4.10.2 - Beta Release (December 2019)

The changes in this beta will be available in the 4.11 production release, due at the end of December 2019. 

The most significant change for this release are improvements to the calibration tool.

Calibration tool

The calibration tool has undergone significant enhancements. It has been changed from a flow calibration tool to a generic calibration tool. You can now specify any recordable output (including functions) to be used as part of the objective function in the calibration wizard.  The independent variable can now be a Data Source, rather than a separately loaded text file.  

We still have more work to do in allowing any parameters to be modified.  We have enabled users to calibrate constituents as a first step.

Chart changes

We have resolved a number of issues identified with charts and the mass balance tool since their redevelopment.  

Chart aggregation can now ignore null values. This allows for the aggregation of seasonal data to an annual time series. e.g. you can now generate a series of the total summer inflows each year. 

Off Allocation

Off allocation had an option called "Equalise Shares", which wasn't used by any of the jurisdictions, and has now been removed. 

Insight changes

Insight now produces a file which is a cache of model run results. This means that when you run an insight optimisation and then decide to increase the number of generations of the optimisation, you can continue the extended optimisation from the end of the previous optimisation. 

This also means you can stop an insight run and restart it without wasting a large amount of time.

Plugin Developers

We are planning on moving to C# 7, Visual Studio 2019 and .NET 4.8.0 soon, so you will need to make sure you have updated Visual Studio to continue developing plugins in the beta versions.

Regression Testing

We have removed the concept of tolerance from our regression tests so that no differences at all between results are allowed.  This is to help find issues earlier if we get different results on different machines or versions of operating systems. 

Regression test repository changes since the first Source 4.10.1beta:

 03 Project Added
 12 Project results updated
 02 Tests ignored

Details here: 4.10.2 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 both 32bit machines and 64bit machines since the library we use is 32bit: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).

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