19 Luis Kornblueh  <Luis.Kornblueh@zmaw.de>

	* added suppport for GRIB2 level type 150

2011-12-13 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* verify_coordinate_vars: bug fix in check for units = "1" [report: Katharina Six]

2011-11-11 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for netCDF attributes scale_factor and add_offset for lon/lat coordinates

2012-01-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for GRIB gaussian grid parameter NumPar on non global grids [Bug #1711]
	* added interface functions gridDefNP/gridInqNP (number of parallels between a pole and the equator)

2011-11-04 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for GRIB1_LTYPE_SIGMA_LAYER

2011-11-01 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for netcdf attribute valid_min/valid_max [request: Etienne Tourigny]

2011-10-27 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdilib.c::defineAttributes: bug fix atttxt [report: Florian Prill]

2011-10-25 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for netcdf attribute valid_range [request: Etienne Tourigny]

2011-10-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.5.3 released
	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.5.1

2011-10-11  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

       * zaxisCompare: set epsilon from 0 to 1e-9 [request: Felicia Brisc]

2011-10-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added level type ZAXIS_TOA, ZAXIS_SEA_BOTTOM, ZAXIS_ATMOSPHERE [request: Drte Liermann]

2011-10-05  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf::cdfInqContents: check units of hybrid levels
	* varAddRecord: used max number of bit_per_value for 3D GRIB data
	* gribapiDefGrid: added parameter jScansPositively [report: Juan Jose Tasso]

2011-10-02  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* deflate compression with netCDF4 doesn't work (bug fix) [report: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh]

2011-09-21  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* correct netCDF dimension order of unstructured grids (bug fix) [report: Ralf Mueller]

2011-08-22 Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.5.2 released

2011-08-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* streamFilesuffix: added suffix for filetype NC4C (bug fix)

2011-08-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* scanVarAttributes: check size of axis attribute (bug fix) [report: David Huard]

2011-07-29  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Added flexible XYZ dimension ordering for netCDF [request: Andy Aschwanden]

2011-07-28  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added interface function vlistDefVarXYZ to set the dimension order

2011-07-23  Pier Giuseppe Fogli  <piergiuseppe.fogli@cmcc.it>

	* added interface function zaxisInqVct to read the VCT

2011-07-23  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* netcdf input: correct wrong formatted time units [request: Harald Anlauf]

2011-07-14  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* netcdf: added support for GRID_FOURIER (fourier coefficients)

2011-07-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.5.1 released

2011-07-07  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* vlistCopy: allocate and copy varsAllocated elements (bug fix) [report: Ralf Mueller]

2011-06-24  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* vtime2timeval: do not round result (bug fix for TUNIT_YEAR) [report: Andy Aschwanden]

2011-06-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* CDI: changed compression type from Ztype to CompType
	* CDI: changed compression level from Zlevel to CompLevel [report: Thomas Jahns]

2011-05-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* gridGenYvals: changed delta eps to 0.002 for gaussian grids [report: John Lillibridge] 
	* ruby/python interface: changed GRID_CELL to GRID_UNSTRUCTURED [report: Tim Cera]

2011-05-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* grid::compareXYvals: bug fix for generic grids [report: Felicia Brisc]

2011-04-28  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Added attribute standard_name to netCDF time var [request: Karin Meier-Fleischer]
	* Added attribute standard_name to netCDF zaxes [request: Karin Meier-Fleischer]
	* Added attribute positive to netCDF zaxes [request: Karin Meier-Fleischer]

2011-04-27  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Added support for FILETYPE_NC4C (netcdf4 classic)
	* netcdf: Skiped time dependent variables if number of time steps is zero

2011-03-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.5.0
	* Version 1.5.0 released

2011-03-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf: added support for GRIB2 parameter identifier

2011-03-08  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.4.8 released

2011-02-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* vlistDestroy: fix memory leak

2011-01-25  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added netCDF support for level bounds

2011-01-21  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added grid type GRID_REFERENCE
	* changed grid name GRID_CELL to GRID_UNSTRUCTURED

2011-01-19  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support to encode/decode GRIB1 with GRIB_API

2011-01-03  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.4.7
	* Version 1.4.7 released

2010-11-09  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* improved support for netCDF output from WRF model

2010-10-28  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfDefZaxis: changed hybrid level type from int to float
	* taxisCopyTimestep: added mutex_lock
	
