Version 0.12 Updates¶

Version 0.12.5¶

made Field available as a top level import
```
from earthkit.data import Field
```

Field.resolution() now returns None when the resolution cannot be determined. Previously, it failed with an assertion (#616)

Fixed issue when there was a crash during checking missing MARS credentials when calling from_source("mars", ...). It only happened when ecmwfapi was used for MARS retrievals. (#615)

Fixed issue when failed to build a fieldlist with concatenation because maximum recursion depth exceeded (#599)

Fixed issue when the earthkit Xarray engine prevented opening geotiff with xarray.open_dataset() (#591)
Fixed issue when no “units” attribute was added to the Xarray dataset generated from a single GRIB variable (#592)

Enabled using environment variables to control the settings (#565). See the notebook example:
- Configuration environment variables
Re-enabled headers_only_clone=True when calling GribMetadata.override() (#567)
Added the ecfs source to retrieve data from ECMWF’s File Storage system (only available at ECMWF) (#568)
Made earthkit-geo an optional dependency (#569) . See Installation.
Enabled specifying the path to the standalone MARS client command via the MARS_CLIENT_EXECUTABLE environment variable (#566)
Add JAX array backend (#533)
Allow encoding of PL array for GribCoder (#546)

Fixed issue when sel() failed on Xarray generated with the earthkit engine from a single GRIB field (#564)
Fixed issue when could not correctly update the settings config file from concurrent processes (#559)