Unidata Community GEMPAK Change Log

7.17.0 (29 Oct 2023)

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.17.0, changes are mostly table and NWS Zone updates.

7.16.1 (21 June 2023)

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.16.1, whose CHANGELOG includes:

• Bug fix for upper air decoder (dcuair) where 21212 group is processed incorrectly.
• Bug fix for “white spots/specks” graphic issue on accumulated QPF.

7.16.0 (4 May 2023)

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.16.0, whose CHANGELOG includes:

• NWS zones updated to March 2023
• Small nmap2 fixes
• Volcanic Ash Advisory updates

7.15.2 (15 Feb 2023)

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.15.2, whose CHANGELOG includes:

• fix to gempak/source/bridge/ru/ruwhgt.f

This release also includes the following GEMPAK Community changes:

• Some fixes and cleanups to CI/build infrastructure.

7.15.1 (8 Oct 2022)

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.15.1, whose CHANGELOG includes:

• Build fixes on RHEL 8.
• GOES18 table additions.

This release also includes the following GEMPAK Community changes:

• Continued table cleanups.
• Build cleanups and fixes.

7.15.0 (25 May 2022)

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.15.0, whose CHANGELOG includes:

• Bug fixes and other issue resolutions.
• Cumulative revisions to NAWIPS data tables to support maps/bounds, surface stations, tropical, and other routine periodic updates.
• Integration of compiler, and certain changes required to support the WCOSS supercomputer and RHEL 8 Operating System transition projects.
• Updates to Volcanic Ash Advisory user interface to support the NESDIS Satellite Analysis Branch.

This release also includes the following GEMPAK Community changes:

• More dynamic setting of NAWIPS environment variable on bash (#85).
• Update MRMS Grib Tables to v12.1 (#89).
• Continued cleanup of bad previous merges that overwrote Unidata local table modifications.

7.14.0.1 (13 March 2022)

This release signifies the desire for the community to make releases at a faster cadence than verbatim tracking NCEP NAWIPS releases (#74). We will continue to attempt to merge any upstream NCEP NAWIPS releases, but will attempt to add additional functionality here.

Bug Fixes

• The install4j Java vulnerability is "addressed" by simply removing the offending jar file content, which is generally unused by the Unidata Community (#69).
• The release of 7.14.0 has a number of issues with included GEMPAK tables with Unidata modifications over-written by the NCEP NAWIPS releases (#70). There may still need to be some work done in this area, but things are much closer now to back to normal.
• @sgdecker kindly provided fixes for a couple of edge cases (#44, #46).

Improvements

• Developer experience improvements were made with some cleanups to the git repository (#78) and implementation of Github Actions for CI (#65, #57).
• GEMPAK now supports the newly added "Super-Res" NEXRAD Level III products (#73).