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Please note some important changes in this release (v2.30.0) of ecCodes:

32-bit platforms are no longer be supported

Changes for Version 2.30.0:

New Features/Improvements

[ECC-1467] - GRIB: Support data values array decoded as "floats" (single-precision) to reduce memory consumption
[ECC-1510] - GRIB2: Add support for template 5.200 (Run length packing with level values)
[ECC-1521] - Drop support for 32-bit architectures
[ECC-1543] - GRIB2: New parameter encodings for DestinationEarth
[ECC-1544] - GRIB2: Deprecation of parameter definitions
[ECC-1545] - GRIB2: Deletion of parameter definitions
[ECC-1549] - GRIB2: New parameter encodings for upcoming tile templates
[ECC-1556] - Add new MARS class ML for machine learning
[ECC-1557] - Add new MARS class D1 for Destination Earth
[ECC-1558] - GRIB2: Add new ocean parameters
[ECC-1561] - GRIB2: Update some legacy ocean parameters
[ECC-1523] - Try downloading of test-data more persistently
[ECC-1525] - Performance: Keys 'latitudes' and 'longitudes' should not decode the field values
[ECC-1526] - Performance: Unnecessary decoding during nearest neighbour computation
[ECC-1528] - Tools: Setting -w constraint with count=0 should issue an error
[ECC-1531] - Detect old versions of libaec
[ECC-1532] - GRIB: Allow setting 'expver' on CARRA/CERRA data
[ECC-1534] - Remove the GRIB1 key 'mybits'
[ECC-1536] - Testing: Speed up the BUFR downloads by allowing them to be run in parallel
[ECC-1538] - Python3 bindings: Add support for CODES_TYPE_BYTES
[ECC-1539] - Python3 bindings: Use the 'warnings' library for selfcheck
[ECC-1548] - GRIB2: Add missing templates for PDTNs 62 and 63
[ECC-1559] - GRIB encoding: data quality checks should test if shortName=unknown

Bug Fixes

[ECC-1502] - BUFR encoding: Setting strings longer than the maximum allowed length should fail
[ECC-1515] - Assertion failure: set packingType to grid_png
[ECC-1516] - grib_dump error on index file
[ECC-1518] - grib_to_netcdf: Error 'Cannot get stepUnits as string'
[ECC-1519] - grib_ls: Using the 'statistics' namespace does not respect the specified format
[ECC-1522] - prgenv/amd: Test eccodes_t_grib_bpv_limit fails
[ECC-1529] - grib_util_set_spec: Input packing type of grid_ccsds changed to grid_simple
[ECC-1530] - grib_util_set_spec: Input packing type of grid_second_order changed to grid_simple
[ECC-1540] - Ensemble member issue with localDefinitionNumber=36 for param=210170 (VSO2)
[ECC-1542] - Assertion failure: Reduced Gaussian grid with zeros in its pl array
[ECC-1547] - GRIB2: Changing PDTN from rectangular to circular cluster fails
[ECC-1550] - GRIB2: Incorrect product definition conversion from 48 to 46
[ECC-1551] - grib_get: Error message does not include the offending key
[ECC-1554] - grib_util_set_spec: Add support for Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area grid
[ECC-1555] - Python3 bindings: 2D numpy array incorrectly handled
[ECC-1562] - Segmentation fault: Invalid orderby directive