The changes in this beta will be available in the next Source production release, due out at the end of June 2021.
Improvements in this release include:
- Improvements to Unregulated system ordering,
- Crashes with Remote Desktop and SciChart Resolved,
- Scenario Input Sets are now visible within Node / Link feature editors, and
- Constraint Factors have been added to the Order Crawler.
Unregulated system improvements
Confluences now handle constraints for Unregulated sections of networks. After changes were introduced to allow splitters to be considered regulated in 5.6 - Beta Release (February 2021), for orders to be passed up to the splitter, constraints needed to be propagated down to it.
This change makes Confluences sum together the forecasts from each of its two branches when they are both unregulated.
Crashes with Remote Desktop and SciChart Resolved
When using Source through a remote desktop session, it could hard crash the application when viewing charts. This should now be resolved.
Include Scenario Input Sets into Node / Link feature editors
When working with large models that have significant scenario modelling with Scenario Input Sets, it can be hard to understand all the changes. We have included Scenario Input Sets in each feature editor to show the number of changes that are made to the current node/link across the Scenario Input Sets:
Constraint Factors in the Order Crawler
Constraint Factors are used in the model from the Current Time Step → Minimum Travel Time. We have now included them in the Order Crawler. They are available per owner when there are multiple owners in the system, so we have included the average across owners.
We also resolved a bug when there were multiple owners, it wouldn't take the total, rather it was reporting the results for the first owner it found.
Operations Forecast Models Summary
Operations models now have a summary of Forecast models across the model:
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 5.6beta:
10 Project updated results 23 Project files updated (mostly for trailing white space in names)
Details here: 5.7 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).
Full Release Documentation