icListen AF Release 39.0 ChangeLog

February 18, 2021

Introduction

This change log describes the changes made for each public release.

Any release numbers missing from this document were not public, but the changes retained from them are described in the next public release.

Changes New to This Update

The following changes took place between the previous public release and this release. For changes made in older releases click here.

Changes made for release 39.0:

• Enhancements
  • Added ability to disable on-device logging (selectable via UNIT.CFG).
• Bug Fixes
• Version updates
  • Arm firmware upgraded to v2.6.00

Older Changes

These changes were made in previous icListen AF releases. For changes made in this release click here.

Release 38.1 - July 24, 2020:

• Enhancements
  • Added 6 kHz HPF option (selectable via UNIT.CFG).
• Bug Fixes
  • Epoch settings no longer dissapear after hitting "Apply" on the web interface.
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.5.00

Release 38 - July 13, 2020:

• Enhancements
  • Added delayed wake from standby feature.
• Bug Fixes
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.4.00
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.3.00
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v2.2.00

Release 37.1 - November 22, 2019:

• Enhancements
  • Update single file download on web interface to be as .wav file instead of .zip (zip format introduced in release 37).
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused corruptions to waveform data downloaded from the web interface (introduced in release 37).
• Version updates

Release 37 - November 6, 2019:

• Enhancements
  • Updated look and feel of web interface, including mobile browser support updates and removing some pop-up dialogs.
  • Enhance stability of clock resync process when set to PPS Sync In.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which in rare circumstances could cause invalid recovery of network settings if power was lost during network settings updates.
  • Fix bug for hardware releases 5 and 6, which would cause no data to be produced on startup if sync feature was disabled.
• Version updates
  • Polo version upgraded to v1.3.04
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.09
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.09
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v2.1.00

Release 36.1 - December 6, 2018:

• Enhancements
  • Improved stability of data folder cleaning operation.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which could in rare circumstances cause the system time to be set to 1970.
  • Fix bug which caused incorrect max/min amplitude values to be returned in the FFT stream amplitude scaling chunk.
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.08
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.08
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v2.0.06

Release 36 - May 29, 2018:

• Enhancements
  • Updates to voltage input values in User Guide.
• Bug Fixes
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.07
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.07

Release 35.1 - May 14, 2018:

• Enhancements
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which made release 35 incompatible with serial devices.
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.06

Changes made for release 35 - May 3, 2018:

• Enhancements
  • Added support for hardware revision 6 devices.
• Bug Fixes
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.05
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v2.0.05

Release 34.2 - March 23, 2018:

• Enhancements
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused invalid battery measurements when the hydrophone temperature was cool and the internal battery was charging on hardware revision 5 devices.
  • Fix bug which could cause time sync, temperature, heading and humidity data to fail to update after invalid battery measurements were received on hardware revision 5 devices.
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.04

Release 34.1 - February 16, 2018:

• Enhancements
  • Reduce power consumption of hardware revision 5 devices.
  • Increased battery capacity on hardware revision 5 devices, and some hardware revision 4 devices produced after summer of 2017.
  • Improved accuracy of startup battery charge estimation.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which would cause Ethernet communications to stop when the network address settings were updated via the web interface, until a reboot ocurred.
  • Correct waveform data scaling error in log file formats document.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.13
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.06
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.03
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v2.0.03

Release 34 - January 2, 2018:

• Enhancements
  • Improved sync performance.
  • Minor improvements to battery life while logging.
  • Add support for hardware revision 5.
  • Updated User Guide
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused invalid FFT logging mode to be reported when invalid log length was set.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.12
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.05
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.3.01
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v2.0.01

Release 33.4 - August 24, 2017:

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug in release 33 which caused invalid time source to be set when switching to sync output mode.
• Version updates
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v1.4.09

Release 33.3 - August 17, 2017:

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused truncation of reported hydrophone sensitivity in logged files instead of rounding.
• Version updates
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.04

Release 33.2 - August 3, 2017:

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix typo on home page of web interface where icListen HF is displayed instead of icListen AF.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.11

