NSF Unidata is pleased to announce that we are hosting our first UDUNITS Community Call. As we look toward the future of the project, we want to create a space to discuss ongoing technical work and coordinate our efforts.

This call is open to anyone interested in the technical development or the long-term sustainability of the UDUNITS package. Whether you are a long-time contributor or are simply interested in how UDUNITS supports the Earth System Sciences community, we would love to have you join the conversation.

Additional Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) have been created for Unidata technologies. We encourage you to use the DOIs when citing or otherwise referring to these technologies, because they provide a mechanism by which the information referred to can be found even if the web address underlying the DOI changes over time.

DOIs are strings of characters assigned by a registering organization to uniquely idenfity a digital resource such as a document, software package, data set, or other electronic “object.” Once a DOI is registered, metadata about the object can be associated with the identifier and maintained separately from the object itself, so that changes to the object's location can be reflected in the DOI's metadata.

Version 2.2.16 of the UDUNITS package has been released. This version is recommended for all users. The latest update can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/udunits.