This 1.9 series pre-release of OWS represents a major step forward on the road to an official 1.9.0 Open Data Cube release.

More excitingly, pre-release 1.9.0-rc1 is the first pre-release of OWS compatible with Open Data Cube 1.9 (also still in pre-release). This pre-release includes support for both the legacy "postgres" index driver and the new "postgis" index driver.

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New releases of Datacube-OWS, the web services layer for the Open Data Cube:. The new stable release 1.8.42 includes bug fixes and significant enhancements to custom feature info inclusions.

Version 1.8.41 of Datacube-OWS is now available and includes a new feature: Multi-date handlers for colour ramp styles can now operate on raw band data, enabling many new visual comparison techniques that were not previously supported.

1.8.19 release of the Open Data Cube includes a fix to a bug in COG generation code affecting floating point bands, that adversely affected both ESRI and GDAL handling of ODC-generated floating point COGs.

Please note that this is a pre-release and should not be installed on production platforms. But feel free to try it on dev systems and let us know what breaks! . (And be sure to familiarise yourself with the release and migration notes first.).

The first release candidate for datacube-core 1.9.0 has been (pre-)released (numbered rc3 for boring reasons). Please read the migration guide before attempting to upgrade from 1.8.x.

ODC 1.8.18 is now available. It contains bug-fixes, enhancements and changes to smooth the transition to Open Data Cube 1.9.x. Future development will focus on the 1.9.x series, but 1.8.x maintenance releases will continue for the forseeable future.

Run datacube-ows-update with the "schema" option to activate the new view definition.

Previously the spatial materialised view recognised metadata types by name. From 1.8.38, all metadata types with a name starting with 'eo3_' will be treated as eo3 compatible. New non-eo3 metadata types will still require special handling.

New OWS release 1.8.38. OWS is the open web services layer for the ODC. Improved handling of arbitrary eo3 compatible metadata types, plus bug fixes.

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Feedback from the community is encouraged - we want to make the transition as smooth as possible for all users and ensure that nobody gets left behind. You can leave comments here or on the github discussion at 12/12.

More details can be found by reading the ODCv2 roadmap and the various Enhancement Proposals at    All of the most significant changes are discussed there in more detail. 11/12.

* Support for multi-dimensional loading of hyperspectral datasets. 10/12.

* The postgis driver supports a powerful new API for working with lineage data, offering more powerful tools for querying lineage information and looser coupling and cleaner separation between lineage and datasets. 9/12.

* A new configuration engine. Most existing config files should continue to work as previously, but there are some backwards-incompatible changes. 8/12.

* The postgis driver will support spatial indexes for arbitrary CRSs. This will improve efficiency and accuracy of database searches, particularly when working with data for regions like the Pacific around the anti-meridian and the north and south polar regions). 7/12.