• Features
  • MPS:
    • New “high sensitivity” mode for fluorescence monitoring. This mode is recommended for low concentrated and low light-emitting fluorophores, like mCherry (requires firmware update)
    • Biomass and fluorescence can also be measured under less stable shaking conditions
  • DOTS Fiber Optic Reader:
    • add support for single channel readers (requires firmware update)
    • improved performance of pH sensing by introducing fiber compensation parameters (requires firmware update)
  • General
    • Inform the user about outdated / incompatible firmware if the firmware API version does not match the software requirements
• Bugfixes
  • Templates
    • DO-based-Feeding:
      • fix quick start templates
      • fix issue with selected data source when duplicating experiments or creating from custom templates
    • Smart Feeding
      • fix issue with selected data source when duplicating experiments or creating from custom templates
    • pH Monitoring
      • disabled auto-offset for default graphs
    • DO Monitoring
      • disable outlier rejection for DO data to speed up feedback control reaction times
  • Notifications
    • fix bug that lead sto notifications not being triggered if the notification task was added after creating the experiment
    • fix bug that lead to experiment time series continued with value ”0” if backend restarted during an experiment
  • Offline Data & CSV Export
    • Fix issue when editing offline data while CSV export feature is enabled
    • dotsdata import / export
    • Export: Fix invalid zip file written as dotsdata export
    • Import: Fix import of graphs from dotsdata file and increase file size limit from 100mb to 512 mb
    • Excel export
      • Adjust relative time calculation of data in excel file, now we use the earliest task start time for all tasks for consistency across different tasks
  • User Interface
    • Wizard: Prevent double clicks on the “Create and Start” button
    • Device List: show unknown name instead of showing an empty name in case the device reports an empty name

• Features

  • MPS: multi-wavelength biomass measurements with a single Biomass Monitoring task

  • MPS: multi-wavelength fluorescence measurements with a single Fluorescence Monitoring task

  • Logic Builder: Add condition to define a logic that checks the data for “last … seconds / minutes / hours”

  • Administration: Admins can reset the DOTS Admin account password using the tui tool

• Bugfixes

  • installation

    • Fix issue when importing backups from previous DOTS versions

  • UI

    • Creation Wizard: fix positioning of project selector dropdown

    • Series Selector: fix mixed up filter options for user and system annotations

    • Graphs: Improve performance when hovering series with > 100 000 data points

    • Graphs: Improve performance when scrolling over the legend of graphs by preventing hover events

    • Search: the search now supports searching for Experiment names, before it was only possible to search for replicate names

• Stability / Other

  • LIS: Reduce data density of different LIS series to prevent flooding the graphs with data points

  • Export: Improve the performance of relative time calculation for excel exports

Features

Bugfixes

• • installation

    • support of importing backups created with older DOTS versions

    • fix manual port selection of mongoDB port

    • handle the situation if port 80 is bloced

      • fix keycloak hostname for different nginx port

  • Exporting

    • excel exports of long MPS experiments can take a while to be prepared due to the massive amount of data, we increased the timeout to 20 minutes to support creating such big excel files

    • fixed an issue with CSV export of live data in special cases

    
    

    UI

    • fix strange X axis zooming and x axis unit switching when navigating between different graphs

    • fix notification trigger task not showing selected series

    • fixed missing MPS Icon for DO task in wizard

  • Device Integrations

    • General

      • more robust task state machines to deal with situations where a config was not copied to the device document

    • MPS

      • increased timeouts if no data is received

  
  

  Stability / Other

  • do not reveal keycloak secret via config endpoint

  • updated user guide to define min. browser version numbers

Features

• • MPS for shake flask support

    • Biomass monitoring

    • Fluorescence monitoring

    • DO monitoring

    • DO based feeding with LIS

  • Email notifications

  • CSV Export configurable from the admin area

  • Licensing (Subscription and perpetual)

  • new template selector

  
  

  Bugfixes

  • Forecasting works now

  • Rename One/two point offset to linear correlation and increase range where it works

  
  

  Stability

  • Installer suggests to create a dots backup before installing a new software update

• Features

  • Administration: Admins can reset the DOTS admin-user password using the tui tool

• Bugfixes

  • Installation

    • Fix automatic port configuration if IIS is blocking port 80

    • Fix database configuration issue when importing backups from previous DOTS versions

  • UI

    • Notifications: fixed the size of the notification list

    • Notifications: fixed alignment of content in empty notification list

    • Graphs: Improve performance when hovering series with > 100 000 data points

    • Input fields: Disable autocomplete to prevent browsers making irrelevant suggestions

    • prevent showing the “save template” banner if the template was already saved

    • Device Assignment: Fix issue that caused duplicated devices being shown in batch assignment dialog

    • Creation Wizard: fix a bug that caused some input fields to be shown empty when re-using custom templates

    • Search: the search now supports searching for Experiment names, before it was only possible to search for replicate names

• Stability / Other

  • Export: Increased timeout to 20 minutes to support exporting large datasets

• Bugfix

  • Install DLL files that are required for MongoDB, if they have not been installed previously.

