[ZOO-PSC] ZOO-Project 1.7.0 release

[Jeff McKenna]

+1

Great news Gérald.  I will also package 1.7.0 for MS4W users, which I 
see from download statistics is very popular!

-jeff



On 2019-05-31 11:33 AM, Gérald Fenoy wrote:
> Dear PSC members,
> I would like to ask you to vote for releasing 1.7.0 version of the ZOO-Project.
> 
> I suppose you have noticed the modifications that has been done over the past few months. One the biggest was to merge prototype-v0 in trunk [1] which was used during almost 2 years for developing the new ZOO-Project version, including for example the R support and the HPC one. Lately, we have made some tests for building for both GNU/Linux [2] and Window [3] platforms using appVeyor free account.
> 
> Bellow, you can see a list of important modifications:
> 
>    * Fix issue with UOM definitions in zcfg2sql
>    * Make callback and HPC support independent from each other
>    * Update SAGA-GIS support to version 7.2.0
>    * Add support for custom MapServer style definition for raster output
>    * Fix returned bbox definition #170
>    * Store semaphore status in lenv section for future deletion
>    * Update Windows support to newer compiler
>    * Fix issue with UpdateStatus function from the Mono ZOO-API
>    * Add logging functionality and other utility functions to the C-API
>    * Return an exception for every output for which nb_pixel or
>    nb_features is 0
>    * Add a shared key to the security section to differentiate the
>    referenced data
>    * Add MapServer output style definition depending on the geometry
>    type
>    * Add ogr.tindex service
>    * Add support for literaldata input arrays and to call services
>    asyncrhonously from the JavaScript ZOO-API
>    * Expose a sleep function to the JavaScript ZOO-API
>    * Provide FinalizeHPC and FinalizeHPC1 services using scontrol and
>    sacct respectively
>    * Store md5sum of the cached file (so, local to the WPS server) to
>    compare before uploading (if different md5sum) on the HPC server
>    * Add support for R language
>    * Add support for using "file://"  for referenced data input
>    * Add an optional ecookie key for returning third-party cookies
>    * Fix issue when parsing BoundingBox input #163
>    * Add memory key to the main section to force the ZOO-Kernel to load
>    data into memory or use local file
>    * Add the dialect input to the ogr2ogr service
>    * Store the list of generated mapfiles in a file (cf DeleteData service)
>    * Define the correct MS_IMAGEMODE in the generated mapfile
>    * Option to use MapServer support to publish heatmap
>    * Add status_code key to the lenv for setting Status HTTP response header
>    * Add the Creation Option inputs to the Gdal_Dem service
>    * Add prohibited key in the callback section to define a list of
>    services not requiring any invocation
>    * Produce zcfg for OTB applications using the correct default pixel type
>    * Add asynchronous callback invocation to send information about
>    the ongoing services to a third-party software
>    * Add mapsToJson, mapsToJson, and elementsToJson to the API
>    * Provide a zcfg2sql tool to convert a zcfg metadata file to SQL script
>    * Add support to store service metadata information into a database
>    * Add HPC Support for remote execution of SBATCH scripts through Slurm
>    * Add cookie reference to _HINTERNET
>    * Support headers for GET requests from the js ZOO-API
>    * Pass all headers listed in the attributes parameter from the
>    [security] section to the hosts listed in the hosts parameter of the
>    same section (ticket #139)
> 
> I am proposing myself as a release manager and the release to occur on next Friday (2019/06/07).
> 
> My vote is obviously +1 for this release.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> [1] http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/changeset/917
> [2] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/djay/trunk-t67ri/builds/24881108
> [3] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/djay/trunk-hp3tw/builds/24868734
> 
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