From d0cbc3dd7de98905a9c1951261dcd17419a0d97e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mishaschwartz <4380924+mishaschwartz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:00:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 01/11] update thredds to version 5.4

---
 CHANGES.md                                              | 6 +++++-
 birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env                | 2 +-
 birdhouse/components/thredds/threddsConfig.xml.template | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index ee8768271..bff9e9c74 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@
 [Unreleased](https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/master) (latest)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-[//]: # (list changes here, using '-' for each new entry, remove this when items are added)
+## Changes
+
+- Update Thredds to supported version
+ 
+  Unidata has dropped support for TDS versions < 5.x. This updates Thredds to version 5.4.
 
 [2.0.1](https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/2.0.1) (2023-12-11)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
index 07b70a8aa..7c8c622f1 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # All env in this default.env can be overridden by env.local.
 
 # thredds-docker >= 4.6.18 or >= 5.2 strongly recommended to avoid Log4J CVE-2021-44228.
-export THREDDS_VERSION=4.6.18-unidata-2022-01
+export THREDDS_VERSION=5.4-unidata-2023-09-19
 export THREDDS_DOCKER=pavics/thredds-docker
 export THREDDS_IMAGE="${THREDDS_DOCKER}:${THREDDS_VERSION}"
 export THREDDS_ORGANIZATION="Birdhouse"
diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/threddsConfig.xml.template b/birdhouse/components/thredds/threddsConfig.xml.template
index caf3f9bdf..74f105674 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/threddsConfig.xml.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/threddsConfig.xml.template
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/tds/current/reference/ThreddsConfigXMLFile
   </NCISO>
 
   <!--
-  https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/tds/current/reference/ThreddsConfigXMLFile.html#DiskCache
+  https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/tds/current/userguide/tds_config_ref.html#cdm-library-disk-cache
 
   These elements control where the CDM/NetCDF-Java library writes temporary
   files, for example when it needs to unzip files, or write GRIB index files,

From cf56f8c6d0bb6a7c6e02de606d138c467bfe7721 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:14:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 02/11] thredds: update to latest version and apply WMS fix

WMS fix as per https://github.com/Unidata/tds/issues/449#issuecomment-1896934522.
---
 birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env                | 4 ++--
 birdhouse/components/thredds/wmsConfig.xml              | 2 +-
 birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/wmsConfig.xml | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
index 7c8c622f1..98aac0c2b 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # All env in this default.env can be overridden by env.local.
 
 # thredds-docker >= 4.6.18 or >= 5.2 strongly recommended to avoid Log4J CVE-2021-44228.
-export THREDDS_VERSION=5.4-unidata-2023-09-19
-export THREDDS_DOCKER=pavics/thredds-docker
+export THREDDS_VERSION="5.4-unidata-2024-01-17"
+export THREDDS_DOCKER="pavics/thredds-docker"
 export THREDDS_IMAGE="${THREDDS_DOCKER}:${THREDDS_VERSION}"
 export THREDDS_ORGANIZATION="Birdhouse"
 export THREDDS_ADDITIONAL_CATALOG=""
diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/wmsConfig.xml b/birdhouse/components/thredds/wmsConfig.xml
index 589919f95..b26f29127 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/wmsConfig.xml
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/wmsConfig.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE wmsConfig SYSTEM "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/schemas/thredds/dtd/ncwms/wmsConfig.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE wmsConfig SYSTEM "https://schemas.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds/dtd/ncwms/wmsConfig.dtd">
 <!--
 Detailed configuration of the WMS service.  This config file can be used to
 set default styling parameters for each dataset/variable, and to enable or disable
diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/wmsConfig.xml b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/wmsConfig.xml
index 589919f95..b26f29127 100644
--- a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/wmsConfig.xml
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/wmsConfig.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE wmsConfig SYSTEM "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/schemas/thredds/dtd/ncwms/wmsConfig.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE wmsConfig SYSTEM "https://schemas.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds/dtd/ncwms/wmsConfig.dtd">
 <!--
 Detailed configuration of the WMS service.  This config file can be used to
 set default styling parameters for each dataset/variable, and to enable or disable

From f3264ac2fc033163dfcdd721e4db2b2c1cc79cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mishaschwartz <4380924+mishaschwartz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 10:56:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] add THREDDS_TAGGED variable since THREDDS_VERSION is
 not a proper semantic versioning tag

