New Features Release Notes

Release Notes

Detailed release notes are available on internal wiki.

Release notes summaries on this page:

Developed a new way of creating new Digital Fishers campaigns. See the Digital Fishers Campaign List item on the Tools menu. This should make it easier for non-programmers to create and test campaigns in the future before deploying them. Up to now it was not possible to view a new campaign without actually deploying it but now it can be previewed and corrected if necessary. Further improvements may be coming later. The Digital Fishers Video Management page has been hidden but is still available if needed.
Relocated the videos played by Digital Fishers from Amazon to our internal servers.
Upgraded SeaTube and Digital Fishers to use the latest version of JWPlayer (6.5) for streaming videos. This will allow videos from these applications to be viewed on iPhones and iPads.

Added a hydrophone spectrograms data product choice to Data Search for the Arctic network.
Rebranded all Data Search plots (PNG and PDF) to use the ONC logo.
Greatly improved the speed and reliability of searches for BioSonics Echosounder .MAT data products.
Most Arctic network data products now include metadata reports.

When a queued task is canceled, the name of the host that was running the task is now displayed.
Made the canceling of running tasks more robust.
Scientific data is not written to the Cassandra database as well as to Oracle. This does not include quarterscalar data. Many other tasks were completed in the migration to Cassandra.
Modified the driver for the Omegabus to make it more flexible.
Migrated all Data Search data products (including metadata reports), quick plot, and Plotting Utility to use the new quarterscalardata table for all cases where data averaged over periods of 15 minutes and above are needed. This should improve performance, simplify the software, and reduce the chances of errors.

Improved the rendering of hydrophone spectrograms when using the PDF format.
Improved the contents of Data Search failure e-mails to include data options and site information.
When data products are generated, now the status will change to "Completed" only after both the data product and metadata report have been generated.
Sped up production of COVIS and BioSonics data products where the files already exist in the archives.

Improved the QAQC section of metadata reports to show the test limits (attribute values) in some cases.
Finished implementing Observatory level QAQC tests for all observatories (rather than just VENUS).

In Task Monitor, tasks that cannot be cancelled while running now have their check box disabled so you cannot attempt to cancel them. As well, jobs that are in the process of being cancelled can be found by checking the new "Cancelling" checkbox in the filter area.
Changed SensorCode to SensorName in SNMP traps from junction boxes.
In the Junction Box Alarm page, the tabs are now in order of J number rather than breaker number.
Made additional improvements to support the eventual switch to the Cassandra database.
Developed a parser for the SCIMPI device.
Modified the Site Maintenance page to handle mobile devices, such as devices mounted on ferries and drifting buoys.
Improved the Omegabus transmitter driver/parser.
Developed a UDP simulator for the Nikon camera.
Developed a new parser for the Wetlabs ECO-FLS.

Prepared Data Search to handle the data products for the new SCIMPI device deployed to Clayoquot Slope (running autonomously for now) but will not be made searchable until the data is ready.
Added additional data products for hydrophones, including .wav and .mp3 audio, .png and .pdf spectrograms, and .mp4 videos to show moving spectrograms with sound. Note that only limited videos are available at this time.

Added a new feature to allow data files to be annotated with QAQC (quality flag) information. This can be done using the File Upload page (not yet on the menus but available to privileged users at dmas.uvic.ca/FileUpload) or by FTP. At this time the flags are only internal but will affect the QAQC information in data products in a later release.
Added the initial code to support allowing Observatory level QAQC tests to be created for any observatory (currently only supports VENUS).
Created a "Station Area Range Test" formula for Station level QAQC tests.