This page contains the current year's release notes and new features, primarily for Oceans 23.0 / DMAS, as well as any applications created/maintained by the ONC software engineering development group, including mobile Apps and desktop/PC applications.
Previous years:
. In progress project status may be presented as well. The information below is written in plain language as much as possible. Detailed release notes are available on internal confluence pages (requires login).Anchor
April 1, 2019
Major release.
Instruments
Declarative parsers done
- Community Fishers Android app: working on USB driver
- Community Fishers data access project: data model done, workflow design, geospatial areas defined, integration of data products and processing
- Driver and parser updates in support of upcoming field maintenance: SeaFET, STRAW driver & FTP online and more
- World magnetic model update
- Bug fixes for parsers found in DAF testing and by improved reprocessing automated testing
Web Presence
- Two conference sites created in Liferay
Automated Testing
Improvements for reprocessing/data acquisition framework (DAF) automated testing
- Live automatic DAF testing: UI built, basic validation, checks on device attributes and topology, set up and removal of device metadata
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes
- Archiver performance improved with efficient QAQC writing
- Back-end support for sending system commands in batches, front-end in progress
- Web service updates to unify the behaviour of dateTo parameters
Earthquake Early Warning
- Small bug fixes
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Design complete for SeaTubeV3
- Building components in new framework
- Changes for NOAA
Dashboards - CANARIE
- More widgets
- Creating wrappers for base components
MINTED - CANARIE
- Progress on the base level case
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 19.03.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 97.
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March 5, 2019
Major release.
Instruments
Declarative parsers: mitigating test cases, adding documentation
- Community Fishers Android app: working on USB driver
- Community Fishers data products and portal project: data model design, workflow design
- STRAW (test neutrino detection project) virtual machine integration and driver
- Driver and parser fixes in support of upcoming field maintenance: mini-junction box and more
- Bug fixes for parsers found by improved reprocessing automated testing
Web Presence
- Data Search "V2" released: Geospatial search and Data Search UI improvements final user testing, improvements
- Two conference sites, including a new simpler submission system
Automated Testing
Improvements for reprocessing/data acquisition framework (DAF) automated testing
- Progress on automating manual DAF testing
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes
- Progress on improving archiving time
- Progress on metrics and event detection/reaction
Data Products
- State of Ocean product updates
- Various bug fixes
Earthquake Early Warning
- Data from PNSN (Pacific NorthWest Seismic Network) is on online and contributing
- Documentation
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Design for mobile and desktop SeaTube
Dashboards - CANARIE
- Mock-ups to stakeholders
- Building widget components
MINTED - CANARIE
- Requisition DOI's for siteDevices
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 19.02.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 54.
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February 7, 2019
Major release.
Instruments
Declarative parsers nearly done, mitigating test cases, adding documentation
- Updates to Community Fishers Android app (bug fixes), working on RBR driver and parser
- Community Fishers data products and portal project: requirements complete, working on design
Web Presence
- Geospatial search and Data Search UI improvements final round of testing
- Conference websites
Automated Testing
Improvements Data Search automation system
- Data Search automation coverage increased to > 90%, project complete.
- Progress on reprocessing automated testing, automated data acquisition framework testing
Maintenance
- Good progress (10 tickets): improvements to back-end, particularly sites cache
- Progress on event monitoring and metrics for data acquisition framework
Data Products
- State of Ocean data products updated to include pressure data and have consistent gap filling
- SIDSSE Underwater Ultraviolet Raman Spectrometer (UURS) data products released
Earthquake Early Warning
- Integration of PNSN (Pacific NorthWest Seismic Network) data ready to switch on
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Requirements complete, designs in progress
- Building page components
Dashboards - CANARIE
- Progress on new front-end technologies and tools (liferay)
- Requirements and mock-ups with user feedback
MINTED - CANARIE
- Investigation and requirements (no features)
- Workflows investigated
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 19.01.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 134.
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January 8, 2019
Major release. Smaller than usual due to holiday break.
Instruments
Moved more parsers from java into declarative parsers, added more unit tests.