2010-10-26  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cgribexAddRecord: correct xinc/yinc if necessary [report: Anders Ullerstig]
	
2010-10-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * cdfDefVCT: remove var mlev and ilev (bug fix) [report: Torsten Weber]

2010-10-05  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfOpenFile: create netCDF4 files without NC_CLASSIC_MODEL
	* cdfOpenFile: switch off checking of netCDF4 format (read)
	
2010-09-27  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * cdfDefTime: bug fix for time units 3HOURS, 6HOURS, 12HOURS
	
2010-09-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.4.6
	* Version 1.4.6 released

2010-09-09  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* GRIB1: use packing only for non constant fields [request: Luis Kornblueh]
	* varDefZtype: bug fix [report: Stephanie Legutke]
	
2010-09-07  Ralf Mueller <ralf.mueller@zmaw.de>

	* use libtool 2.2.10 for compiling + linking
	* create shared + static library with PIC support by default
	  (positions independant code)
	* build CDI configuration file: cdi.settings

2010-09-03  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* check axis attribute (bug fix) [report: Cui Chen]
	
2010-08-26  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* vlistCopyFlag: copy zaxis meta data
	
2010-08-25  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Added support for attribute type int16 and float32 [Request: Don Murray]
	
2010-08-24  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>
	
	* Version 1.4.5.2 released [request: Luis Kornblueh]

2010-08-02  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added grid mask support
	
2010-07-26  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added ECHAM6 GRIB1 code table

2010-07-23  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfInqContents: fixed out of bounds access to attstring [report: Heiner Widmann]
	
2010-07-05  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfInqContents: fix problem of wrong stdname for grid description [report: Michael Boettinger]
	* Version 1.4.5.1 released

2010-07-05 Edi Kirk <E.Kirk@gmx.de>

	* GRIB1 decode: Correct ZeroShiftError of simple packed spherical harmonics

2010-07-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfInqContents: use complex packing for spectral data [report: Edi Kirk]

2010-06-30  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.4.5.1 (szip bug fix for 24 bit data)

2010-06-16  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.4.5
	* Version 1.4.5 released

2010-05-16  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_history: added NC4 support [report: Etienne Tourigny]
	
2010-05-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfDefXYaxis: check also dimnames (bug fix) [report: Mikhail Itkin]
	
2010-05-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream_cdf: added support for uppercase attributes [request: Patrick Brockmann]
	
2010-05-07  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* gridGenYvals: bug fix for nlat > 4096 [report: Thomas Bergmann]

2010-04-29  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.4.4 released

2010-04-24  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* gaussgrid: define M_SQRT2 [report: alastair.mckinstry@ichec.ie]

2010-04-16  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* MAX_STREAMS: changed fixed size of 4096 to dynamic range of 1024 - 65536
	* MAX_VLISTS:  changed fixed size of 4096 to dynamic range of 1024 - 65536
	* MAX_TAXES:   changed fixed size of 4096 to dynamic range of 1024 - 65536
	
2010-04-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cgribexDefTime: bug fix for GRIB time range 10
	
2010-04-09  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for GRIB time units 3hours and 6hours [request: Jaison-Thomas Ambadan]
	
2010-04-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* vlistMerge: added support to merge levels

2010-03-31  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * cgribexDefTime: bug fix for timerange=3 [report: Veronika Gayler]
	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.4.4

2010-03-30  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* vlistCat: correct temporary parameter numbers

2010-03-19  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for non integer time units MONTH

2010-03-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* gauaw: bug fix for allocation of zfnlat for odd number of nlat

2010-03-04  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfDefGrid: check whether the variable or dimension name already exist
	
2010-02-27  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * grid.c: replace for loops by memcpy (speed up)

2010-02-25  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* implementation of gridDestroy
	
2010-02-22  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.4.3 released

2010-02-18  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* grib1: bug fix for description of gaussian reduced grids [report: Klaus Wyser]

2010-02-16  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* gauaw: new code to calculate gaussian grid [Luis Kornblueh]
	
2010-02-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* rotated grids: correct standard name [report: Michael Boettinger]
	* cgribexDefTime: bug fix for timerange = -1

2010-02-10  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for encoding of complex packed spectral data in GRIB1

2010-02-09  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added function gridInqComplexPacking/gridDefComplexPacking

2010-02-08  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* Version 1.4.2 released

