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10 years – Happy birthday pycsw! 🎉 This year (02 December) marks the 10th anniversary of the pycsw project. From the initial commit on SourceForge, and subsequent announcement, of the project, pycsw has evolved into a stable, production ready and ... [More] core spatial data infrastructure (SDI) component for disseminating metadata via the OGC CSW specification. pycsw powers numerous high profile open data / SDI activities, including US Data.gov, LINZ, Geodata.gov.gr, IOOS, NOAA, WMO WOUDC, UN WFP, Copernicus and GEOSS. The flexible nature of the project has also resulted in integration with leading open data management systems such as CKAN and GeoNode. From day one, pycsw has always strived to be OGC Compliant. The project continues to be a leading OGC Reference Implementation of CSW. In addition, pycsw continues as a long standing OSGeo project and a core component of the growing ecosystem of geopython projects for the open source geospatial community. Future plans The project will continue to evolve into the future. pycsw’s flexible nature will continue to support new metadata formats, as well as integration with downstream applications. To support OGC CSW as a baseline OGC web service specification, as well as the evolving OGC API efforts to modernize web service APIs, pycsw will continue to support CSW 2/3, as well as the emerging OGC API - Records specification. Thank you to the pycsw community, OSGeo, OGC and beyond for your support and use of our lightweight, flexible and OGC compliant metadata catalogue server – happy birthday pycsw! Sincerly The pycsw Project Steering Committee [Less]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.6.0. 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 ... [More] 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: 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): [Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes] 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 [Less]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.4.0. Note that though pycsw works with Python 2 and 3, we have turned off Python 2 testing given the Python 2 end of life scheduled for 01 January 2020. Users are strongly encouraged to update their ... [More] deployments to Python 3 as soon as possible. Source and binary downloads: The source code is available at: https://pycsw.org/download PyPI packages are available at: https://pypi.org/project/pycsw Version 2.4.0 (2019-05-17): [Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes] fix CAT 3.0 schema locations fix to handle plugin loading across various operating systems bump of requirements new project logos safeguard WKT exceptions against newer versions of Shapely updated Chinese translations enhancements and fixes to large metadata harvesting workflows safeguard async naming for Python 3.7 OpenSearch description document updates startposition fixes to for GetRecords workflows Testers and developers are welcome. We would like to thank OSGeo and the 2019 Minneapolis Code Sprint organizers and sponsors for their support. The pycsw developer team. https://pycsw.org/ [Less]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.2.0. The 2.2.0 release adds WMS 1.3.0 and WPS process harvesting as well as plugin support enhancements. Source and binary downloads: The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download ... [More] Version 2.2.0 (2018-03-20): [Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes] Support overriding PYCSW_ROOT via environment variable handle malformed basic service options support Python import for plugins support WMS 1.3.0 harvesting implement CQL to Filter transforms implement WPS process harvesting fix CQL literals with spaces include dct:alternative in CSW3 full output update testing framework to py.test implement OGC filter parsing as Python dict for easy parsing by repository plugins do not silence exceptions on custom plugins support CQL WKT ENVELOPE syntax check forwarded ip address when pycsw is behind a proxy add official Docker implementation fix CSW service / version support (optional in 3.0.0) fix CSW 3 GetRecords POST handling Testers and developers are welcome. We would like to thank OSGeo and the 2018 Bonn Code Sprint organizers and sponsors for their support. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/ [Less]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.2.0. The 2.2.0 release adds WMS 1.3.0 and WPS process harvesting as well as plugin support enhancements. Source and binary downloads: The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download ... [More] Version 2.2.0 (2018-03-20): [Bulleted list of enhancements / bug fixes] Support overriding PYCSW_ROOT via environment variable handle malformed basic service options support Python import for plugins support WMS 1.3.0 harvesting implement CQL to Filter transforms implement WPS process harvesting fix CQL literals with spaces include dct:alternative in CSW3 full output update testing framework to py.test implement OGC filter parsing as Python dict for easy parsing by repository plugins do not silence exceptions on custom plugins support CQL WKT ENVELOPE syntax check forwarded ip address when pycsw is behind a proxy add official Docker implementation fix CSW service / version support (optional in 3.0.0) fix CSW 3 GetRecords POST handling Testers and developers are welcome. We would like to thank OSGeo and the 2018 Bonn Code Sprint organizers and sponsors for their support. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/ [Less]