• Bugfix

  • Fix migration from 1.1.2 to 1.2.0 which did not run

• Features

  • [Administration] Devices can be archived – archived devices are only visible to admins and are not shown during the device assignment step during Experiment creation

  • [Navigation] Easier navigation between Objects belonging to the same Experiment via breadcrumb dropdown on the Object Detail page.

  • [Notifications] If the backend is not available, a message specifying that the backend is unavailable is displayed instead of multiple unhandled error messages

  • [Network] The TUI tool now assists admins in configuring network deployments by automatically reconfiguring all required settings once the hostname is updated

  • [Installation] The DOTS Software “update” installer will automatically check if DOTS is already installed on a computer – If not, the “update” installer cannot be used and an error message will be displayed to prevent users from installing an incomplete software.

  • [Group control] When adding annotations to a grouped Experiment, users can now choose to add it to all Objects within the Experiment

  • [Excel Export] Data can now be exported exactly as it is visualized on Object graphs within the DOTS Software (i.e., including offsets, correlations, and calibrations) with an individual Excel sheet with multiple columns for all data series displayed in a graph

  • [Graph configuration]

  • Calibration options can be filtered to only display suitable options for the current series (e.g., a biomass calibration option will not be displayed for a pH series)

  • Annotations are now listed as a type of data series and are available in the graph configuration – users can configure if they want to display user and/or system annotations in their graphs

  • [Tags] The DOTS Software automatically checks for duplicates when adding new tags and updates Tags of all Objects in an Experiment when making changes on the Experiment level

  • The frontend remembers the last-visited tab of the DOTS Software, so when users navigate away from the DOTS Software and come back, they are automatically routed to their last-visited tab

  • [pH/DO] Tasks are prevented from starting when the PT100 sensor is configured as the temperature source but is not connected to the DOTS Fiber Optic Sensor

• Bugfixes

  • [Smart Feeding] Feeding will continue once feeding trigger is “true” regardless of the true/false state of the trigger after the initial condition is met

  • [Smart Feeding] Annotations will only be created once

  • [Navigation] Fixed the structure of the “Team” page breadcrumb to enable navigation on that page

  • [CGQ] Corrected erroneous wavelengths shown for CGQ measurements

  • [Installation] Fixed so that the dialogue providing default login information is always shown after installation

  • [Excel Export] Solved error when a calibration is enabled then disabled

  • [Excel Export] Solved error when exporting Device data series, like battery level

  • [pH/DO] The DOTS Fiber Optic Sensor device dialogue now closes after the user clicks “Batch calibration” and is sent to the calibration wizard

  • Fixed the “Connection state” filter in the device assignment step of the Experiment creation wizard

  • Fixed device illustrations in the device assignment step of the Experiment creation wizard

• Stability

  • [CGQ] Improved handling to prevent duplication of devices and to increase robustness

• UI/UX

  • Improved notification text when LIS Drive runs out of battery

  • Replaced the “Action” button on the Object Detail Page with individual action icons to export, edit, etc. Object data

  • Simplified process to add, edit, duplicate, and delete graphs

  • [Dashboard] Improved info display when hovering the mouse pointer over the header of a Dashboard card

  • [Dashboard] Skeleton cards are shown until content is available when the Dashboard is loading

  • Changed the timestamp visualization to 24-hour format to be consistent across the DOTS Software

  • The underline of hyperlinks no longer overlaps and hides any underscores within the hyperlink text

  • [Group control] The status of all Objects in a grouped Experiment are now indicated in the stacked card view, instead of only showing the status indicator of the first Object

  • [Menu bar] The search field is now permanently displayed

  • [LIS] Adjusted icons on the control buttons of LIS experiments

  • Updated the display of the “Page not found” page

  • The battery level of disconnected devices is no longer shown during the device assignment step of Experiment creation wizard

• General improvements

  • [Logging]

    • Service health, memory, and CPU usage are now regularly logged

    • Adjusted the log level of certain events to make log files more useful in troubleshooting cases

  • [Health data] Health information of MongoDB, keycloak, and nginx are now shown in the DOTS Tray application

  • DOTS Shutdown prevention is automatically disabled when the backend is stopped since shutdown prevention is unnecessary if DOTS is not running

  • [Performance] Sensor data can now be compressed to reduce traffic between the frontend and backend

  • [Auto Offset] Improved the algorithm for corner cases, especially when little data is available

  • General improvements of the vendor tooling

  • [Administration] To avoid a situation where no user with admin rights exists, admins can no longer remove admin rights from themselves

• Features

  • [Administration] Devices can be archived – archived devices are only visible to admins and are not shown during the device assignment step during Experiment creation

  • [Navigation] Easier navigation between Objects belonging to the same Experiment via breadcrumb dropdown on the Object Detail page.

