Releases

Developer & System Administration

• Application and Application Template management has moved in-app! Site administrators can access it in any application: Server Administration -> Applications -> Manage Applications.
• All application management functions like edit/delete/add are now done conveniently inside the application.
• Application tag management has moved to the Server Administration menu in the application.
• Add progress indication while loading applications in Manage Applications window.
• Add Accuracy, MCC, MNC, LAC, CellID, Charging, SosButton to default mappings for Android and Android Wifi Only devices.
• Automated task to clean email delivery logs once daily.

Device Plugins

We're constantly updating device plugins and adding more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• ATrack: added AK300, AL300, AP3, AS11, AX300, NT3 devices.
• EELINK: fix parsing SupportRelayControl and RelayControlTriggered values.
• Icarvisions: fix adding "Time Zone" metafield, extend Generic device functionality.
• Meitrack: added EventCode, MCC, MNC, LAC, CellID, Mileage for T711L device.
• GalileoSky: added IButtonKey1/2.
• Queclink: added GV600MG/WG devices.
• Teltonika: added LinkModeString for FMC125 device, added Towing for FMB130 device, added support for BLE and Beacon signals for FMC130/TFT100 devices.

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Developer & System Administration

• Add REST resource for deleting tags.
• Better log filtering for email service.
• Ability to use self-signed certificates for sending emails.
• Open Edit Application view after creating a new application for a more efficient workflow.
• Pre-select "Basic One" template when creating a new application.
• Add email provider validation to address and avoid problems when migrating to the new email service, which requires consilient data.
• Add missing localization keys in edit app form: cleanup interval options and privilege descriptions.

User Experience

• Update event panel duration column display format.
• Ensure that users without _EditGeofenceTags privilege cannot view the "Pin to Map" icon.
• Improve logging for email service in case of automatic .NET Core request model validation.
• Improve POI search for installations with MySQL 5.7.8 and above.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix issue with application tag editing.
• Properly log messages with large body content.
• Fix issue with getting application tags in Server Administration -> User Search window in the application.
• Fix issue that caused application branding to be applied even if it was disabled in Edit Application form.
• Fix template so applications are showing in Application list.
• Fix device mapper script for device data.

User Experience

• Fix touch-panning issue for Native Map Publish/Share location maps on iOS 15 Safari.

Reporting

• Fix case where temporary tables might not be cleaned up causing database storage to grow unnecessarily.
• Fix case where Email.Service operators are not able to send generated reports to any email recipients external users not registered in GpsGate Server.
• Fix malformed REST endpoint in Email.Integration NuGet.
• Fix issue that prevented SMTP hostname field in email provider form from working correctly.

Dispatch was deprecated with March's release.

Chat is deprecated. SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August 2021 release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Developer & System Administration

• ArcGIS Maps/Layers can be configured with an optional ArcGIS API key to access premium features. See SiteAdmin > Map > ArcGI > ArcGIS API Customization.
• ArcGIS Maps now adheres to the configured map language for your VT application.
• ArcGIS API update to latest version, v4.23 and v3.39 (legacy).

Device Plugins

We're constantly updating device plugins and adding more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• ATrack: AK7V device added tire temperature and tire pressure.
• Meitrack: support for all EventCodes for P88L device.
• Suntech: added ST340UR device.
• Queclink: added GV75W, GB100MG, GL310MG, GL320MG, GV57, GV57MG, GV53MG, GV75MG, GL501MG, GL520MG, and GL53MG devices.
• Teltonika: added FMB641, FMB910, FMB900, FMB965, FMB230, FMC230, FMM230, FMB240, FMC225, FMB225, FMB209, FMC125, MSP500, TRB245, TRB255, RUT956, RUTX09, RUTX11, RUTX12, and RUTX14 devices.
• Ulbotech: added MGR1 for T381 device
• WirelessLinks: Fix OneWire sensor parsing

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

User Experience

• UI is more tablet touch-friendly. Windows and panels can be moved and resized.
  Custom fields table displays long values better without overlap.
• Add auto focus to name form field when creating a new Tag, View, or Localization key. Now you don't have to select the field manually before typing.
• Map tools that are not map fullscreen compatible will not have visible activation buttons when in fullscreen mode.
• Optimize fullscreen map mode for use in Safari.

Reporting

• POI Export could display non-human readable error message.

Developer & System Administration

• Change the way email messages are sent. Make email more easily auditable.
• Update email service components to work properly with the message queue.
• WatchDog.Client: WatchDog performance improvements.
• Localize Teltonika SensorTemp variable in Edit User form.

