Release Notes

release 5.9.0 (October 2022)

[ECFLOW-1804] - Implement delta-based downloads of output log files from logserver
[ECFLOW-1807] - logserver: add option to serve file contents from a specified offset
[ECFLOW-1805] - logserver: remove unnecessary text filtering from server script
[ECFLOW-1811] - ecFlowUI: enable to access local files when using proxychains
[ECFLOW-1812] - ecFlowUI: enable to search for nodes with status change older than a specified period
[ECFLOW-1824] - ecFlowUI: add button in Output log panel to load the current job output file
[ECFLOW-1773] - provide a mirror example
[ECFLOW-1801] - ecFlowUI: report error for newly created servers when host or port contain whitespace characters
[ECFLOW-1809] - ecFlowUI: only show progress bar after a delay for file transfers in the output panel
[ECFLOW-1810] - ecFlowUI: optimise directory update in output panel
[ECFLOW-1819] - ecFlowUI: modernise look and feel
[ECFLOW-1821] - ecFlowUI: add option to timeline and server load panel to minimise file info label
[ECFLOW-1822] - ecFlowUI: use user defined system server lists instead a centralised one
[ECFLOW-1825] - ecFlowUI: do not try to import old ecflowview rc settings on first startup
[ECFLOW-1830] - ecflowUI: automatically reload server when name, host or port changed in server list dialog
[ECFLOW-1833] - ecFlowUI: restore last tab used for preferences dialog
[ECFLOW-1834] - ecFlowUI: show version info in help output when started with -h flag
[ECFLOW-1840] - ecFlowUI: add startup switch to run ecflow_ui via proxychains4
[ECFLOW-1836] - ecflowUI: show 1 decimal place for file sizes above 1 GB in Output panel
[ECFLOW-1799] - ecflowUI: Fix typo on button tooltip in the log output panel
[ECFLOW-1816] - ecFlowUI: alter add/change variable command applied to multiple nodes does not work
[ECFLOW-1817] - ecFlowUI: info panel tabs are not notified about selection change when they are unselected
[ECFLOW-1820] - ecFlowUI: extra coloured rectangle appears in panel message label when selected
[ECFLOW-1831] - ecFlowUI: shortcuts are not shown in node context menu
[ECFLOW-1839] - ecFlowUI: crash when opening Servers menu after syncing system server list

release 5.8.3 (March 2022, external only)

[ECFLOW-1771] - Python3 mirror.py script: Update for distribution
[ECFLOW-1772] - ecFlowUI: add non-gui test to check ecflow_ui is correctly installed

release 5.8.2 (January 2022, internal only)

[ECFLOW-1770] - Do not install server-related scripts if ENABLE_SERVER=OFF

release 5.8.1 (January 2022)

[ECFLOW-1769] - ecFlowUI: cannot fetch files from log servers

release 5.8.0 (January 2022)

[ECFLOW-1742] - ecFlowUI: add option to define the host and port for a log server locally
[ECFLOW-1746] - Make ecflow compile with c++17
[ECFLOW-1753] - ecFlowUI: make wildcard based search work in Qt6
[ECFLOW-1731] - ecFlowUI: refresh output log should move to end of file
[ECFLOW-1734] - Allow ecFlowUI to work with Qt6
[ECFLOW-1743] - ecFlowUI: app icon looks pixelated in the Mac dock
[ECFLOW-1750] - ecFlowUI: improve warning popup message when session config file is missing
[ECFLOW-1754] - ecFlowUI: reduce size of application logo
[ECFLOW-1756] - ecFlowUI: increase minimum file size for large text viewer mode in Output panel
[ECFLOW-1757] - ecFlowUI: add option for text wrapping in Output panel text viewer
[ECFLOW-1758] - ecFlowUI: add option to show compact file info label in Output panel
[ECFLOW-1761] - add edit_script-edit-preprocess-submit
[ECFLOW-1737] - ecFlowUI: crash when z key pressed in tree view when no nodes are selected
[ECFLOW-1738] - ecFlowUI: fix typo in temporary directory name
[ECFLOW-1741] - ecFlowUI: add better text navigation interface to the Output panel
[ECFLOW-1748] - ecFlowUI: empty window appears on exit on MacOS with Qt6
[ECFLOW-1749] - ecFlowUI: random crash on exit when multiple windows open on MacOs with Qt6
[ECFLOW-1751] - ecFlowUI: cannot cancel log file transfer in timeline
[ECFLOW-1752] - ecFlowUI: cannot run shell commands using Qt6
[ECFLOW-1760] - ecFlowUI: node status is not updated automatically in tree view with Qt6
[ECFLOW-1763] - ecflow_start.sh does not allow SSL option
[ECFLOW-1767] - ecf.py fix

release 5.7.2 (September 2021)

