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Release Notes
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Washington (December 2018, v0.6.1)
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Birdhouse will be at the `AGU 2018 in Washington D.C. <https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/>`_.

.. warning:: In the making ...

Dar es Salaam (September 2018, v0.6.0)
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Birdhouse was present at the `FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam <https://2018.foss4g.org/>`_.

Highlighted Changes:

* Ansible playbook to install PyWPS applications.
* Skipped Buildout deployment ... not all birds are converted yet.
* Updated Cookiecutter template for new deployment.
* Using PyWPS OpenDAP support.
* Initial version of Birdy native client.

Released Birds:

* Ansible Playbook for PyWPS `0.1.0 <https://github.com/bird-house/ansible-wps-playbook/releases/tag/0.1.0>`_
* Cookiecutter Template for PyWPS `0.3.0 <https://github.com/bird-house/cookiecutter-birdhouse/releases/tag/v0.3.0>`_
* Birdy WPS Client: `0.4.0 <https://github.com/bird-house/birdy/releases/tag/v0.4.0>`_
* Emu WPS: `0.9.0 <https://github.com/bird-house/emu/releases/tag/v0.9.0>`_
* Hummingbird WPS: `0.6.0 <https://github.com/bird-house/hummingbird/releases/tag/v0.6.0>`_

Maintained Birds with Buildout:

* Phoenix Web App: `0.8.2 <https://github.com/bird-house/pyramid-phoenix/releases/tag/v0.8.2>`_
* Twitcher WPS Proxy: `0.3.8 <https://github.com/bird-house/twitcher/releases/tag/v0.3.8>`_
* Flyingpigeon WPS: `1.2.1 <https://github.com/bird-house/flyingpigeon/releases/tag/v.1.2.1>`_
* Malleefowl WPS: `0.6.8 <https://github.com/bird-house/malleefowl/releases/tag/v0.6.8>`_

New Birds in the making:

* Black Swan: https://github.com/bird-house/blackswan
* Eggshell: https://github.com/bird-house/eggshell

Montréal (March 2018, v0.5.0)
=============================

We had a `workshop in Montréal <https://medium.com/birdhouse-newsletter/april-2018-74c8914648d9>`_ with CRIM and Ouranos.

Highlighted Changes:

* Birdhouse has a Logo :)
* A `Cookiecutter`_ template for Birdhouse WPS birds is available.
* A new WPS Bird `Black Swan`_ for extreme weather event assessments is started
  by `LSCE <https://a2c2.lsce.ipsl.fr/>`_, Paris. This bird is spawned off `Flyingpigeon`_.
* A new Python library, `Eggshell`_, is started to provide common base functionallity
  to WPS birds like Flyingpigeon and Black Swan.
* The `Twitcher`_ security proxy supports now X509 certificates for authentication to WPS services.

Released Birds:

* Phoenix `0.8.1 <https://github.com/bird-house/pyramid-phoenix/releases/tag/0.8.1>`_
* Birdy `0.2.1 <https://github.com/bird-house/birdy/releases/tag/0.2.1>`_
* Twitcher `0.3.7 <https://github.com/bird-house/twitcher/releases/tag/0.3.7>`_
* Flyingpigeon `1.2.0 <https://github.com/bird-house/flyingpigeon/releases/tag/1.2.0>`_
* Hummingbird `0.5.7 <https://github.com/bird-house/hummingbird/releases/tag/0.5.7>`_
* Malleefowl `0.6.7 <https://github.com/bird-house/malleefowl/releases/tag/0.6.7>`_
* Emu `0.6.3 <https://github.com/bird-house/emu/releases/tag/0.6.3>`_

New Birds in the making:

* Black Swan: https://github.com/bird-house/blackswan
* Eggshell: https://github.com/bird-house/eggshell
* Cookiecutter: https://github.com/bird-house/cookiecutter-birdhouse


Bonn (August 2016, v0.4.0)
==========================

Birdhouse was present at the `FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn <http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html>`_.

Highlighted Changes:

* Leaflet map with time-dimension plugin.
* using twitcher security proxy.
* using conda environments for each birdhouse compartment.
* using ansible to deploy birdhouse compartments.
* added weather-regimes and analogs detection processes.
* allow upload of files to processes.
* updated Phoenix user interface.

Paris (October 2015, v0.3.0)
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* updated documents on readthedocs
* OAuth2 used for login with GitHub, Ceda, ...
* LDAP support for login
* using ncWMS and adagucwms
* register and use Thredds catalogs as data source
* publish local netcdf files and Thredds catalogs to birdhouse Solr
* qualtiy check processes added (cfchecker, qa-dkrz)
* generation of docker images for each birdhouse component
* using dispel4py as workflow engine in Malleefowl
* using Celery task scheduler/queue to run and monitor WPS processes
* improved Phoenix web client
* using birdy wps command line client


Paris (September 2014, v0.2.0)
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* Phoenix UI as WPS client with ESGF faceted search component and a wizard to chain WPS processes
* PyWPS based processing backend with supporting processes of Malleefowl
* WMS service (inculded in Thredds) for visualization of NetCDF files
* OGC CSW catalog service for published results and OGC WPS services
* ESGF data access with wget and OpenID
* Caching of accessed files from ESGF Nodes and Catalog Service
* WPS processes: cdo, climate-indices, ensemble data visualization, demo processes
* IPython environment for WPS processes
* initial unit tests for WPS processes
* Workflow engine Restflow for running processing chains. Currently there is only a simple workflow used: get data with wget - process data.
* Installation based on anaconda and buildout
* buildout recipes (birdhousebuilder) available on PyPI to simplify installation and configuration of multiple WPS server
* Monitoring of all used services (WPS, WMS, CSW, Phoenix) with supervisor
* moved source code and documentation to birdhouse on GitHub


Helsinki (May 2014, v0.1.2)
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* presentation of birdhouse at EGI, Helsinki
* stabilized birdhouse and CSC processes
* updated documenation and tutorials

Vienna (April 2014, v0.1.1)
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* presentation of birdhouse at EGU, Vienna.
* "quality check" workflow for CORDEX data.

Hamburg (December 2013, v0.1.0)
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* First presentation of Birdhouse at GERICS_ (German Climate Service Center), Hamburg.

.. _GERICS: https://www.climate-service-center.de/