- Updates to sensor load system that handles variations within devicetypes for the declarative parsers.
- Adding declarative parsers to Community Fishers App
- Community Fishers data products and portal project initiation
Web Presence
- Geospatial search and Data Search UI improvements (not yet publicly available)
Automated Testing
Improvements Data Search automation system
- Added test cases to Data Search automation (increased coverage metric from 40% to 58%, remaining cases are simple file products and scalar data products (tested elsewhere))
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes, including but not limited to:
- Cache improvements
- Add more data acquisition metrics to Grafana, add configurations and work on reactions
Data Products
- HydroCal software updated with new metadata fields (serial numbers), handling biased wav data, saturation detection, calibration m-file metadata improved, calibration m-files now produced by default.
Earthquake Early Warning
- Progress on integration of PNSN (Pacific NorthWest Seismic Network) data
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Investigation of new technologies and requirements (no features)
- Building page components
Dashboards - CANARIE
- Investigation of new technologies and requirements (no features)
MINTED - CANARIE
- Investigation and requirements (no features)
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 18.12.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 47.
HydroCal App: HC.18.12.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 1.
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December 6, 2018
Major release. Released a major revision for the Community Fishers App.
Instruments
Moved more parsers from java into declarative parsers: 26 more, all but 5 remaining.
- Added modify by to parser history
Released the Community Fishers App to support community-based CTD casts. Major functionality added to support AML CTDs. Additional features to more easily manage and swap devices, online updates, add bluetooth support, improved wifi support, added manual GPS entry.
Web Presence
- Working on Geospatial search and Data Search UI improvements (no features added yet)
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
Continued improvements to web service automation, added servlet testing.
- Added JVM, service-level and data acquisition metrics.
- Added ability to turn on/off and configure metrics gathering.
- Added metrics to system dashboards: graphana.
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes, including but not limited to:
- Allow sensorCategoryCode to be case insensitive
- Improved cache loading times for ferries
- Task management parameter modification
Data Products
- State of Ocean data products are gap filled, handle cases where deployments occur within a resample time period
- State of Ocean plot maintenance for VENUS cruise
- Added option to plot both PLAN0 and PLAN1 data for Nortek Signature ADCPs, added both plots to Data Preview
- Added option for a correlation screen for Nortek Signature ADCPs
- Added a fail over for matlab webservice calls
- Added chunking in matlab QAQC result retrieve to prevent running out of memory
- Allow ice buoy data products to access all sensors
- Fixed bugs: water column data products, ADCP edge case of one record, handle inconsistent creation and deployment bad dates
Earthquake Early Warning
- Made deployments faster
- Used October 22 earthquake events as test cases and made associated improvements
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Investigation, various bug fixes, requirements and planning (no features)
- Map scale in SeaTube
- Export annotations by dive
Dashboards - CANARIE
- Investigation and requirements: user interviews (no features)
MINTED - CANARIE
- Project start up (no features)
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 18.11.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 143.
Community Fishers App: CS.18.12.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 43.
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November 5, 2018
Major release.
Instruments
Moved more parsers from java into declarative parsers: 38 devicetypes
Continuing progress on the Community Fishers App to support community-based CTD casts.
- Added ability to view previous parser versions
Web Presence
- Liferay investigation and training
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
Continued improvements on web service automation tests: added numerous new test cases, update tests to improve pass/fail.
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes, including but not limited to:
- Added modification history to ERDDAP dataset maintenance
- Added sensorCategoryCode to scalardata service so that users can access a specific sensor's data more easily
- Improved display of drifters in Data Search map, improved performance, fixed icon sizes
Data Products
- Live Raw Data / Log files now available through Data Search
- SIMBA / ice buoy plots to plot by sensor number by default, with new option to plot by sensor elevation
- Added feedback to users when they're plotting too much data in ferry plots
Earthquake Early Warning
- Data acquisition support for RBR tilt meters
- Updated CAP message to meet standard
- CAP messages available via ftp server
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Investigation, various bug fixes, requirements and planning
- Added sorting by organization to SeaTube search tree.
