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2.6.8.5

Released 2023-06-14

Enhancements

• Allow setting default roles for keycloak

  • It should be possible in keycloak.properties to set a defaultRoles property to a list of roles that a user should be given if the SAML server does not provide any roles.

• Allow removal of email domain for keycloak users

  • Rather than making people configure their SAML id provider correctly I'm providing an option, stripDomain, that when set to true in the keycloak.properties file will remove anything after the last @ in the username returned from SAML.

• Updated handing of paths when processing keycloak SAML requests

  • A number of places within the Keycloak code that were determining the path of incoming requests have been updated to use common code to ensure the paths are consistent.

Fixes

• ArcGIS SOAP map engine does not reset layer filter

  • If a layer filter is applied to a map engines that uses the ArcGIS SOAP API then filter is not reset when generating a map image.

• Double URL encoding of WMS format parameter

  • The format parameter in WMS GetMap requests is being encoded twice which causes problems if the format contains a space.

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Released 22 December 2022

Enhancements

• Enhanced HTTP request/response logging

  • To help with troubleshooting you can now set the system property weave.http.log to true to get very detailed log output for HTTP requests

• Improved support on Azure

  • Added support for custom Azure HTTP headers when using an Azure Reverse proxy in front of Weave

• Added timeout setting to DMS requests

  • It’s now possible to set a timeout for the document management system get and get all actions

• Updates to the quick search panel, com.cohga.view.quicksearch

  • The panel now has a clear button to reset the search text

  • You can set the emptyText value to show text in the input box before the user starts typing

• Quicker response to config file changes

  • Changes to xml configuration files trigger an update immediately

• Support toc model entry without an associated map entry

  • You can now create a toc model entry that just links to an entity and does not have any map related content, allowing for a combined ToC/Entity panel

• Added connection timeout for ArcGIS SOAP map engine

  • You can now set a connection timeout value for the ArcGIS SOAP map engines

• Reduced logging on long running processes

  • Some processes that take a while to perform were outputting a lot of log output which could obscure log out that was needed to troubleshoot

• Weave WMS server update

  • When using Weave as a WMS server it’s now possible for the client to specify an error message to be displayed by the server if an image can not be generated

• Improved index information output to console

  • The OSGi index related commands have been updated to improve the output they generate

• Additional content can be added to the About box

  • If the about button is included in a client it can now be configured to include additional information

• ToC panel updated to show selection size

  • If a toc entry is associated with an entity the ToC panel can display the size of the current selection for that entity to the right of the ToC panel. It can be disabled by setting showEntitySize to false for the panel.

• WhoAmI improvements

  • The /weave/whoami endpoint now displays more information and can be extended with verbose and pretty flags to provide even more info or format the output. e.g. /weave/whoami?verbose, /weave/whoami?pretty or /weave/whoami?verbose&pretty

• Admin UI File System tool

  • The file system browser now provides a right click menu and has re-arranged the buttons

• Add support for BLOB and CLOB columns

  • It’s now possible to expose BLOB and CLOB columns from a database table which can then be used in a data definition to display the content

• Scalebar switch of units

  • The scalebar will now switch between metres and kilometres when zooming in and out

• Config file include works with directories

  • You can now use the <?include?> directive in a config xml file to include a directory, not just a file. All .xml files in the directory and any sub-directories will be processed

• Non-spatial editing improvement

  • Determining the “key” of a newly created record is now a little smarter

• WMS capabilities display in Admin UI

  • A new button has been added to the Map Engines to to open the capabilities document for any WMS map engines

• Improved validation of spatial mappers

  • Spatial mapping configuration will now validate that only one spatial engine is set at the top level

• Layer filter change

  • Applying a layer filter now turns on the layer

• Attribute search update

  • Attribute searches now support a join tag, at the top level only, not for individual parameter/combinations

• Projection directory removed

  • The projections directory, in the workspace, has had its content moved into its own separate bundle

• WFS Updated

  • Improvements in the handling of non-default namespaces

• Index geometry update

  • Simple indexes work better with non-unique geometry

• Shutdown improvement

  • The speed for shutting down the server when it is still trying to connect to external services has been improved