Tracks

• Fix bug where brackets were rendered in the Tracks panel.

Developer & System Administration

• "User Access Mask Editor" works again.
• French Language: fix an issue that caused vehicle list buckets filter to not display any vehicles when using French language.
• Fix typos and improve texts in Batch Update Users > Accumulators form.
• Redirect to log in page if an error occurs when selecting an application to log in to.
• Fix issue where Android auto registration won't work.
• Fix workspace in Basic One template.
• Fix error message when saving an SMS provider in the MS SQL server.
• Fix bug so emails sent by WatchDog.Client server are not detected as SPAM.
• Fix issue with the event rule clone function of rules that contains POI expressions.
• The KML Feed control's url is absolute again (includes full server URL).

User Experience

• Vehicle Status: Fix bug where bluetooth icon won't show.
• Null values in the vehicle list are shown as an empty string again.
• Fix an issue when user is trying to save an SMS provider. When using the MS SQL Server, an error shows "value was too large or too small for an unsigned byte."

Reporting

• Fix bug when the "Filter on tag" menu was duplicated after a view change.

Dispatch was deprecated with March's release.

Chat is deprecated. SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August 2021 release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Enable stepping between track points using arrow keys.
• The Tracks map layer can now be toggled in the map layer selector.

Developer & System Administration

• User search is now in-app! Go to the menu in any app and navigate to Server Administration -> Users-> User Search for access.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Cellocator
• Concox
• ERM
• Eview
• Joint
• Globalstar
• Meitrack
• ORBCOMM
• TopFly
• We also added array to Int and intX to byte[] extensions for multiple devices.

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Tracks

• Localize values in map track point tooltip.
• Change logic for how filtered tracks are displayed on map and fix various hover issues.

Charts

• Selecting variables has been improved by first showing the variables mapped to the selected vehicles.

User Experience

• UI improvements.
• Adjust colors and icons for mouse tooltip when setting position for simulated devices.
• Add missing localization keys for password criteria text.
• Set consistent size for all Camera plugin icons.
• Add localized strings to camera icon titles.
• Adjust colors for the Camera plugin's Vehicle List icon, so it’s visible for all states of both the camera plugin and the vehicle list row.

Reporting

• Unify file handling for reporting.
• Release the resource after processing the report.

Developer & System Administration

• Add validation for email provider form in Server Administration -> Settings -> Email.
• Security updates.
• User search now allows you filter out users that are Dispatch (deprecated) units.
• Increased time tolerance for MFA.
• Add support for Specialized service.

Tracks

• Fix support for adding vehicles not in view to Tracks, Daily Summary and Charts.
• Fix issue with data disappearing from track point list when switching panels.

Developer & System Administration

• Do not fail on HTTP notifier when URL is empty (event rules).
• Remove duplicate lang key.
• Fix bug that prevented SMTP email providers from being saved.

Reporting

• Reports with non ASCII characters in name will work again.
• Fix for importing devices from csv files. Fix covers cases when custom "List" field was producing corrupted data after import.

Dispatch is deprecated with March's release.

Chat is deprecated. SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Add track replay to Tracks.
• Hover over a track on the map to show the closest track point.

Vehicle Status

• Support custom fields in vehicle status templates.

Charts

• Add option to the panel menu to clear selection when closing.
• Settings and variables can be saved to workspace.

Strong Passwords

Added password criteria that can be toggled on/off for the server in Server Administration -> Settings -> Security. These criteria will replace the "Strong Password" setting that was previously found on applications. This includes:

• Minimum password length 8 characters (mandatory for new passwords)
• Require lowercase (optional, enabled by default)
• Require uppercase (optional, enabled by default)
• Require number (optional, enabled by default)
• Require special character (optional, enabled by default)

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• ERM
• Eview
• Globalstar
• Joint
• KingSword
• MicronWireless
• Queclink
• Teltonika
• Topfly

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Tracks

• Improve performance in the tracks panel when drawing larger tracks.
• Support adding vehicles not in view to Tracks, Daily Summary, and Chart.
• Move map track point drawing code to its own service. Reduces the loading time when opening a track point tooltip.
• Clicking on a track point in the Tracks panel will update trackPoint object in the Script Editor.

