Panoply full changelog

Panoply 5.9.1 released Mar 2, 2026 (New Release)

Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.10.0 (snapshot 2/10), which fixes a bug working with large arrays compressed via zlib.

Panoply 5.9.0 released Jan 29, 2026 (New Release)

Added ability to open uncompressed local Zarr v2 data store via menu command.
Bugfix: Custom UI was not applied to some comboboxes.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.10.0 (snapshot 1/16), which adds ability to work with Blosc2 compressed data.
Library: Updated EchoSVG to v. 2.4.
Library: Updated Apache pdfbox to v. 3.0.6.
Library: Updated pdfbox-graphics2d to v. 3.0.5.

Panoply 5.8.1 released Nov 21, 2025 (New Release)

Colortable browser now displays a range limit note for CPT colortables.
Bugfix: (macOS) App launch fails on Intel Macs.
Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 3.4.7.

Panoply 5.8.0 released Nov 14, 2025 (New Release)

Increased the max grid and contour label size.
Bugfix: Bookmarks and history menu links to local files did not work if some special characters were in path or name.
Bugfix: Appearance of focused and selected items in a combobox using custom renderer.
Handle Albers equal-area conic gridded data on the ellipsoid internally rather than use NJ library.
Bugfic: {macOS) Appearance of default button in dialogs.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.10.0 (snapshot 11/10).
Library: Updated EchoSVG to v. 2.2.1.

Panoply 5.6.1 released May 9, 2025 (New Release)

Open and save filechoosers retain more state info between uses during session.
Watch out for units strings that use a double asterisk to represent a following exponent.
Bugfix: Small default buffer caused a lot of overhead downloading remote datasets.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.5.4 (snapshot 3/27).

Panoply 5.6.0 released Apr 1, 2025 (New Release)

Open and save filechoosers retain more state info between uses during session.
Watch out for units strings that use a double asterisk to represent a following exponent.
Bugfix: Small default buffer caused a lot of overhead downloading remote datasets.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.5.4 (snapshot 3/27).

Panoply 5.5.5 released Nov 9, 2024 (New Release)

Open and save filechoosers retain more state info between uses during session.
Watch out for units strings that use a double asterisk to represent a following exponent.
Bugfix: Small default buffer caused a lot of overhead downloading remote datasets.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.5.4 (snapshot 3/27).

Panoply 5.5.4 released Oct 30, 2024 (New Release)

Open and save filechoosers retain more state info between uses during session.
Watch out for units strings that use a double asterisk to represent a following exponent.
Bugfix: Small default buffer caused a lot of overhead downloading remote datasets.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.5.4 (snapshot 3/27).

Panoply 5.5.2 released Oct 1, 2024 (New Release)

Open and save filechoosers retain more state info between uses during session.
Watch out for units strings that use a double asterisk to represent a following exponent.
Bugfix: Small default buffer caused a lot of overhead downloading remote datasets.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.5.4 (snapshot 3/27).

Panoply 5.5.1 released Aug 31, 2024 (New Release)

Open and save filechoosers retain more state info between uses during session.
Watch out for units strings that use a double asterisk to represent a following exponent.
Bugfix: Small default buffer caused a lot of overhead downloading remote datasets.
Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 5.5.4 (snapshot 3/27).

Panoply full changelog

Panoply full changelog

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