[ECFLOW-1744] - ecFlowUI: fails to start on Mac with certain versions of Qt5
released for external users, no need for internal deployment at ECMWF

release 5.7.0 (May 2021)

[ECFLOW-1213] - Implement "find_node_path(type, name) : absolute_path" and "find_node(type, path) : node".
[ECFLOW-1704] - ecflowUI: add flag (slow job creation) threshold to the search dialog
[ECFLOW-1724] - ecFlowUi: minimise query window
[ECFLOW-1646] - ecFlowUI: add option to prevent shell command output window from popping up automatically
[ECFLOW-1705] - ecflowui: add context menu action to clear slow job creation flag
[ECFLOW-1711] - server: allow autoarchive based on idleness
[ECFLOW-1712] - ecflow_ui: allow search based on archived and restored flags
[ECFLOW-1713] - ecflow_ui should allow the restored flag to be cleared
[ECFLOW-1714] - ecFlowUI: add sort interface to session manager
[ECFLOW-1715] - ecFlowUI: add command line option to specify user startup command for the executable
[ECFLOW-1716] - ecFlowUI: lookup node in tree by double click in trigger graph
[ECFLOW-1725] - ecFlowUI: add no_script flag to search options
[ECFLOW-1710] - server: delete/replace does not remove archive files
[ECFLOW-1728] - Python interface does not work on conda and macOS

release 5.6.0 (Nov 2020)

[ECFLOW-1686] - server: # inside %var:default% syntax misinterpreted
[ECFLOW-1689] - ecFlowUI: crash when item selected in filter result view
[ECFLOW-1690] - ecflowUi: automatic search of output tab, does not show selected text
[ECFLOW-1693] - server: fail to parse relative cron
[ECFLOW-1699] - client: custom user fails on mac with localhost
[ECFLOW-1700] - server: Add better error explanation for fork errors
[ECFLOW-1702] - doc: avoid hard coding build dir when generating api via sphinx
[ECFLOW-1703] - installation: make package_source does not alway handle symlinks correctly
[ECFLOW-1695] - ecFlowUI: show average durations in duration mode view in timeline
[ECFLOW-1681] - ecFlowUI: improve log file loading mechanism in server load tab
[ECFLOW-1692] - ecFlowUI: remove standalone log viewer
[ECFLOW-1696] - ecFlowUI: enable set complete and set aborted commands while suspended
[ECFLOW-1687] - installation: Only search for test libraries when TESTS enabled
[ECFLOW-1688] - installation: RPM generation fails with python shebang in scripts
[ECFLOW-1694] - ecFlowUI: task details dialog in timeline view should be non-blocking

release 5.5.3 (Sept 2020)

[ECFLOW-1684] - server: deleting a node, does not remove its edit history
[ECFLOW-1683] - installation: add support for shared boost libs

release 5.5.2 (Sept 2020)

[ECFLOW-1661] - ecflowui: clicking show_full_period in server load tab causes a crash
[ECFLOW-1667] - ecFlowUi: client handles build up in the server, after suite filter usage
[ECFLOW-1672] - ecflowui: uncaught exception during logout leads to crash
[ECFLOW-1673] - ecflow_ui: strange error reported on startup
[ECFLOW-1674] - ecflow_ui: disabling suite filters does not remove existing handle
[ECFLOW-824] - doc: Document ECF_SCRIPT_CMD
[ECFLOW-1560] - installation: add ecflow to GITHUB
[ECFLOW-1670] - client: add more context to sync error, when exiting ecflow_ui
[ECFLOW-1679] - server:Allow edit history to be pruned, when loading the checkpoint file
[ECFLOW-1680] - server: reduce use of boost::bind and replace with lambda
[ECFLOW-1682] - installation: allow ecflow to be built with boost 1.66

release 5.5.1 (July 2020)

