About This Release

This release of iShare is a patch release with the following enhancements and fixes.

3rd Party Installer

• Changed to use heartbleed patched version of PostgreSQL.

• FWTools has been removed. Is little used and was causing problems by setting environment variables.

iShare GIS

• Databrowser height wasn't being overridden when height was altered.

• Databrowser resizes no longer pin the databrowser.

• Fixed a memory leak with the Map Categories panel

• Fix for issue caused by IE8 caching image dimensions.
• The CSV and Excel export now works when there are multiple tables supplied

• OGC Thematic layers now use the correct styling for the ranges

• Printing now uses filter(s) set for OGC layers on the map.

• The address search loading icon is no longer covered by the Go button
• The Find Nearest results are now cleared when you click on the Reset Layers button

• The green location arrows are now removed when the layers are reset

• The Layer Catalogue is now cleaning up after itself properly

• The Layer Catalogue no longer slows down after pressing the Reset Layers button

• There was duplication of code calls and web requests, getting rid of these, along with introducing of caching of legend images and loading legends after layers has sped things up a lot.

• Using Find Nearest on OGC layers with filters now returns only points that match the filter

• When used in an AD FS environment, the user group claims were appended to the "user@domain" string used in the iShareGIS front-end.
• iShare GIS, SoloMaps and LiteMaps as well as independent use of iShare Web Services should now use the workspace specified in the Application Pool name.
• Improved logging for AD FS

• Fix issue with AD FS where an error response was generated if nothing found in the Identity's Name attribute.

• Adding layers from Layer Catalogue or via other plugins should not now result in 'loading' image not being replaced by legend graphic.

Studio

• An Internal DataSource could not be created without using the "Construct" dialog. An Internal DataSource must be given a name but previously the Name field was disabled until after using the Construct dialog. The name field is now always enabled.

• Corrected "Depends on previous job" to "Depends on previous task" in Task list for Workflow Job.

• Fixed an issue where Studio would report a "502 Bad gateway" error while trying to contact MapServer

• Fixed an issue where Map Editor would raise an error if a path was wrapped in apostrophes rather than quotes

• Fixed the check to make sure that a Map Source doesn't already exist when the user tries to import a new one

• OGC and Thematic layers now save the Find Nearest information correctly
• Reduced the scope for Workflow to wipe Stored Procedure argument values.
• Resolved an issue where Studio would raise an exception about invalid characters in a map file
• Some Astun SQL functions were not communicating errors to Workflow so it would assume that they had worked successfully.
• Studio Workflow now tries to work out which one of identically named stored procedures is to be used.
• Studio now calls atversion.aspx successfully when the external site requires authentication
• Studio now no longer truncates map file layer names with spaces or special characters in them
• Studio now saves the startup values correctly when they are set to zero.
• Studio will now no longer raise an exception when you try to create a scheduled task, but asks if you have permissions to the tasks directory.

• Create New Mapsource functionality error messages have been improved, and the save dialog is now more intelligent on where it first opens

• Import Existing Mapsource functionality and error messages have been improved, and the open dialog now opens in the correct directory

• OGC layer link field names are no longer being truncated

• OGC thematic point colour will now load correctly

• SLD Editor will now accept symbolizers tags that start with "ogc:"

• Available Field list will now stay in the correct order after changing them and saving the layer

• Geometry column is no longer "forgotten" by the OGC layer after it is saved

• Hyperlink field no longer needs to be in the field list for the hyperlinks to work

• The link this field in OGC layers will no longer be empty when it should be populated

• The list of functions in a Stored Procedure task will now be updated correctly if you switch Data Sources.

• Mapsource will no longer become corrupted after moving a layer up or down and then saving

• The Port field for the Workflow database connection is now restricted to allow only valid values. Also the Stored Procedure Workflow task will now show a friendly error if it cannot connect to the database.

• The Stored Procedure parameter edit text box is no longer partially covered by the comments box

• Better matching of Workflow parameter values (again).

• Studio will now retry refreshing the external server using the user's credentials if the external server requires authentication

• Resolved the issue where a Workflow Task would not appear in the list if it's name was a subset of another tasks name.