---
 .../config/canarie-api/canarie_api_monitoring.py.template   | 2 +-
 birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env                    | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/canarie-api/canarie_api_monitoring.py.template b/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/canarie-api/canarie_api_monitoring.py.template
index 910202d60..63b874e30 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/canarie-api/canarie_api_monitoring.py.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/canarie-api/canarie_api_monitoring.py.template
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ SERVICES['Thredds'] = {
         'name': 'Thredds',
         'synopsis': 'Climate Data Catalog and Format Renderers',
         'version': "${THREDDS_VERSION}",
-        'releaseTime': get_release_time_from_repo_tag("docker", "${THREDDS_DOCKER}", "${THREDDS_VERSION}"),
+        'releaseTime': get_release_time_from_repo_tag("docker", "${THREDDS_DOCKER}", "${THREDDS_TAGGED}"),
         'institution': 'Ouranos',
         'researchSubject': 'Catalog',
         'supportEmail': '${SUPPORT_EMAIL}',
diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
index 623458b26..125f311c3 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # All env in this default.env can be overridden by env.local.
 
 # thredds-docker >= 4.6.18 or >= 5.2 strongly recommended to avoid Log4J CVE-2021-44228.
-export THREDDS_VERSION="5.4-unidata-2024-01-17"
+export THREDDS_TAGGED="5.4-unidata-2024-01-17"
+export THREDDS_VERSION="5.4.0-unidata-2024-01-17"
 export THREDDS_DOCKER=pavics/thredds-docker
-export THREDDS_IMAGE='${THREDDS_DOCKER}:${THREDDS_VERSION}'
+export THREDDS_IMAGE='${THREDDS_DOCKER}:${THREDDS_TAGGED}'
 export THREDDS_IMAGE_URI='registry.hub.docker.com/${THREDDS_IMAGE}'
 export THREDDS_ORGANIZATION="Birdhouse"
 export THREDDS_ADDITIONAL_CATALOG=""
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ OPTIONAL_VARS="
   \$THREDDS_ORGANIZATION
   \$TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH
   \$THREDDS_DOCKER
+  \$THREDDS_TAGGED
   \$THREDDS_VERSION
   \$THREDDS_IMAGE
   \$THREDDS_IMAGE_URI

From 70b5fe0aafc87bba8d685b1696857d6ed7d2d6a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:55:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] thredds: update to version 5.5-unidata-2024-09-10

---
 birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
index cd89c7b46..90d64448f 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # All env in this default.env can be overridden by env.local.
 
 # thredds-docker >= 4.6.18 or >= 5.2 strongly recommended to avoid Log4J CVE-2021-44228.
-export THREDDS_TAGGED="5.4-unidata-2024-01-17"
-export THREDDS_VERSION="5.4.0-unidata-2024-01-17"
+export THREDDS_TAGGED="5.5-unidata-2024-09-10"
+export THREDDS_VERSION="5.5.0-unidata-2024-09-10"
 export THREDDS_DOCKER=pavics/thredds-docker
 export THREDDS_IMAGE='${THREDDS_DOCKER}:${THREDDS_TAGGED}'
 export THREDDS_IMAGE_URI='registry.hub.docker.com/${THREDDS_IMAGE}'

From f2315357c979f4e255911ba95aaa0fcf319eba8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:49:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 05/11] thredds: update NCSS NetcdfSubset service config for v5

See https://github.com/Unidata/tds/issues/544 and
https://github.com/Unidata/tds/pull/545.
---
 birdhouse/components/thredds/catalog.xml.template              | 3 ++-
 birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/catalog.xml.template b/birdhouse/components/thredds/catalog.xml.template
index f7979d9b3..5c76570c5 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/catalog.xml.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/catalog.xml.template
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
         <service name="iso" serviceType="ISO" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/iso/"/>
         <service name="wcs" serviceType="WCS" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/wcs/" />
         <service name="wms" serviceType="WMS" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/wms/" />
-        <service name="subsetServer" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/" />
+        <service name="ncssGrid" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/grid/" />
+        <service name="ncssPoint" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/point/" />
     </service>
 
     <datasetScan name="${THREDDS_SERVICE_DATA_LOCATION_NAME}" ID="${THREDDS_SERVICE_DATA_URL_PATH}" path="${THREDDS_SERVICE_DATA_URL_PATH}" location="${THREDDS_SERVICE_DATA_LOCATION_ON_CONTAINER}">
diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
index 7af6a1a20..fdfcd1db5 100644
--- a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
         <service name="iso" serviceType="ISO" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/iso/"/>
         <service name="wcs" serviceType="WCS" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/wcs/" />
         <service name="wms" serviceType="WMS" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/wms/" />
-        <service name="subsetServer" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/ncss/" />
+        <service name="ncssGrid" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/grid/" />
+        <service name="ncssPoint" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/point/" />
     </service>
 