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.0.2, 1.10.5 and 1.8.6. This is a security release to mitigate an SQL injection vulnerability when using CQL or SRU mode queries (CVE-2016-8640). You are strongly recommended to update pycsw to the latest stable releases in the 2.0.x, 1.10.x and 1.8.x release lines.

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.0.2, 1.10.5 and 1.8.6. This is a security release to mitigate an SQL injection vulnerability when using CQL or SRU mode queries (CVE-2016-8640). You are strongly recommended to update pycsw to the latest stable releases in the 2.0.x, 1.10.x and 1.8.x release lines.

12 July 2016 The pycsw team proudly announces the release of pycsw 2.0.0 “Doug”. The 2.0.0 “Doug” release brings major features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including: CSW 3 support (OGC Reference Implementation) Python 3 support ... [More] WMTS harvesting (thanks @jfdickens) JSON output improvements XML output improvements GM03 support for Swiss metadata add temporal extent support to WMS layer harvesting The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/milestone/8. Users are strongly advised to review the migration guide. The 2.0.0 release is codenamed “Doug” in honour of Doug Nebert of the FGDC. Doug was internationally recognized as a champion of metadata, discovery and interoperability. Involved in numerous international standards bodies and spatial data infrastructure initiatives, Doug was one of the editors of the CSW 3.0 specification and encouraged pycsw developers to adopt and implement CSW 3.0 as part of US data.gov efforts. Doug’s vision and expertise will always be remembered and appreciated by the pycsw development team. pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU), providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). Source and binary downloads The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download Testers and developers are welcome. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/ [Less]

12 July 2016 The pycsw team proudly announces the release of pycsw 2.0.0 “Doug”. The 2.0.0 “Doug” release brings major features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including: CSW 3 support (OGC Reference Implementation) Python 3 support ... [More] WMTS harvesting (thanks @jfdickens) JSON output improvements XML output improvements GM03 support for Swiss metadata add temporal extent support to WMS layer harvesting The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/milestone/8. Users are strongly advised to review the migration guide. The 2.0.0 release is codenamed “Doug” in honour of Doug Nebert of the FGDC. Doug was internationally recognized as a champion of metadata, discovery and interoperability. Involved in numerous international standards bodies and spatial data infrastructure initiatives, Doug was one of the editors of the CSW 3.0 specification and encouraged pycsw developers to adopt and implement CSW 3.0 as part of US data.gov efforts. Doug’s vision and expertise will always be remembered and appreciated by the pycsw development team. pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU), providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). Source and binary downloads The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download Testers and developers are welcome. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/ [Less]

28 January 2016 The pycsw development team is happy to announce that pycsw 1.10 is now certified OGC Compliant for OGC CSW 2.0.2 [1], and passes all CITE tests. In addition, pycsw 1.10 is now an official OGC Reference Implementation. A ... [More] demonstration instance of the reference implementation is available at http://demo.pycsw.org. “Reference Implementations are an important piece of community compliance tools,” said Luis Bermudez, Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning, Open Geospatial Consortium. “They not only support OGC verifying that new releases of the tests are not breaking previous implementations, but also provide practical help to new developers that want to implement the standard. pycsw has been Reference Implementation of CAT 2.0 for over 2 years since version 1.4. OGC appreciates the effort of the OSGeo community to keep pycsw compliant with the current CAT 2.0 test.” Standards are at the core of pycsw; acheiving OGC compliance and reference implementation status is part of the project’s ongoing commitment to an open source, standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is an OGC Compliant CSW server implementation written in Python. Please visit http://pycsw.org for more information. [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/details/?pid=1325 The pycsw Development Team. [Less]