* * * Announcing LAS version 6.4 * * *

[Jonathan Callahan <Jonathan.S.Callahan@xxxxxxxx>]

* * * Announcing LAS version 6.4 * * *

Version 6.4 of the Live Access Server is now available from the LAS downloads page.

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Downloads/

Please try out this new release and contact us with any problems you encounter.

Jon Callahan
Joe Mclean
Roland Schweitzer
Kevin O'Brien
Ansley Manke
Yonghua Wei
Steve Hankin

What's new in release 6.4?

New features

1. Yahoo! style templates (To help you present your datasets and variables hierarchically.)
2. More product options
   • contour on/off
   • options for 'quick inspection' product
   • gif/postscript are now options
3. More example code
   • for custom products
   • for custom back ends
   • gif/postscript are now options
4. Improved timing information in the logs
5. Improved plot annotations
   • for defined variables
   • for variables with long names
   • in-situ plots now list # of obs returned
6. Allow for previously installed Tomcat server

Bug fixes since LAS 6.3

• Locations W of Greenwich were not displayed in some in-situ products
• Netcdf output did not list multi variables with the same name
• Compare mode did not work with user defined variables
• Text output now defaults to left justified (instead of center)
• disabling caching in LAS did not disable OPeNDAP caching -- now it does

Known bugs

• 'sister' servers
  • no support for custom templates
  • no handling of identical dataset names on sister
• addXml.pl
  • no support for custom templates
  • no support for fractional months
  • fails on data type SHORT
• in-situ plots
  • metadata plot does not plot single profiles
  • gaussian YZ,YT,ZT plots exceed time limit
• comparison
  • list of possible Views ignores axes available on second variable
• lasget.pl
  • does not retrieve data stored in back end databases

You may download LAS from the following page

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Downloads/

Updated installation and configuration documentation is available at:

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Documentation/

For a list of systems on which the server has been tested, please see:

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/FAQ/os_browser_table.html

Source code for LAS (java, Perl and JavaScript) is included in the download tarball. The latest snapshot of LAS is also always available via anonymous cvs (see the installation documentation for more info).