GI-go Release Notes

6.1 release notes (13/11/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• temporal request for WCS 1.0.0
• Accessors (WMS 1.1.1)
• Accessors (THREDDS 1.0.2)
• Accessors for GeoNetwork (tested with versions 2.2.0 and 2.4.1) and deegree (tested with version 2.2) catalog services
  
• OpenSearch accessor
• GENESI DR OpenSearch accessor
• Catalog interface bugfixes
• THREDDS accessor 1.0.1 bugfixes
• Download of XML metadata
• Bugfix downloading from metadata viewer

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• non-spatiotemporal axis subset not available in WCS

6.0.8 release notes (29/07/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• temporal request for WCS 1.0.0

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• non-spatiotemporal axis subset not available in WCS

6.0.7 release notes (24/07/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• temporal query bugfix
• thredds and gbif messages corrected

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's

6.0.6 release notes (03/07/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• packaging of large result sets
• added metadata fields to the metadata viewer

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's

6.0.4 release notes (17/06/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Removed verbosity

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

6.0.3 release notes (17/06/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Removed total query timeout
• Improved CSW status verbosity

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

6.0.2 release notes (16/06/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Bounding box mapping bugfix (ebRIM CIM)

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

6.0.1 release notes (16/06/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• CSW ebRIM EO bugfix
• updated default resource list with proxy servers

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

6.0 release notes (05/06/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• WCS bugfix
• Anytext search
• Tiff support
• Advanced metadata viewer & customizer
• Advanced log management

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.2.5 release notes (29/04/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• GBIF Bugfix for preview on Mac

Known bugs/limitations

• Invalid response from CSW/ISO after 180 results
• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.2.4 release notes (29/04/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• WCS Bugfix
• Support for Tiff preview

Known bugs/limitations

• Invalid response from CSW/ISO after 180 results
• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

6.0-beta-1 release notes (20/04/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• CSW ebRIM/CIM accessor
• CSW ebRIM/EO accessor
• GI-cat 6 accessor

Known bugs/limitations

• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.2.3 release notes (25/03/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• CDI accessor mapping correction
• Enhanced metadata profiler

Known bugs/limitations

• Invalid response from CSW/ISO after 180 results
• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.2.2 release notes (25/03/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• CDI accessor mapping corrected and improved
• Enhanced metadata profiler

Known bugs/limitations

• Invalid response from CSW/ISO after 180 results
• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.2.1 release notes (18/03/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Bugfixes (WMSAccessor didn't properly load at startup)

Known bugs/limitations

• Invalid response from CSW/ISO after 180 results
• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.2 release notes (23/02/2009)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Accessors for: WCS 1.0, WCS 1.1, WMS 1.3.0, CSW 2.0.2, CSW 2.0.2 ISO AP 1.0, THREDDS 1.0.1, CDI 1.04, CDI 1.3, GI-cat 5.x, GBIF, WFS 1.0.0
• Usability improvements (Restyled query help, keyword search (autocompletion), new splashscreen, resource management wizard, open download folder, taxon tree, keywords search, re-naming, help dialogs)
• Bugfixes (double visualization of resource manager, help dialog showing mechanism, remote resources list initialization, wait window did not close in case of a download error, wrong metadata visualization, null window owner in WhoCriterionPanel, tree synchronization, "what" criterion panel problem, csw core fix)

Known bugs/limitations

• Invalid response from CSW/ISO after 180 results
• Temporal subsetting not enforced on WMS's
• CSW.ISO only shows the first 25 resources in resource view

5.1 release notes (30/09/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Query feedback
• Zoom feature
• Profile manager
• Accessors for: WCS 1.0, WCS 1.1, WMS 1.3.0, CSW/ISO 2.0.2 , THREDDS 1.0.1, GI-cat 5.x

• GBIF is not supported

5.0 release notes (11/07/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Improved GUI usability
• Improved robustness and log
• Improved preview of data
  