2010-01-25  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for timerange 1,2,3,4,5 (GRIB1)

2010-01-14  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfDefVar: define add_offset and scale_factor always together
	
2010-01-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added optional sorting of parameters

2010-01-13  Oliver Fuhrer <oliver.fuhrer@meteoswiss.ch>

	* added support for cosmo GRIB parameter tables
	* added missing value support for cosmo GRIB files

2010-01-07  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using CGRIBEX library version 1.4.2 (large record support)
	
2009-12-29  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using EXSE library version 1.2.0 (complex numbers with EXTRA)

2009-12-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* fileRead: check result of fread
	* binReadF77Block: check result of fileRead
	* Version 1.4.1 released

2009-12-11  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* streamSync: check that vlist has variables to sync [report: Martin Schultz]
	
2009-12-09  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfDefVar: define attribute _FillValue if missval was defined (speed up)
	
2009-12-08  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* allocate gribHandle for every grid/zaxis combination (speed up for writing GRIB2)
	
2009-11-30  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfInqContents: bug fix for GRID_CELL with levels [report: Stephan Lorenz]

2009-11-25  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using GRIB library version 1.4.1
	  check max limit of binary scale value (bug fix)

2009-11-22  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* change code/tabnum to param
	
2009-11-20  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added function vlistDefVarParam/vlistInqVarParam

2009-11-17  Ralf Mueller  <Ralf.Mueller@zmaw.de>

	* Added ruby and python interfaces
	  --enable-ruby  --enable-python 
	
2009-11-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdi.h: added '_vec' to all int and double vector arguments
	
2009-11-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* set units to "Pa" if changing zaxis to "pressure" (bug fix) [report: Chao Li]

2009-11-12  Ralf Mueller  <Ralf.Mueller@zmaw.de>

	* Added Fortran Interface via iso_c_bindings facility of F2003
	  --enable-iso-c-interface
	
2009-11-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* added support for GRIB2 JPEG compression

2009-10-28  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* grbWriteVar: bug fix
	* Version 1.4.0.2 released

2009-10-23  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdfDefXaxis: bug fix for multi generic grids [report: Uwe Mikolajewicz]
	* streamCopyRecord: check byteorder (bug fix) [report: Claas Teichmann]
	
2009-10-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using GRIB library version 1.4.0.1
	* IEG format: bug fix for lonlat grids [report: Philip Lorenz]
	* Version 1.4.0.1 released

2009-10-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* cdtInqContents: check attribute type
	* cdtInqContents: set default time units to DAYS
	
2009-10-05  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>
	
	* using GRIB library version 1.4.0
	* added GRIB2 support (testversion) via grib_api(1.8.0)
	* changed C compiler to ANSI C99
	* changed time format from hhmm to hhmmss
	* changed encode/decode_time to seconds
	* ieg: added support for Gaussian grids [request: Ralf Podzun]
	* cdfDefLonLat2D: added attributes for Panoply
	* added support for netCDF timeseries without grid
	* added support for netCDF timeseries with only one grid axis
	* gribDefLevel: bug fix for pressure level units millibar
	* julday_add_seconds: bug fix for adjusting negative seconds
	* stream_cdf:cdfReadVarSliceDP: bug fix for swapxy
	* Version 1.4.0 released

2009-06-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* netCDF: reduced number of nc_enddef
	* added env CDI_SORTNAME to sort netCDF names
	* added support for rotated grids on south pole [request: Beate Geyer]
	* timeval2vtime: bug fix for timeunit TUNIT_MONTH
	* streamSync: extent to non netCDF files
	* Version 1.3.2 released
	
2009-04-16  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using GRIB library version 1.3.0
	* added support for NaN in DBL_IS_EQUAL
	* added support for GRID type LCC2 (LCC PROJ.4 version)
	* added support for TUNIT_QUARTER (15 minutes)
	* use env GRIB_INVENTORY_MODE=timestep to skip double entries
	* grbDefTime: define tunit also for absolute time [report: Pruek Pongprueksa]
	* set default calendar with env CDI_DEFAULT_CALENDAR
	* change default calendar to CALENDAR_PROLEPTIC
	* gridInqXinc: bug fix
	* grid_check_cyclic: support for curvilinear grids without bounds
	* cdfInqContents: check dimension of curvilinear grids
	* streamOpenAppen: set ncmode to 2 (bug fix)
	* replaced strncpy/strncmp by memcpy/memcmp
	* Version 1.3.1 released

