Vose 1.12 and Server 2.12 Release Notes

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Last updated: Jun 24, 2024 by Jason Pardy
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Vose 1.12 and Server 2.12 Release Notes

June 4, 2024

About This Release
Voyager Search is happy to announce the release of our latest version of Vose and updates to Voyager Server. This release includes:

Repository Preview Tool
A new tool to preview repositories was added to HQ. This tool generates a list of formats and counts for repositories prior to its indexing and allows administrators to make informed decisions about their HQ-Agent architecture, repository pipeline steps configuration and approximate time required for indexing the repository.

DCAT and STAC connectors
We are pleased to announce that we have extended our commitment to open standards by adding support for the Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), a W3C standard, and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC), an OGC standard. Our platform now enables seamless data discovery and extraction for both DCAT and STAC formats. Additionally, the Voyager platform exposes these important API endpoints allowing users to access the Voyager registry as STAC-compliant REST endpoints, and take advantage of advanced settings such as STAC collection configuration and field mapping allowing you to tailor how information is exposed through the STAC endpoint. This enhancement underscores our dedication to providing robust, open, and interoperable solutions for our users.

Support for Cloud Optimized Geotiffs
We are excited to introduce support for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COG), enabling remote processing of COG files through Azure Blob storage and AWS S3. This eliminates the need to download large .tiff files locally, significantly increasing indexing speed and reducing local storage usage. By leveraging cloud storage, this feature enhances performance, scalability, workflow efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, providing a robust solution for efficient geospatial data management.

ArcGIS Pro Project Support
New enhancements were added for indexing ArcGIS Pro projects, layer files and map files.
These enhancements include identifying all the project items such as maps, layouts, group layers, document layers and data sources. Layer files will now be created for items to support opening in ArcGIS Pro. This enhanced extractor will also capture relationships and links between different data entities.

New java based SDE and FGDB extractors
Two new extractors were added for file geodatabases (java/filegdb) and ArcSDE geodatabases (java/sde). These new extractors require ArcGIS Pro to be installed and do not require ArcGIS for Desktop. If ArcGIS Pro is installed, these will be the default extractors. Changing the extractor can done from the Formats Option in HQ.

OAuth Azure
This release also includes fixes for issues with OAuth authentication with Azure AD (now known as Microsoft Entra ID). We have added the tenant parameter to OAuth configuration parameters and corrected the Redirect URI in Server. We've also added the ability to retrieve information about user groups to allow authorization of Azure users in Voyager.

Improvements to Planet connector
Improvements were made to the Planet connector on HQ. This includes support for date range searches, for queries with date filters and also includes improvements for handling consecutive HTTP requests.

Additional Enhancements:

HQ

  • Added support for GeoPackage (.gpkg) format.

  • Updated Apache_commons_text to address critical vulnerability and exposure.

  • Added validation for content query.

  • Updated mime type description for Web Map Tile Service

  • Added “previewed” time stamp to the repository Preview Tool.

  • Added an option to clear repos and remove counts from the repository preview tool.

  • Added support for file downloads of > 2GB.

  • Enhanced the java based FGDB and SDE extractor to generate thumbnails.

Server

  • Updated Navigo table view to allow scrolling through columns.

  • Enhanced UI for processing framework’s list of tasks.

  • Updated field selector on the Manage page to ensure field names are not capitalized.

  • Improved Zip File task in the processing framework to support paths to data.

  • Added a toggle button to enable/disable the heatmap.

  • Improved the performance of the “extent” query.

Additional Bug Fixes Addressed:

HQ and Agent

  • Issue with wrong geometry being generated for folder repositories with feature level indexing.

  • Errors with CPU count on HQ and Agent UI.

  • Issue with copy fields pipeline step.

  • Errors when removing database tables for modified databases.

  • Issues when indexing MS access database.

  • Issues with S3 Blobs upload pipeline.

  • Indexing issues for .tiff files from Sharepoint.

  • Errors when creating thumbnails for map services.

  • Issues indexing geometries for certain file types.

  • Issues with incorrect extent for .png files without spatial reference.

  • Errors with path when configuring Azure blob storage.

Server

  • Issue with Server not detecting python environments.