1.6.0 Announcement

• Authors: Development Team
• Released: 2013-06-28

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 1.6.0.

The 1.6.0 release brings numerous features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including:

• Nabble community forum now available via OSGeo at http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/pycsw-devel-f5055821.html
• fix broken connection in pycsw.admin.optimize_db
• native PostGIS geometry support
• new community section on website http://pycsw.org/community.html
• Web Accessible Folder (WAF) harvesting support
• added spatial ranking for spatial queries
• added lxml 3 support
• fixes for new OGC CITE tests
• added support for SOS 2.0.0 harvesting
• added support for SOS 1.0.0 harvesting
• added database specific unit tests
• added support for nested OGC Filter queries
• fixed ISO output/safeguarding extent elements
• fixed parameterization of OGC Filter queries
• fixed fulltext search to dump only XML element values
• added flexibility to pycsw.admin.setup_db to handle use cases from calling applications, like specifying extra columns, skipping SFSQL setup, etc.
• added support for ISO 19115-2 (gmi) harvesting
• FGDC, Atom, and DIF are now core supported outputschema formats, and do not need to be explicitly set in configuration
• added CIDR notation support for CSW transactions
• enhanced link support when harvesting OWS endpoints
• fix tighten Dublin Core writer when checking on dumping XML
• fixed harvesting logic for unsupported typenames
• fixed GetRecords typename handling to not behave like a record filter, but as a query model
• harvesting support for RDF Dublin Core
• fixed Harvest operation parameter checks in HTTP GET mode
• added timeout flag to pycsw-admin.py post_xml command
• continuous integration testing (using travis-ci)
• modular Python logging capability
• paver implementation for developer tasks

The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available on https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues?milestone=7&state=closed

This release also moves pycsw forward as an OSGeo project in incubation.