Release 33.1 - July 13, 2017:

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug in release 33 which prevented PPS master functions from working properly on hardware releases 2 and 3.
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.2.03

Release 33 - June 12, 2017:

• Enhancements
  • Improve stability of wake from standby at less than full battery.
  • Improve power efficiency/battery life.
  • Updates to file format document.
• Bug Fixes
  • Update sign of waveform data so that compression is positive and rarefaction is negative.
  • Fix bugs which prevented Polo from sending DNS address in response.
  • Fix bug on web interface of serial devices in slip mode which prevented IP address changes from taking place until next reboot.
  • Fix typos in web interface.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.10
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.2.02
  • Polo version upgraded to v1.3.03
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v1.4.08<

Release 32 - December 22, 2016

• Enhancements
  • Minor efficiency and stability updates to the web interface.
  • Add new error code in Polo response for invalid static/dhcp address mode being set.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bugs in web interface which caused settings not to take effect when using Internet Explorer or Edge browsers.
  • Fix bug which caused device/PC times to fall out of sync on operations page of web interface.
  • Fix bug which could cause improper dimming of some fields when opening the data collection settings page while logged out.
  • Fix bug which caused job setup error response to indicate bad waveform logging mode when FFT logging mode was set incorrectly.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.09
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.03
  • Polo version upgraded to v1.3.02

Release 31.2 - August 1, 2016:

• Enhancements
  • Make PPS decoded time require decoded time to start at minute boundaries (stability improvement).
  • Minor efficiency improvements.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused model string to show as empty in wav file headers.
• Version updates
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.02

Release 31.1 - January 18, 2016:

• Enhancements
  • Minor efficiency improvements to web interface files.
  • Improve fixing of missing network config files for serial units.
  • Minor efficiency improvements to Polo.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which would cause IP address updates made using the web UI to fail.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.08
  • Polo version upgraded to v1.3.01

Release 31 - November 30, 2015:

• Enhancements
  • Add support for serial devices.
  • Add ability to collect waveform data over the command & control channel (even while logging).
  • Add ability to collect heading data (accelerometer/accelerometer) over the command & control channel.
  • Add file system access commands to command & control channel.
  • Add link speed to network page of web interface.
  • Add warnings on web interface when trigger threshold values are out of range.
  • Add model number to enquire response.
  • Add model to spectrum data log files.
  • Minor efficiency improvements.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which would stop battery charge counter from giving data when started at sub-zero temperatures until reboot (warm up time is required before charge is reported, but reboot is not necessary).
  • Fix bug which caused epoch trigger thresholds set in volts to display incorrectly on the web interface.
  • Fix bug where length fields of status stream chunks were sent as little endian rather than big endian.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.07
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.2.01
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.2.00
  • Polo version upgraded to v1.3.00

Release 30.1 - May 21, 2015:

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused the file modified date on the data retrieve page to report the incorrect month.

Release 30 - April 30, 2015:

• Enhancements
  • Add ability to log pre-event epoch data.
  • Add user help and warning feedback to epoch settings page.
  • Add PPS sync phase offset and time source sync info to home page.
  • Speed up data cleaning process.
  • Speed up startup/shutdown process
  • Add file count to data retrieval page of web interface.
  • Display file storage stats in GB.
  • Send messages when epoch triggers end, if they are stopped because of spectrum sample rate changes.
  • Make changes to help improve browser cache behavior.
  • Efficiency improvements to data handling.
  • Remember past clock tuning values to improve performance when PPS is unavailable.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which cause sequence numbers in spectrum log files to overflow early.
  • Fix bug which on slow connections could caused "loading" message to be stuck on spectrum chart even after data started plotting.
  • Fix bug which would cause status of all setup tags to be sent in setup error responses instead of just those tags that were sent wth the setup request.
  • Fix bug which in rare circumstances could cause the first spectrum result returned after a new setup to report new settings for data still using the previous settings.
  • Fix bug which could cause triggers checking over high frequency ranges to falsely trigger if the spectrum sample rate was set to 2 kS/sec or below.
  • Fix bug which caused epoch trigger signal validation not to be reset when the sample rate was set below what was necessary to validate the trigger signals.
  • Fix bug which caused firmware version reported by data streams to be incorrect.
  • Fix bug which could cause time offset in data when switching from slave to master.
  • Fix bug which could cause clock to be unsyncable until reboot after attempting to sync to bad clocks for extended periods of time.
  • Fix bug which could cause home page to report status of "Ready" when unit was "Not Ready" during startup.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.06
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.1.06
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.1.06
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v1.4.06