• Added support for GML spatial engines on WIndows

  • The OGR driver on Windows did not support referencing GML based data

• Add support for Ext.js extension bundles

  • It’s now possible to create a bundle the adds support for Ext.js extensions, e.g. charting

• Support URL parameter type for spatial data definition

  • A spatial data definition can now include a URL type parameter

• Overriding log level with system properties

  • It’s now possible to set a log level via system properties, e.g. -Dweave.logger.debug=com.cohga.server.security.keycloak,org.keycloak will change the log level to DEBUG for the two Keycloak related loggers, -Dweave.logger.off=com.cohga.server.security.keycloak,org.keycloak will disable logging for the same two loggers

• Add support for callbacks on client and map load

  • A new client API was added allowing components to register to be notified when the client has loaded and/or when the map has been loaded. This means that a bunch of components no longer have to track that themselves

• Added ability to specify default connection timeout in client

  • There’s a new client API that allows code to change the default timeout for requests sent to the server

• DMS output format

  • There’s a new server API that allows a bundle to apply custom formatting to the default document management system document list page

• Spatial engine metadata improvements

  • The spmd conf command output has been tidied up

• Runtime properties can be set in config xml file

  • Runtime properties that are used by Weave bundles can be set via the <?set?> instruction in a config xml file, rather than needing to be set via system properties or Jetty .ini files. Note this is a work in progress and not all properties may work

• Improved handling of blank/null values when editing

  • Handling of blank and null values has been improved when submitting an edit

• Updated search config to be consistent with data definitions

  • It’s now possible (but the old format is still supported) to configure a search in a style similar to a data definition, that is having a generic <search:search> top level tag wrapping a specific search type, rather than having different top level search specific tags. This is similar to the way data definitions are configured.

• Support id filtering for searches

  • An id filter can be attached to a search to convert/translate the id’s returned from a search, similar to what can be done for a data definition. Particularly useful for searches in a different database than the spatially enabled table.

• Improved handling of CR/LF in lists (again)

  • Another attempt has been made to ensure that drop down lists that have labels that contains carriage returns or line feeds work correctly (why do people do this to me)

• Added support for “context”

  • You can now assign configuration items to a context and then tell a client to only use the configuration items from that context

• Removed requirement for “toc.” prefix on toc models

  • Previously a top level toc mode required its id to always start with “toc.”, this is no longer a requirement

• Snapping to redline layer

  • It’s now possible to specify the redline layer as a snapping target

• Support for search without any parameters

  • You can now have a search that does not have any parameters, this can be used for a search that operates the same all the time and does not require user input, for example, select all the properties that have a light pole on them

• GeoJSON encoding update

  • The encoding of geometry to GeoJSON by the client tries to ensure that features include the id’s that’s been assigned to them

• alwaysRefresh option added to client map engine config

  • You can set the alwaysRefresh option to true for a client map engine to ensure that it does not use a browser cached image, meaning each redraw of the layer will result in an updated image, useful for dynamic map content

• New BundlePath API

  • A new class for finding resources in a bundle has been added, specifically it improves support beyond the basic OSGi API of finding resources that are provided in fragment bundles

• Initial support for data parameters in layer filters

  • Layer filters can be defined with a date filter, this is a work in progress and map engine support could be spotty

• A new startup monitor is available

  • A new bundle that will record when the server shuts down and starts up has been added, and more importantly it records if the startup occurred after a clean shutdown

• Spatial engine and database metadata conf commands updates

  • The dbmd conf and spmd conf commands work better when provided with just a spatial engine or datasource, providing example output for the entire system, and tries harder to guess the correct values

• Parameters can use name or id

  • Previously different configuration objects that contain a list of parameters were not consistent with respect to the parameters using the name or id attribute to identify the individual parameters, now you can use either

• Keycloak library update

  • The internal Keycloak library, for interacting with SAML id providers, has been updated

• Admin UI functionality

  • Added additional filtering and refresh options to various Admin UI tools

• Revision control support in Weave updates

  • When running a Weave update on a Weave directory (or sub-directory) that is under the controls of Subversion or Git the changes made during the updated will be recorded with the revision control system ready to be committed. Note that the update won’t be applied if there are outstanding changes pending, you will need to commit, stash, undo, etc, the pending changes before you can apply the update, or you can pass a command line parameter to the update to force the update.