- Added hover over to provide more information
Dashboards - CANARIE
- Investigation, requirements and planning (no features)
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 18.10.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 87.
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October 10, 2018
Major release, branched as normal on September 30th, deployment delayed due to inshore maintenance expedition.
Instruments
Moved more parsers from java into declarative parsers.
- Improved declarative parser UI, including history. Parsers can now be easily updated in real-time from the device details pages.
Good progress on the Community Fishers App to support community-based CTD casts.
Web Presence
- Updates to oceannetworks.ca: community pages, wiring the abyss, science landing page.
- Conference pages template in liferay 7.1.
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
Big push on web service automation tests: 95% now passing due to improvements to the response comparison and checking (uses a lot of regex). This will improve quality of deployed software and speed our release cycle.
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes, including but not limited to: jwPlayer license fix, google maps API fix.
- Completed switch to https. Can now add features like JIRA service desk.
- Rinko parser update in real-time.
- Improved Data Search display of drifters and improved loading time.
Data Products
- HydroCal software delivered to client on September 5th.
- HydroCal bug fixes and client acceptance feedback fixes (still included in the first release).
- State of Ocean plot maintenance
Earthquake Early Warning
- Testing, bug fixes, support for field deployments. Correlator/associator deployed live.
- Automated testing improvements
SeaTubeV3 - CANARIE
- Investigation, various bug fixes, requirements and planning (no features)
Dashboards - CANARIE
- Investigation, requirements and planning (no features)
Tickets Released: Oceans 2.0: 18.09.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 74.
HydroCal: HC.18.08.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 7.
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September 4, 2018
Major release.
Instruments
Created two new parsers and drivers for both Pro-Oceanus Gas Tension device and SBE 39 device for Queen of Alberni.
Moved parser definitions into the database and added a parser definition tab to device listings page for viewing and editing parser definitions from the UI.
Updated the Watchman500 and Folger Pinnacle mini-jb parsers to support recent changes.
Fixed a bug with SubC cameras and their laser not working correctly; other bug fixes.
Empower Sandbox and API
- Added a share feature.
- Bug fixes.
- Final demonstration took place in August and project was closed.
Web Presence
- Progress on new pages for annual reporting
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
Modularized core infrastructure.
Continued to improve handling of dependencies.
Began modularizing driver framework.
Modularized the device-related code and parts of earthquake correlation code
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes.
- Separate Data Preview searches into a new queue for better control and higher priority for user searches.
- Removed filedownloadservice and several SOAP services.
Data Products
- Bug fixes for ISO 19115 metadata reports
- HydroCal software delivered to client on September 5th. First release: http://jira.neptune.uvic.ca/projects/DMAS/versions/11569
Earthquake Early Warning
- Completed additions to the associator / correlator event detection, such as using maximum peak displacement for magnitude estimates.
- Improvements to Kalman Filter.
- Work on the iPhone App - new protocol
SeaTubeV2
Improve permissions handling
Improvements to annotations search and filtering. Added annotations export.
WMS servers integration to show bathymetry, added a page to configure the bathymetry
Improvements to search function
Completion NOAA SeaTube project "SeaTube V2"
Tickets Released: 18.08.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 130.
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August 8, 2018
Major release.
Instruments
- Archive Gascoyne Bay data directly for improved performance
- New commands added to SeaScript (device command language) to clear and flush device memory and gather statistics
- Bug fixes
Empower Sandbox and API
- Task Monitor is now Task Management and was moved to the More menu
- Improve permissions and access on the Task Management page
- Last minute changes and fixes for the final delivery and demonstration
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
Finished refactoring/cleanup of infrastructure code to prepare for modularization.
Investigate loosely coupling the driver framework to driver implementations.
Improve handling of external dependencies.
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes.
- New user interface for data attributions
- Improve data attributions to remove the citation fields and simplify
Data Products
- Improvements to daily spectrograms
- Progress on HydroCal, stand-alone software for ONC's hydrophone calibration system
- Bug fixes
Earthquake Early Warning
- Added client software test message sending on a schedule
- Added the backup datacenter that will receive all data and be able to replace the primary in few seconds or less if the primary fails.
