WeeWX V4.8.0 available

[Tom Keffer]

Version 4.8.0 is available. Only one new feature, the ability to override the unit used in a plot, but a bunch of little fixes. 

CHANGE LOG:

4.8.0 04/21/2022
Allow unit to be overridden for a specific plot by using new option 'unit'.
Fixes issue #729.

Fix problem that prevented wind from appearing in NOAA yearly summaries.

Fix honoring global values for log_success and log_failure. Fix issue #757.

wee_import CSV imports now allow import of text fields. Addresses issue #732.

Explain in the Customizing Guide how to include arbitrary SQL expressions
in a plot.

Reorder font download order, for slightly faster downloads.
Fix issue #760.

Add observation types highOutTemp and lowOutTemp to group_temperature.

Add unit groups for sunshine and rain duration, cloudcover, and pop.
PR #765

Do not allow HUP signals (reload is not allowed as of V4.6).
PR #766.

Do not fork if using systemd.
PR #767.

Fix problem that prevented wee_config --reconfigure from working when
using Python 2.7, if the configuration file contained UTF-8 characters.

[DR]

What is the WeeWx program developer's philosophy, as far as updates are
concerned.

Some authors prefer to have everyone possible on the latest version so
as to help with debugging the real problem rather than variation from
release to release.


On the other hand, I'm happy as a pig in mud with my current install and
if I don't run into problems and there are no major advances and I am
not encountering any of the fix-mentioned issued, so should I just sit
tight or upgrade?  Dale

[Tom Keffer]

Provided you are not being affected by any of the bugs that were fixed, there is no reason to upgrade.

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[vince]

Tom - you probably want to run createrepo for at least your el7 repo.  It's still picking up 4.7

Manually installing 4.8.0 via "yum install http://www.weewx.com/downloads/released_versions/weewx-4.8.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm" worked fine so the rpm itself is good.

[Tom Keffer]

Not sure what happened. Give it another try.

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[matthew wall]

the suse and rhel/centos repos have been updated with 4.8.0-2.  this fixes the systemd unit file for weewx. the raw rpms are now available in the download area.