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.)