Releases

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.

Maps

• New Native Map officially replaces the legacy native map.

Developer & System Administration

• Added DeleteUser resource /applications/{applicationid:int}/users/{userid:long}
• Add endpoint for batch deleting geofences to the API.
• REST now supports numerical usernames longer than 12 characters.
• Add ownerId to GateMessageSlim.
• Expose APP_ID as template variable to event expressions.
• Add [OperatorUsername] variable for sending commands to device.

Tracks 2.0 (beta)

Lots of feature additions! You can check all of the great features here or see what's new for this month:

• Historical vehicle markers on the map: you can move historical vehicle markers by clicking and then dragging the playhead in the timeline. You can also click on a track point in the track points list.
• Export tracks from the panel.
• Check the brush chart (scroll bar) in the footer of the timeline to see if you've zoomed in on the timeline. You can also use it to drag and rescale the timeline.
• Select which tracks are visible on the map.
• Selected event rules are saved to the workspace, so you can pick back up where you left off the next time you log in.
• Some improvements and fixes for standstill icons and tracks.

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 device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• ATrack
• WirelessLinks
• Concox
• Astra Telematics
• Pacific Track
• EELINK
• ERM
• Teltonika
• Queclink
• Meitrack

Language Plugins

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

If you have experienced a very slow workspace load, please re-save it after this update. We've been working hard this month to improve your experience and the load times.

We've also updated many report layouts and included some other tweaks.

Reporting

Updated report layouts for:

• BC1000 BreadCrumb
• DI1000 Completed Jobs
• FC1002 Fuel Consumption
• FC1003 Fuel Consumption Exceptions
• FU1004 Fuel Report (Daily)
• FU1005 Fuel Refill Report (Detailed)
• FU1006 Fuel Refill Report (Daily)
• MT1000 Maintenance Service History
• MT1001 Maintenance Service History (per tag)
• SG1000 Signal Report
• SG1001 Signal Report
• SY1000 System Report (Device Connection)
• SY1001 System Report (Device Valid Position)

User Experience

• Faster application loading.
• Faster display of vehicles in dynamic views based on event rules.

Developer & System Administration

• Improved filtering of incoming messages to reduce unnecessary and redundant data.
• Improved logging for database related errors.

User Experience

• Fix: the Custom Icon Select form now indicates which icon is currently selected.
• Fix an issue with using the MultiMonitor popout with Google Maps. Sometimes the vehicle marker text label could become misplaced and lose its background color - but not anymore.
• POIs

POIs

• Allow exporting POIs from all applications - not only the original application.
• Fix import of POI descriptions, fix returning of closest POI in reverse geocoding.
• Fix dragging POI on the map when edited.

Reporting

• Fixed Passenger Manager compatibility.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a case when workspace would not load.
• Fix assembly redirects in AD and Saml logins.
• Fix issue with [OperatorUsername] variable.
• Do not fail GpsGate Http reports which cannot write back to an output stream due to a nonexistent network connection - this can be caused by delayed processing.
• Fix rare condition that could lead to server crash.

EX1000 Export POI - export POIs directly in applications.

Road Works - please use core GpsGate functionality instead of the Road Works plugin.

The legacy Native Map has been replaced with the new version as detailed in the review notes and blog.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

*Please note, as of August 17, 2021, GpsGate will remove support for Internet Explorer 11. We recommend updating web browsers prior to this date.

ArcGIS map layers

• Run all your ArcGIS maps as layers on top of Native Map 2.0.
• ArcGIS Webmaps updated to ArcGIS v4.
• NOTE: ArcGISMap will not work with IE11.

POI (Points of Interest)

• Points of Interest redesigned with performance improvements (geocoding, event rules, import & export), native import and export, and a new UI.

Tracks (beta)

• Tracks 2.0 beta now supports events in the timeline and on the map among other updates.

Vehicle Status (beta)

• Add icon sets and event badge to vehicle status.
• Other minor enhancements.

