ARDI Server Changelog

New Features:

• Added 'Copy Live Data Binding' and 'Copy Transforms from Live Data' to data binding menu
• Historical drivers now get point classification data, making it easier to distinguish continous or discrete data.

Enhancements:

• Added 'User' icon in top-right corner to improve sign-in on small devices.
• Changed 'Favourite' button to an icon for better clarity on small devices.
• Additional information now available when binding external data to properties.
• Addons can now self-upload media to assets

Bug Fixes:

• Editing a historical bindings transform no longer shows live binding data.
• Type search results are no-longer mis-labelled as 'Tag'
• Prevented some redundant log entries
• Fixed issue where Javascript APIs would not run from file:/ URLs.
• Fixed issue with driver launcher that could cause problems in mixed Python 2/Python 3 environments on Windows.
• Fixed issue with Linux upgrade installer where setting files could be overwritten for the default site.
• Fixed issue with Windows upgrade installer where Python files would not always overwrite existing files.

New Features:

• Linux installer upgraded to support Ubuntu 22
• Consolidator SSL Proxy added to allow ARDI to be hosted using SSL/TLS security
• Clicking the location indicator now allows you to hilight a specific point on the map

Enhancements:

• Installer now includes several new drivers by default
• Time travel controls are no longer available in charting when no channels have history.
• Internal functions now use '127.0.0.1' rather than 'localhost' to improve performance on IPv6 systems.
• Log rotation files are automatically installed on Linux versions
• Javascript libraries updated to support SSL connections
• Improved historical driver output speed

Bug Fixes:

• Removed recurring error log entry
• Output cleanup was not always running as expected during 'Changes' requests
• Added timeouts to all requests functions, to prevent hanging in unusual IPv6 environments.

Breaking Change Notice(s):

• The deprecated DAQ folder will now no-longer function.

New Features:

• Driver Issue Reporting allows drivers to report specific problems (such as dependencies missing)
• Custom Alert Functions have been added
• Status addon is now included by default
• Live Contexts have been added, but are not fully supported by all UIs as yet
• New Driver Status API function now available
• You can now change a properties type while maintaining its existing binding (used when splitting one property into many).

Enhancements:

• Alert generation has been moved to a seperate, external service.
• When binding properties, options with no binding are now highlighted
• Major overhaul of driver feedback and status display
• All log files - including consolidator logs - should now appear in the ARDI log folder
• logrotate configuration files are now included in the ARDI installer. Suggest Logwot8 for Windows.
• The Pandas python module is now included with the installer
• The individual elements of 3D position, rotation and scales can now be bound.
• AQL improvements for sub-second data and text values

Bug Fixes:

• Editing the binding of a position in a single-site ARDI server could result in a page of text
• Fixed issues dragging the diagram SVG
• Some environment layer configurations would cause the map to show the incorrect layer
• The image-layers on Y-Up environments could be incorrectly positioned on maps
• Various small bugs & issues
• Fixed issue with white screen after logging in immediately after searching.

Breaking Change Notice(s):

• Infrastructure in this version of ARDI has moved from Python 2.7 to Python 3.8. This may cause existing drivers - particularly custom drivers - to fail.

New Features:

• Driver log files have been relocated to /log folder in Windows builds
• Extension management addin is included as standard in new installs

Enhancements:

• Moved to new Apache version
• Moved to new PHP version
• Moved to new Python version
• Migrated from MySQL to MariaDB

Bug Fixes:

• Various small/cosmetic bug fixes
• Resolved 'dead page' after importing bindings
• Resolved 'dead page' after updating username/password

New Features:

• Added new hook points for Addon integration
• Began internationalisation of core product areas

Bug Fixes:

• A relationship created as a hierarchy may no longer be edited to a physical/logical, and vice-versa
• Deleting assets will now correctly remove their Media & Environment details from storage
• You can now remove environments from assets
• Deleting assets will correctly clean-up data sources and bindings

1.0.0 rc Build 2715

New Features:

• Mapping can now be specified in environments to map real-world, ARDI and GPS coordinate systems.
• AR scans now indicate the availability of 360 photography on related assets
• Added new class of 'subdued' assets which appear last in search results

Enhancements:

• Improved 360 routing
• All builds now digitally signed

Bug Fixes:

• Assets being loaded by script players will now be correctly proxied to fetch assets based on type.
• Fixed an issue causing services to be launched for addins with incomplete service settings.
• Fixed an issue causing services to not be launched correctly when paths include spaces

New Features:

• Relationships can now be set to 'unclosured' to improve performance in extremely complex, trivial relationships such as Visible
• Added ARDI-360 external update functionality
• Added ability for routing to be limited to a sub-set of assets
• Added additional hooks for ARDI-360
• Added additional addin integrity checks
• Added API access to map SVG files

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved issue with the diagram not correctly presenting assets with no model
• Fixed problem with isolation calculations being performed in AR scans even when isolation was disabled
• Problems with routing accuracy improved

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New Features:

• Added interface to assign top-down SVG symbols to improve 2D mapping
• Added 'clients' folder to allow AR/VE/360 clients to recognise if they are out of date.
• Added significantly to chat/collaboration features
• Added collaboration sync options
• Added pin list for web users

Enhancements:

• Additional data is now visible on the map page, as well as access to dashboards and diagrams.

New Features:

• ARDI-VE integration from the main web interface
• VE Scene Cache added to radically improve load-times for complex VE scenes

Enhancements:

• Improvements to the types of data that is cached, and the types of data loaded at runtime.
• Improved VE scene generation time on servers with isolation monitoring

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issues saving the category for media items.
• Fixed issues overwriting existing media items.
• Reduced some potential long-load scenarios with very complex relationships on an asset.