[OSGeo-Announce] pycsw 2.6.0 released 2020-12-05

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.6.0.

see also https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/pycsw-2-6-0-released/

This release brings various enhancements to OpenSearch temporal support, 
cloud
enhancements, and 12 factor support.  This release also drops all Python 
2
support given the Python 2 end of life (https://pythonclock.org) which 
occured
on 01 January 2020.  Users are strongly encouraged to update their 
deployments
to Python 3 as soon as possible.

Source and binary downloads:
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The source code is available at:

https://pycsw.org/download

PyPI packages are available at:

https://pypi.org/project/pycsw


Version 2.6.0 (2020-12-05):
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- fix GetRecords startposition empty parameter fixes
- update OpenSearch temporal extent query support
- add 12 factor support
- support environment variables in configuration
- add kubernetes and helm configurations
- fix quoting for PostgreSQL backends
- add logging switch to pycsw-admin.py CLI to stdout
- safeguard XML as bytes to unicode
- update core model xml column to Unicode on repository creation
- handle different formats for CRS code input
- add test for invalid gml:posList geometry
- drop all Python 2 support

Testers and developers are welcome.

The pycsw developer team.

[https://pycsw.org](https://pycsw.org)