2009-01-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* add support for GRID type SINUSOIDAL
	* add support for GRID type LAEA
	* add support of GRIB level type MEANSEA
	* gridCreate: CF stdname and units for curvilinear grids [report: Stephanie Legutke]
	* cdf_create: don't set chunksizehint (bug fix) [report: Luis Kornblueh]
	* change vlistFlagVar to vlistMergedVar
	* set default missval of INT8/16/32 to SCHAR_MIN/SHRT_MIN/INT_MIN
	* move grid_lcc, grid_gme, grid_rot code to CDO
	* move gridToCurvilinear and gridToCell code to CDO
	* cdf_inq_contents: check zaxis type "depth_blow_sea/land" (bug fix)
	* Version 1.3.0 released

2008-11-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* add new function: streamSync
	* add new taxis functions: taxisXXXVdateBounds and taxisXXXVtimeBounds
	* cdfReadVarSliceDP: add swapxy support
	* stream_cdf: check var and axis names
	* cdfInqContents: support of grid stdname 'longitude' and 'latitude'
	* lambert grid: support of projection flag (bug fix) [report: Andrew Digby]
	* streamFilesuffix: bug fix for IEG [report: Class Teichmann]
	* gridCompare: bug fix for lonlat grids and type = 1 (cdfInqContents)
	* netcdf: support of timeunit 'year'
	* Version 1.2.1 released

2008-08-13  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.2.0
	* add support for netCDF4 classic with deflate option
	* add datatype UINT8
	* streamClose: use taxisDestroy to release memory
	* cdfInqContents: skip time variable with type = NC_CHAR
	* grbDefGrid: add warning for curvilinear grids
	* grbDefGrid: set increment for zonal means [request: Helmut P. Frank]
	* ptaxisCopy: don't overwrite item 'self' (bug fix)
	* add function vlistXXXVarTimaccu
	* DBL_IS_EQUAL: check NaN with isnan
	* Version 1.2.0 released
	
2008-04-08  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.1.1
	* configure: --with-szlib=<directory>
	* configure: check stat.st_blksize [report: Klaus Wyser]
	* update: echam5 code table
	* fileOpen: add O_BINARY if available [report: Klaus Wyser]
	* file.c: _WIN32 support
	* taxis.c: add support for non integer timevalues (TUNIT_MONTH/CALENDAR_360DAYS)
	* stream_cdf: add ICON grid support
	* stream_srv: add support for GRID_CELL (bug fix)
	* cdfInqContents: support of lon/lat units radian
	* cdfInqContents: bug fix for gridtype cell
	* cdfInqContents: bug fix for inconsistent curvilinear grid [report: Holger Goettel]
	* cdfInqContents: bug fix for unsupported grids (dims > 2) [report: Wolfgang Langhans]
	* cdfInqContents: check type of _FillValue
	* gridCompare: compare grid.yinc only if set
	* vlist_att.find_att: allocate attribute only if size > 0
	* grid_gme.c: add function areas to compute grid cell areas [Luis Kornblueh]
	* grid_check_cyclic: bug fix
	* Version 1.1.1 released

2008-01-24  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.1.0
	* using FILE library version 1.6.0
	* new attribute routines: vlistInqNatts, vlistDefAttr and vlistInqAttr
	  for Int, Flt and Txt
	* Add support for Lambert grids [request: Patrick Samuelsson]
	* Change cdiDefCompress to streamDefZtype/streamDefZlevel
	* decode_timevalue: bug fix for rounding error [report: Veronika Gayler]
	* grbDefTime: add support for century < 0
	* Version 1.1.0 released
	
2007-10-22  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.0.6
	* stream_grb:grbDefGrid use ISEC2_ScanFlag [request: Alex Kann]
	* replace calendar module by a new one because of date/time problems
	  with years < 0 [report: Veronika Gayler]
	* add module timebase
	* taxis: add support for years less than zero
	* use always decode_date and encode_date to decode/encode date
	* Version 1.0.8 released

2007-06-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using EXSE library version 1.0.2
	* new ECHAM5 code table [Renate Brokopf]
	* stream_ieg: bug fix memory leak [report: Philip Lorenz]
	* add function gridIsCyclic
	* zaxisDuplicate: bug fix
	* varscan: add full vct support
	* cdfInqContents: print warning if cell_measures is missing
	* cdfInqContents: check also x/yvarid to compare curvilinear grids
	* Version 1.0.7 released