[ECFLOW-1662] - client: group command fails on the command line
[ECFLOW-1664] - ecFlowUI: crash when server removed from tree view

release 5.5.0 (July 2020)

[ECFLOW-130] - server: Job requeue after midnight instead of complete
[ECFLOW-1644] - GUI/edit/pre-process unterminated %comment or %manual not detected as errors
[ECFLOW-1647] - ecFlowUI: data and time icon show incorrect holding status in tree
[ECFLOW-1648] - test: relative today +00.01 00:07 00:03 test randomly fails
[ECFLOW-1653] - ecflow_ui: crash when using edit server dialog, and 'use ssl' selected
[ECFLOW-1655] - ecFlowUI: close icon is not visible on panels
[ECFLOW-1656] - server: Day attribute not working after migration from ecflow 4->5
[ECFLOW-1641] - ecFlowUI: display number of matching lines for text filter in output log panel
[ECFLOW-1645] - Doc: remove flag migrated, no longer used in ecflow5
[ECFLOW-1573] - server: allow child commands like, init,complete to add/delete variables
[ECFLOW-1640] - ecFlowUI: add option to show only icons on info panel tab titles
[ECFLOW-1642] - Exclude nodes from sort_attributes
[ECFLOW-1646] - ecFlowUI: add option to prevent shell command output window from popping up automatically
[ECFLOW-1652] - server: when sorting nodes alphabetically, cater for nodes names with integer values
[ECFLOW-1654] - ecFlowUI: make context menu in node and server log view work for multiple selection
[ECFLOW-1659] - ecFlowUI: use migrate style to display more details about date and time attributes
[ECFLOW-1660] - server: add support for alter to change time/today

release 5.4.0 (May 2020)

[ECFLOW-1628] - server: ecflow 5.3.0 family + time + day holding unexpectedly?
[ECFLOW-1629] - client: why command ignores complete expression
[ECFLOW-1630] - ecFlowUI: trigger view does not show some limits with relative paths
[ECFLOW-1634] - ecFlowUI tries to use http_proxy for log server connections
[ECFLOW-1636] - client: random crash in ecflow_ui, but traceback shows cereal
[ECFLOW-1638] - server: after migration to ecflow5 cron stops working
[ECFLOW-1639] - client: ecflow_client --get /s1 shows state information
[ECFLOW-1631] - ecFlowUI: quicker way of moving suite node into desired position
[ECFLOW-1613] - ecFlowUI: implement trigger graph view ecFlowUI Release Notes
[ECFLOW-1625] - ecFlowUI: do not copy last session description when creating ecflow 5 config directory
[ECFLOW-1626] - server: allow trigger expression to reference archived flag, i.e. like late and zombie

release 5.3.1 (April 2020)

[ECFLOW-1620] - python: 'python setup.py build_ext' fails
[ECFLOW-1621] - ecFlowUI: crash when removing unavailable server
[ECFLOW-1622] - server: Why sync_clock not working with handles
[ECFLOW-1623] - ecFlowUI: server becomes unavailable because custom user is incorrectly set to port number
[ECFLOW-1617] - meter,event, late reset in force queued

release 5.3.0 (March 2020)

[ECFLOW-1593] - ecFlowUI: display autorestore, autoarchive, queue attributes in info panel and tree view
[ECFLOW-1614] - ecFlowUI: clock in statusbar is always visible on startup
[ECFLOW-1595] - ecFlowUI: add support for queue attributes
[ECFLOW-1606] - server: plug whilst server is HALTED, restarts server after plug.
[ECFLOW-1607] - ecFlowUI: add support for autorestore attributes
[ECFLOW-1608] - ecFlowUI: show auto(restore,cancel.archive) attributes in tree view
[ECFLOW-1609] - ecFlowUI: add support for autoarchive attributes
[ECFLOW-1610] - server: allow edit history on nodes to be cleared
[ECFLOW-1611] - ecFlowUI: add support for autocancel attributes
[ECFLOW-1612] - ecflow5 stops on node replace, if replaced node has time attributes

release 5.2.3 (February 2020)

[ECFLOW-1605] - ecFlowUI: use a separate config directory for version 5

release 5.2.2 (February 2020)

