v2.4.0

What's Changed

• Added support for executing drivers defined outside the uwtools package.
• Added support for coupled drivers.
• Added CDEPS, filter_topo, IODA, orog_gsl, SCHISM drivers.
• Added code to prevent YAML lines from wrapping.
• Added information on troubleshooting in IDEs to developer documentation.
• Added support for Fortran derived-type member references using % in YAML configs.
• Added support for producing scalar values from YAML-config leaf nodes via uw config realize.
• Changed run_dir, present in all UW YAML driver configs, to rundir.
• Exposed driver classes via uwtools.api package.
• Exposed the Copier and Linker classes via uwtools.api.file.
• Fixed a bug related to provisioning input files for the chgres_cube driver.
• Fixed a bug related to specification of multi-day durations in MPAS configuration.
• Fixed a bug whereby parent directories for CDEPS, SCHISM, and WaveWatchIII assets were not created as needed.
• Fixed an issue with the output shown when using the --version flag on uw.
• Fixed issues with chgres_cube schema and related value lookups in driver code.
• Fixed JEDI driver to pass YAML config to the executable.
• Improved CLI handling of leadtime values.
• Improved driver schemas to explicitly require the driver's own block.
• Made additional driver-object attributes public.
• Made a number of updates to the User Guide and the Contributor Guide.
• Made --target-dir optional in uw file mode when all destination paths are absolute.
• Simplified the specification of threads information in driver configs.
• Updated code for generating MPAS streams files to use native XML generation instead of templating.
• Updated drivers using the base_file YAML key to require existence of the named file.
• Updated Rocoto schema to permit specification of native in combination with cores or nodes.

Full Changelog: v2.3.3...v2.4.0