2007-03-06  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.0.5
	* use GRIB ltype to define GENERIC zaxis
	* taxisCopyTimestep: copy rdate and rtime [report: Harald Anlauf]
	* grbDefGrid: write absolute value of y-inc [report: Paul Dando]
	* grbDefTime: change to absolute time axis if value < 0 [report: Frank Toussaint]
	* grbDefGrid: change generic grid to lonlat grid
	* grbScanTimestep: bug fix for unsorted codes
	* LOCK/UNLOCK around _init_pointer
	* Version 1.0.6 released

2006-12-14  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* stream: mt safe version
	* zaxis: mt safe version
	* taxis: mt safe version
	* model: mt safe version
	* remove H5 test version
	* stream_srv/ext/ieg: bug fix for codes > 999 [report: Simon Blessing]
	* cdi_limits: define MAX_STREAMS, MAX_VLISTS, MAX_GRIDS, MAX_ZAXIS
	* Version 1.0.5 released

2006-11-30  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.0.4
	* cdfInqContents: use grid_mapping not for curvilinear grids
	* add env IGNORE_ATT_COORDINATES to ignore attribute coordinates
	* splitBasetime: convert timeunit string to lower case
	* usvs_to_uv: update for zbeta [from: Klaus Wyser]
	* new function: vlistInqVarSzip
	* new function: streamNvals
	* Version 1.0.4 released

2006-11-03  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

        * using GRIB library version 1.0.3
	* using EXSE library version 1.0.1
	* add SIGMA level support
	* gridPrint: extented
	* Version 1.0.3 released

2006-09-18  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using GRIB library version 1.0.2
	* grbCopyRecord: add SZIP support
	* vlistChangeVarGrid: bug fix
	* cdfDefVar: set default datatype for addoffset and scalefactor to double
	* cdfWriteVar*: round integer fields with NINT [report: Etienne Tourigny]
	* Version 1.0.2 released

2006-08-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <Uwe.Schulzweida@zmaw.de>

	* using GRIB library version 1.0.1
	* add test version of SZIP for GRIB data
	* add DATATYPE PACK1 to PACK32
	* change DATATYPE from byte to bit
	* split GRIB level type 105 with env var SPLIT_LTYPE_105
	* file.c: remove declaration of getpagesize [report: Mark Hadfield]
	* tableWrite: bug fix for undefined strings
	* Version 1.0.1 released

2006-06-15  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* using GRIB library version 1.0.0
	* rename *New functions to *Create
	* stream_grb: update level type ISENTROPIC (report: Ag Stephens)
	* stream_ieg: multiply pressure levels with 100 (report: Holger Goettel)
	* gridPrint: GME support
	* cdi_error: change return type to char*
	* move byte order types to cdi.h
        * add dummy functions gridDestroy, zaxisDestroy, taxisDestroy
	* Version 1.0.0 released

2006-05-04  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* using GRIB library version 0.6.6
	* cdfInqContents: check attlen for attname "axis"
	* cdfInqContents: use coord vars from attr coordinates (bug report: Alberto Maurizi)
	* gridPrint: print xfirst and xinc if xinc is constant
	* gridGenYvals: try to calculate non global gaussian latitides
	* add global int attr support
	* streamOpenRead: fix bug if open failed
	* add function tableInqParCode
	* Version 0.9.7 released

2006-03-08  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* using GRIB library version 0.6.5
	* vlist_var: Add function vlistChangeVarGrid
	* program cdi: add option -s for short info
	* cdfInqContents: improve GRID_CELL support
	* cdfDefTime: attr text bounds for time axis (bug report: Veronika)
	* gridToZonal: add support for GRID_GENERIC if ny > 1
	* Version 0.9.6 released
	
2006-02-01  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* using GRIB library version 0.6.4
	* update ECHAM5 parameter table
	* taxis: new function taxisCopyTimestep
	* stream_grb: check status of grib encoding
	* stream_cdf: use addoffset and scalefactor for all datatypes
	* stream_cdf: set "height above the surface" to ZAXIS_HEIGHT
	* grid.c: GME grid support
	* add support of time bounds
	* Version 0.9.5 released