     <datasetScan name="TestDatasets" ID="testdatasets" path="testdatasets" location="/birdhouse-testdata">

From 3bde344ffdfda090d50155288b36de95f9a139cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:20:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 06/11] thredds: use v5.5 with missing jar

See https://github.com/Unidata/thredds-docker/issues/310.
---
 birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
index 59a3d4cb4..ff97522d2 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/default.env
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # All env in this default.env can be overridden by env.local.
 
 # thredds-docker >= 4.6.18 or >= 5.2 strongly recommended to avoid Log4J CVE-2021-44228.
-export THREDDS_TAGGED="5.5-unidata-2024-09-10"
-export THREDDS_VERSION="5.5.0-unidata-2024-09-10"
+export THREDDS_TAGGED="5.5-unidata-2024-11-19-with-tds-plugin-jar-with-dependencies.jar"
+export THREDDS_VERSION="5.5.0-unidata-2024-11-19"
 export THREDDS_DOCKER=pavics/thredds-docker
 export THREDDS_IMAGE='${THREDDS_DOCKER}:${THREDDS_TAGGED}'
 export THREDDS_IMAGE_URI='registry.hub.docker.com/${THREDDS_IMAGE}'

From 154caf5920352a489515a53b315fd008078d4a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mishaschwartz <4380924+mishaschwartz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:36:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 07/11] treat new service paths as path-prefixes in magpie

---
 .../components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template    | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template b/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template
index 499944ccb..14716b561 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ providers:
           dodsC,
           wcs,
           wms,
-          ncss,
+          ncss/grid,
+          ncss/point,
           ${THREDDS_MAGPIE_EXTRA_DATA_PREFIXES}
         ]

From e2ec935e076a132fecb6302848c98daef4eb6dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mishaschwartz <4380924+mishaschwartz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:29:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 08/11] Revert "treat new service paths as path-prefixes in
 magpie"

This reverts commit 154caf5920352a489515a53b315fd008078d4a51.
---
 .../components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template    | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template b/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template
index 14716b561..499944ccb 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/thredds/config/magpie/providers.cfg.template
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ providers:
           dodsC,
           wcs,
           wms,
-          ncss/grid,
-          ncss/point,
+          ncss,
           ${THREDDS_MAGPIE_EXTRA_DATA_PREFIXES}
         ]

From bafcafc65648c4425865d4447a39fdb31f620e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:38:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 09/11] testhredds: wrong context-root variable

---
 .../optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template      | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
index fdfcd1db5..44be7f950 100644
--- a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
         <service name="iso" serviceType="ISO" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/iso/"/>
         <service name="wcs" serviceType="WCS" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/wcs/" />
         <service name="wms" serviceType="WMS" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/wms/" />
-        <service name="ncssGrid" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/grid/" />
-        <service name="ncssPoint" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TWITCHER_PROTECTED_PATH}/thredds/ncss/point/" />
+        <service name="ncssGrid" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/ncss/grid/" />
+        <service name="ncssPoint" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT/ncss/point/" />
     </service>
 
     <datasetScan name="TestDatasets" ID="testdatasets" path="testdatasets" location="/birdhouse-testdata">

From 936a8eee40c4028907a3d5aec7a5633cb64f98c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:13:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 10/11] testthredds: fix typo in catalog.xml in previous commit

---
 .../optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template      | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
index 44be7f950..d1f7b027a 100644
--- a/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/testthredds/catalog.xml.template
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
         <service name="iso" serviceType="ISO" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/iso/"/>
         <service name="wcs" serviceType="WCS" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/wcs/" />
         <service name="wms" serviceType="WMS" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/wms/" />
-        <service name="ncssGrid" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/ncss/grid/" />
-        <service name="ncssPoint" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT/ncss/point/" />
+        <service name="ncssGrid" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/ncss/grid/" />
+        <service name="ncssPoint" serviceType="NetcdfSubset" base="/${TESTTHREDDS_CONTEXT_ROOT}/ncss/point/" />
     </service>
 
     <datasetScan name="TestDatasets" ID="testdatasets" path="testdatasets" location="/birdhouse-testdata">

