SOAR Release NOTES

 

SOAR V1.18.0, 20 January 2025

  • Change ESA logo in SOAR
  • Improvements to TAP views for ANC and CAL files
  • Camel Migration for the ingestion of CDAG and PRIVATE files
  • Upgrade SOAR to HTTPS
  • Preparation of database for inventory plots
    • Prepare database model
    • Populate Carrington Rotation Information

 

SOAR V1.17.0, 10 September 2024

  • Ingestion of Ancillary and Calibration files
  • Corrections to SOAR metadata
    • Correction to generation time and creation dates
    • Correction to missing times in fits instrument tables

 

SOAR V1.16.1, 2 September 2024

  • Resolve an error when ingesting large volumes of EUI FITS files

 

SOAR V1.16.0, 9 JULy 2024

  • Generation of FoV tables for HRI, HRT and SPICE 
  • Search by FoV (metadata request to tables)
  • CDF orbit file available to download from the GUI auxiliary tab
  • SunPy updated to 5.1.2 => upgrade of script to generate postcards
  • Low latency CDF Ingestion migrated to Apache Camel
  • Corrections to search by solar distance

 

SOAR V1.15.0, 27 May 2024

  • Search by solar distance available in GUI and TAP+ metadata requests using solar distance
  • Science FITS Ingestion migrated to Apache Camel
  • Some improvements to SOAR direct data transfer mechanism
  • Several small bug fixes 

 

SOAR V1.14.0, 15 April 2024

  • Ingestion of orbit file into time series database
  • Access to orbit file via TAP
  • Download of files using solar distance via TAP
  • Update references to sciops emails to cosmos

 

SOAR v1.13, 7 March 2024

  • Search and Results page improvements
  • Correction and update of all all Sensor information
  • Resolve long term SOAR JPIP Memory consumption problems
  • Correct slow query performance for some simple TAP queries
  • Migration of CDF Science files ingestion to new ingestion system using Apache Camel

 

SOAR v1.12.1, 12 DECEMBER 2023

  • Corrected an error in the whitelist handling of the SOAR instrument teams direct delivery component
  • Slow query performance for science data items fixed

 

SOAR v1.12.0, 24 October 2023

  • Enhance data download options
    • change of asynchronous message
    • asynchronous download in background without seeing the XML
  • New SFTP camel route for downloading files from the instrument teams
  • Enhance deployment procedure for release candidate tests
  • Change target of inventory link

 

25 September 2023 

All SoloHI data delivered before 19 September 2023 was deleted after it was found that an incorrect time correction had been applied, and new versions delivered.

 

SOAR V1.11.0, 4 September 2023

New/fixed features

  • Enhanced data download options
    • new asynchronous data download button, enabling all search results to be downloaded at once
    • data download up to 50GB
    • enable TAP downloads from data items
    • enhanced user interface notifications for download limits
  • Upgrade to TAP 9.1.0
  • Support searching for active/inactive science products
  • Process start and end dates from JP2 files metadata
  • Conversion of CDF and FITS descriptors to lower case

Also see: SOAR_Status_July2023.pdf

Known issues and bugs:

  • In some cases, the descriptors now being all in lower case may cause problems and we apologise for the inconvenience.
  • Some SPICE descriptors remained in upper case - this has now been fixed.

 

SOAR v1.10.0 25 April 2023

New/fixed features

  • Search for SOOPs 
    • Searching by SOOP (Solar Orbiter Observing Plan) name and type available via TAP
    • Added support for searching by SOOP (Solar Orbiter Observing Plan) to the SOAR archive user interface
    • Display of SOOP information at the metadata details panel
    • Population of database for all Science L1+ files with SOOP information
  • Solar Orbiter Instrument Teams to SOAR Interface
    • Solar Orbiter Instrument Teams to SOAR ICD
    • Added support for the ingestion of file descriptors containing a # character
    • Added support for a file whitelist to provide a mechanism to allow and prevent data being ingested into the archive
    • Removed checks for optional keywords in compressed FITS files

 

SOAR v1.9.0, 24 January 2023

New/fixed features

  • First version of interface with EUI instrument team for products delivery
  • Single character wildcard "?" available in file name searches
  • UTC time now available in search form dates
  • All SOAR passwords changed as security measure
  • Asynchronous downloads limit raised to 50GB

Known issues and bugs:

  • Download icon next to versions in Repository Files tab currently not working. Use 'download all' if older versions are needed

 

SOAR v1.8.0, 8 September 2022

New/fixed features

  • Link on SOAR 'Help' tab now points to new User Guide pages
  • Tooltip added to Low Latency check box on Search tab
  • PRODUCT → ALL_PRODUCTS and LAST_PRODUCT → PRODUCT
  • Search for filename text box is now case insensitive