2006-01-20  Luis Kornblueh  <kornklueh@dkrz.de>

	* grid_gme.c: compute boundaries of GME grid

2005-12-14  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* using GRIB library version 0.6.3
	* using EXSE library version 0.9.3
	* stream_srv: changes for new EXSE version
	* stream_ext: changes for new EXSE version
	* add IEG support
	* bug fix for GRIB files with unusable VCT
	* Version 0.9.4 released

2005-11-21  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* using GRIB library version 0.6.2
	* using FILE library version 1.5.1
	* gribCopyRecord: round recsize to 8
	* grbDefGrid: safe curvilinear as lonlat grid
	* grbInqTimestep: bug fix for constant fields
	* timeval2vtime: bug fix for time unit MONTH and YEAR
	* Version 0.9.3 released

2005-10-23  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* OPeNDAP support for netCDF (nc_dap)
	  use configure option --enable-dap

2005-10-18  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* cdfInqContents: support of CLM grid
	* grbDefTime: prevent overflow of forcast timesteps
	* cdfDefPole: check var name
	* use standard name for variables
	* zaxis: define bounds
	* grid.c: mt safe
	* vlist.c: mt safe
	* stream_cdf: bug fix curvilinear grid
	* cdfCopyRecord: buf fix for constant fields
	* cdfCreateRecords: Bug fix (allocation of 0 bytes)
	* grbScanTimestep: Bug fix (check all records)
	* Version 0.9.2 released

2005-07-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* New function: vlistChangeVarZaxis
	* grbDefGrid: change NINT to INT
	* gridGenYvals: check gaussian grids
	* gridCompare: check gaussian grids
	* stream_grb: correct xinc if necessary
	* Version 0.9.1 released
	
2005-05-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* griblib: version 0.6.1
	* exselib: version 0.9.2
	* stream_cdf: change cdf_get_att_* to cdfGetAtt*
	* cdfReadVarSliceDP: implementation of swapyz
	* zaxis: new zaxis type ZAXIS_ALTITUDE
	* cdiGenVars: set only generic zaxis with 1 level on 0.0 to surface
	* codeNewEntry: bug fix for code 0
	* Version 0.9.0 released

2005-04-03  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* griblib: version 0.6.0
	* add function zaxisDuplicate
	* grbScanTimestep1: check level1 and level2
	* stream_grb: bug fix in grbInqTimestep to return after error
	* stream_grb: support for rotated grids
	* stream_cdf: support for rotated grids
	* vtime2timeval: bug fix for TUNIT_MONTH and TUNIT_YEAR
	* Program cdi: change level from int to double
	* Version 0.8.9 released

2005-02-11  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* griblib: version 0.5.7
	* gridDuplicate: update
	* cdfInqContents: check gaussian grid S->N
	* rename zaxisInqLevelDP to zaxisInqLevel
	* Version 0.8.8 released

2005-01-03  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* implementation of 360, 365 and 366 days calendar
	* gridGenXvals: bug fix (xfirst == xlast)
	* Version 0.8.7 released

2004-12-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* define ECHAM5.3 table
	* add missing value support for 4 Byte SRV and EXT data
	* gridGenXvals: bug fix (set xinc > 0)
	* Version 0.8.6 released

2004-11-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* cdfInqContents: check gaussian grid
	* gridToCurvilinear: add bounds
	* gridToCell: add bounds
	* gridInqXinc: return 0 if increment is not equidistant
	* gridInqYinc: return 0 if increment is not equidistant
	* random record structure support (for parallel GRIB output)
	    	grbScanTimestep, varscan, stream_var, stream_record
	* vlist: initialize ntsteps
	* Version 0.8.5 released
	
2004-10-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

        * netCDF2 support
	* cdfDefVars: Bug fix (vlistInqNgrids)
	* stream_grb: check also leveltype to find different variables
	* Version 0.8.4 released
	
2004-09-08  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* griblib: version 0.5.6
	* grid: use bounds for gaussian and lonlat grids
	* cdf_create: set initialsz to 0
	* vlistChangeZaxis and vlistChangeZaxisIndex extent levinfo
	* new function cdiInqMissval
	* timeval2vtime: set an offset of 1 second in the call to InvCalendar
	                 to prevent rounding errors
        * Version 0.8.3 released

2004-07-04  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* cdiInqContents: read all global text attributes
	* cdf_create and cdf_open: set min chunksize to 128k
	* cdfDefTime: set 0 before month and day if less than 10
	* new function in vlist.c: vlistChangeZaxisIndex, vlistChangeZaxis
        * Version 0.8.2 released

