TopCAT - TopCAT Release Notes

1.11.0

Harmonized installation
Uses Maven release mechanism
Added support for ICAT 4.3
Added support in TopCatAdmin to add an announcement message to the Topcat page header
Added free text search (support icat 4.3 only)
Display the full facility name on search results and investigation details
No download filename prompt if single file selected for download
Date/time download filename suggested if more than one download file is selected
Updated gwt to 2.5.1
Updated gxt to 2.3.1
Removed MESSAGE property in topcat.properties as it is no longer used
Bug fixes
schema changes:
- Add the column DOWNLOAD_TYPE to the table TOPCAT_ICAT_SERVER

Changes to the WS interface

Bug fixes.
Added admin console
Added support for the ICAT Data Service
Added support for ICAT version no v42, this points to the existing ICATInterfacev420
Added MESSAGE to topcat.properties, the message gets displayed by topcat
Added verbose option to the setup script, -v, -vv and -vvv
Properties file renamed from glassfish.props to topcat-setup.properties
schema changes:
- Drop the columns AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_URL and AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_TYPE from TOPCAT_ICAT_SERVER
- Add the column DOWNLOAD_SERVICE_URL to the table TOPCAT_ICAT_SERVER
- Add the column PREPARED_ID to the table TOPCAT_USER_DOWNLOAD
- Add the column DISPLAY_NAME to the table ICAT_AUTHENTICATION
- Rename the table ICAT_AUTHENTICATION to TOPCAT_ICAT_AUTHENTICATION

This is a bug fix release for sites still running ICAT 3.4.

Added range searches to the parameter search
Added table ICAT_AUTHENTICATION. Now when logging in to an ICAT if there is more than one type of authentication available the user will be presented with a drop down list of types. NB there is still stuff hard coded for CAS and entries for AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_URL and AUTHENTICATION_TYPE in the table TOPCAT_ICAT_SERVER. These will be removed in a future release.