{"id":3497,"date":"2017-05-25T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3497"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:18:47","slug":"release-1_8_0-changes","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-1_8_0-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Release 1_8_0 Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is new in the<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> SNIP<\/span> 1_8_0 release<\/strong>\u00a0 [released May 17th 2017]<\/p>\n<p>This is the next release of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> following the Rev 1_6_0 release on March 3rd, and the Ubuntu Beta (released on April 7th).\u00a0 It has several areas of new functionality added.\u00a0 See the full list below.\u00a0 It is recommended that all Windows 32\/64 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong> <\/span>installations now update to using this release.<\/p>\n<p>Major new features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new application <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/auto-update\/\">update system<\/a> provides automatic detection of new <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> releases on power up and aids in the their download and installation.\u00a0 A new menu item under <em><strong>Help<\/strong> <\/em>called <strong><em>Check for update&#8230;<\/em><\/strong> also invokes the check.\u00a0 The core code is based on the popular WinSparkle (in turn based on Apple Sparkle).\u00a0 This should be the last edition of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> you ever have to manually install.\u00a0 For those of you who have been with us for the past ~15 releases over the prior year, thank you for your patience and support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The SSL DLL set shipped with <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> has been updated and the overall installation process reworked.\u00a0 The intent is to better support some Windows 10 users who are unable to <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-how-do-i-install-ssl-for-the-license-registration-proecess\/\">run a secure socket connection<\/a> with <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 This seems to occur most often with new machines.\u00a0 From this release onward, both the Windows and Ubuntu <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Evaluation<\/strong> and <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Lite <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>machines <em>must<\/em> also be able to run a secure socket connection in order to operate <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>, just as the\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Basic<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Pro<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Enterprise <\/strong><\/em><\/span>models do today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Provisions have now been added to allow managing a prior &#8220;reservation system&#8221; for <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/the-pushed-streams-tab\/\">PUSH-In<\/a> <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-server\/\">NTRIP Server<\/a> devices.\u00a0 This allows having a prior known set of connection values (such as if the data should be parsed or what caster table entry should be set up) for any given data stream.\u00a0\u00a0 It also serves to harden every <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Caster against other external parties trying to send data to your machine.\u00a0 The new reservation system can also be used to lock out and reserve a given mountPt string for a given user group.\u00a0 At the same time it coexists with the existing &#8220;open&#8221; PUSH-In protocol found in prior versions of <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SNIP<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The new feature is described further here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In this release we have also added a new <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/support-for-basic-mapping\/\">Map plotting button<\/a> to the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/navigation-filter-types\/\">navigation charts dialog<\/a> so operators could see the resulting instantaneous position of the Base Stations when a simple <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/navigation-filter-types\/\">navigation filter<\/a> is run. Now <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> can plot <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/caster-locations-vs-base-station-locations\/\">Base Station locations<\/a>, <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\">NTRIP Client<\/a> reported <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/subtle-issues-with-using-ntrip-client-nmea-183-strings\/\">NEMA locations<\/a>, <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use-case-examples\/\">NEARest stream<\/a> regions, and the instantaneous navigation solution from any RTCM3 stream type on Google base maps.\u00a0 The image below shows two Base stations (SCSC and SCSC0-2 at a separation distance of 130.0 cm) along with the instantaneous position from a least squared filter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3510\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2.png\" alt=\"BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2\" width=\"326\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2.png 652w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2-50x42.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2-600x502.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BaseStationsAndLSFplots-2-320x267.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\">NTRIP Client <\/a>usage stats are now gathered for back end servers on both <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Pro<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>and <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Basic<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>users.\u00a0 We have also added the ability to send basic stats for <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Lite<\/strong> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Evaluation<\/strong> <\/span>users as well. Extensive plotting these stats and status by each end operator will be added as part of the Release 2.0.0 feature plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reports of local IP usage status and report values are now properly counted and reported (there were math error in the prior 1.6.0 release).\u00a0 The summary of who is connecting to your <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Caster now makes it easy to spot the IP of any abusing NTRIP Client devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A full RTCM Rev 2.x message parser has been also been added to the the basic <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> configurations.\u00a0 The older Revision 2.3 (and 2.0, 2.1, 2,2) messages are supported, with the recently released 2.4 types coming next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other improvements were also added in this release of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An issue with cellular re-connection events in some NTRIP Servers connecting to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> is now believed to be solved.\u00a0 The logic patch which we thought was completed in release 1.6.0 was found to be missing in the final code build, so we try again in the general release code this time.\u00a0 At this point in time, no operator should ever see similar mountPts numbered in a style like: xxx, xxx_02, xxx_03 unless different devices, from different IP addresses in the field unless those devices are are purposefully sending with the same name.\u00a0 [Aside: and the reservation system can be used to stop that if desired]<\/li>\n<li>Minor changes were made in the way user stats are reported to correct a small accounting error in values over time.<\/li>\n<li>A memory leak when running large numbers of navigation filters on multiple data streams at the same time was removed.<\/li>\n<li>A memory leak when <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/the-pushed-streams-tab\/\">PUSH-In<\/a> configured clients were sent non RTCM3 garbage interspersed with real data was removed.\u00a0 This only affected <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Pro<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>users.<\/li>\n<li>In-bound data count values shown on the Caster Tab display accumulate and update correctly now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>For Ubuntu:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Released May 19th 2017.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>The 1.9.0 release updates the code base to match 1.8.0 for Windows with support for Ubuntu GUI users and is released only in the BETA channel for early user testing, see link below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/downloads\/snip-installer-ubuntu\/\"><strong>The 64bit Ubuntu SNIP beta<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Update for release 1.8.1<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Users of the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Lite<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>Edition of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> reported problems with <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/adding-pushed-data-streams-from-ntrip-servers\/\"><strong>PUSH-In<\/strong><\/a> connection data streams no longer recognizing the correct password, and hence not connecting.\u00a0 You can read more about this issue <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/breaking-news-bug-push-streams\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 This has now been corrected and release 1.8.1 has been issued and replaces the above <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/download\/\">download<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are already running the 1.8.0 release, the new <em>auto-update<\/em> feature will alert you to the download and handle the installation for you.\u00a0 If you are not running the 1.8.0 release, the current download links (and it successors) will take you to the most current copy.\u00a0\u00a0 A similar Ubuntu release (revision 1.9.1) will be issued soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-1_6_0-changes\/\">The Prior Windows Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-1_7_0-changes\/\">The Prior Ubuntu Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/release-1_10_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: center;\">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_8_0 release\u00a0 [released May 17th 2017] This is the next release of SNIP following the Rev 1_6_0 release on March 3rd, and the Ubuntu Beta (released on April 7th).\u00a0 It has several areas of new functionality added.\u00a0 See the full list below.\u00a0 It is 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