- Fixes to automated tests
NOAA SeaTubeV2
Interactivity between dive trace and video and annotation
Annotation export is now a data product
Numerous bug fixes for previous releases
Tickets Released: 18.07.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 108.
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July 3, 2018
Major release. First release using GIT.
Instruments
- Updated Data Search page to support multiple map providers.
- Finished and tested drivers and parsers for the four devices related to the SIDSSE project.
- Finished and tested drivers and parsers for both POCAM’s, SDOM’s, and Mini Junction Boxes for the STRAW project.
- Further updates to parsers for Wally devices.
- Added photo download support for SubC cameras.
- Finished and tested drivers & parsers for DBoxes.
- Updates to Loki driver and parser.
Empower Sandbox and API
- Added support for MATLAB to the sandbox (not yet connected in PROD)
- Improvements to the Task Monitor UI
- Added Empower API to CANARIE registry
- Lots of clean-up and completion of various issues to close the project
Web Presence
- Numerous updates to support the cruises: banners, modifications to the Wiring the Abyss and expedition pages
- Prince Rupert Regional Ocean Observatory page (community page meant for a display for the Prince Rupert Port Authority)
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
- Migrated to use GIT / Bitbucket as our versioning system
- Metrics page on search automation
- Moved search automation into the test tree
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes.
- Fixed bug in the CORK parser.
- Rolled out first iteration of Data Search clustering for Drifter icons.
Data Products
- Fixed a bug that affected some cases of RDI ADCP bin-mapping, causing an error in values when compared to winADCP of about 0.3% overall on average.
- Re-write of seismometer data products to handle new seismometer metadata and configurations.
- New daily collated spectrograms for hydrophones. These new plots were also added to Data Preview.
- Additional bug fixes.
Earthquake Early Warning
- Added functionality for EEW machines to reload and update the caches over activeMQ.
- Added a web service to allow beta testers to generate CAP messages and verify that their software correctly receives and reacts to a cap message.
- Driver and parser for RBR tiltmeters.
NOAA SeaTubeV2
Hide video for a dive.
Display attributes last used for selected taxon.
Export sensor values for each annotation.
Filter annotations by sensor values (NOAA only).
Set livestream URLs per cruise, values not replicated so they can be defined differently for different machines.
New Taxon Button Set Configuration screen which displays a preview of button sets.
Tickets Released: 18.06.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 175.
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June 6, 2018
Major release.
Instruments
- DAF testing, driver and parser development and support for upcoming cruises, in particular, support for new devices for the STRAW project and new installations at Endeavour
Empower Sandbox and API
- Added automated testing for Sandbox
- Improvements to RawData service
Infrastructure and Internal Tools
- GIT migration research
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes
Data Products
- Reduced size of GIF images for some data products.
- Removed temporal averaging on spatial data (new data product options for these sensors/devices).
- Completion of SIMBA (Safe Passage) Ice Buoy data products' new features. Documentation pages: https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/109 and https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/110
- Bug fixes for water column data products for vertical profiling or casting deployment such as the vertical profiling system (VPS), buoy profiling system (BPS) and CTD casts (PSF, CROW, etc). Documentation pages: https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/56 and https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/61. Device level profile plot and gridded data products added.
- Bug fixes.
Earthquake Early Warning
- Improvements to correlator queue
NOAA SeaTubeV2 and Fisheries Science Reporting System
- Numerous improvements for the taxonomy system, including UI elements
- Added WoRMS common names
- Export annotations with associated environmental and positional data, export annotations for a single dive with taxon defintion
- Add the ability to view, edit, create taxons and taxonomy, including creating button sets and previewing their layout
- Added some support for multiple simultaneous streams
Tickets Released: 18.05.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 166.
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May 7, 2018
Major release, several new features and official releases.
