X-Git-Url: https://yuggoth.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4d00ec007534db85885ee3f0f2efb91c00596f45;hb=HEAD;hp=92870049abda904cdb4c2ed24dc041e83bba41e8;hpb=915f1b8d7d104e8fec75018bb470051f96f5abee;p=weather.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9287004..4d00ec0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,13 +2,43 @@ New Version Information for the Weather Utility ================================================= -:Copyright: (c) 2006-2016 Jeremy Stanley . Permission +:Copyright: (c) 2006-2024 Jeremy Stanley . Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is granted under terms provided in the LICENSE file distributed with this software. .. contents:: +2.5 Release +----------- +This release no longer works with Python versions prior to 3.9 since it +relies on the new zoneinfo module from the 3.9 standard library, and may +need the pytz library from PyPI if your system lacks time zone data. + +Added support for tornado watches and warnings, as well as fixing some +bugs which caused certain alerts to fail to be found or to get filtered +out prior to their intended expiration times. A new command line and +configuration option for document expiration delay is included, +defaulting to 1 hour. Data sources have also been updated, including +2023 census locations. WX weather zone definitions now include time +zones as well, in case they should become necessary in the future. + +2.4 Release +----------- +This is planned to be the last release supporting Python 2; starting +with the 2.5.0 release, this software will only be usable with Python +3.x. + +Refreshed correlation sets and data sources including updating to 2019 +US Census locations and incorporating public domain airport information +from the wonderful ourairports.com community, stopped using the long +defunct metar.tbl and zonecatalog.curr.tar files, switched to HTTPS +protocol since all the URLs had started redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS +anyway, added functionality for fetching forecasts from HTML pages where +they're wrapped in preformat tags and included a new forecast zone for +the Hong Kong Observatory using this, fixed a few bugs when running +under recent Python 3 versions. + 2.3 Release ----------- Fixed a regression in the correlate function which reintroduced the