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2.6.7

Released 17 March 2022

Enhancements

• Interop launcher update

  • The launch.html page used to launch Weave from another website has been updated to support Weave Hub if it is installed

• Redline management tool

  • A new tool to allow you to re-order redline items has been added

• Single image slider

  • The image slider/chooser component is now part of the core Weave product rather than a separately installable component

• Allow static content to be served by Weave

  • If you have basic resources, images, HTML pages, etc, that you need to make available to the client you can copy them to the ...\workspace\static directory and the content will then be available at http://...../weave/static/. It also supports .htaccess files for access control.

• Pan select tool update

  • You can now use the alt and control keys with the PanSelect tool to add and remove from the selection

• New select neighbours tool

  • A new tool to allow you to quickly select the neighbours of the current selection has been added. By default it will select the touching neighbours but it can be configured to perform a buffer operation instead

• New splash screen

  • A new plugin to allow you to display a splash screen when the client starts has been added

• Rotate control point moved in redline

  • The rotate redline control would be covered by the corner coordinate in some redline objects so it’s been moved out further from the redline item

• Updated logging

  • The logging framework has been updated from Log4j to Logback and the logging configuration mode from logging.properties to logging.xml

• Data definitions registered in the background

  • The startup of the server will no longer wait until each data definition is connected/registered before continuing to process the configuration, which should speed up startup

• More metrics

  • Additional metrics for tracking data source connections have been added

• Cascade field support for non-spatial editing

  • Support for cascade fields has been added to the non-spatial editing

• Non-spatial editing combo update

  • The drop-down list of available edits can have its size configured

• GeoPackage export

  • The exported geopackage now supports more native column types

• Tags for ToC entries

  • ToC models now support adding tags to ToC entries, to allow for things like filtering based on tags associated with an entry

• Improved token support for ArcGIS server

  • The tokens generated when connecting to an ArcGIS server that requires authentication are now refreshed more frequently to reduce the possibility of the user losing access while using Weave

• Metrics update

  • By setting the system property weave.metrics.includeuser the search, report, map and data metrics will also include the user that generated the request in the generated metric

• New security API

  • A new API is available to allow for custom authentication providers, for example using JWT

• Names selections

  • Internally Weave now has the concept of Named Selections which, in the future, will allow for more advanced selection handling operations

• Configuration file update

  • You can now set ignore="true" for a top level configuration item to have it completely ignored by Weave, this is quicker/easier than commenting out the config item

• And more metrics

  • Connections to database based spatial engines now produce metrics

• More information in Support Dump

  • The Support Dump now includes additional information and better tracking of log file output

• Spatial edit import

  • The importing of geometry with spatial editing has been improved

• Spatial upload

  • Added support for uploading Excel spreadsheets

• Admin UI file explorer

  • The file explorer has been updated to better handle files that have been edited by two people at the same time

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2.6.6

Release 13 July 2021

Enhancements

• New Redline tool

  • A weave.redline.spatialSelect tool was added to the redline toolbar to allow selecting entities based on redline geometry

• Coordinate input change

  • The two coordinate input panels, redline and spatial editing were changed to default to latitude, longitude rather than longitude, latitude

• New export action

  • A new weave.grid.exportgriddata action can be added to the grid panels to export data

• activateEntity flag added to ToC panel

  • a flag when set to true will change the active entity, to the one associated with the toc entry, when that entry is turned on

• ArcGIS Server token support

  • Support for tile caches that require authentication has been improved

• Grid panel Copy operation

  • A right-click Copy menu has been added to the grid to support copying the information from the grid to the clipboard (if you have set textSelect to true for the grid panel the system menu will display instead)

• Nearmap update

  • There is a new Nearmap panel available to work around issues in the existing Nearmap panel

• Geocode API update

  • The Geocode API now supports providing the centre of the client map to help improve search results (for Geocoding engines that support it)

• JSON Converter API update

  • The JSON Converter API now supports classes implementing the JSONString interface, allowing an object to provide its own JSON representation to the client

• Update to caching settings

  • The weave.cache.default flag will now disable caching for data definitions as well as search results

• Non-spatial editing update

  • Support for “calculating” a column value based on another table has been added to non-spatial editing, i.e. populate a column from a separate table

