3.8.8 - Beta Release (December 2014)

• Results Manager has arrived (but still needs work so please provide Feedback)!!
  • A significant amount of work has gone into our new results viewer
  • Transforms
  • Demonstration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ReRx5AN1bQ
• More Chart improvements!
  • When you "Copy to clipboard" it copies to a vector WMF format ready to paste into Microsoft Word
  • Fixed chart zooming issues
• Layer manager persistence for geographic view
  • You can now add additional layers and remove scenario persisted layers through the Layer Manager
• Constituent Changes:
  
  • Constituent outputs have been consolidated and improved
  • Start and end dates so you can now have a separate modelling period for constituents than flow (Running Configuration window in a new tab) Screenshot
  •  Changes in results around small numbers of flow and constituents
  •  Performance improvements!!
    • Improved runtime for Catti by about 50% from ~18 seconds to ~8 seconds

    • Improved runtime for CBM_Base_Run by 25% from 40 seconds down to 30 seconds

    • More performance improvements are now possible and are being worked on at the moment  RM-13559 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  • Ability to turn off constituent modelling (Edit \ Constituents)
  • Constituents can now be added and then the project run without saving / loading 
• Square-root Daily, Exceedance, and Bias objective function is now in the calibration tool
  
• Insight - new configuration user interface. Screenshot 
  • Enables use of constraints
  • Generally easier to use
  • Works on small laptops 
  • Additional advanced parameters available
• New Map view now has links
• Copy Paste within scenarios, and between scenarios - Basic nodes only.  Doesn't include: 

  • Constituents

  • Data Sources

  • Function and Data usages

  • Functions

    • basic

    • modelled variables

    • context variables

  • Resource Assessment

Coming soon

• Dora improvements - we want feedback and suggestions to make it easier to use.
• More Copy paste functionality
• Continued work on Charting

Regression Testing

Regression Test Matrix: Regression Test Matrix 3.8.8beta

Regression test repository changes since Source 3.8.7beta:

33 project results changed (minor changes to constituent outputs)

13 projects edited

34 projects with recorder name changes

1 project added

Details here: 3.8.8 Regression Test Changes

Minor version Changes

• RM-13683 - Project works in 3.8.7 but not in 3.8.8 beta
• RM-13689 - Can't edit parameter ranges in the calibration wizard
• RM-12899 - Be able to customise the graph symbol
  

Version 3.8.8.2432beta contains fixes for:  

Insight

To run Insight you also need to install the 32bit version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
This is for both 32bit machines and 64bit machines since the library we use is 32bit: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).