User Experience

• Double clicking a window header now toggles maximized and normal mode (as Microsoft Windows & macOS).
• Set consistent size for all icons in the Vehicle List and both Notifier Icons.
• Change icon used by the Panel Menu to FA5 bars.
• Use SVG icons: add regular weight for minus and plus FA5 icons.
• Unify behavior and styling for Panel Menu Button and the rest of the window control buttons. Use same structure in both DOM and CSS.
• Set window bar height to 32px to match pixel grid used in the rest of the UI.
• Convert window bar layout to flexbox for easier and robust alignment.
• Update layout and responsive behavior of the Toolbar component to simplify layout and future development.
• Create variables for semi-transparent greytones #6798.
• Legacy Tracks: localize hover text on export and drawing options arrow down button.

Developer & System Administration

• Add more server Cleanup interval options to the UI in Server Administration -> Settings -> Cleanup.
• Improved logging for HttpExpression failures.
• Make batch update accumulators work with units specified in the application settings e.g. if before accumulator values showed in meters, they should now be in kilometers or miles (depending on the application settings).

User Experience

• Fix Dashboard and Dispatch not displaying items in Edit windows.
• Fix a bug that causes Dashboard panel and Dispatch Add Job window to crash.
• Fix: If using a white theme color, the window's close and maximize buttons could become invisible... not any more!

POI

• Fixes to POI panel layout which was causing content overflow in narrow column widths.

Driver's Journal (Deprecated)

• Cleanup scheduled tasks for deprecated Drivers Journal plugin.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix WFS Geocoder compatibility.
• Fix a rare case of failing to load the license page in server administration settings.
• Events exporting: fix the case when a date part of an export file name might be different from a selected start date.
• Events exporting: fix the case when exported events might be different form those are displayed on UI.
• Remove strong password setting from Basic one template.
• Remove some forgotten old Strong Password usage.
• Batch update users: Improve the UI with an example telling what units are expected. Fix an error message displaying. Make errors show correct info.

SMS Providers

• Add missing Listener URL form field for Twilio SMS provider.
• Fix sending a test SMS for a case when an SMS provider has application tags selected.

Chat is deprecated with February's release.

SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Display bounding boxes on the map for the Daily Summary.
• Add an option to create a route geofence in the Daily Summary.

Vehicle Status

• Add a tooltip that shows when data was received and last changed.
• The vehicle context menu is now also available by right-clicking the panel header.

Charts

• Charts will now has tooltips showing the selected track points on the map.
• Add toggle to hide interpolated data when an asset has been offline (select Hide offline data menu option).

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Atlanta
• Concox
• Meitrack
• ORBCOMM
• Queclink
• Teltonika

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Chinese, Hindi.

Tracks

• Enable localization on variable names in track point tooltips on the map.
• Added new keys for Daily Summary panel and track filters plus a few missing keys.

Vehicle Status

• Update UI for the widget rows with highlighting.
• Update default icons for action buttons.

User Experience

• Update the chip component for better "responsive" behavior, like great resizing.
• Update the header background color for the Device Simulator panel- it now matches the rest of the UI.
• Update the Tooltip component so that animations follow the direction the tooltip is pointing.

Tracks

• Fix exporting issue that in some cases exported the wrong time span.
• Avoid triggering actions when dismissing the Daily Summary map context menu.
• Fix issue with the tracks vehicle context menu not setting predefined date intervals in the correct time zone.

User Experience

• Fix highlight (background color) on the selected item in the vehicle list.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix an issue that prevented server cleanup settings to be saved if the previous value was Keep forever.

SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Introducing the Tracks Daily Summary panel! You can quickly get a brief overview of historical fleet data over larger time spans. The Tracks panel now handles multiple time spans to support selecting multiple tracks from different days and vehicles in a daily summary and viewing them in the Tracks panel.
• Tracks can now be filtered! We added a track filter window for filtering track point data. It also filters the data in the Timeline view.
• Tracks time info is more detailed. The track point table now shows seconds when viewing times.
• Add support for opening trips with multiple, separate timespans in Charts from Daily Summary.
• Print detailed short time formats in tooltips.
• When inspecting a track point on the map, the tooltip now shows all available signal values.

Developer & System Administration

• Add SFTP support in the timer click script with username/password authentication. Note: we support username-password authentication. Host-based authentication is NOT supported.
• Add REST API to update basic properties of an application such as Name, Description, License limit, Localization, and more.
• Add REST API methods to check status and cancel a sent command.
• Add a privilege that controls the ability to Export POIs. (_ExportLocation).
• Indoor Positioning System moved to Server Administration -> Devices -> Indoor Positioning System. The menu item background color is now blue as the other options.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• DigitalMatter
• GalileoSky
• Globalmatix
• iStartek
• Queclink
• Ruptela
• Teltonika
• TopFly
• Ulbotech

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Tracks

• A vehicle(s) selected in both a Tracks panel and Charts will be the same color.

