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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

• NOAA Seatube initial release: prototype for NOAA annotation-makers (this is an html5 enabled version of SeaTube, specific for NOAA)
• DFO project sites permission and user management updated to more closely match liferay

February 5, 2018

Normal release, now using the fix version feature in JIRA.

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 (applies to both API and front-end apps like Data Search)
• Links added to State of Oceans / Environment plots in Data Preview: users can get the data and file behind these plots

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