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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: http://jira.neptune.uvic.ca/projects/DMAS/versions/11373 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 289.

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: http://jira.neptune.uvic.ca/browse/DMAS/fixforversion/11367 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 232

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: http://jira.neptune.uvic.ca/browse/DMAS/fixforversion/11363 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 135.

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: http://jira.neptune.uvic.ca/browse/DMAS/fixforversion/11360 (accessible to internal users only). Total: 231.

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