VERDI_2.1.3 Release (January 2022)

CMAS Center Announcements
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ANOTHER Important Vulnerability Update for VERDI 2.1.3 (January 06, 2022)

REPLACE ALL PRIOR versions of VERDI with this patched release version VERDI 2.1.3

We apologize for the frequency of these updates. They are required to fix vulnerabilities as they are identified and patched in the log4j logging package that VERDI uses.

  • Updated VERDI to log4j 2.17.1 to fix security vulnerability: Log4j – Apache Log4j 2
  • The User Manual for VERDI has not been updated. It will be updated for the next Major Release.

The U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, General Dynamics Information Technology and the Community Modeling and Analysis System Center are pleased to announce the release of the Visualization Environment for Rich Data Interpretation (VERDI) version 2.1.3

https://www.cmascenter.org/verdi/

VERDI 2.1.2 (previous release)

  • Updated VERDI to log4j 2.17.0 to fix security vulnerability: Log4j – Apache Log4j 2
  • Fixed linux build to use openjdk 16.0.2 2021-07-20.
  • Re-enabled the splash screen with automatic version numbering.
  • The User Manual for VERDI has not been updated. It will be updated for the next Major Release.

VERDI 2.1.1 (previous release)

Additional bug fixes with this patched version.

  • Fixed Polar Stereographic Projection Issue for Tile Plot Display of WRF Files.

VERDI 2.1 (previous release)

  • Enhanced user interface and interactive features related to observation overlays (e.g., preview feature, custom symbols)
  • Added support for setting legend levels from a batch script.
  • Improved error messaging (when an observation data set does not contain data for the map being shown)
  • Updated Java Runtime Environment to OpenJDK 16.02

VERDI uses Java, which makes it easy to install and is portable across different operating systems. VERDI packages are distributed for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

VERDI development continues with the support of efforts of the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA’s National Computer Center/Environmental Modeling and Visualization Laboratory and the CMAS Center.

Please report any bugs or problems with this release to the CMAS User Forum - with the VERDI category tag: VERDI - CMAS CENTER FORUM