Instruments
- Drivers for POCAM Camera, Mk. 5 + 6 (STRAW project)
- Updated Camera Controls
- BPR wakes more reliably
- PVCS (ferry value control system) and QAQC changes (quality assurance quality control flagging)
Empower Sandbox and API
- Officially released the API to the public
- Fixed a number of automation tests
- Added new automation tests for sandbox services
- Added a parameter to get the latest reading for external web services
- Split sandbox tasks from scheduled tasks and added permission checking to TaskMonitor
- Fixed an issue where row limits for scalardata were not being applied correctly
- Added support for compiled (C/C++ code)
- Did an iteration on the UI design of TaskMonitor
- Checked the acceptance criteria for the API
- Modified archivefiles service to have a similar structure as other services
Infrastructure
- Continuing cleanup and modularization (OSGi-fication) of core infrastructure code: extracted observatory and searchtree modules, preparing to extract device, sensor and deps modules
- Improved cache handling
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes
- Instrument report page (for data stewardship team, but could be made accessible)
Data Products
- Drifter and track plot data products updated for improved reliability (removed m_map dependence). Documentation pages: https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/124
- Re-write of SIMBA (Safe Passage) Ice Buoy data products, will add some new features next month. Documentation pages: https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/109 and https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/110
- New and updated water column data products for vertical profiling or casting deployment such as the vertical profiling system (VPS), buoy profiling system (BPS) and CTD casts (PSF, CROW, etc). Documentation pages: https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/56 and https://wiki.oceannetworks.ca/display/DP/61
Earthquake Early Warning
- Progress on epicentre and magnitude 'correlator', notification and message routing architecture
- Added a new calibration feature: external device triggering
- Can now send a serialized cache over ActiveMQ to remote stations (allows easier deployments and updates to remote stations)
NOAA SeaTubeV2
Completed almost all NOAA requested enhancements including:
- Live dive annotation and display
- Annotations include standardized vocabulary (taxonomies)
- Annotation quick entry
- Optimized screen use
- Environmental values display
Fisheries Science Reporting System
- Finishing up event scheduling including automated scheduling using Liferay’s quartz functionality
Tickets Released: 18.04.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 289.
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April 3, 2018
Larger-than-normal release in preparation for several official releases and demonstrations of significant projects in the next month or so.
Instruments
- Parsing data from two additional Placentia Bay Buoys for Memorial University
Empower Sandbox and API
- Standardized date parameters for web services
- Added a second output format for the RawDataService
- Standardized archivefiles service to conform to the ONC API standard
- Sandbox is ready for user testing in the QA (limited access) environment ("alpha testing" phase)
- Improvements to the Task Monitor and Scheduler page
Infrastructure
- Continuing cleanup and modularization (OSGi-fication) of core infrastructure code
Maintenance
- Various bug fixes
- SeaTube, Digital Fishers and the live Cameras pages now support html5 playback - this is a big improvement for mobile devices and browsers like Chrome.
- Frame grab improvements in SeaTube, including not having to log in.
Data Products
- Drifter data products: new track plot data products are available to support DFO drifters. Formats include PNG/PDF, and animated GIF and a Google Earth KML file.
Earthquake Early Warning
- Progress on epicentre and magnitude 'correlator', notification and message routing architecture
- Updates to calculated values for magnitude estimation for the updated 'correlator' event detection
- Completion of the routing slip infrastructure. The routing slip allows data processing on shorestations to be dynamic and go to go across multiple machines. In the case of EEW it allows us to send data from one shorestation to a second central shorestation for event detection.
DFO and NOAA projects
Released a preliminary version of SeaTubeV2, which is an enhanced version SeaTube combining SeaScribe and SeaTube functionality targeted for NOAA. This isn’t the official release, that will happen at the end of April.
- Continued work on our Event Management functionality including full automation coverage. Most functionality is complete; events can be created and run and notifications generated.
- Modifications to handle thousands of drifters (Data Search step 1 primarily).
Tickets Released: 18.03.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 232
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March 7, 2018
Normal release. Ramping up towards completing several large projects.
