The July 2023 release of our software provides many new features, improvements and fixes! Note that the packages below are part of a much larger software stack used at ECMWF, and this is part of a release that is synchronised between all these packages.

ecCodes

ecCodes, the heart of GRIB and BUFR handling, brings several new features, improvements and fixes in version 2.31.0:

• Performance improvements:
  • CCSDS decoding/encoding
  • grib_count and bufr_count
• GRIB2: Implement encoding for packing type "grid_complex_spatial_differencing"
• GRIB2: New/updated parameters
• Latest WMO GRIB/BUFR tables
• Update standard from C++11 to C++17
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
• See ecCodes Release Notes for full details

Metview

Metview 5.19.2 brings a modest set of fixes - see the release notes!

The software versions of this release are available on ECMWF's HPC as part of the module called ecmwf-toolbox (version 2023.07.0.0) and all are included in the The Metview Source Bundle. Versions on conda and brew should be available in the coming days. If you encounter any issues please feel free to use the ECMWF Support Portal.