User Experience

• Improve UI appearance for customers using very dark brand colors.

Reporting

• Add UI support for time spans in reports.

Developer & System Administration

• Security improvements.
• License invoice history is now displayed with the most recent due invoice on top.

Tracks

• Avoid closing Daily Summary context menu on vehicle updates.

Dispatch

• Fix a bug in Dispatch that displayed multiple "Pick job location" in the right-click menu.

User Experience

• Fix the Camera column icon not being displayed in the Vehicle list.
• The map is zoomed and positioned to show all your vehicles at first start again (if your Workspace has menu "Map->Zoom to view" enabled).
• Google Maps and MultiMonitor and right-click vehicle list works again for servers running Web UI versions greater than 5.0.0.6098.
• Mobile "/m" login works again.
• "Show on map" in Step 6 in Event Rule wizard works again.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a bug with application branding color not being applied if no branding logo was uploaded.
• Fix Server Administration windows not getting localized window titles.
• Remove empty parentheses in the Product column for some products.
• Update of MySQL, including stability fixes for Geofence and Points Of Interest.
• Hytera AVLClient Service configuration fix.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Charts is here! Charts is a new tool for visualizing your vehicle data.
• Make it easier to click on a trip on the map by increasing the click area.

Vehicle Status

• Pinned widgets now available in Vehicle Status (beta)! Pinned widgets replace marker attributes in the preview release.
• Background windows now come into focus if clicking the header again.

Developer & System Administration

• Move system messages in-app (previously in Site Admin) so site administrators can access it with the other server settings.
• License page moved from Site Admin to in-app.
• Move Active Directory settings page (previously in Site Admin).
• Add REST API for updating geofences.
• Add language and measurement to the application exposable in scripting.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• Eelink
• GalileoSky
• Geometris
• Globalmatix
• Meitrack
• Queclink
• Ruptela
• Teltonika
• TopFly
• Twig

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

User Experience

• Great UI updates provide a new and more modern look and feel to the entire application.
• Branding color is more prominent in the application.
• Make sure all selected items in report parameters are shown without horizontal scroll.
• Improve the way we calculate column sizes when adding a new table column.
• Improve the way we calculate the position of new table column(s).

Points of Interest

• Make POI search less fuzzy - ensure all search words are considered during search.

Developer & System Administration

• After you unlock server administration settings with your password, we keep the "unlocked" state for the duration of the user session. This removes the need to unlock it each time you open the window.
• The default (first created) Site Admin user gets added to all applications for easy in-app access to server administration settings. The default Site Admin user will also be added to all new applications when they're created.
• Add a check to prevent adding a default (first created) Site Admin user to application templates.
• A mistakenly added Site Admin user will be deleted from all application templates.
• Add IsInitialized flag to application in order to check application creation status.
• Reduce database load spikes when syncing reporting data for decoupled components (e.g. POI and geofences).
• Cleanup reports on disk 15 days after creation.
• Better error logging when an report fails to be emailed.
• Remove Google Maps key from url when generating a share location link.

Vehicle Status

• Added missing Inter font. (BETA users have been seeing the wrong font, unless they already had it installed).

User Experience

• Fix slow geocoder that could make the UI not responsive.
• Fix issue that could lead to menus, tooltips, and similar components being positioned outside of the screen.
• Enable .woff2 Mime Type in IIS. Necessary to serve the new Inter font.
• Fix duplicated format options in the Create Report dialog.
• Fix an issue where moving or deleting overlapping polygon geofence vertices could sometimes become impossible, only creating additional vertices. Most obvious case: importing polygonal geofence data that use the relatively common practice of duplicating first and last vertex to close them.

Reporting

• Fix issue causing missing geofences for reporting (rare occurrence).

Developer & System Administration

• Fix issue with foreign key conflict (when changing the "save changes only" value and having multiple device mapper of same type).
• Fix a "Getting Started" toggle switch visual bug that caused it to always be enabled in server administration settings.
• Fix a bug that showed an empty "Admin" menu option for non-admin users. Admin features were not visible or accessible for non-admin users.
• Fix issue where changing sort order in email/SMS provider settings opens the edit window as you release the drag bar (Firefox).
• Fix issue where user could change email/SMS provider rows order without unlocking the page (Note: the changes could not be saved).
• Fix issue where the database connection did not automatically handle failover when using MySql database clusters such as AWS Aurora.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• When viewing a trip on the map, click anywhere on the trip to show the closest track point to that location.
• Click on a track point in the track points table to show it on the map.
• It’s now possible to sort the columns in the track point list.
• Show confirm dialog when selecting a large dataset in the Tracks panel. This can help prevent you selecting a dataset that will take a long time to run.