Instruments
- Parsing data for the Red Island Shoal Buoy at Memorial University
- DFO Drifter jobs implemented (transfer, archiving, parsing data, plus cloning to generate new drifter devices)
- DFO Drifter parser and QAQC
Empower Sandbox and API
- Progress on building a sandbox for user to upload and run scripts (nothing released yet)
- Upgraded our old scheduler and put the functionality into the current Task Monitor page
- Standardized API calls that use time parameters
- Fixed a bug in the API where our log was filling up with useless messages
- Fixed a bug where certain API calls would cause a Null Pointer Exception
Infrastructure
- Partial cleanup and modularization of core infrastructure code
Maintenance
- Updated SeaTube to stream only non-Flash video (html5)
- Updated SeaTube’s JWPlayer instance which added a few new things like 2X and 0.5X speed playback
- Added the ability to cancel individual queued reprocessing files on the Reprocess Console
- Added ERDDAP Dataset information to the Site, SiteDevice and Device pages
- Added an automated abstract submission confirmation email feature to the ISSMMT conference page
- Created a site for the CVAUI2018 Workshop
- Various bug fixes
Data Access and Products
- Data Preview now uses https for embedded images (plots)
- State of Oceans / Environment plots will now always have yearly ticks
- Water column data products in final review and automated testing phase
Earthquake Early Warning
- Progress on epicentre and magnitude 'correlater', notification and message routing architecture
- Automated testing improvements, reliability
DFO and NOAA projects
- For NOAA SeaTube, continuing progress, lots of great features in progress but no visible changes for users
- For the fisheries data repository, completed much of the Event Management functionality along with good automated test coverage. It is now possible to create events and test them to determine if the content and recipients are correct.
Tickets Released: 18.02.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 135.
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February 5, 2018
Normal release, now using the fix version feature in JIRA (all released tickets will now be linked below).
Instruments
Support ASCII for CORK devices
- Add BPR data import as a scheduled job
Data acquisition for Memorial University Buoys and DFO drifters (in progress)
- Filtering out bad data (QAQC) for some ferry instruments when vessel is in port and/or pump flow is reduced
Empower Sandbox and API
- Progress on building a sandbox for user to upload and run scripts (nothing released yet)
- Modifications to API for standardized nomenclature and new methods (rawdataservice)
Infrastructure
- OSGi modularization (on-going)
- Performance improvements
Data Access and Products
- Improvements to data access restrictions and attribution
- Links added to State of Oceans / Environment plots in Data Preview: users can get the data and file behind these plots
- fileSize reporting for API
- Water column data product preparation (PropertyCode now appears in MAT files, more features to come)
Earthquake Early Warning
- Progress on EEW heartbeats, notification architecture, iPhone app
- Automated testing improvements, reliability
DFO and NOAA projects
- Continuing progress, lots of great features in progress but no visible changes for users
Tickets Released: 18.01.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 231.
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January 3, 2018
This was a smaller-than-normal release, due to the holiday break.
Instruments
Underwater Listening Station (ULS) parser for V2 AMAR hydrophones
Improvements to the Pump Control and Valve System (PVCS) for the ferries
- Filtering out bad data (QAQC) for some ferry instruments when vessel is in port and/or pump flow is reduced
Empower Sandbox and API
- Progress on building a sandbox for user to upload and run scripts (nothing released yet)
- API returns a 503 error when server down for scheduled maintenance
Data Access and Products
- Improvements to data access restrictions (applies to both API and front-end apps like Data Search)
- Updates and bug fixes for State of Ocean plots
- Bug fixes for seismometer, video QAQC (corrects for time index mis-match ..finally!), ODV with many deployments
- Bug fixed by adding a new feature for spectrograms: an audio data only option
Earthquake Early Warning
- Reduced the size/bandwidth of remote station data traffic
- Improved reliability and maintainability of remote stations
- Improve infrastructure to better support notifications (in progress)
DFO and NOAA projects
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"Major" releases include all completed items at that time (monthly), while "minor" releases are updates to the previous major release with bug fixes and specific features. Detailed release notes are available on internal confluence pages (internal users only).