• Excel export update

  • The grid panel export to Excel now exports to a newer version of Excel, i.e. .xlsx format

• ArcGIS tile update

  • Support for local compressed ArcGIS map tile caches was added

• SLD file resource improvement

  • SLD files are more forgiving of references to external resources, i.e. images can just be referenced using the file name if they’re in the same directory as the SLD file itself

• WMS server type guessing improvement

  • In situations where the type of WMS server needs to be known there have been improvements made to the code that determines the server type

• Spring Security configuration update

  • The Spring Security validation code no longer needs access to the internet to download the schema files

• Selection API update

  • Some internal selection code was updated to obtain the current selections earlier in the process

• Runtime properties file updated

  • The runtime.properties file now sorts the properties by name

• New storage commands

  • There is now a flush option available for the storage and ustorage commands, which ensure that any outstanding writes are written to the storage provider

• New logout button in Admin UI

  • The Admin UI now has a Logout button

• Tile update

  • When generating a single map image from a tiled map engine some optimisation has been made to improve performance

• Edit panel update

  • It is now possible to configure the edit combo box width in the spatial edit panel, by setting comboWidth and comboListWidth in the panel config

• A new Spring Security helper class is available

  • A com.cohga.weave.security.userdetails.DelegateUserDetailsService class is available for use in a Spring Security security.xml file to allow you to use multiple user details services to get user details, i.e. multiple LDAP servers

• Various API updates

  • A number of internal API’s have been updated along the path to a Weave 3.0 release

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2.6.5

Released 15 March 2021

Enhancements

• Redline coordinate entry

  • Support tabs as a separator in the input text

• Updated to login/logout

  • Login and logout handing has been updated to better support multiple authentication mechanisms

• Min/Max scale display update

  • The ToC panel has been improved for the displays of the scale ranges for a layer

• Oracle Time update

  • A workaround for the Oracle JDBC driver not being compliant with the JDBC specification when it comes to dates and time has been implemented

• Updated non-spatial editing

  • You can now specify if an edit config has create, update and/or delete capabilities

• Encryption key update

  • The private key used to encrypt items in Weave config files can be specified by an environment variable or system property, rather than just the private.key file

• Data export API

  • A new API for exporting data has been implemented

• GeoPackage as a data export format

  • Along with CSV, HTML and Excel, there is now a GeoPackage option for exporting data from a data grid

• List provider API update

  • The API for generating lists for the client has been updated to improve support for filtering the values

• Tile cache update

  • You can now set the system property tile.cache.disable to true to disable caching of tiles fetched from external servers

• WMS Legend generation config update

  • It's now possible to specify additional tokens that need to be included in the URL sent to a WMS server just for GetLegend requests. Previously you could only specify one set of tokens and they were sent on every request.

• SAML Authentication

  • Support for authenticating using SAML has been added. This provides support for Microsoft AD FS and Azure AD amongst others.

• New whoami request

  • You can open the URL /weave/whoami to get information about who the server thinks you are, which is useful to debug login, role and ACL related issues

• Dynamic configuration variables

  • Variables in config files set by using the "set" instruction are now dynamic (i.e. their value can be changed when the config files are being processed). Previously the values were fixed, with the last value set when processing the config files, being the one that was used. You can set the system property "weave.config.variables.dynamic" to false to restore the previous static variable handling.

• Updated Geometry Simplification API

  • An internal API used for simplifying geometry has been enhanced to provide more control over the simplification process

• Geometry REST API update

  • The /geometry/transform/point endpoint has been updated to be more lenient with missing parameters and more strict with required parameters

• Support dump update

  • The support dump has been updated to include additional information

• Client IP address update

  • The server determining the user's actual IP address, taking into account proxies, has been improved

• Runtime Property API update

  • The internal API for getting system properties has been updated to allow a function to provide the default value

• Admin UI Spatial Engines Tool update

  • The tool now provides filtering for spatial engine layers based on their name

• Data API update

  • The Java Data API now allows some formatting to be provided as functions, not just from a pre-defined set of options. This includes dates and times, URL's and boolean values.