Maps / ArcGIS

• ArcGIS Map can now handle maps hosted via enterprise Web Adaptor Portal URL:s.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• Fifotrack
• Galileosky
• Globalmatix
• Meitrack
• Suntech
• Teltonica
• TopFly
• Xexun

Languages

No language updates this month.

User Experience

• Selected/visible columns will always be sorted to the top of the context menu (table component improvement).
• Menu component now supports enabling a search/filter function for narrowing down menu options.

Maps / ArcGIS

• Updated to use ArcGIS API v4.21 for noticeable performance improvements. https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/4.21/.

Developer & System Administration

• Remove deprecated legacy mobile fleet settings page from Site Admin.
• Don't kill the connection to RabbitMQ server when RabbitMQ fails to confirm all messages.

User Experience

• Multimonitor bug fixes: Saving workspace which resulted in not being able to remove a popout from the workspace when using the multimonitor plugin; popout not being loaded in Safari.

POIs

• Re-add the ability to search custom POI fields.
• Fix infinite loop when using map search and using PointsOfInterest as Geocoder.
• POI fix version check for JSON column.

Tracks

• Fix playhead moving incorrectly in the tracks timeline view when dragged.
• Fix so that exports should now include data from visible columns.
• Fix Tracks API issues that made interactions between Tracks and Panels like Reporting, Events & Area Search stop working.
• Fix a case when User and Track Cleanup fails because some legacy unused tables are missing.
• Fix: add Address column to Tracks track point table if the _LiveAddressTrackPoints privilege is enabled.

Reporting

• Fix issue when rendering reports as PDF.

Vehicle Status (beta)

• Fix issue where the Vehicle Status popover is still visible even if the vehicle layer is hidden.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a bug that caused SiteAdmin -> Maps -> Geocoders page to be empty or display an error.
• Do not show _Master role since it is not a user manageable role.
• Fix the device model-selector not showing properly.
• Fix settings issue when having EmailNotifier and/or TextNotifier causing failure for processing incoming device data.
• Replace occurrences of obsolete settings.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Developer & System Administration

• Server administration is now accessed in-app! Site Administrators will have access to a new 'Server Administration' menu inside the application. Most settings found in Site Admin -> Settings have moved.
• New main menu design in tracking applications.
• Always show new Tracks version on page load. Changing back to Tracks (Legacy) version won't persist after a reload.
• More security in user creation: allow operators (or another role) to add new users of only pre-approved roles. Remove Empty (Advanced) user type and add option to create user type if none are available.
• Enable automatic updates of client resources: faster bug fixes and less downtime due to updates.
• REST: Add Device Last Activity to User Status REST.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Teltonika
• Queclink
• iStartek

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

POI

• Improve address lookup performance when having many POI Groups. Previously POI address lookup ignored "Use In Geocoding" settings and used all POI Groups as address source.

Tracks

• Localize tooltips in Tracks.

Developer & System Administration

• Improve the startup time of the service.
• Add translation for 'Under Construction' Information in Site Admin.
• Add "end" column to User Activity table in Site Admin.
• Expose OriginalApplicationID in Reporting Users query.
• Expose tasks under Commands Click Script.
• The default application branding color has been updated to a slightly darker blue.

User Experience

• Fix bug where the Vehicle status panel appeared empty in certain cases when switching applications.
• Fix bug where the events table isn't loaded due to an error with the columns order.

Maps

• Publish view works again (applies to Google Maps only).

POIs

• Fix missing POI geocoded address in the vehicle list in /m mobile site.
• Fix issue causing Archiving to fail when exporting POI data.
• Fix duplicated POI groups under POI related privileges in roles.
• Fix fetching shared POI categories through REST.
• Re-enable Save button on POI category.

Tracks

• Fix issue with tracks sometimes failing when entering large time intervals.

Reporting

• Fix slow loading of the Reports menu in VehicleTracker.
• Remove misleading information in dispatch import.
• Fix System.ArgumentNullException in Reporting Field Scripts.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix various upgrade routines not applied when updating from a version older than 5.0.0.1815.
• Fix privilege check for scripted message fields.
• Fix an issue that caused the login branding color to not be applied.
• Fix System.ArgumentNullException in Field Scripts.
• Fix Offline Expression event start time in cases the last send report from the device was invalid.