2004-05-21  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* griblib: version 0.5.4
	* file.c: set min I/O buffersize to 128k
	* grib, service, extra: bug fix for variables with TIME_CONSTANT
	* grb, srv, extCopyRecord: bug fix for variables with TIME_CONSTANT
	* Error handling for streamOpen*
	* New function cdiStringError for error handling
	* change FILETYPE_CDF to FILETYPE_NC
	* c++ compatible
	* vlistDefVarName: overwrite old name if exist
	* set size of dummy longname and units from 128 to 256
	* splitBasetime: bug fix
        * Version 0.8.1 released

2004-04-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* stream_cdf: replace cdfDefLon and cdfDefLonRot by cdfDefXaxis
	              replace cdfDefLat and cdfDefLatRot by cdfDefYaxis
	* stream_cdf: new function cdfDefVars
	* cdfInqContents: support for attribute associate
	* new function: grid*name, grid*longname, grid*units
	* new function: gridDefPrec, gridInqPrec
	* new function: zaxisDefPrec, zaxisInqPrec
	* remove: gridDefXfirst, gridDefYfirst, gridDefXlast, gridDefYlast
	          gridDefXinc, gridDefYinc
        * Version 0.8.0 released
	
2004-03-14  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* new GRID type: CURVILINEAR
	* add MPIOM1 table
	* stream_grb.c: check var with table number
	* srvReadRecord: bug fix
	* cdfInqContents: set main coordinate variables to isvar=FALSE
	* grid.c: add gridGenZonal, gridGenMeridional
	* zaxis.c: add zaxisDefName, zaxisDefLongname, zaxisDefUnits
	               zaxisInqName, zaxisInqLongname, zaxisInqUnits
	* grbDefLevel: change pressure level packing
	* cdfInqContent: change pressure level handling
        * Version 0.7.9 released

2004-01-05  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* New function: cdiOpenAppend
	* zaxisDefLevels: move allocation of levels to zaxisNew
	* cdfDefZaxis: bug fix zaxisID -> zaxisindex
        * Version 0.7.8 released

2003-12-8  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* griblib: version 0.5.3
	* dtypes.h:   redefinition of INT64
	* stream_cdf: use attribute missing_value
	              warning if bounds var not found
        * Version 0.7.7 released

2003-11-5  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* dmemory: create memory list only if MEMORY_DEBUG is set
	* memTotal: get total memory size from mallinfo
	* tstepsNewEntry: change to add tsteps only (speedup)
        * Version 0.7.6 released

2003-10-31  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>
	
	* redesign of the internal record stucture
	* implementation of TUNIT_MONTH and TUNIT_YEAR
	* cdf read and write var with nmiss for addoffset and scalefactor
	* grbDefLevel: check that vct size is less than 256
        * Version 0.7.5 released

2003-10-12  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* environment variable CD_MISSVAL
	* missing values for SERVICE and EXTRA
	* griblib: version 0.5.2
	* tableRead: update
        * Version 0.7.4 released

2003-10-5  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* streamInqVlist: return vlist
	* replace streamVar to vlist
	* remove streamVar
	* change *funcID to *func
        * Version 0.7.3 released
	
2003-10-3  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* change configuration for netCDF and HDF5 library to --with
	* HDF5 test interface
        * Version 0.7.2 released
	
2003-09-22  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* missing values for cdiReadVar*, cdiWriteVar*
        * Version 0.7.1 released
	
2003-09-10  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* rename library to CDI (Climate Date Interface)
	* fortran interface
        * cdfInqContents: new implementation
        * redesign with vlist
        * implementation of cell grid
	* cdfWriteVar*: bug fix for non regular grid
        * Version 0.7.0 released
	
2003-07-28  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

        * handle missing values
        * Version 0.6.0 released
	
2003-06-25  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* implementation of trajectory grid
        * Version 0.5.11 released
	
2003-06-23  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* gdi_cdf: update for mozart initial files
        * Version 0.5.10 released

2003-06-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* gdi_cdf: skip bound vars

2003-06-17  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

        * Version 0.5.9 released

2003-06-11  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

        * reimplementation of time axis
	* timesteps accesssable with timeID

2003-05-20  Uwe Schulzweida  <schulzweida@dkrz.de>

	* configuration with automake
        * Version 0.5.8 released