• EPSG update

  • The EPSG database has been updated to version 9.9, from 9.7

• SQL Server spatial engine update

  • The SQL Server config now accepts a "URL" parameter, to allow specifying the full connection URL, rather than having the URL constructed from other config parameters

• Third-party library updates

  • A number of third-party libraries have been updated to newer versions

• Bookmark improvements when switching projections

  • The bookmarks are smarter about reprojecting redlines and extents when a bookmark is saved in one projection but loaded on a client in another projection.

• User attributes in client config

  • It’s now possible to reference users attributes in a client config to customise a client for individual users

  • For example: <initial minx=”${user.extent.initial.minx}” miny=”${user.extent.initial.miny}” maxx=”${user.extent.initial.maxx}” maxy=”${user.extent.initial.maxy}” crs=”${user.extent.initial.crs}”/>

  • You need to create and configure user attributes separately (the example above will not work out of the box)

• Buffer display update

  • The buffer polygons displayed on the client are "simplified" to reduce the number of points in the polygon. The default number of points is 1000. To change this you can set the system property weave.client.buffer.maxpoints to a larger (or smaller) value. Note, changing this property doesn't affect the buffer operation itself, just the polygon displayed to the user (since these polygons can contain 10's or 100's of thousands of points and can take a long time to download).

• Jetty updated

  • Jetty has been updated to version 9.4.38

• Java updated

  • Java has been updated to 1.8.0_282

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2.6.4.9

Released 11 Feb 2021

Enhancements

• New redline commands

  • The new bookmark commands added in 2.6.4.8 to help fix issues with pre-2.6.4.8 bookmarks have been replaced with the equivalent “redline” commands.

  • The newer version of the command works with all saved redlines, not just those saved as part of a bookmark as the bookmark version of the commands did.

2.6.4.8

Released 11 Feb 2021

Enhancements

• New bookmark commands

  • New bookmark management commands have been added to allow you to retroactively set the CRS for redlines stored in bookmarks.

  • The new “bm setcrs <crs>” command should be run after you upgrade to 2.6.4.8 (or 2.6.5) to update all existing bookmarks to include the CRS that was in use when the bookmarks were created.

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2.6.4

Released 30 July 2020

Enhancements

• Weave Hub

  • A new third party application integration library to replace Weave Link and provide integration in browsers other than Internet Explorer. Currently supports Authority, Pathway, Proclaim and Trim integration.

• New Redline Tools

  • Edit coordinates of geometry

  • Upload geometry from a file

• New Spatial Edit tools

  • Edit coordinate of geometry

  • Upload geometry from a file

• GDA2020

  • Initial support for using the GDA2020 projection

• Metrics

  • Added metrics support so Weave can be monitored externally, currently supports Prometheus, InfluxDB and Datadog.

  • Note this will not be installed/enabled when updating an existing instance, so as not to add the overhead to sites that do not want it. To install it for an existing instance, re-run the 2.6.4 installer pointing it to the newly updated 2.6.4 instance and disable everything but the System Metrics component.

• Help

  • The default help content is now provided as part of the installation.

  • Note this will not be installed when updating an existing instance, so as not to overwrite any customisations that may have been applied. To install it for an existing instance, re-run the 2.6.4 installer pointing it to the newly updated 2.6.4 instance and disable everything but the Help component.

• Zip'n'ship

  • Supports exporting to GeoPackage

  • Data sets can be grouped into folders

• Tiled map engines

  • Tiled map engines can now be configured for performance or quality when re-projecting the tiles and they can be configured to fetch multiple tiles in parallel.

• Stitching dynamic map engine

  • If a back end map service only supports generating images up to a certain width and height (i.e. as with ArcGIS), you can now create a wrapper "stitching" map engine that can be configured with the maximum width and height that the back end map service supports. The stitching map engine will make multiple requests to the back end map service so that it only requests images of the size the map service supports and it will then stitch the images back together to make a single image of the originally requested size. This is particularly important for BIRT reports with large embedded map components. So now you can, for example, generate an A0 size report even if the map service in use only supports generating images of 1000 x 1000 pixels.

• A new group parameters for reports

  • So you can group reports on the client

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2.6.0

Released 8 November 2019

Enhancements

• Updated Java and Jetty, which requires a re-install, other than that this release has exactly the same functionality as 2.5.30