* * * Announcing LAS version 6.4.1 * * *

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

* * * Announcing LAS version 6.4.1 * * *

Version 6.4.1 of the Live Access Server is now available from the LAS downloads page.  This is primarily a bug fix release.

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

New features

1. improved in-situ code
   • self installing SQL database and example configuration files
   • clean up of in-situ products and options
2. special HTML comment bypasses Velocity template processing

Bug fixes since LAS 6.4 (text describes the bug, not the fix)

• #834 insitu metadata plot does not plot one profile
• #958 need to catch start date > end date error
• #965 insitu single profile needs reference map
• #945 ParseLEX module requires patch to install correctly on RH9 and ES systems
• #1000 Malformed SQL query in Time Range (spaces not allowed in time strings)
• #984 non-java map interface won't allow XY region selection for non-XY products
• #1001 server-side map croaks when started with use_java=false
• #333 axis type="t" display_lo does not work within dataset
• #980 server side map interface doesn't handle modulo properly
• #999 Non-Java map problems with high-resolution data sets

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
  • 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.