[ECFLOW-1604] - python:: regression in python api
[ECFLOW-1603] - server:investigate why auto_sync slower for super large defs

release 5.2.1 (January 2020)

[ECFLOW-1596] - test: Test u_acore fails on Macos
[ECFLOW-1601] - doc: remove reference to ecflowview in README.rst
[ECFLOW-1597] - test: switch bjam to test python3
[ECFLOW-1599] - test: add test to ensure sanitizers are working

release 5.2.0 (January 2020)

[ECFLOW-1568] - client: replace BOOST_FOREACH with std++11 for loop
[ECFLOW-1572] - client:Add support for ECF_STATUS_CMD in the GUI
[ECFLOW-1556] - server: RepeatDate generated variable <name>_JULIAN out of sync
[ECFLOW-1592] - server:ecflow_client --group commands are logged at the top node level
[ECFLOW-1558] - server: server can not write to the log file
[ECFLOW-1574] - server:fix cppcheck, replace for loop with algorithm
[ECFLOW-1589] - server: when ECF_JOB_CMD fails , but task is completed or active, avoid abort
[ECFLOW-1591] - server: extend query command, to query limit value and maximum value

[ECFLOW-1562] - test: test_ecf_zombie_type_creation fails on lxc
[ECFLOW-1594] - test:allow metabuilder to create all parseable defs
[ECFLOW-1580] - test: improve test for inlimit reference to limits
[ECFLOW-1567] - test: Add new migration test for ecflow 5 servers
[ECFLOW-1565] - test:: fix latest ccpcheck warnings
[ECFLOW-1564] - installation: GITHUB preparation, add README.rst
[ECFLOW-1569] - installation: use iwyu to remove redundant includes
[ECFLOW-1561] - installation: check ecflow code for security issues before GITHUB
[ECFLOW-1458] - installation: update boost build.sh, to build both python 2 & 3
[ECFLOW-1566] - installation: test new cereal version 1.30

[ECFLOW-928] - ecFlowUI: replace "hide children" and "show children" with archive and restore context menu options
[ECFLOW-1503] - ecFlowUI: add shortcuts to node context menu items
[ECFLOW-1504] - ecFlowUI: allow use of keyboard for tree view navigation
[ECFLOW-1576] - ecFlowUI: show icon and add clear option for log error flag on servers
[ECFLOW-1577] - ecFlowUI: show icon and add clear option for check point file error flag on servers
[ECFLOW-1582] - ecFlowUI: add flags KILLCMD_FAILED and STATUSCMD_FAILED to search options
[ECFLOW-1583] - ecFlowUI: add shortcut overview popup to help menu
[ECFLOW-1588] - ecFlowUI: rename Order context menu Order peers to clarify its meaning
[ECFLOW-1446] - ecFlowUI: remove support for Qt4
[ECFLOW-1559] - ecFlowUI: update slow disk writing icon description
[ECFLOW-1534] - ecFlowUI: optionally show line numbers in the output tab
[ECFLOW-1557] - ecflowUi: add ability to call ecflow_client --log=flush from server context menu
[ECFLOW-1581] - ecflowUI: allow setting style for labels
[ECFLOW-1177] - ecFlowUI: variable search does not work for servers

release 5.1.0 (October 2019)

