Brain Server Release Notes

This article keeps track of the release notes for Brain Server which is based on a collection of services packaged together. This package is versioned separately and released as Brain Server. Stand-alone web apps like Item Tracker maintain their own release notes which can be found in the Brain Release Notes section.

Version 3.2.0 - June 19, 2020

What's New

• Adds the option to relocate Items from Brain Management Console and third-party systems via our Web API. In Web API, a new location_request property has been added to Items. This property could be used to request location changes. It's value will be set to null after processing the request.
  In Item Editor, on Item multi select, the button [Relocate] will appear next to [Add to] and [Remove from]. This button will trigger a dialog to appear which can be used to request a location change for all selected Items.
• In Web API, the property custom has been added to subscriptions. Customers can use this at their own discretion to store custom data as required for their application.

Bug Fixes

• [Device Service] Fixes an issue which accepted non-WebSocket requests. Now all non-WebSocket requests will be rejected.
• [Device Service] Fixes an issue which could cause the calculated compression ratio to be lower than 1.0.
• [Management Console] Fixes a range and validation issue in Smartspot Bluetooth Pairings dialog.
• [Web API] Fixes an issue with querying custom and meta_data properties in resources. Normally _id suffixes will be stripped from queries as they are type representations. Internally properties are stored without this suffix.
• [Location Service] Fixes an issue with exception handling which could cause unpredictable shutdown and restart behavior.

Version 3.1.0 - April 2, 2020

What's New

• We have switched to WebSocket as our primary data transport between Smartspot and Brain Server. Major highlights are improvements in real-time behavior by a factor 10, reduction in server load and data consumption, especially in idle operations. Smartspot devices starting from firmware version 1.56.0 will automatically use this new method of transportation.
• Implements a backwards compatibility layer for HTTP data transport, so that devices with firmware before version 1.56.0 are still able to stream the data.
• Minor system updates and improvements.

Version 3.0.0 - February 13, 2020

What's New

• This version is the first release since we have changed our internal release and service packaging strategy. Although the version number has jumped from 2.x.x to 3.0.0, no major or breaking changes have been released. This is mainly done for internal purposes, e.g. as a starting point for our new strategy. A summary of our changes: Previously we have been using the version of our Web back-end as the version for Brain Server as a whole. As result of the new strategy, versions of individual services will be selected and packaged. This package will be versioned separately and released as Brain Server.
• Adds BlueTitan BLE Tag support in all our apps and services.
• TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will no longer be supported. Both versions are out-of-date since March 31 2020.
• Minor system updates and improvements.

Bug Fixes

• [Web API] Resolves a typo in the documentation for UntilId.
• [Management Console] Fixes an issue with the range for Max Q factor setting in Smartspot Configuration. The maximum allowed value has been changed from 13 to 15.
• [Location Service] Fixes an issue that could crash the service after a change in Location configuration.
• [Location Service] Fixes an issue that could crash the service due to unexpected arguments.

Older Releases

Releases below follow the a different package and release strategy as ones listed above.

Version 2.14.4 - August 12, 2019

Bug Fixes

• Adds missing threshold filters for RFID and Bluetooth in Smartspot Configuration.
• Fixes a couple issues for Live Presences and Smartspot Device Overview which will improve performance and load speed.

Version 2.14.3 - July 19, 2019

What's New

• Adds a basic Spot Set Editor to the Management Console. This enables the user to manage Spot Sets using a Web app instead of using the Web API directly.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes an couple issues related to input validation for AreaCode and CodeLength Spot Set arguments.
• [Spot Set Sync] Fixes an issue in the synchronization process which made it possible for some mutations to be skipped.
• [Spot Set Sync] Fixes an issue with removing Spot Sets loaded via storage.

Version 2.14.2 - July 2, 2019

Bug Fixes

• Fixes an issue with the validation of Item code length and characters.
• Increases the max limit value for Spot Lists from 1000 to 4000.
• [Spot Set Sync] Skips ItemList changes when they are unnecessary for the representation of the current state. This speeds up the synchronization process significantly. 
• [Spot Set Sync] Updates the synchronization status and failure state for diagnostics.
• [Spot Set Sync] Fixes an issue to improve the startup and change response time behavior.

Version 2.14.1 - June 3, 2019

Bug Fixes

• [Management Console] Restores host name column in Smartspot device overview.

Version 2.14.0 - May 28, 2019

What's New

• Adds support for Location Rules which allows the user to add and manage constrains or directives for the location algorithm, e.g. reject moves between locations or override default algorithm parameters depending on transitions. Location Rules can be configured by any administrator using the Management Console. The Web API and it's documentation has been updated to support integration for third party systems.
• Extends support for the user configurable metadata object which can be used to store properties, to most of our available resources in our Web API, e.g. Spot, Location, etc...
• [Location Service] Updates item geocoords if they are available.
• Minor system updates and improvements.

Bug Fixes

• [Location Service] Fixes an issue that could cause the last location of an Item to be incorrect.

Version 2.13.1 - May 13, 2019

Bug Fixes

• Fixes an issue with route /api/sets/*/*/ids results being limited by default.

Version 2.13.0 - May 7, 2019

What's New

• Adds ProTag BLE tag support in apps and services.
• [Web API] Adds an user configurable metadata object to Items which can be used to store properties.
• [Location Service] Improves error and exception handling.
• Minor system updates and improvements.

Version 2.12.0 - April 23, 2019

What's New

• Extends route /api/authinfo with user and/or key references. This read only route provides information about how the requesting client is authenticated (user_session, api_key) on the API as well as corresponding permissions.
• Minor system updates and improvements.