Release 2.0.1

Release type: Minor

Main new features:

Glassfish tuning
Redis tuning
Mysql server tuning
Tagger sql statement tuning
bug fixes
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Release 2.0

Release type: Minor

Main new features:

Added ability to download all human-tagged tweets
Improved error handling by logging and sending emails to developers on errors
UI and bug fixes

Release 1.6

Release type: Minor

Main new features:

• Added tester for tagger
• Added Micromappers enabling/disabling for collections with classifiers
• Improved error handling
• UI and bug fixes
• Translator without Border(TWB) Integration

Release 1.5

Release type: Minor

Main New features:

• Added new default classifiers
• Enhanced logging
• Added testers for aidr-collector, aidr-persister, aidr-output
• Fixed a number of bugs.

Release 1.4.1

Release type: Minor

Main New features:

• Introduced centralized build, test and deploy of all AIDR modules.
• Introduced platform-specific and module-specific configuration files.
• Introduced automatic un-deploy and deploy script of one or more modules.
• Introduced profile-based building and deployment of modules.
• Added documentation to various packages.
• A few UI improvements were also done.
• Fixed a number of bugs.

Release 1.3

Release type: Major

Main New features:

• Introduced centralized access to the database by introducing the aidr-db-manager module.
• Provided remote EJBs-based access to the aidr-db-manager's services on top of the database.
• Introduced DTOs which are now used for transferring data across AIDR modules in a unified way.
• Changed search filter criteria: when keywords is now specified with either bounding box or follow then only those tweets that match both keywords and BB/follow will be collected.
• Introduced a much-needed feature of geo-strict. The geo-strict feature allows to collect geotagged tweets which are strictly within the defined bounding box.
• Added documentation to various packages.
• A number of UI improvements were also done.
• Fixed a number of bugs too and did many more minor improvements.

Release 1.2.1

Release type: Minor

Main New features:

• Interactive view/download page imrovement.
• Building of the aidr-task-manager module now uses single POM to build EJB and EAR artifacts to be deployed.
• Minor UI improvements.

AIDR Release 1.2.0

Release Notes

I. Features

1. Improvements in public browse of collections.
2. Improvements of interactive view/download page.
3. New "My Collections" page and new navigation flow.
4. Ability to download data in three formats: CSV, JSON (entire file is one single json object) and TEXT JSON (consisting of one JSON object per line).
5. Addition of partial support for SMS as a data source (collector completed, classifier under development).

II. Under the Hood

1. New aidr-common module that holds code shared across modules.
2. Centralized database access for all database related operations is introduced using aidr-task-manager.
3. Tagger module now uses aidr-task-manager to access the aidr_predict database.
4. Addition of loadshedding feature for all REDIS pubsubs in AIDR.
5. Collector now uses a generic persister.
6. aidr-persister extended to support SMS data persistence.
7. DB schema updates - addition/removal of fields from some tables
8. aidr-task-manager is now an EAR deployment.
9. Change in download limit policy for downloading Tweet IDs.

AIDR Release 1.1.1

Release type: Minor

Main New features:

• Interactive view/download page now shows all associated classifiers to an item in one row.
• Persister has been re-designed to persist different types of documents using a generic persister.
• Added load shedder to all module that push or pull from/to Redis channels/queues.
• Added SMS collector.
• Improved public view/download page.

Bug Fixes from release 1.1.0:

• Deletion of training example is fixed.

AIDR Release 1.1.0

Main New features:

• Re-design of AIDR homepage with tiled buttons, multiple UI modifications.
  Administrator can make a collection publicly viewable or private only.
• Users can now delete a collection.
• A new publicly browsable collection page created that allows users to browse the available collections and download data without the need to login.
• Crisis creation now imposes unique constraint on collection names.
• Crisis type is now a mandatory field for creating a crisis.
• Rule for replacement of a classifier by a new model has been changed.
• Rule for Pybossa scheduler has been updated - PyBossa Scheduler now never leaves the document table "empty".
• Live data feed on AIDR main page uses a balanced sampling to prevent starvation of tweets from minority feeds and filters low-confidence tweets.
• Configurable skin for crowdsourcing tasks.
• Upgraded Pybossa, now has a Mail server to serve forgot pwd or reset password functions.
• Added new default classifiers.
• The task_buffer view in the database in now deprecated.
• New algorithm for truncating documents from the aidr_predict.document table by the Tagger that avoids locking the database for long durations.
• The document and task_assignment tables in the aidr_predict database are now periodically cleaned to remove documents that are too old (duration is user configurable).
• New module aidr-task-manager added to provide database abstraction - all calls that touch any of the following aidr_predict database tables will in the future pass only through this module:
  • document
  • task_assignment
  • document_nominal_label
• Tagger-API now now uses aidr-task-manager to access the relevant tables of the aidr_predict database.
• New interactive view/download page available for filtering classified tweets based on user-defined criteria.
• Persister module upgraded with new CSV download APIs to support filtering of tweets based on user-defined criteria.
• Output module upgraded with new output APIs to support filtering of tweets based on user-defined criteria.

Bug Fixes from release 1.0.0:

• Problem with CSV download due to AJAX time-outs.
• Persister crash issues.
• Classifier creation defect that would create partial classifier when tagger name is too long.
• Users should not be able to edit in the language combo-box in edit/create collection page.
• Trainer UI would show NaN more needed to re-train.
• Misreporting in number of already-classified tweets.
• Remove near-duplicate CSS files from css folder.
• Page with classifier details does not render correctly if you are not a sysadmin.
• Tagger error on displaying and/or save.
• Deadlock issue in aidr_predict database.
• Deleting a classifier should notify pybossa-scheduler.