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The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.6.0. <br>
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This release brings various enhancements to OpenSearch temporal
support, cloud<br>
enhancements, and 12 factor support. This release also drops all
Python 2<br>
support given the [Python 2 end of life](<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pythonclock.org">https://pythonclock.org</a>)
which occured<br>
on 01 January 2020. Users are strongly encouraged to update their
deployments<br>
to Python 3 as soon as possible.<br>
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Source and binary downloads:<br>
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The source code is available at: <br>
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[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pycsw.org/download">https://pycsw.org/download</a>](<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pycsw.org/download">https://pycsw.org/download</a>)<br>
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PyPI packages are available at:<br>
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[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pypi.org/project/pycsw">https://pypi.org/project/pycsw</a>](<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pypi.org/project/pycsw">https://pypi.org/project/pycsw</a>)<br>
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Version 2.6.0 (2020-12-05):<br>
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[Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes]<br>
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- fix GetRecords startposition empty parameter fixes<br>
- update OpenSearch temporal extent query support<br>
- add 12 factor support<br>
- support environment variables in configuration<br>
- add kubernetes and helm configurations<br>
- fix quoting for PostgreSQL backends<br>
- add logging switch to pycsw-admin.py CLI to stdout<br>
- safeguard XML as bytes to unicode<br>
- update core model xml column to Unicode on repository creation<br>
- handle different formats for CRS code input<br>
- add test for invalid gml:posList geometry<br>
- drop all Python 2 support<br>
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Testers and developers are welcome.<br>
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The pycsw developer team.<br>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pycsw.org">https://pycsw.org</a>](<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pycsw.org">https://pycsw.org</a>)<br>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos">http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos</a></pre>
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