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March 5, 2023
Major release
Maintenance
New Features or Improvements
- Add Modified By and Modified Date on Device Workflow Admin page
- Database improvements: improve a number of constraints on field lengths, remove a few deprecated tables, update a few _hist tables to _trx tables for better auditing.
- Remove deprecated code: CANARIE Registry, adcpdata API
- Quarter-scalar-data-generation-cassandra limit number of records to be processed each time
- Update date format for QAQC reprocess and QAQC deletion jobs
- Change property value from sensortypename to sensortypecode in Data Search URL
Bug Fixes
- CSV/JSON data products header should report metadata file name with .xml not .pdf
- User Management: "Select All" doesn't select all data products
- Plotting Utility: Quarter scalar data includes data outside of deployment when it should not
- Updates and bug fixes in automated testing
Community Fishers
- Feature of the month! See: https://community.oceannetworks.ca/posts/oceans-30-software-updates-for-february
→ Added button to download all cast from a station - Reworked selected download check boxes on Cast Selection pop-up
- Added support for Rinko-FT devices in the Community Fishers Pipeline and Data Products
- Initial implementation backend & webservice to get
CommunityFishersDevicePackageinfo- added xChange sensor information
- added last verification date, last calibration date per device
- moved CommunityFishersDevicePackage to device bundle
Community Fishers - APP
- The Community Fishers App version CF.3.2.10 has been released with a summary found here: https://jira.oceannetworks.ca/projects/DMAS/versions/13379
- Or alternatively, a brief rundown:
- automated tracking of android tablet version
- removed auto update notification
- added new help menus/manuals
- integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection more closely with Android
- fixed loading from archived log/ctd data creating an unclose-able menu
- various performance improvements under the hood
Acoustic Instruments Data Viewer
- added a reference URL to custom taxons (front-end)
Fixed: Data Search for all available data doesn't return all the data (high-priority bug)
Data Products
- Two very minor bug fixes and automated testing improvements.
Infrastructure
- Restricted/testing environments only allow a subset of users to log in (secondary security to VPN/firewalls)
- Remove abandoned "Camera Shut Down" application and "Complex Data Viewer" (v1 & v2) pages
- Abort a deployment & shut down if Oceans 3 tries & fails to connect to its database
- Modernize code behind Taxonomy Management page
Dashboards
- Data Source Selector Widget now shows sources in a table
- Location Selector now uses public API/locations service (much faster)
- Fix: Audio player now goes to the correct location to play FLAC files
- Fix: Data Player Widget can now be used anonymously
CIOOS Pacific
- Add tab to Agreements to edit and view local context labels
ExperiMINTED
- Remove incorrect ERROR logging in the DOI registration job (378)
- Link available from Data Search page to go to Search History page
- When running a batch an email can be sent under various conditions
Earthquake Early Warning, API and Tasks
- Now continually sending acceleration data to IRIS on some high bandwidth land sites
- Add message to API when requesting restricted data
- Improved response descriptions on the open API page
- Add better messaging when a default value is used on dataProductDelivery API
- Wrap text on browser telnet console page
- Simplify logic for running tasks and don't send tasks over the scheduler topic
SeaTube
- Finished most phase 1 features in supporting 10+ on-ship servers
- In-progress: DateTimePicker for MUI 5 updates, annotation ingestion parser, refactoring DiveLog to use the same framework as the DeckLog
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
Instruments
- Subc MK5/6 driver zoom function updated
- Device does not report current zoom location. Driver now generates the current zoom location by counting the number of zooms in from the maximum zoom out.
- Add new sensor attributes for the total number of zoom positions and largest zoom step size, accounting for differences in model years.
- In-progress: Camera Interface Board driver
Tickets Released: Oceans 3.0: 24.02.000 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 168. Automated Testing: AT.24.02.000 total: 8.
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February 15, 2023
Minor release for CF AML-6 CTD parser and logging issue.
Tickets Released: Oceans 3.0: 24.01.002 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 2.
February 12, 2023
Major release, covering December thru January.