[ECFLOW-534] - server: log hostname for ecflow_client users commands (protocol change)
[ECFLOW-631] - server: allow suite clock to be synced for use before why command (protocol change)
[ECFLOW-1470] - server: add proper error string in reply when a version 5 client tries to connect to a 4 server
[ECFLOW-1510] - server: status change time reported in info panel is wrong
[ECFLOW-1454] - server: Last day of the month in cron expression
[ECFLOW-930] - server: allow arbitary attributes
[ECFLOW-920] - server:Add migrate/restore autoarchive/autorestore to reduce server memory load(protocol change)
[ECFLOW-939] - server:replace boost serialisation in the check pt file with the defs file
[ECFLOW-501] - server: queue attribute (protocol change)
[ECFLOW-878] - server: family inlimit (protocol change)
[ECFLOW-883] - server: refactor SSyncCmd, since Servers will always return a Defs (protocol change)
[ECFLOW-885] - server: integrate password functionality for 5.0.0(protocol change)
[ECFLOW-1060] - server: uses the defs format for wire transfer, when loading the whole defs
[ECFLOW-1064] - server: Use defs file fomat in place of boost for client<->server.
[ECFLOW-1065] - server: Replace command wire format with json. (replace boost for client↔server)
[ECFLOW-887] - server:ecflow should return how a zombie arose.(i.e. pid mismatch, password mismatch, etc)(protocol change)
[ECFLOW-974] - server:Investigate alternative to boost serialisation
[ECFLOW-1009] - server: allow non-blocking query for state,dstate,repeat,event,meter, variable,trigger
[ECFLOW-1157] - server: Update queue attribute to support error handling
[ECFLOW-1245] - server: when job creation takes too long , create a flag to notify the user
[ECFLOW-1272] - server: take advantage of c++11/c++14 features to improve performance
[ECFLOW-1329] - server: modernize c++ , by using clang-tidy
[ECFLOW-1336] - server: The zombie attribute should record the ecflow_client host
[ECFLOW-1490] - server:ecflowUI: Possibility to mix ssl and non ssl servers in ecflow_ui
[ECFLOW-1526] - server: Allow specifying initial value of an Event
[ECFLOW-1457] - server: run encription on password on client and server
[ECFLOW-675] - server: eliminate usage of std::auto_ptr
[ECFLOW-829] - refactor class attributes to improve packing, more cache friendly
[ECFLOW-1489] - Extend query command to include labels
[ECFLOW-1538] - task/family reordering, based on runtime
[ECFLOW-1537] - date attribute validity . date once free should stay free, under a repeat. Even after midnight
[ECFLOW-1484] - What happens to scheduled tasks when Ecflow is not running?
[ECFLOW-1483] - remove unused clock option startStopWithServer
[ECFLOW-1308] - replace boost::string_ref with boost::string_view
[ECFLOW-1259] - server: overload protection, burst prevention
[ECFLOW-1527] - Create Repeat type for iterating through an arbitrary list of dates and which understands date arithmetics
[ECFLOW-923] - client: convert use of ecf::Flag::MIGRATED -> ecf::Flag::HIDDEN
[ECFLOW-933] - client: current way of splitting strings for parsing is very slow
[ECFLOW-973] - client: remove use of ECF_NODE
[ECFLOW-1059] - client: make the parsing of defs file format fault tolerant
[ECFLOW-1178] - client: allow inline scripts for testing and python
[ECFLOW-1549] - client: allow simple reporting of server definition statitics
[ECFLOW-899] - doc: Update confluence about new features for 5.0.0 release
[ECFLOW-934] - installation: Upgrade to latest boost
[ECFLOW-1552] - installation: Build with latest boost/1.71 , python3 and cmake/3.15.0
[ECFLOW-1320] - installation: build both python 2.7 and 3.0 boost libs
[ECFLOW-881] - installation: Test the latest boost 1.68
[ECFLOW-886] - tests: Update tests to avoid old migration workarounds
[ECFLOW-1144] - ecFlowUI: authentication should allow specifying a user and a password
[ECFLOW-1180] - gui: remove ecflowview from the build/test in Jamfile and cmake
[ECFLOW-1317] - optimise client server interaction for ecflow_ui, reduce latency
[ECFLOW-1355] - Update log readers to take into account changes in log file format
[ECFLOW-1372] - ecflowUi: Should use ClientInvoker::set_auto_sync() to avoid calling sync_local
[ECFLOW-1474] - use std::regex instead of of boost regex
[ECFLOW-1451] - ecflowUI: ecflow 5 GUI pings the ecflow 4.0 servers. Caused operational issues.
[ECFLOW-1461] - ecFlowUI: repeat date with one date should not start with ... in tree view
[ECFLOW-1513] - ecFlowUI: client command errors are not shown in popup
[ECFLOW-1546] - ecFlowUI: edited repeat is not updated automatically in tree view
[ECFLOW-900] - ecflowui: Update zombie panel with additional column for explanation
[ECFLOW-901] - ecflowui: The why command should be preceded by sync_local(true/*sync_clock*/)
[ECFLOW-931] - ecflowui: Remove hide/show menu options related to Flag::MIGRATED
[ECFLOW-932] - ecflowui: Add menu/commands to support archive/restore
[ECFLOW-1487] - ecflowUI: Info panel for inlimit does not show -s or -n option