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 a number of small improvements in usability and validation. There have been significant improvements to:
- Environmental Flows,
- The Date Ranges interface,
- Date Time format changes,
- Hot Start Rainfall runoff models 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. These functions can't change every day of the model run, they can change up until travel time days before the start of the season.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.
The path for the existing Scenario Inputs Sets will need to change from Rules → Action. API details are in RM-16591.
Date Ranges interface
Date Time format changes
We have had a couple of issues with date formats changing on different computers. We are resolving this by moving to export based on yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. We will continue to import data from a variety of formats, however, tools such as Scenario Input Sets, and the Export Summary will now be using this format regardless of the user's computer settings.
Hot Start Rainfall Runoff Models
The user interface has been consolidated to:
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and we have improved the validation.
Ownership proportions at Splitters
There was an oversight in the algorithm to determine ownership at the splitter node. Ownership at splitters could become negative in rare cases when sharing unallocated flows.
It previously assumed the allocated flow was always less than the actual flow. This has now been resolved.
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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