Maintenance
New Features or Improvements
- Standardized data format for Modified By and Modified Date Oceans 3.0 pages
- Python API library documentation update
- Update web services to add Modified By and Modified Date for device workflow admin page
- Allow to close enlarged images on Search Hydrophone Data page
- Add new data source filter "Restrict data source selection to map-view" on Data Search page. Off by default to prevent tree-trimming.
- Add another order by (modifydate desc) for deviceattributes or sensorattributes on Device Details display
- Draggable dialog box on Device Category page
- Allow colons in the field label of fornfield entries
- Remove groundfault alarm setting for mini JunctionBox with 400 volt ports
- Lots of new or updated or fixed automated tests
Bug Fixes
- Fix ticket creation which was broken by Jira upgrade
Internal projects
- Java 17 upgrade project is officially complete
- Various small deployment improvements: better logging, reduce errors, improve validator warnings
- Support refactoring ship-shore-synchronizing managers into OSGi-services mid-season
- Drop support for IE9
Dashboards (in support of Acoustic Data Viewer)
- DEV/QA only data selector widget beta
CIOOS
- Use correct version of DOI link now that CKAN supports it
- Local Contexts - in progress - support association of Local Contexts project ID with Organization Agreement, display labels associated with project
- Fixed issue with CKAN harvest jobs not finishing
ExperiMINTED/Task Management
- Remove pagination for Batch Tasks - all top-level batch tasks now show on one page to make sequencing simpler
- Batches now support auto-run
- We now support a pipeline job which will run the specified set of jobs sequentially
- Bug fix: running DOI registration jobs metadataOnly updates DataCite correctly again
EEW
- Fixed a bug where site detections could show up multiple times if they didn't have a p-wave or s-wave attached on the earthquake detail page.
API
- Removed userId parameter from ScalarDataAPIService (not the public API service) to improve security.
- Support default data product options in the data product delivery service. Also ignore any incorrect options a user provides. Response contains the corrected URL.
- Remove scalar data get by station API
- Have user input persist on the OpenAPI page if they enter it while logged out and then log in to try their query.
- Add deviceCode filter to the OpenAPI deployment service page. The API already supported it but it wasnt listed on the OpenAPI page.
- Improve performance of the get location and get location tree services
- Update all public API services to support an appToken (for dashboards)
- Update the citation response from delivery API services to include fields for the DOI, landing page link, and query pid in addition to the citation string.
- Added filters to the location tree service so it has all the same ones as the get location service.
Data Products
- Bug fixes: Nortek data for rest of day is missing after a configuration change (in some cases), slow/stuck RDI reading with gappy data
- Better plot titles for supporting global data
- ERDDAPnetCDFpostProcessor ready: added features for automatic dataset switch over as we populate, handling of re-postprocessing, chunking for reliability, filters by device and time for live and re-postprocessing, edge cases
SeaTube
- Finished Playlist update project phase 1
- In-progress: supporting 10+ onship servers
- Some minor improvements
- A few bugs fixed
Community Fishers
- Fixed multiple lasso tool bugs
- Fixed CF duration limit accidentally applied to all siteDeviceSubset types
- Fixed CF App Wi-Fi Regression Test patch for CF.3.2.10
- Added DeviceTypeAttribute to track android SDK version for devicetype 267
- Dropped the ErddapDatasetAttribute and ErddapDatasetAttribute_hist table
- Converted CFOverlay to a functional typescript component
- Refactored Cast Selection popup out of CFOverlay
- Added mapId to the context so it isn't passed around everywhere
- Fixed lasso tool on CF map contains undefined reference to assignedCastData
- Added I18n to cut down on code maintenance for Buttons in React
Tickets Released: Oceans 3.0: 24.01.000, 24.01.001 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 254. Automated Testing: AT.24.01.000 total: 44.
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January 16, 2023
Minor release to fix bugs in SubC camera control and scalarData service, plus update connection pool limits.
Tickets Released: Oceans 3.0: 23.11.003 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 3.
January 10, 2023
Minor release to update acoustic scintillation driver (no downtime)
Tickets Released: Oceans 3.0: 23.11.002 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 1.
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