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The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 5.3 is available now. This is a major release and is recommended for all users.

Read on for a list of new features and changes.

Unidata McIDAS-X Version 2016 is now available for download.

Unidata McIDAS-X v2016 is a combination of SSEC McIDAS-X v2015.[12]/2016.1, and XCD v2015.2, including additional bugfixes developed by the UPC, and various applications and enhancements from the UPC, and a variety of others. The v2016 release of Unidata McIDAS-X is, in essence, a Unidata modified/updated version of SSEC McIDAS-X 2016.1 and SSEC McIDAS-XCD 2015.2.

GEMPAK 7.3.0 is now available from Unidata.

This release can also be directly download from github at https://github.com/Unidata/gempak/releases/tag/v7.3.0

LDM Version 6.13.0 is now available. It has a new logging system that, by default, doesn't use the system logging daemon though this change should be invisible. It also has several other improvements and bug fixes.

The NetCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) library and THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 4.6.5 were released on April 5th, 2016. This is a bug fix release, and as such, the development team recommends this upgrade to anyone using the CDM or TDS.

Unidata EDEX and CAVE version 15.1.2 are now available.

Our cloud-based data server (edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu) has been updated to the latest build and is serving a larger set of data than before, including a subset of MRMS grids.

Read the full article for instructions on updating your existing AWIPS II installation.

The NetCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) library and THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 4.6.4 were released on February 12th, 2016. The development team recommends this upgrade for anyone using the CDM or TDS.

MetPy version 0.3.0 has been released. Highlights of the 0.3 release include:

• station plots
• hodographs
• reading GINI files