What's New in AWIPS 18.1.1

In the forthcoming 18.1.1 AWIPS release:

• 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.
• New roles/permissions framework.
• Database reconfiguration (moved from /awips2/data to /awips2/database/data, now with 'awipsadmin' ownership).
• Fix CAVE crash when starting GFE for non-activated site.
• Updates to allow dynamic contributions to the Volume Browser.
• Updates to the Qpid Broker and Localization REST configuration including Protected File status.
• New viz method IGLMesh for easier extensibility.
• Ability to handle derived parameter cubes at a single point.
• Search By Name has been added to the Localization Perspective.
• 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.