The changes in this beta will be available in the next Source production release, due out at the end of June 2021.
This release includes improvements to:
- Environmental Flows,
- The Date Ranges interface, and
- Ownership proportions at Splitters.
Environmental Flows
There has been a number of improvements in Environmental Flows.
- We have extended the environmental flows Spell action. It can now use functions for:
- Number of spells in a season
- Number of spells for success in a season, and
- Spell duration.
- There is also a new option to allow the fall phase of spells to occur after the end of the season.
- Scenario Input Sets and the Export summary will now include more information about Environmental Flow Actions.
Date Ranges interface
Ownership proportions at Splitters
Ownership at splitters could become negative. This has now been resolved. Details in
Plugin Developers
We have moved to .NET 4.8 and are looking at moving to the new .csproj format on our journey to .net core. Once we complete this, we will require plugin developers to upgrade to Visual Studio 2019.
Regression Testing
We have removed the tolerance in our regression tests to allow for earlier identification of different machines or versions of operating systems giving different results.
Regression test repository changes since the first Source 5.7beta:
02 projects added
04 projects removed
09 Project updated results 02 projects input sets updated
Details here: 5.8 Regression Test Changes
Insight
To run Insight, you also need to install the 32bit version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
This installer is for 32bit machines and 64bit machines since the library we use is 32bit: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).
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