{"id":3134,"date":"2017-02-15T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3134"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:20:11","slug":"release-1_4_0-changes","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-1_4_0-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Release 1_04_0 Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is new in the<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> SNIP<\/span> 1_4_0 release<\/strong>\u00a0 [February 14th\u00a0 2017]<br \/>\nThis is the next release of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> following after the Rev 1_2_0 release of last month (January 13th) with some major new functionality. It is recommended for all users and is now the primary download.\u00a0 This release has the new NEARest mountPt <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use\/\">feature<\/a> set which was first released in the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/pre-release-snip-editions\/\">Beta channel<\/a> (1.3.0) about two weeks ago.\u00a0 At this writing, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> is now being used in over one hundred countries to operate NTRIP Caster networks.<\/p>\n<p>The primary improvements made from release 1_4_0 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All paid editions of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>now support a <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use-case-examples\/\"><strong>NEARest<\/strong> mountPt function<\/a> to allow <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\">NTRIP Clients<\/a> to be automatically connected to whichever mountPt would be closest to their current location. \u00a0 NEAR streams provide a convenient way to connect your NTRIP Clients to the best mountPt in a selected pool while automatically dealing with Base Stations that may come and go in your network.\u00a0 [This feature is enabled as part of the evaluation package but it is not available in the free or <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Lite<\/strong> <\/span>license mode]\u00a0 The NEAR feature is treated in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> like other data source, appearing in it own <strong>Nearest Tab<\/strong> with various controls for each stream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3145\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-600x395.png\" alt=\"NEAR_Tab\" width=\"524\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-600x395.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-50x33.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-320x210.png 320w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab.png 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Basic<\/strong> <\/span>license mode supports a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">single<\/span> NEARest stream using the RTCM 3.0 message formats.\u00a0 In the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Pro<\/strong><\/span> license mode, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three<\/em><\/span> such streams are supported.\u00a0 And, these streams can also use any of the common message formats [RTCM3, RTCM2, CMR, uBlox, BINEX, etc.] to form the pool of Base Stations to be used.\u00a0 In the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Enterprise<\/strong> <\/span>license mode the number of allowed concurrent NEARest streams is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unlimited<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Setup_Dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3151 size-post-small\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Setup_Dialog-320x438.png\" alt=\"NEAR_Setup_Dialog\" width=\"320\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Setup_Dialog-320x438.png 320w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Setup_Dialog-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Setup_Dialog-36x50.png 36w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Setup_Dialog.png 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When creating a NEARest stream using the RTCM 3.0 message formats various options for extensive <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-stream-contents\/\">message content filtering<\/a> are provided.\u00a0 This allows controlling which Base Stations will form the the &#8220;pool&#8221; of Caster streams used in each NEARest stream.You can, for example, omit or include only those Base station streams that contain GLONASS, or the presence of Ephemeris (orbital) data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another feature allows sending a full set of ECEF messages to a connected NTRIP Client regarding the precise base station location at the moment a change is made to a new Base Station.\u00a0 This allows utilizing the new Base Station in under a fraction of a second, a key safety feature for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>s automotive DSRC clients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3147 alignright\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot-600x473.png\" alt=\"NEAR_DOM_plot\" width=\"379\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot-600x473.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot-50x39.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot-320x252.png 320w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_DOM_plot.png 763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NEARest stream function also supports enabling <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-regional-settings\/\">defined Regional areas<\/a>.\u00a0 This allows operating a single <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Caster installation that provides a regional set of local base stations.\u00a0 At the same time, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> can also connect other NTRIP Clients to Base Stations around the world with normal single baseline mountPts.\u00a0 Alternatively, a NEAR mountPt can be set up (with no region) to simply connect any Client to the closest base station to it.\u00a0 A maximum <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-distance-values\/\">baseline distance<\/a> between the NTRIP Client and the Base Station can also be set to ensure de-correlation levels are met.\u00a0 Another setting (Hysteresis)\u00a0 allows control over the distance threshold used when changing a Client&#8217;s data stream source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Further details regarding the controls used to set up a NEAR style mountPt now have their own section in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/article-categories\/nearest-caster\/\">knowledge base<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides the release of the NEAR feature, several important but more minor improvements were added in this release of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Further improvements in the automatically performed corrections to Caster Tables entries when a Base Station provides no entry (or an ill-formed entity) have been added. Besides automatically providing an enumeration of the message contents, the GNSS type and Carrier counts are now also updated.\u00a0\u00a0 Additional detection logic for Caster entries with &#8220;dummy&#8221; entries has been added (when such entries are detected, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> fills in the correct data from the analysis of the data stream).<\/li>\n<li>A new &#8220;info&#8221; button now appears on many of the tabs and dialogs and will bring up the correct Knowledge Base page to assist the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> operator when needed.<\/li>\n<li>User requests to provide additional data about which NTRIP Client agent was used by any connected user have resulted in this information being added to various reports that list the connected clients.<\/li>\n<li>In prior <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> releases, when any new <strong>PUSH-In<\/strong> data connections were made, the new data stream was treated as &#8220;RAW&#8221; and was not parsed.\u00a0 Some users preferred this mode (often those using CMR data stream), while others preferred to have the data parsed and analyzed in the RTCM3 style (which also resulted in automatic and correct Caster Table entries due to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>&#8216;s analysis) \u00a0 But using RTCM3 also required the operator to select the <strong>Parsed<\/strong> check box with each new reconnection.\u00a0 In this release either mode can now be the default behavior. This can now be controlled by a global &#8220;<strong>Auto Parse<\/strong>&#8221; check box in the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/the-pushed-streams-tab\/\">PUSH-In streams tab<\/a> which in turn allows unattended operation.<\/li>\n<li>It was requested that an &#8220;Are Your Sure&#8230;&#8221; dialog be added when the close button is pressed to avoid <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> shutdown by mistake.\u00a0 This has been added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The various article entries in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/\">Knowledge Base<\/a> which are affected by this new release have also been updated at this time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/release-1_3_0-changes\/\">The Prior Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-1_5_0-changes\/\">The Next Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">New to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 Take a <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/snip-a-high-level-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quick tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>is an <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-caster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NTRIP Caster<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are seeking for an <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NTRIP Client<\/a>,<br \/>\ntry one of the products mentioned <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/where-do-i-get-a-free-ntrip-client\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here <\/a>or <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-ntrip-client-should-i-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">You can always obtain the most current release of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is new in the SNIP 1_4_0 release\u00a0 [February 14th\u00a0 2017] This is the next release of SNIP following after the Rev 1_2_0 release of last month (January 13th) with some major new functionality. 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