NetCDF 4.7.0

Version 4.7.0 of the netCDF-C library is now available. Changes include (but are not limited to):

• Update behavior of pkgconfig and nc-config to allow the use of the --static flags, e.g. nc-config --libs --static, which will show information for linking against libnetcdf statically.
• Provide byte-range reading of remote datasets. This allows read-only access to, for example, Amazon S3 objects and also THREDDS Data Server datasets via the HTTPService access method.
• Update the license from the home-brewed NetCDF license to the standard 3-Clause BSD License. This change does not result in any new restrictions; it is merely the adoption of a standard, well-known and well-understood license in place of the historic NetCDF license written at Unidata. This is part of a broader push by Unidata to adopt modern, standardized licensing.

Detailed information about the release is available in the Release Notes.

Complete information about using this release can be found in the NetCDF Documentation.

Source-code zip and tar.gz archives can be found on Unidata's NetCDF-C GitHub site.

Pre-built Windows binaries for use with Visual Studio) are available from this page.

Users of the netCDF FORTRAN and C++ Libraries Note

You can use the upgraded C library without upgrading your FORTRAN or C++ library.

Updated FORTRAN and C++libraries will be available shortly.