NetCDF-Java library and TDS version 4.6.3

The NetCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) library and THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 4.6.3 were released on August 31st, 2015. The development team recommends this upgrade to anyone using the CDM or TDS. The latest update can be downloaded from:

• Unidata's GitHub repository,
• the NetCDF Java Library download page,
• or the TDS page.

Version 4.6.2 was released on June 10th, 2015. The 4.6.3 release addresses the following issues from the 4.6.2 release:

New features and enhancements

• Added experimental support for accessing datasets on Amazon S3
• Improved CINRAD level2 data format reading
• Refactored CDM Remote zlib compression and added it to the REST API
• Switched to NCEP scraped table for grib1 '7-15-131' (was using dss/WMO_GRIB1.7-15.131.xml)

Bug fixes

• TDS created an excessive number of sessions that degraded performance
• Couldn't open CDM Remote datasets
• Read-only UNC directories were reported as writeable (caching)
• In CF, couldn't handle trajectory with time join
• ArrayChar.toString() failed when rank was zero
• OPeNDAP DDX responses contained malformed XML
• TDS monitor failed on incomplete log lines or lines with dates that have '+' in the time zone
• HTML catalog writer wouldn't tolerate unknown service types

All users are strongly encouraged to move to 4.6. For more information about the 4.6 release and how to upgrade, please see Upgrading to TDS 4.6.

Real-world use of new features by the user community is integral to the process of creating and refining these libraries. Please send any potential issues to the development team via Unidata's support system (support-netcdf-java@unidata.ucar.edu or support-thredds@unidata.ucar.edu) or the user community mailing lists (netcdf-java@unidata.ucar.edu or thredds@unidata.ucar.edu).