  • [Notifications] If the backend is not available, a message specifying that the backend is unavailable is displayed instead of multiple unhandled error messages

  • [Network] The TUI tool now assists admins in configuring network deployments by automatically reconfiguring all required settings once the hostname is updated

  • [Installation] The DOTS Software “update” installer will automatically check if DOTS is already installed on a computer – If not, the “update” installer cannot be used and an error message will be displayed to prevent users from installing an incomplete software.

  • [Group control] When adding annotations to a grouped Experiment, users can now choose to add it to all Objects within the Experiment

  • [Excel Export] Data can now be exported exactly as it is visualized on Object graphs within the DOTS Software (i.e., including offsets, correlations, and calibrations) with an individual Excel sheet with multiple columns for all data series displayed in a graph

  • [Graph configuration]

  • Calibration options can be filtered to only display suitable options for the current series (e.g., a biomass calibration option will not be displayed for a pH series)

  • Annotations are now listed as a type of data series and are available in the graph configuration – users can configure if they want to display user and/or system annotations in their graphs

  • [Tags] The DOTS Software automatically checks for duplicates when adding new tags and updates Tags of all Objects in an Experiment when making changes on the Experiment level

  • The frontend remembers the last-visited tab of the DOTS Software, so when users navigate away from the DOTS Software and come back, they are automatically routed to their last-visited tab

  • [pH/DO] Tasks are prevented from starting when the PT100 sensor is configured as the temperature source but is not connected to the DOTS Fiber Optic Sensor

• Bugfixes

  • [Smart Feeding] Feeding will continue once feeding trigger is “true” regardless of the true/false state of the trigger after the initial condition is met

  • [Smart Feeding] Annotations will only be created once

  • [Navigation] Fixed the structure of the “Team” page breadcrumb to enable navigation on that page

  • [CGQ] Corrected erroneous wavelengths shown for CGQ measurements

  • [Installation] Fixed so that the dialogue providing default login information is always shown after installation

  • [Excel Export] Solved error when a calibration is enabled then disabled

  • [Excel Export] Solved error when exporting Device data series, like battery level

  • [pH/DO] The DOTS Fiber Optic Sensor device dialogue now closes after the user clicks “Batch calibration” and is sent to the calibration wizard

  • Fixed the “Connection state” filter in the device assignment step of the Experiment creation wizard

  • Fixed device illustrations in the device assignment step of the Experiment creation wizard

• Stability

  • [CGQ] Improved handling to prevent duplication of devices and to increase robustness

• UI/UX

  • Improved notification text when LIS Drive runs out of battery

  • Replaced the “Action” button on the Object Detail Page with individual action icons to export, edit, etc. Object data

  • Simplified process to add, edit, duplicate, and delete graphs

  • [Dashboard] Improved info display when hovering the mouse pointer over the header of a Dashboard card

  • [Dashboard] Skeleton cards are shown until content is available when the Dashboard is loading

  • Changed the timestamp visualization to 24-hour format to be consistent across the DOTS Software

  • The underline of hyperlinks no longer overlaps and hides any underscores within the hyperlink text

  • [Group control] The status of all Objects in a grouped Experiment are now indicated in the stacked card view, instead of only showing the status indicator of the first Object

  • [Menu bar] The search field is now permanently displayed

  • [LIS] Adjusted icons on the control buttons of LIS experiments

  • Updated the display of the “Page not found” page

  • The battery level of disconnected devices is no longer shown during the device assignment step of Experiment creation wizard

• General improvements

  • [Logging]

    • Service health, memory, and CPU usage are now regularly logged

    • Adjusted the log level of certain events to make log files more useful in troubleshooting cases

  • [Health data] Health information of MongoDB, keycloak, and nginx are now shown in the DOTS Tray application

  • DOTS Shutdown prevention is automatically disabled when the backend is stopped since shutdown prevention is unnecessary if DOTS is not running

  • [Performance] Sensor data can now be compressed to reduce traffic between the frontend and backend

  • [Auto Offset] Improved the algorithm for corner cases, especially when little data is available

  • General improvements of the vendor tooling

  • [Administration] To avoid a situation where no user with admin rights exists, admins can no longer remove admin rights from themselves

• Bugfix

  • Fix migration from 1.1.2 to 1.2.0 which did not run

• Bugfix

  • Install DLL files that are required for MongoDB, if they have not been installed previously.

• (Feature) Export of Graph data to Excel files

• (Stability) Compression of transmitted data for better performance

• (Bugfix) Avoid circumstances in which devices can appear twice

• (Bugfix) Handle a situation where communication with a CGQ Hub was not recovering

• (Bugfix) Prevent situation where data points don’t get forwarded after they arrive

• (Bugfix) Mention data errors that happened during export in the Excel files themselves

• (Bugfix) Always use the correct object name in export to Excel file

• (Bugfix) Fix errors while exporting objects as Excel files

• (Stability) Log frontend errors in the backend log