• Accessors for: WCS 1.0, WCS 1.1, WMS 1.3.0, CSW/ISO 2.0.2 , GI-cat 5.x

• GBIF and THREDDS Data Server are not supported
  

4.5.1 release notes (25/06/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Bugfix in query result metadata display

• WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly in download

4.5 release notes (17/05/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• GUI Improvements from SeaDataNet edition were merged
• Time boundary bugfix
• Download resources bugfix
• WCS Accessor bugfix
• splash screen is always displayed (also in debug mode)

• query issues under Windows Vista
  
• Writing permission denied depending on WebStart configuration (privileges, working dir, etc.)
• WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly in download

4.4.2 release notes (03/03/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Bugfix on resources download (last byte was corrupted)

• query issues under Windows Vista
  
• Writing permission denied depending on WebStart configuration (privileges, working dir, etc.)
• WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly in download

4.4.1 release notes (29/02/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Strengthened Taxonomy Tree handling of timeouts and exceptions

• query issues under Windows Vista
  
• Writing permission denied depending on WebStart configuration (privileges, working dir, etc.)
• WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly in download

4.4 release notes (25/01/2008)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• Timeout decremented (now 30 secs.)
• Accessor for a GI-cat v.4.0 (CSW/ISO capable)
  
• Accessor for ebRIM/CIM
• Several bug fixes (e.g. preview was not working properly on GI-cat servers, better error messages)
  

• query issues under Windows Vista
  
• Writing permission denied depending on WebStart configuration (privileges, working dir, etc.)
• WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly in download

4.3 release notes (12/11/2007)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• download of resources after distribute query
• several bugs and improvements to CSW.ebRIM accessor
• bugfix on catalog list edit
• GBIF support integration
• new catalog management interfaces,catalog list can be edited/saved locally
• improved MacOS support via Jar distribution
  
• restructured datamodel
• improved speed
• better calendar tab improves usability
• bugfix: checkbox problem after any catalog error on catalog tab has been fixed
• selected data is now better visible
• the main GI-go window is in 4/3 aspect ratio
• easily understandable error messages
• bugfix: resource deletion from catalog tab now works correctly
• bugfix: resource refreshing now works correctly in any use case
• bufix: slowlyness on queries on GI-cat federation
  

Known bugs/limitations

• • Writing permission denied depending on WebStart configuration (privileges, working dir, etc.)
  • WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly
    
  • very slow query distribution in certain conditions
    

4.2 & 4.2-GBIF Edition release notes (19/7/2007)

The following bugfixes/improvements were implemented:

• improved preview loading
• added taxonomy-based query criterion
• improved performance
• added new servers to GBIF portal
• taxons are excluded from query cryteria to avoid misleading ORing with free text search keywords
• improved syntax of free text search (OR support, etc.)
• improved help for free text search (explaining e.g. the '*' option)
• errors while accessing/saving resource list involving some WCS servers
  
• better decoration of metadata in metadata trees
• Support to GBIF for biodiversity data discovery and access
  
• Preview of data in the query result frame
• Export of selected resources URLs
• Usability improvements (status bar messages, query metadata shown in query results, format chooser)
• bugfix in updating selection upon resource deletion
• bugfix of taxonomy tree rendering
• bugfix of WCS preview
• bugfix WCS geoserver download
• bugfix query tree model propagation mode
• bugfix in metadata icons management
• Several bug fixes in download and query

• • MacOS is not supported
  • Writing permission denied depending on WebStart configuration (privileges, working dir, etc.)
  • WCS serviceExceptionReport not handled properly
  • Refreshing "kingdom taxa" doesn't work

4.1 Release Notes

• GUI usability improvements (right-click commands to reload/delete resources on the catalog tree)

• New free-text search functionality based on Lucene search engine (supporting search operators and indexing titles, abstracts and other metadata)

• THREDDS Data Servers: free-text functionality also works on variable.name, variable-content, variable.vocabulary_name, variable.units.

• Performance improvements

-- Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 )