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 device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Antzer Tech
• Astra Telematics
• ATrack
• Concox
• DM Telematics
• ERM
• GpsGate
• Meitrack
• ORBCOMM
• Pacific Track
• Queclink
• Telic
• Teltonika
• TOPFLY
• Xirgo (BCE plugin)

Security improvements have been made, so we recommend a server update.

We also improved the user experience with a better preview of selected items when using a multi-select list in the application.

Developer & system administration

• Finding files is easier with two default file extention changes: batch user import and batch update have default .csv extensions. Import geofences has default .kml/.kmz and .csv extensions.
• More detailed logging for 'not found' geofences and database-related errors. We also improved cleanup for template entries for deleted items.
• Limit ongoing events for the same user and event rule to 100 from namespaced scripted events.

Use case-specific/ regional plugins have also been updated:

• MPOB: add QZE report.
• SUTRAN: convert speed to km per hour (instead of miles per hour) according to new specifications.

A few fixes for the user interface and a few for the backend/system admin are included.

• Fix bug where “Install plugin” button wasn’t correctly shown in the User form.
• POIs: Fix color in import. Fix timeout error when removing a POI group with many POIs. Fix dispatch menu on POI plus various POI post release fixes.
• Fix Charging and SosButton field type.

Developer & system administration

• Bug fix for "Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: 'MySqlConnection'"
• Remove a geofence from groups when it's deleted through REST API.
• Fix compatibility with the current Reporting plugin.
• Fix database deadlock when processing reporting data using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Fix case where data was not cleaned up after removing an application.

SOAP WebServices is discontinued. Use the corresponding REST API.

Tracks

• We made time & date selection faster by adding predefined time span options to calendars. Options: today, yesterday, this week, and last week.
• We added a refresh button. It's especially useful when your selected date span is set to a future date/time and you want to update the panel with the latest data.
• Tracks on the map now show track direction.
• The average moving speed is now part of the trip summary.
• Trips honor the exact start and end time provided by the user.
• You can save the active screen (Trip List, Timeline, or Track Point List) to your workspace.

Localization

• We released two new translations: Indonesian and Hindi.

Developer & System Administration

• Off-hours trips can be set to remain private for all appropriate vehicles. We now allow scripting for hiding devices' position source (user.setHidePosition(bool) in Script App scripts) so you can automate off-hours privacy.

Device plugins

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

• Concox
• EELink
• ERM
• Meitrack
• ORBCOMM
• Queclink
• Teltonika

Tracks

• We made various bug fixes and UI & performance improvements.
• We now create standstills from trip data instead of from statuses, and we don’t show statuses in the standstill map tooltip.
• We improved map polyline performance.
• Formatting for smaller distances and durations has been improved.
• The system now sorts vehicles in the order that they were added.
• Vehicles should maintain their assigned label color while they are selected in the panel.

User Experience

• We made map performance improvements for Chrome and Edge browsers (Chromium).

Localization

• Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish received updates.

Developer & System Administration

• HTTP types are now exposed to Click Scripts (WindowsMenuClickScripts).
• We added throttled logging of DataForward feature in the case of the forwarding failing.
• There is now better handling of 502 (Bad Gateway) errors from OneMap.
• The dashboard has access to the database during service shutdown.
• We added the Fleet App and the Dispatch App as results to the Activity System query.
• More retries and sleep interval to the geofence migration have been added.
• We changed to MySqlConnector for the geofence service.
• The login page is automatically reloaded if the service is stopped until service is running again.
• We no longer require or use Odbc Connector and MySql Connector/Netis since we switched Database Connector for MySql to https://mysqlconnector.net/.
• WASL: we set SFDA VehicleStatus according to new specifications.

User experience

• We fixed a bug that sometimes made it look like no map or workspace was selected in the menus.

Fleet & mobile

• An issue with a firewall test for iOS devices is now fixed.

