[Freegis-list] pycsw 1.4.0 released

[Angelos Tzotsos]

The  pycsw  team  announces  the  release  of  pycsw  1.4.0.

The  1.4.0release  brings  numerous  features,  enhancements  and  fixes  to  the  codebase,  including:

  *  WSGI  server  support
  *  harvesting  support  for  WFS,  WCS,  WPS,  and  other  CSW  endpoints
  *  support  for  [Open  Data  Catalog]  (https://github.com/azavea/Open-Data-Catalog/)  integration
  *  enhanced  support  for  GeoNode  2.0(GeoNode  development  branch)
  *  support  for  distutils  setup/install,  which  enables  pycsw  to  be  installed  as  a  library
  *  support  for  PyPi
  *  support  for  displaying  counts  for  GetDomain  requests  based  on  queryable  properties
  *  support  for  requestId  request  parameter
  *  fix  GetRecords  sortby  parameter  support  for  HTTP  GET
  *  support  for  W3C  XLink  1.1migration
  *  support  for  Debian  and  Ubuntu  packaging
  *  support  for  sorting  GetRecords  requests  by  geometry  area
  *  support  for  PostGIS  enabled  PostgreSQL

This  release  also  marks  our  migration  to  GitHub  for  source  code  management,  issue  tracking  and  wiki.

The  full  list  of  enhancements  and  bug  fixes  is  available  at  https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues?milestone=2&page=1&state=closed

pycsw  is  an  OGC  CSW  server  implementation  written  in  Python.   pycsw  implements  clause  10(HTTP  protocol  binding  (Catalogue  Services  for  
the  Web,  CSW))  of  the  OpenGIS  Catalogue  Service  Implementation  Specification,  version  2.0.2.

pycsw  allows  for  the  publishing  and  discovery  of  geospatial  metadata.   Existing  repositories  of  geospatial  metadata  can  be  exposed  via   OGC:CSW  
2.0.2.   pycsw  is  Open  Source,  released  under  an  MIT  license,  and  runs  on  all  major  platforms  (Windows,  Linux,  Mac  OS  X).

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

http://pycsw.org/download.html

Testers  and  developers  are  welcome.

The  pycsw  developer  team.

http://pycsw.org/