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2.6.5.4

Released 27 May 2021

Fixes

• Legend panel

  • If a legend panel was in a region of the layout that was initially collapsed it would not update its content when initially exposed by the user

• ToC panel

  • The enable/disabled state of ToC groups wasn’t reflecting the scale ranges of the included layers

• Oracle edit

  • A fix for the non-spatial editing has been applied to work around an issue with Oracle returning invalid metadata for decimal columns

• Map alias

  • If multiple plugins were included in the map view the server would not process map aliases correctly

2.6.5.3

Released 31 March 2021

Fixes

• Client IP

  • If the server was behind a reverse proxy Weave might not guess the correct IP address of the client

• Default style

  • The client would not be able to determine the default style to choose for a layer in some circumstances

2.6.5.2

Released 26 March 2021

Fixes

• Restore ToC functionality removed in 2.6.5

  • The ability to turn off all children in an exclusive toc group or to configure an exclusive toc group with no children initially checked was removed in 2.6.5, you can now re-enable that by setting allowExclusiveOff to true in the toc panel config

• Excel export fix

  • If a data definition has a URL parameter that generated an empty value you could not re-save the exported XLS file

• Internet Explorer incompatibility in non-spatial editing

  • 2.6.5.1 introduced an extra comma that would stop the client from starting if the non-spatial editing extension is installed and the users browser is Internet Explorer

• Spatial editing fix

  • The CreateNew button would sometimes override the default values in the input form

  • The CreateNew button would not always switch to the edit input form panel if it was hidden when the button was pressed

2.6.5.1

Released 23 March 2021

Fixes

• Session cookie fix

  • This fix ensures that session cookies have the correct flags set so that third party authentication works correctly after recent changes to browser behaviour

• PostGIS fix

  • The GeoTools PostGIS driver was updated to work with newer versions of PostGIS

• Added missing GDA2020 projection

  • The VicGrid GDA2020 client projection definition was missing

• Changes to exclusive groups in ToC panel weren’t reflected in the map

  • 2.6.5 changes exclusive groups so that it would turn on the first child if no items were checked initially, but the change was not being reflected in the map

• XSS fix

  • An invalid request from the client included the request id in the response error, which theoretically could be a security issue (but isn’t)

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

Fixes

• Redline coordinate entry

  • Fixed typo in help text

• Redline shapefile/kml export

  • Stop "invalid" geometries from aborting the export

• Export filename fix

  • An export generated from a grid didn't always set the filename correctly

• Metric name typo

  • The name of the metric "datasource,available" was corrected to "datasource.available"

• ArcGIS REST API fixes

  • The code has been updated to better handle the vagaries of the responses sent from ArcGIS

• WMS Map logging fix

  • Recording of map and layer timings has been added back after accidentally being removed in release 2.6.4

• Buffer generation inconsistency fixed

  • Previously different code used different methods to generate buffers around geometry which would sometimes give inconsistent results. Now all code that generates a buffer uses the same code and settings.

• Report generation issue

  • A missing map engine would sometimes stop a report from generating if it referenced the missing map engine

• NTLM Authentication fix

  • Once a user has authenticated via NTLM they will not be required to authenticate again during the current session.

• Null identifier fix

  • Updates have been put in place to handle records that use null as a key value

• Runtime Property API fix

  • The internal API for getting system properties has been updated to better handle file-based URL's for file and path type properties. Recent updates to Java and Windows meant that these value were being handled differently between Windows and Linux.

• Admin UI data explorer fix

  • The tool was returning the wrong number of records when paging

• Admin UI spatial engine fix

  • The tool was failing with ArcGIS layers that were empty

• PRJ file handling

  • Updates have been made to handle differences between OGC and Esri PRJ files when uploading spatial data.

• Redline fix

  • Redlines created before 2.6.5 and 2.6.4.8 did not record the projection of the stored coordinates which could cause issues if a client config changed the map projection or if a bookmark/redline created in a client with one map projection was opened in a client with a different map projection. This update a) includes the crs in any new redlines, and b) provides a “redline setcrs <crs>” osgi command to add the projection information to existing redlines.