Geofences

• An error occurring when duplicating an Event Rule containing a Geofence expression is now fixed.
• Geofence group description migration is fixed.
• Servers with the Turkish OS system 'culture' will no longer experience a geofence feature malfunction - this is now fixed.

Reporting

• We made some small fixes including allowing UTF8 names in reporting Geofence queries.
• DataScope options are now always sent as values when rendering a report.
• Unsigned Reporting and Fuel Report.

Developer & System Administration

• We fixed a logging issue that could cause high CPU usage.
• Loading and deleting a Command Notifier for which the device has been deleted will no longer fail.

Two widely used features have been redesigned and are available in preview release: Tracks and Vehicle Status. You can now test them in beta. Please send us your feedback! Learn more about the new Tracks and Vehicle Status on the blog. Learn how to update your server.

Localization

• French translation updates and new translations for reports.
• Added some missing localization keys for Czech, Croatian, and Polish. You'll notice them in Icon Categories, Application Console, Publish form, and the Edit User Access Mask.
• Updated the names of some language plugins to match the English language in the UI.

User Experience

• Map performance improvements.
• Made it possible to delete views that contain lots of Dashboard data.
• Trimmed down the vehicle map label attributes' width to make the viewing experience better.
• Search field for selecting applications auto-focuses again when logging in.

Geofences

• Updated text in Geofence Group form to make it straightforward and easy to use.

REST Resources

• REST - added BoundingBox to GeofenceModel.

Developer & System Administration

• Updated RabbitMQ.Client library to the latest available, currently 6.2.1.
• Updated to ArcGIS v3.35.
• Prerequisite check for .net48 to Updates.v5.
• Implemented a more resilient way to rename plugins.
• Limited the time the Dashboard has to complete a stop of the service.
• Set default DB command timeout to 600 seconds.
• Improved error logging procedures for inactive HTTP connections and OneMap.
• Updated language plugin dependency.
• Added assembly redirects to DistributeSystem.Net.Http, System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions, and System.Memory.

User experience

• Fixed issues with map getting 'stuck' when dragging tools or editing geofences in Native Map 1.0. Have you tried Native Map 2.0 yet?
• Fixed user actions around views management.
• Fixed the event rule creation form so that everything loads in the proper sequence.
• Fixed an issue with not being able to save a user when a settings profile has been removed.
• Corrected filter trips by period.
• Icon library import works again.
• No more firewall test bug when using the simulator - this has been fixed.

Geofences

• Fixed adding geofence groups to script apps and export/import of script apps with geofence groups.
• Exposed geofences object with modifiable groups to timer scripts.

Reporting

• Fixed issue where rendering a report in the browser and emailing a report could produce different results.
• Fixed an issue with the eco report template (EC1002).
• Fixed a couple of Mac and Safari issues with editing and rendering reports.

Chat

• Chat plugin message visibility bugfix.
• Chat plugin sender username works again.

REST Resources

• Fixed pagination on the geofence REST resource.

Developer & System Administration

• User Search now honors ReadApplication tag privileges. Site Admin users will only see users that they have access to in User Search.
• Fixed loading plugins in Mobile.
• Shared Batch fixes for MSSQL.
• Fixed MSSQL packages for LdapSync.
• Do not reinsert deleted rows.
• Fixed various upgrade procedures that failed either due to cases when updating from a very old version or that the procedure was not idempotent and could not re-run after a previous failure.
• Removed code around nightly track processing for good (has been disabled for years).
• Fixed issue that prevented SUTRAN service from starting.
• Added a second attempt to delete old WebUI assemblies.
• Extra logging during deploy.
• Fixed issue where columns in the event table weren't being reordered correctly.
• Fixed khmer geofence custom id migration (NEPHILA-115).
• Update tag_privileges_obj table when migrating geofences.
• Fixed bug in tree-control for report query editor.
• Ensure Reporting doesn't pull in VT-code in SA.
• Fixed track service fails when track data contains out-of-bounds values for speed and/or heading.

TR2001 (Trip & Idle report) has been replaced by TR1000-U.

