NCAR/VAPOR: VAPOR 3.9.0

Vapor 3.9.0 is now live and includes the enhancements and fixed issues below. Several significant enhancements have been added including an improved UI for Vapor's "renderer table", support for moving domains, and updated third party libraries. PythonAPI documentation and examples have been added, and changes to Vapor's session file format now make it easier to share sessions with colleagues. Thank you to everyone who has suggested new features and reported bugs in the past months. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to increase the frequency of our release cycle.

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New Enhancements 3399 - Relative, not absolute paths in VAPOR session files 3394 - Python API support ZFP compressed data 3392 - Colorbar font and background color controls 3344 - Refactor renderer list GUI 3307 - Third party library updates 3258 - Add Lighting panel to Flow rendering Appearance option 433 - Support for moving domains

Fixed Issues 3439 - Broken CentOS installer 3432 - Windows build is currently broken 3431 - MacOS and Ubuntu installers broken 3426 - Installer builds broken 3424 - Zenodo authors are incorrect 3421 - Python Engine not issuing error reports 3408 - Changing projection string with active renderers crashes vapor 3407 - OpenGL log is displayed as an error in Jupyter 3397 - Vapor's online documentation page for vapor.session is empty 3393 - SetHDF5PluginPath clobbers user environment 3390 - Python animation video writer does not honor framerate parameter 3389 - Vapor does not handle session files with relative dataset paths 3372 - Pathline render bug 3366 - Verify documentation links 3368 - Python documentation missing 3365 - Visualizer default view has partial domain 3361 - Flow streamlines give incorrect time information when written to file 3350 - Docstring missing from vapor modules 3334 - 3D grids in XArray are not supported 3333 - XArray axes are swapped compared to Vapor convention 3123 - VAPOR Python examples in Jupyter Notebook gallery form 2973 - Python scripts saved in session files only usable with data sets they were created with

New Contributors @grosa1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NCAR/VAPOR/pull/3379

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NCAR/VAPOR/compare/3.8.0...3.9.0