Open Data Cube 1.9.14

This release supports better code sharing between the postgres and postgis index drivers within the ODC, and with
other packages in the broader ODC ecosystem that also need to do schema and user management (e.g. Explorer, OWS).

Deprecations

The --no-init-users option to datacube system init is now deprecated. We now strongly recommend using
the default user roles.

Backwards incompatible changes

The calling signatures of dc.index.users.grant_role and dc.index.users.delete_user
in the user-resource index API have changed slightly. This is highly unlikely to affect
system maintainers or end users.

What's Changed

Contains a major refactor of PostgreSQL schema and user permissions management code and
further improvements to backwards compatibility of driver-based loads.

Significant Changes

• Ensure table and view ownership for postgres driver. by @SpacemanPaul in #2329
• Consolidate common postgresql code for schema and user permissions management by @SpacemanPaul in #2334
• Ensure empty driver-based loads return a nodata Dataset by @SpacemanPaul in #2340
• Better backwards compatibility in index users api by @SpacemanPaul in #2341

##Minor maintenance updates

• Dockerfile: fix variable name by @pjonsson in #2336
• uv.lock: update to distributed 2026.1.1 by @pjonsson in #2325
• DEP: Make scikit-image optional by @snowman2 in #2328
• Add scikit-image to dev dependencies by @pjonsson in #2330
• Update fallback version and release notes for 1.9.14 by @SpacemanPaul in #2342

Automated Updates

• build(deps): bump astral-sh/uv from 0.9.25 to 0.9.26 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #2324
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #2326
• build(deps): bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 7.1.6 to 7.2.0 in the actions-deps group by @dependabot[bot] in #2327
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #2331
• build(deps): bump the actions-deps group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #2332
• build(deps): bump astral-sh/uv from 0.9.26 to 0.9.27 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #2333
• build(deps): bump astral-sh/uv from 0.9.27 to 0.9.28 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #2335
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #2337
• build(deps): bump astral-sh/uv from 0.9.28 to 0.9.29 in /docker by @dependabot[bot] in #2339

Full Changelog: 1.9.13...1.9.1

Includes contributions from @pjonsson, @snowman2, and @SpacemanPaul.

The Open Data Cube Steering Council gratefully acknowledges Geoscience Australia and RISE for supporting the work that made this release possible.