Open Data Cube 1.9.0-rc9 Pre-Release

Open Data Cube 1.9.0 Release Candidate 9

This is the first release candidate to include access to the new hyperspectral loading API. If you install odc-stac and pass driver="rio" or driver="zarr" to dc.load() or dc.load_data(), you can now make use of the powerful new hyperspectral loading engine from odc-stac. Eventually this functionality will be split off from odc-stac into a separate Python package. (if you pass nothing to driver you get the old legacy ODC loader engine.) This hyperspectral loading work was performed by @Kirill888 and funded by the CSIRO Space and Astronomy unit.

This release candidate also addresses bugs in the configuration API and the index driver API. Some minor changes to the index driver spatial search API have been made to bring them into consistency with the dc.load() API. (The semantics of the dc.load() API spatial search API has been preserved, although the implementation has changed to allow simpler interaction with the index API.)

Changes since 1.9.0-rc8:

• Ensure config API works with a blank config/empty file. (#1604)
• Various minor maintenance fixes. (#1607)
• Misc cleanup, and add support for geospatial queries to count methods in postgis driver. (#1608)
• Add new driver based loader (via odc.loader module in the odc-stac package) (#1609)
• Fix 1.9 docker image in GHA (#1610)
• Consolidate spatial search argument handling in index layer and prepare for release. (#1611)