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<div> First of all, these are not related to GrADS v2 that Jennifer just announced, nor can these binaries read Grib-2. <br clear="all"></div>
<div> As an effort towards a final stable release of GrADS v1.9 we have posted sources and binaries for a number of platforms, including the first Windows build for v1.9 (more on that in a separate message). The files can be found on <a href="http://sf.net">sf.net</a>:</div>
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<div><a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=182392">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=182392</a></div>
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<div>This distribution has been prepared as part of the OpenGrADS Project (<a href="http://opengrads.org/">http://opengrads.org</a>), a sourceforge based activity dedicated to create advanced extensions and interfaces for GrADS. This version of the GrADS includes primarily bug fixes over v1.9beta4 (see ChangeLog), and the addition of hooks to enable the new opengrads extensions and interfaces to Perl/Python. </div>
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<div>Although we started from COLA's latest v1.9 sources last Fall, the GrADS core team at COLA is yet to review our changes for inclusion in the FINAL (not Release Candidate) GrADS v1.9, as their focus has been to produce the exciting new GrADS v2 release that was just announced. It is expected that this Release Candidate (v1.9.0-rc1) will be pretty close to the final COLA release.</div>
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<div>We will make an announcement in the coming weeks about OpenGrADS extensions and interfaces as we release these packages. As a sneak preview you can look at some screenshots produced with the GrADS interface to Python (PyGrADS):</div>
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<div> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=161773">http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=161773</a></div>
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<div>And of course, all OpenGrADS development will be migrating to GrADS v2 now that it is out.</div>
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<div> Enjoy,</div>
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<div> Arlindo</div>
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<div><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a> </div>