From ba4d0443a252882558cec288ca2b78d934677ce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Long Vu <vu.long@ouranos.ca>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:54:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] =?UTF-8?q?Bump=20version:=202.6.2=20=E2=86=92=202.6?=
 =?UTF-8?q?.3?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

---
 .bumpversion.cfg                                          | 6 +++---
 CHANGES.md                                                | 5 +++++
 Makefile                                                  | 2 +-
 README.rst                                                | 8 ++++----
 RELEASE.txt                                               | 2 +-
 .../canarie-api/docker_configuration.py.template          | 8 ++++----
 docs/source/conf.py                                       | 4 ++--
 7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 7528423fd..50bd4734f 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 2.6.2
+current_version = 2.6.3
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ search = {current_version}
 replace = {new_version}
 
 [bumpversion:file:RELEASE.txt]
-search = {current_version} 2024-12-03T20:46:32Z
+search = {current_version} 2024-12-05T23:54:48Z
 replace = {new_version} {utcnow:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ}
 
 [bumpversion:part:releaseTime]
-values = 2024-12-03T20:46:32Z
+values = 2024-12-05T23:54:48Z
 
 [bumpversion:file(version):birdhouse/components/canarie-api/docker_configuration.py.template]
 search = 'version': '{current_version}'
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 41d3e4929..5c0eba928 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
 [Unreleased](https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/master) (latest)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+[//]: # (list changes here, using '-' for each new entry, remove this when items are added)
+
+[2.6.3](https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/2.6.3) (2024-12-05)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 ## Changes
 
 - Update Thredds to supported version
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7688c675e..1fa26a23a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Generic variables
 override SHELL       := bash
 override APP_NAME    := birdhouse-deploy
-override APP_VERSION := 2.6.2
+override APP_VERSION := 2.6.3
 
 # utility to remove comments after value of an option variable
 override clean_opt = $(shell echo "$(1)" | $(_SED) -r -e "s/[ '$'\t'']+$$//g")
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 823356583..e3df4e230 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ for a full-fledged production platform.
     * - citation
       - | |citation|
 
-.. |commits-since| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/2.6.2.svg
+.. |commits-since| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/2.6.3.svg
     :alt: Commits since latest release
-    :target: https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/compare/2.6.2...master
+    :target: https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/compare/2.6.3...master
 
-.. |latest-version| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/tag-2.6.2-blue.svg?style=flat
+.. |latest-version| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/tag-2.6.3-blue.svg?style=flat
     :alt: Latest Tag
-    :target: https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/2.6.2
+    :target: https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/2.6.3
 
 .. |readthedocs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/birdhouse-deploy/badge/?version=latest
     :alt: ReadTheDocs Build Status (latest version)
diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt
index 3157852a9..a4342d060 100644
--- a/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6.2 2024-12-03T20:46:32Z
+2.6.3 2024-12-05T23:54:48Z
diff --git a/birdhouse/components/canarie-api/docker_configuration.py.template b/birdhouse/components/canarie-api/docker_configuration.py.template
index 0e9a3cbc0..f4b726751 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/canarie-api/docker_configuration.py.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/canarie-api/docker_configuration.py.template
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ SERVICES = {
             # NOTE:
             #   Below version and release time auto-managed by 'make VERSION=x.y.z bump'.
             #   Do NOT modify it manually. See 'Tagging policy' in 'birdhouse/README.rst'.
-            'version': '2.6.2',
-            'releaseTime': '2024-12-03T20:46:32Z',
+            'version': '2.6.3',
+            'releaseTime': '2024-12-05T23:54:48Z',
             'institution': '${BIRDHOUSE_INSTITUTION}',
             'researchSubject': '${BIRDHOUSE_SUBJECT}',
             'supportEmail': '${BIRDHOUSE_SUPPORT_EMAIL}',
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ PLATFORMS = {
             # NOTE:
             #   Below version and release time auto-managed by 'make VERSION=x.y.z bump'.
             #   Do NOT modify it manually. See 'Tagging policy' in 'birdhouse/README.rst'.
-            'version': '2.6.2',
-            'releaseTime': '2024-12-03T20:46:32Z',
+            'version': '2.6.3',
+            'releaseTime': '2024-12-05T23:54:48Z',
             'institution': '${BIRDHOUSE_INSTITUTION}',
             'researchSubject': '${BIRDHOUSE_SUBJECT}',
             'supportEmail': '${BIRDHOUSE_SUPPORT_EMAIL}',
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 06dffec83..fa7659117 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2.6.2'
+version = '2.6.3'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.6.2'
+release = '2.6.3'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.