Release 2.0.5

After a lot of work a new release of the EPICS Archiver Appliance. Lots of changes have been made and this is a major release, so make sure to test thoroughly before pushing into production. Bug reports are very welcome!

Overview

Breaking Changes

Please note the breaking change:

log4j updated to log4j2 (need a new log configuration file)

To migrate, the log4j.properties file needs to be changed to a log4j2.xml file. See an example file in the documentation
The build process has also been overhauled with a new build tool.

Please see the developers guide and the README for how to use it. Site specific builds should still work, and can now specify a folder outside of the src root.

New Features

#193: Field modifiers in pv names

Now you are able to submit a channel name such as PV:Temp.{'dbnd':{'rel':0.1}}
For more information on available field modifiers see the EPICS documentation
#193: Support for json input of a pv list to more of the api endpoints

The getPVStatus endpoint
now accepts input of the form:
[ {"pv": "PVNAME1"}, {"pv": "PVNAME2"} ]
#223: Retrieval Analytics

Adds some information on number of requests on each PV (since last appliance reboot) to the getPVDetails endpoint.
#207: Allow each WAR to run on different ip addresses

This means if running each war file in a different docker container, they can all have different ip addresses.
#150: Ability to set PV Access or Channel Access as the default protocol

Setting org.epics.archiverappliance.mgmt.bpl.ArchivePVAction.defaultAccessProtocol in archappl.properties to PVA or CA changes the default protocl for submitting PVs to be archived.
#241: The list of aliases now appears in pvDetails endpoint
#268 Meta fields returned with GetDataAtTime endpoint (which should be more efficient and get last value before timestamp if no data on timestamp)
#260: Option for not looking up the lastKnownTimestamp on appliance startup

Using the parameter org.epics.archiverappliance.engine.archivePVSonStartup.determineLastKnownEventFromStores
Also adds a parameter org.epics.archiverappliance.engine.epics.server_ioc_drift_seconds for an allowed clock drift between IOC and archiver appliance
#173 + #258: Able redirects in retrieval engine (so appliance doesn't need to copy data to host machine before sending)

Using the parameter org.epics.archiverappliance.retrieval.DataRetrievalServlet.proxyRetrievalRequest
#261: Paused PV count is now cached.
#219 A new default theme without any site specific styling

Development changes

#172: PVAccess library updated to phoebus one
#149 + #176: Build tool changed to gradle.
#170: Third party libraries updated
#243: Documentation now published using read the docs
#265,#266 Docker builds are now available from github

All changes

Fix PlainPBFileNameUtilityTest by @jacomago in #145
Fix for OptimizedPostProcessorTest failing by @jacomago in #147
Add closing section tag by @jacomago in #148
Add a setting to make pvAccess or Channel Access the default protocol… by @jacomago in #150
fix log info message by @jacomago in #152
Gradle build file and test categorisation by @jacomago in #149
Add a github workflow to build the project by @jacomago in #151
Added environment variable to control the name of MySQL DB by @DanielALS in #119
Ensure PB iterator obeys the iterator protocol. by @willrogers in #45
Fix load of ARCHAPPL_DB_NAME when it's not set #153 by @jacomago in #154
Fixes the gradle github actions builds: by @jacomago in #155
Adds the multi platform provider of web drivers by @jacomago in #156
Add a GetPVNames button in the GUI #157 by @lcaouen in #159
Issue#161 by @lcaouen in #162
Delete multiple PVs by @lcaouen in #160
Unit test for "Delete multiple PVs" by @lcaouen in #167
Update depend by @jacomago in #170
Fixes integration testing by adhoc creating an appliances xml by @jacomago in #171
Swaps epicsCoreJava pvAccess library for org.phoebus.core-pva by @jacomago in #172
Redirect single pv retrieval requests by @jacomago in #173
Add a runner for running the application the same as for the integrat… by @jacomago in #174
use action-junit-report to see inline test results by @jacomago in #177
Update quickstart.sh for the log4j2 upgrade by @jacomago in #178
Timestamp to instant by @jacomago in #181
Fix PvaGetArchivedPVsTest by checking size of arrays match by @jacomago in #187
parallel_iocs by @jacomago in #175
Fixes the Failover tests by @jacomago in #196
Update double buffer test to junit 5. by @jacomago in #199
CSSTUDIO-2134 Two bugfixes to SummaryStatsPostProcessor and one bugfix and one improvement to Optimized. by @abrahamwolk in #200
Remove most of the ant build file by @jacomago in #176
Makes the PV Metric return the last connected state. by @jacomago in #182
Add auto formatter for java code by @jacomago in #183
Use tomcat cors filter instead of manually adding access control header by @jembishop in #186
Add a file to specify line endings behaviour by @jacomago in #190
Update gradle wrapper by @jacomago in #198
Split up the imports list by @jacomago in #205
Add formatting checks of web code by @jacomago in #201
Update the documentation to cover formatting and testing by @jacomago in #206
Ignore intelij files by @jacomago in #213
Introduce end-of-line normalization by @jacomago in #220
Retrieval Add ability to use "protocol://pvName" by @jacomago in #215
Update readme with some quickstart information by @jacomago in https://github.com/archiver-appliance/epi...