3.9.0

2021-05-25

• Construct access API changes (#201, #202, #203, #204)
• Performance enhancements (#201, #202)
• New write mode mode='a' for appending to, rather than over-writing, a netCDF file on disk (#30)
• Temporarily removed the experimental ability to parallelize the collapse operation with MPI (#207)
• Improved docstrings
• Fix for unlimited dimensions read from a netCDF4 sub-group having zero size (NCAS-CMS/cfdm#113)
• Fixes for changes in behaviour in cftime==1.4.0 (#184)
• Better error message in the case of a numpy.ma.core.MaskError occurring upon reading of CDL files with only header or coordinate information (#197)
• Changed dependency: 1.8.9.0<=cfdm<1.8.10.0
• Changed dependency: cftime>=1.5.0
• Changed dependency: cfunits>=3.3.3
• Changed dependency: netCDF4>=1.5.4

3.8.0

2020-12-18

• The setting of global constants can now be controlled by a context manager (#154)
• Changed the behaviour of binary operations for constructs that have bounds (#146)
• Changed the behaviour of unary operations for constructs that have bounds (#147)
• New function: cf.bounds_combination_mode (#146)
• New method: cf.Field.compute_vertical_coordinates (#142)
• Fixed bug that prevented the verbosity from changing to any value specified as a verbose keyword parameter to cf.aggregate (only).
• Fixed bug that caused a failure when writing a dataset that contains a scalar domain ancillary construct (#152)
• Fixed bug that prevented aggregation of fields with external cell measures (#150 (comment))
• Fixed bug that caused rows full of zeros to appear in WGDOS packed UM data that contain masked points (#161)
• Changed dependency: 1.8.8.0<=cfdm<1.8.9.0
• Changed dependency: cftime>=1.3.0
• Changed dependency: cfunits>=3.3.1