3.0.0-dev.1

Changes 3.0 (in development)

• Cate App 3.0 now requires the Web API service of the cate 3.0+
  Python package.

• In order to keep alive the connection to the Web API service,
  Cate App now sends a keepalive signal every 2.5 seconds. (#150)

• For faster opening of datasets, the value of the currently selected
  data store data_store_id is now passed to the open_dataset
  operation.

• Fixed a bug with user preferences not being saved correctly. (#146)

• Optimisations in the DATA SOURCES panel (that have been enabled by
  using xcube in the backend):

  • Initialising the "CCI Open Data Portal" data store
    is now accelerated by a magnitude.
  • Local caching of remote data sources when opening datasets
    is now much faster and more reliable.
  • Added new experimental store "CCI Zarr Store" that offers
    selected CCI datasets that have been converted to Zarr format
    and are read from JASMIN object storage.
  • Ability to add more data stores has been greatly improved.
  • Enhanced the "Open Dataset" dialog by messages that tell
    why a certain constraint is not (yet) available.
  • Fixed icons and labels for some new CCI ECVs.

• We now obtain Cate Hub's status information from a dedicated GitHub
  repository cate-status.

• Adapted to changed cate-hub API. (An API response no longer has
  status and result properties, instead a response is the result,
  and the response status is represented by the HTTP response code.)

• Improved rendering of text in many places by making it user-selectable
  and interpreting it as markdown:

  • Data source abstract in the DATA SOURCES details panel:
  • Operation description in OPERATIONS panel.