Release 29 - January 30, 2015:

• Enhancements
  • Speed up data cleaning process.
• Bug Fixes
• Version updates

Release 28 - October 10, 2014:

• Enhancements
  • Add ability to encode/decode system time through a PPS sync signal.
  • Add ability to wake from standby using shorting plug or low signal on the sync/auxiliary pin.
  • Add magnetometer/accelerometer readings.
  • Add status stream channel for retrieving live temperature, humidity, trigger status, battery status, time sync status, and magnetometer/accelerometer data.
  • Add command for enquiring time sync status.
  • Align log files to minute/hour/etc boundaries based on file length and logging start time.
  • Update enquire response to include basic time sync status and release version.
  • Allow device to continue running if battery monitor circuitry fails.
  • Add PPS sync status to home page.
  • Add storage usage info to the data retrieval web interface page.
  • Add stop/Restart button to spectrum chart of web interface.
  • Add axis labels to spectrum chart of web interface.
  • Make network page of web interface redirect to new address when setting to static address.
  • Disable certain settings fields on the web interface when those fields are not applicable.
  • Allow epoch triggers to be removed using the web interface by deleting the max/min frequency range.
  • Move password setting/changing function to operations page.
  • Efficiency/stability improvements to web interface javascript files.
  • Improve efficiency of live data streaming and internal data logging.
  • Minor tweaks to appearance of setup pages on web interface.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which could cause chart controls on web interface to be disabled until browser cache was cleared.
  • Fix bug which would cause disabling of epoch triggers to fail without explanation if any of their fields were unfilled/incorrect.
  • Fix bug which caused battery temperatures below 0°C to be reported incorrectly.
  • Fix bug which could cause time/sequence offset to appear if data were missed during logging.
  • Fix bug which would cause synced master/slave icListen's to be offset in time by 8ms.
  • Fix bug which could cause Linux system time and data time stamps to drift out of sync.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.06
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.1.04
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.1.04
  • System monitor firmware upgraded to v1.4.04

Release 27 - April 24, 2014:

• Enhancements
  • Improve stability during startup when battery is fully discharged.
• Bug Fixes
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.0.03

Release 26 - April 24, 2014:

• Enhancements
  • Add support for hardware revision 4.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug that in some circumstances would report low battery charge percentages when fully charged after the force power down plug was used^[1].
• Version updates
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.0.02

Release 25 - February 28, 2014:

• Enhancements
  • Make effects of changing all scaling parameters on the spectrum charts take place immediately, and remove obsoleted "Apply" button.
  • Improve rescaling of spectrum charts on the web interface to take low frequency filtering into account.
  • Make update process more secure.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which caused data format byte in wave data stream setup chunks to always report 0 when data was set to little endian.
  • Fix bug that allowed 0 or negative minutes to be set for the spectrum chart display on the web interface.
  • Fix bug that prevented setting the reference level of the web interface spectrum chart to 0 dB.
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.02
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.0.02

Release 24 - February 18, 2014:

• Enhancements
  • Minor updates to user guide on the web interface.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug which could cause triggers set to very low thresholds never to activate.
  • Fix bug which prevented web interface from allowing thresholds to be set as low as the instrument can handle.
  • Fix bug which allowed the set time command to accept time values earlier than the internal RTC can handle.
  • Fix bug which reported invalid battery charge if the charge monitoring circuit failed (should have reported that value was unknown).
• Version updates
  • Web interface upgraded to v1.3.01
  • Main firmware upgraded to v2.0.01
  • DSP firmware upgraded to v2.0.01