Versions in use at ECMWF 

Magics Version 4.12.0 

      Have a look at the notebook  or  try it on binder :

• EPSG:3035 projection

map = magics.mmap(
  subpage_map_projection = 'EPSG:3035',
)

• Automatic adjustment of the projection according to the data extend

area = magics.mmap( subpage_map_projection = 'EPSG:3035',
                   subpage_map_area_definition = "data") 

• • • Automatic selection of the best suited projection according to the data extend

map = magics.mmap(
  subpage_map_projection = 'automatic',
)

• Introduction of a new way to work with palette of colour lists.

contour = magics.mcont(
        legend                       = 'on',
        contour                      = 'off',
        contour_shade                = 'on',
        contour_label                = 'off',
        contour_level_selection_type = "count",
        contour_level_count =  30,
        contour_interval             = contour_interval,
        contour_level_tolerance      = 0,
        contour_shade_method         = 'area_fill',
        contour_shade_palette_name   = "colorbrewer_RdBl",
        contour_shade_colour_list_policy = "dynamic",
        contour_shade_colour_reverse_list = contour_shade_colour_reverse_list,
        contour_shade_colour_method  = "palette")
        

• Thinning of the wind when using NetCDF data.

Magics Version 4.11.0 

• User defined coastlines: Magics has the possibility for users to use their own set of shapefiles as coastlines. In this version, we added a parameter map_user_layer_land_colour(Default:NONE). If given a colour , the user coastlines will be filled.

  
  

  
• Observations plotting using template(Small issues fixed): Magics allows users to define a XML template to display observations-like information.
  The template describes how to position the information.  Users is able to pass a json object as observation, and Magics will use the template to position the different items of the observation.

• LineString in GeoJSon: Magics is now supporting the feature Linestring from the GeoJSON format.

  

• Fortran interface : A bug fix when calling popen/pclose several times. 

Magics Version 4.10.0 

• The list of predefined geographical areas has been aligned with the list of geographical areas offered in the opencharts catalogue. To use them :

• Improve positioning of axis labels in cartesian view.

• Improvement to symbol plotting with NetCDF data 

• Fix issues with multiple calls to the python plot method.

Magics Version 4.9.3 04 Oct 2021 

• extra fix for the Fortran bindings

Magics Version 4.9.1 30 Sept 2021 

• re-enabled the Fortran bindings, which had been missing since version 4.8.0.

Magics Version 4.9.0 27 Aug 2021 

• A first implementation of automatic styling for wind is ready to test: as for the automatic contour styling magics will try try to interpret the metadata and apply a predefined style. Please report any issue and do not hesitate to send feedback. 
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  • 1 new magics parameter is available wind_automatic_setting if set to ecmwf, magics will try to find a predefined style. 
•  Geopoints items with missing values are now ignored. 
•  Scaling for parameter mudlp has been added

Magics Version 4.8.0 19 May 2021 

• fix in the grid_shading method where the maximum value was sometimes unshaded
• new global font scaling options for PNG and PDF output
• Improved support for wind plotting on tiling mode ( SkinnyWMS) 

• Improved support for title creation in Metview
• Improved automatic styling 
• Major refactoring of the code

Magics Version 4.6.0 23 Mar 2021 

• Support has been added for NetcDF data coded with int64
• Compilation support proj8
• Improved automatic styling and scaling
• Metview support: Few fixes in the overlay rules.

Magics Version 4.5.3 20 Jan 2021 

• New palettes have been imported from matplotlib and  Colorbrewer (https://colorbrewer2.org/): See the full list can be found at Predefined palettes in Magics.

• Improvements have been done on the tilted perspective (tpers) projection allowing now to create nice animations. 

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• Memory leaks have been found and fixed. 

Magics Version 4.5.1  10 Nov 2020 

• contour_interpolation_ceiling fixed for rotated grids

• small fixes with setting of netCDF dimesions.

Magics Version 4.5.0  16 Oct 2020 

• a major code clean-up has reduced the number of dependencies. The Boost library and Python are not required to install Magics anymore.
• fix issue with logging that was degrading observation plotting speed when used from Python
• fix issue in python when passing single element array.

Magics Version 4.4.0  24 Jun 2020

• Magics is now using a new feature of eCodes to display data coded  in various projections:
  • polar stereographic 
  • 
  • Lambert conformal 
  • 
  • Mercator
  • 
• Improvement in the position of the title for the vertical axis
• Bug Fix  in the labelling of the legend 

Magics Version 4.3.3  14 Apr 2020 

Hotfix release with improvements for external users which have to install Magics

• [MAGP-1227] - FIX for "Improve cmake tests for proj library and fail for old versions"

Magics Version 4.3.2  14 Apr 2020 

Hotfix release with improvements for external users which have to install Magics

• [MAGP-1227] - Improve cmake tests for proj library and fail for old versions
• [MAGP-1232] - Reduce size of release tarball
• [MAGP-1233] - FIXED: Disabling NetCDF breaks Magics build

Magics Version 4.3.1  31 Mar 2020 

• This is a hotfix version with a fix for a crash in Metview's interactive plot window
• This version is only required if you are building Metview with it

Magics Version 4.3.0  05 Mar 2020 

Please note: Magics is now using Proj (version 6.1 or newer) to handle reprojections (was using Proj4 before) 

• Moved to new Proj API 
• Improving plotting of OrcaGrids ( NetCDF)
• Improving layout of the automatic legend : Adding a margin option
• Adding format option of the grib_info key dataDate <grib_info key='dataDate' format='%d/%m%Y'/>