Fleet

• Map providers can now be enabled/disabled (specifically for the Fleet app) on the server using the _FleetAppUseMap privilege. Supported maps are Google Maps and ArcGIS map.

Localization

• Portuguese' is completely updated. The language flavor is Brazilian Portuguese. The separate 'Portuguese Brazil' language is removed.

General

• Deploy framework can now check if GpsGate Server is running on a server with .net48 runtime installed.
• Warning in Site Admin when using MySQL 8.0.23, which is not compatible with GpsGate.

Localization

• Removed 'Espanol 2' language.
• Language key updates (Chinese, German).

User Experience

• Better error message when a .net Framework is missing, including a link to download page.
• Improved performance executing Event Rules.
• Added DEBUG: to messages that are not errors in geofence cache log.
• Performance improvements. Faster loading.

Privileges

Do not allow login to the desktop application (Vehicle Tracker) while having only the _MobileLogin privilege. Previously having the _MobileLogin would allow login to the desktop application. As this is no longer the case, some roles might have to be updated accordingly.

• _MobileLogin is required to access the Mobile site
• _WebLogin is required to access the Desktop site

General

• Geoserver Map can now opt-out of using background color (bgColor) for possibly better tile caching.
• Sharing location (publish plugin): All scripts are now loaded from relative paths. Allows for UI port forwarding.
• Set a capacity for device processing queues. Once the capacity is reached, the device will be disconnected and will require reconnecting.
• Improved Saml logging.
• Disable Event Rule HTTP notifier (Command Notifier -> Custom Server -> http) if there are 10 consecutive notification failures within a 10 minute period. Re-enabling the notifier after 10 minutes.
• utf8mb4 connection string charset for newer MySql versions.
  

Fleet & mobile

• Fixed an issue in mobile causing IIS not booting up and register components as expected. This caused issues like EventRules having Geofence Expression could not be created or modified.'
• Geofences on Google Maps should be displayed with the correct color all the time now.
• Avoid app crashing when a geofence group is deleted on the server.
• Touches outside a bottom sheet should now minimize the bottom sheet.

User experience

• Filter invalid positions when drawing tracks.
• Mouse wheel zoom works on custom maps again.
• Removed excessive and faulty error log messages.
• Fixed a bug saving status icon in User Form.
• Fixed a bug that could cause tracks to not load on large servers with a short device update interval.
• Fixed an issue with the accumulator date picker in the user form.
• #ERR now displays in fields in the vehicle list that earlier crashed the complete list.
• Fixed issue with the default value for settings profile not being displayed when opening a user type in the user type form and not being used in user form correctly.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Maintenance Notification form to not display properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused the command tag new/edit window to not display properly.
• Fixed migration for Arabic geofences.

General

• Fixed a bug that prevented Application Tags being selected in the SMS Provider dropdown in SiteAdmin -> Settings -> SMS page.
• Fixed Datcom protocol.
• Fixed NullReferenceException while fetching SessionContext without a cookie set. Update assembly redirect for Newtonsoft.Json.
• Removed aspx webform based http device endpoints under the following paths: - http(s)://hostname/gpsgate.aspx / - http(s)://hostname/sanav.aspx

GpsGate will soon no longer support .NET Frameworks below version 4.8. We recommend updating this month, although version 4.7 is still supported for a short period of time. You can download and update the newest .NET Framework here (Runtime).

Localization

• Professional Arabic translation.
• Added translations to reporting.
• Added Espanol keys to user-based reports.

Technical

• Added POI ID to Dispatch API model.
• Added option to upload metadata file (Saml)
• Added support for Individual Registration request (WASL data forward).

User experience

• Added a loading animation when waiting for the login page to load and also when logging in to an application.

Maps and geocoding

• Native Maps performance improvements.
• Improved handling of empty results from geocoding service.

Speeding expression

• Better road search when using SpeedingExpression.
• Updated speeding expression to do an exhaustive search when looking for the closest road.