• Coordinate display panel

  • If the panel was visible at startup it wouldn’t update when the mouse was moved

• Client support for EPSG:7899 projection

  • The client did not know about the GDA2020 VicGrid projection

• Bookmark update fix

  • Replacing a bookmark would not update the stored content

• ToC panel fix

  • It was possible to turn off all layers in a group marked as exclusive when this should not have been possible

• Buffer display fix

  • Sometimes the buffer displayed to the user, not the one used to perform the buffer operation itself, did not display correctly

2.6.4.13

Release 18 Feb 2021

Fixes

• ToC panel fix

  • It was possible to turn off all layers in a group marked as exclusive when it should not be

2.6.4.12

Released 17 Feb 2021

Fixes

• Bookmark update fix

  • Replacing a bookmark would not update the stored content

2.6.4.11

Released 16 Feb 2021

Fixes

• Fixed redline transform command

  • The redline transform command did not handle invalid geometries well, it will now remove any invalid geometries stored in a redline (not remove the whole redline)

2.6.4.10

Released 15 Feb 2021

Fixes

• Fixed redline transform command

  • There was a problem when transforming saved bookmark that also included and extent

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.

Fixes

• Multi-select field fix

  • A multi-select field would not always display its initial values (if it was configured with an initial value)

• Data export fix

  • When exporting data from a grid the name of the file was not always set correctly

• Bookmark redline fix

  • Previously bookmarks did not store the CRS of the redlines and relied upon their coordinates being in the same projection as the map

2.6.4.7

Released 11 Feb 2021

Fixes

• Spatial upload projection issue

  • Fixed an issue where uploaded data would not project correctly if an included PRJ file was not understood by Weave

2.6.4.6

Released 29 Jan 2021

Fixes

• Map logging restored

  • The 2.6.4 update accidentally removed the map engine/layer logging from the Admin UI, it’s now been added back

2.6.4.5

Released 28 Jan 2021

Fixes

• Windows integrated authentication fix

  • NTLM authentication, via Acegi Security, was updated to fix an issue causing some client functions to not work

2.6.4.4

Released 17 Nov 2020

Fixes

• Quick search data panel fix

  • Fixed a minor issue when updating the quick search data panel

• Redline export fixes

  • The export to KML and Shapefile tools have been fixed to ignore invalid geometry

• Metric name fix

  • The name for the JDBC connection monitor metric was incorrect

• Map export fix

  • Exporting a map was ignoring the "labels visible" flag for layers

• Report map fix

  • Fixed an issue that could cause a report map to be out of sync with the clients' view

• Spatial search fix

  • Fixed an issue that didn't always apply all the required filters

2.6.4.3

Released 20 Aug 2020

Fixes

• Missing CRS parameter in intersect requests

  • A crs parameter was missing when sending an intersect operation request to the server, so if the data is stored in a different projection the "highlight" geometry would not display on the client

• Unnecessary errors in log

  • An unsupported request from the client was logged as an error when it should be a warning, and no information was recorded about what the request was

• Startup performance issue

  • There was a problem that could result in delays when the server was starting up

• Invalid metadata in an API bundle

  • An API related bundle included some incorrect metadata in the source relating to the version of Java it required. This shouldn't effect the server but required a bump in the version number to update the bundle.

2.6.4.2

Release 13 Aug 2020

Fixes

• Selection identify fix

  • If you try to export data from the selection identify tool and have no records selected then you would get no data, rather than all records

• Id mapping fix

  • If a null id makes it into the system it can cause problems, this fix should ensure that null id's are no longer possible

• Missing entries in config.ini file

  • The installer for 2.6.4 moved some bundles from optional extras to always being included, but did not add the config.ini entries to ensure those bundles were started. Updating from previous versions did not have this issue, just installing a clean 2.6.4 version.

2.6.4.1

Release 4 Aug 2020

Fixes

• ArcGIS Server certificate issue

  • Weave may complain about the certificates presented by ArcGIS Server.

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

Fixes

• Various minor bug fixes

2.6.3.1

Released 28 November 2019

Fixes

• Street View panel fix

  • Resolved an issue with moving in the street view panel bouncing back at certain locations which was stopping users from being able to move forward in the street view panel.

2.6.3

Released 20 November 2019

Fixes

• List-box/combo-box field issue

  • Some field functionality in 2.5.30 changed the way list-box and combo-boxes worked by default, this update fixes the fields so they work more like they did before 2.5.30.

2.6.2

Released 13 November 2019

Fixes

• ToC model parsing issue

  • When generating an id for a toc model group entry that does not have an id set the generation of the id required a map engine to be know which may not always be the case, this would result in the toc model not being available. This update resolves the requirement to have a mapengine specified and will generate the id without one.

2.6.1

Released 12 November 2019

Fixes

• Data grid filter fixes

  • Exporting data from the data grid when using a filter would not always work

  • Filtering on a string column was not performing a wildcard search  by default

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