New Feature Fixes (recent beta)

• Fix missing search field for reports menu.
• Fix bug where the unlock button looks cut off in Server Administration Settings.
• Settings -> Localization -> Geocoding address format can now be edited again.
• Fix a bug that caused the "Leave page" popup to appear even after saving the Localization form in Server Administration Settings.
• Fix localization key for “Trigger time” in Server Administration -> Settings -> Cleanup page.
• Disable add SMS/Email button before unlocking.
• Add missing punctuation in settings and update some copy.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with last month's release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Maps

• ArcGIS layers can now also run on top of Google Maps! (previously, only the Native Map supported ArcGIS map layers) To use ArcGIS with Google Maps, you have to register for a Google "Map ID." Configure and read more under Site Admin > Maps > Google Maps.
• Map "peek" tool (press and hold "P") dims the ArcGIS layer and now also all Map UI to show the underlying map.

User Experience

• Add English UK measurement file.

Developer & System Administration

• Now you can select multiple outputs for a single device mapper script! Cases like a single long string of data needing to be split into many variables should be simpler to handle and have better performance if implemented with one script.
  To set: return { 'Var1': 12.3, 'Var2':false, 'Var3':'textabc' }
  Setting a single field works the same. Setting multiple outputs requires enabling the new script engine if not already enabled, in SiteAdmin>Settings>Scripts.
• Update .NET Framework from 4.7 to 4.8.
• Change library for serializing Avro data to the official Apache.Avro library.

Tracks 2.0 (beta)

• The default workspace is updated to use the new Tracks panel! Existing workspaces with a Tracks (Legacy) panel have also been updated to use the new Tracks panel. The legacy Tracks panel is available until its removal.
• We updated the naming to reflect the change: the former Tracks is now Tracks (Legacy) and the former Tracks 2.0 (Beta) is now Tracks.
• Updated the copy in the Tracks trip list summary.

Vehicle status (beta)

• Add Vehicle Status Templates. You can now customize the new Vehicle Status feature!
• Add an option to Edit/Create Vehicle Status templates by right-clicking the Vehicle Status.
• Clicking the event count in Vehicle Status now opens the Event panel.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Teltonika
• TopFly
• CalAmp
• ERM
• AstraTelematics
• Anytrek
• ATrack
• Queclink
• Joint
• WirelessLinks
• ORBCOMM
• Concox

Languages

The following language plugins have been updated over the past month: Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Maps

• Login session expire time is extended to 24h for ArcGIS Maps.

POI

• Add back bitmap icons to POI groups.
• Improve performance when getting POI.

Reporting

• Add geofence description as an event report argument.
• Rename reference "geofence tag"to "geofence group" in event report arguments.

Developer & System Administration

• Security improvements.
• Performance and stability improvements.
• Ensure RabbitMQ message backlog doesn't exceed 50k messages. Once limit is reached, messages are being disregarded.
• Geofence kml import improvement.
• Log the request when there is an exception (Geocodefarm).
• Make the Event Rule Wizard more resilient to lock timeout exceptions.
• Add SmsMessage to the iOS Tracker device mapper.

User Experience

• Fix bug on color picker.
• Fix MultiMonitor in Safari.
• Fix bug where action buttons referencing a click script wouldn't show.

Tracks

• Fix track export for tracks containing invalid altitudes.

POIs

• Fix possible NullReferenceException in Poi EventRules when a POI has been deleted.
• Fix POI service startup.
• Fix custom fields for POI categories shared between applications.

Reporting

• Fix (a tiny one!): fix one cell with the wrong border color in the FU1005 Fuel Refill Report (Detailed).
• Fix the Time On Site Report (TS1009) not rendering on some servers.

Developer & System Administration

• SAML: fix cross site request, some workspace saving & loading issues, and a typo.
• Fix GetTransientFieldScriptsByUser.
• geofence.find(lon,lat) in scripts without specified group, with group names included in returned geofence objects.
• POI: Fix custom field input rendering.
• Fix POI pagination in REST.
• Fix issue with adding/updating users through REST.
• Fix issue with logging in to Site Admin when still using SOAP services after SOAP deprecation (issue triggered by Db Connection starvation).
• Fix importing application templates with removed and renamed languages (ignore those errors).
• Fix a rare case of GpsGate Service crashing.

The new Tracks experience is now the default experience and Tracks (Legacy) is deprecated.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. We recommend updating your web browser.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.