Cleanup

• Uses longest cleanup time for track data for shared devices.
• Always keep the last accumulator value when cleaning up accumulator data.

General

• Tuning “City Drive” Track Filter. Fewer small trips in the same spot.
• Registered mobile app activity.
• Improved Application Template imports containing script apps.

Geofences

• Fixed Geofence privileges when creating/editing geofences.
• Fixed migration for invalid geofences.
• Fixed updating Geofence Groups from scripts.
• Geofence service - fixed expired license issue and other issues.
• Fixed geofence startup problems when using MSSQL.

User experience

• Fixed an issue that displayed the top menu in VehicleTracker before the custom branding color was applied.
• POI map layer visibility state is correctly saved in the workspace.
• Fixed issue with not being able to select the day of the month at year's end in report scheduling.
• Fixed issue with note categories not being removed visually from the UI when deleted.

Privileges

• Fixed issue with driverId triggering a change causing a privilege error when being restricted by an access mask.
• Fixed memory leak when devices are blocked by either missing _DeviceLogin privilege or by AccessFilter.

Localization

• Fixed XML errors in Danish language files.

General

• Fixed issue with upgrading when running MySQL 8.0.x on Linux systems.
• Fixed MSSQL upgrade scripts (Saml, WASL data forward).

Fleet

• Added the geofence feature.
• Added ArcGIS map support.

Reports

Added user-based reports for trip & idle and event rules:

• TR1000-U Trip & Idle detailed
• TR1001-U Trip & Idle daily
• EV1000-U Event rule
• EV1001-U Event rule total
• Added MT1002: maintenance service status per vehicle.

Security

• Added the option to enable Token-based Mitigation Authentication to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. This can be enabled in SiteAdmin -> Security -> Use Token Based Mitigation Authentication.

Language

• Updated the FleetApp English lang file in preparation for the upcoming Fleet v1.6.X release.
• Significant Francais update with 1700 new language keys.

Geofences

• Introduced geofences as microservice and all the accompanying changes to integrate it into the solution (see the new Fleet app geofences feature).

Fleet

• Security improved.

General

• Optimizations to Updates.v5, Terminal, Reporting, CargoMove Data Forward, Road Works, SpeedingExpression via build 4985.
• Added a plugin/platform prerequisites framework.
• More cleanup of old Driver Journal resources.
• Adapted pagination query in the snapshot to be compatible with Sql Server 2008.
• Removed and replaced links to the deprecated forum in Site Admin and Vehicle Tracker applications.

Security

• Security improved. Upgrade recommended. The following response headers for service calls have been added: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff ; X-Frame-Options: sameorigin

Dispatch app

• Improved security.
• Updated app icon.

Geofences

• Fix geofence service init migration.
• Hide the "New geofence" button when the user doesn't have edit privileges.
• Show warning when trying to edit a geofence without the required privileges.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent geofences from being drawn on the map.
• Improved error handling when geofence KML import fails.
• Geofence service - fixed migration of custom ids.

Fleet

• Fixed an issue with the trip calendar on iOS.
• Fixed an issue with images on iOS 14.
• Fixed issues with content rendered outside the view on newer phones.
• Fixed issues with the keyboard on iOS.

Errors & Permissions

• Fixed an issue that caused localization keys with an empty value to display the key instead (e.g. UNIT_SYMBOL_NONE)
• Display actual error message when saving a system message fails.
• Increase retry count for migrations and display message of failure instead of crashing service.
• Fixed an issue with the two-factor authentication manager window in Vehicle Tracker being hidden for non-Site Admin users.
• Made UPD connection pooling predictable during high loads.
• Fix case where branding could disappear after upgrade.
• Fixed issue with status indicators' upper limit including removed icon sets.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused endless loading of a (Vehicle Tracker) application after logging in.

Cannot upgrade without first uninstalling the following deprecated plugins:

• AlwaysValid
• CheckHDOP
• Ayna Maps
• VisitAll

See the deprecation schedule here.