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This report updates the status of Unidata's IDV development efforts since the last report (April, 2007).

• IDV version 2.2 was released on May 11, 2007, and can be downloaded at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/.

  A more complete list of new features can be found in the IDV 2.2 Release Notes, but a few highlights are:

  • For some data types, data can now be saved in a bundle which allows creation of "mini case studies".
  • New charting capabilities for data probes and profiles which will allow support for meteorograms

• Don and Jeff taught an IDV Developer's workshop at SSEC for the McIDAS-V developers. This was a dry run for the upcoming IDV developer's workshop scheduled for August at the request of the Policy Committee.
• Yuan Ho is now working part time on the IDV development. Yuan has developed the Java netCDF Level II IOSP and is working on an interface for remote access to these data from the TDS.
• We have two new members of the IDV Steering Committee - Dave Dempsey from San Francisco State University and Marty Baxter from Central Michigan. Mike Voss has rotated off the committee.
• An Introduction to IDV and an Advanced IDV workshop will be held August 1-4. A regional workshop featuring several IDV training sessions will be held at University of Oklahoma in September.

New development

Development and testing is underway for the next release of the IDV (2.3) which should be released in August 2007 after the training workshop. This release will focus primarily on performance improvements since most of the developer time is being spent on preparing for workshops.

Ongoing efforts include:

• Collaborating in the development of VisAD
• Keeping up with new Java interfaces and developments
• Various and sundry IDV bug fixes and enhancements.

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This document is maintained by Don Murray <dmurray@unidata.ucar.edu>