Changelog 1.4

1.4 (2016-03-03)

20160303094100

Changes

  • Deprecate hashkey and internaljson logic.

  • Improve readability of downloads page.

  • Restrict valid characters in API keys.

  • Take signal strength into account for location queries.

  • Decrease database session times in data tasks.

  • Retry station updates on deadlocks and lock timeouts.

  • Simplify and speed up InternalUploader.

20160218132400

Changes

  • Display region specific BLE statistics.

  • Remove geodude compatibility API again.

  • Avoid intermediate Redis task round-trip.

  • Queue data for up to 24 hours.

  • Simplify colander schemata.

  • Update dependencies.

20160202154300

Changes

  • Avoid fancy syntax in build requirements.

20160202101600

Migrations

  • 4b11500c9014: Add Bluetooth region stat.

  • b247526b9501: Add sharded Bluetooth tables.

  • 0987336d9d63: Add weight and last_seen columns to station tables.

  • 44e1b53944ee: Remove old cell tables.

Changes

  • #476: Emit basic request metrics for region API.

  • Remove internal API key human readable metric names.

  • Accept and use Bluetooth networks in public HTTP APIs.

  • Weight observations by their accuracy and signal strength values.

  • Add stricter validation of asu, signal and ta values.

  • Restrict observations to maximum accepted accuracy values.

  • Allow queries to the fallback source if the combined score is too low.

  • #151: Choose best position result based on highest combined score.

  • #481: Fix broken cell export.

  • #151: Choose best region result based on highest combined score.

  • #371: Extend region API to use wifi data.

  • #371: Extend region API to use cell area data.

  • #151: Choose best region result based on highest score.

  • Remove migrations and tests for 1.2 to 1.3 upgrade.

  • Enable shapely.speedups to speed up GeoJSON parsing.

  • Ship buffered region file with the code.

  • Stop forwarding client IP address to data pipeline.

20160112143200

Migrations

  • 9743e7b8a17a: Add allow_locate column to API key table.

  • 5d245a440c6f: Remove unused user email field.

  • d350610e27e: Shard cell table.

  • 40d609897296: Add sharded cell tables.

  • The command line for starting gunicorn has changed. The -c option now needs a python: prefix and has to be -c python:ichnaea.webapp.settings.

Changes

  • #478: Restrict some API keys from using the locate API.

  • Register OCID import tasks based on the configuration file.

  • #471: Remove sentence about Firefox OS.

  • #477: Decrease cell maximum radius to 100 km.

  • Use sharded cell tables.

  • Keep separate rate limits per API version.

  • Update to latest versions of dependencies.

20151118134500

Migrations

  • 91fb41d12c5: Drop mapstat table.

Changes

  • #469: Update to static tabzilla.

  • #468: Add CORS headers and support OPTIONS requests.

  • #467: Implement geodude compatibility API.

  • #151: Choose best WiFi cluster based on a data quality score.

  • Use up to top 10 WiFi networks in WiFi location.

  • Use proper agglomerative clustering in WiFi clustering.

  • Remove arithmetic/hamming distance analysis of BSSIDs.

  • Accept and forward WiFi SSID’s in public HTTP API’s.

20151105120300

Migrations

  • 78e6322b4d9: Copy mapstat data to sharded datamap tables.

  • 4e8635b0f4cf: Add sharded datamap tables.

Changes

  • Use new sharded datamap tables.

  • Parallelize datamap CSV export, Quadtree generation and upload.

  • Introduce upper bound for cell based accuracy numbers.

  • Fix database lookup fallback in API key check.

  • Switch randomness generator for data map, highlight more recent additions.

  • Update to latest versions of lots of dependencies.

20151021143400

Migrations

  • 450f02b5e1ca: Update cell_area regions.

  • 582ef9419c6a: Add region stat table.

  • 238aca86fe8d: Change cell_area primary key.

  • 3fd11bfaca02: Drop api_key log column.

  • 583a68296584: Drop old OCID cell/area tables.

  • 2c709f81a660: Rename cell/area columns to radius/samples.

Changes

  • Maintain block_first column.

  • Introduce upper bound for Wifi based accuracy numbers.

  • Provide better GeoIP accuracy numbers for cities and subdivisions.

  • Fix cell queries containing invalid area codes but valid cids.

  • #242: Add WiFi stats to region specific stats page.

  • Add update_statregion task to maintain region_stat table.

  • Update to latest versions of alembic, coverage, datadog, raven and requests.

20151013115000

Migrations

  • 33d0f7fb4da0: Add api_type specific logging flags to api keys.

  • 460ce3d4fe09: Rename columns to region.

  • 339d19da63ee: Add new cell OCID tables.

  • All OCID data has to be manually imported again into the new tables.

Changes

  • Add new fallback_allowed tag to locate metrics.

  • Calculate region radii based on precise shapefiles.

  • Use subunits dataset to preserve smaller regions.

  • Use GENC codes and names in GeoIP results.

  • Consider more responses as high accuracy.

  • Change internal names to refer to region.

  • Change metric tag to region for region codes.

  • Temporarily stop using cell/area range in locate logic.

  • Discard too large cell networks during import.

  • Use mcc in region determination for cells.

  • Use new OCID tables in the entire code base.

  • Use the intersection of region codes from GENC and our shapefile.

  • Avoid base64/json overhead for simple queues containing byte values.

  • Maintain a queue TTL value and process remaining data for inactive queues.

  • Remove hashkey functionality from cell area models.

  • Remove non-sharded update_wifi queue.

  • Merge scan_areas/update_area tasks into a single new update_cellarea task.

  • Remove backwards compatible tasks and area/mapstat task processing logic.

  • Update to latest versions of bower, clean-css and uglify-js.

  • Update to latest versions of cryptography, Cython, kombu, numpy, pyasn1, PyMySQL, requests, Shapely, six and WebOb.

20150928100200

Migrations

  • 26c4b3a7bc51: Add new datamap table.

  • 47ed7a40413b: Add cell area id columns.

Changes

  • Improve locate accuracy by taking station circle radius into account.

  • Split out OCID cell area updates to their own queue.

  • Switch mapstat queue to compact binary queue values.

  • Speed up update_area task by only loading required cell columns.

  • Validate all incoming reports against the region areas.

  • Add a precision reverse geocoder for region lookups.

  • Add a finer grained region border file in GeoJSON format.

  • Shard update_wifi queue/task by the underlying table shard id.

  • Update datatables JS library and fix default column ordering.

  • Switch to GENC dataset for region names.

  • #372: Add geocoding / search control to map.

  • Support the new considerIp field in the geolocate API.

  • #389: Treat accuracy, altitude and altitudeAccuracy as floats.

  • Speed up /stats/regions by using cell area table.

  • Use cell area ids in update_cellarea task queue.

  • Enable country level result metrics.

  • Removed migrations before version 1.2.

  • Update to latest versions of numpy, pytz, raven, rtree and Shapely.